You are what you eat.
I try to keep a civil, fair-minded tone in this blog. I try to be careful about what I read.
I don't want to create junk commentary.
Outrage generates sharing and that brings "success" defined by audience growth. The best way for political commenters to grow an audience is to find and service an audience with something consistent that affirms their point of view. I am not a cheerleader for a team. Democrats and Republicans are both messing up. Democrats have gone overboard being intimidated by White academic purist scolds, who are as unlovable as the Moral Majority scolds were thirty years ago. People don't like feeling guilty for being who they are, and they don't like people saying they should feel guilty for things they think are petty and nit-picky and outright incorrect. Republicans developed a taste for ethno-nationalistic authoritarianism. Trump made them into the party of Pat Buchanan. Too many think Capitol rioters attempting to overthrow an election is justified, and the ones that don't think that are cowed into silence, which is almost as bad.
I read and write in the mornings, early. I love mornings.
Most of the written material I read comes to me with push notifications by email.
General Circulation News:
New York Times; Washington Post; The Atlantic; The New Yorker; The Guardian; Bloomberg; The Nation; Axios; Willamette Week and the Oregonian (www.oregonlive.com) for Oregon news; the Medford Mail Tribune for local news; JWA Associates (www.jwapublicaffairs.com) daily email of curated links to stories about events in Oregon,
Political news and commentary:
Politico; TheHill; FiveThirtyEight; Fox News; Newsmax; Sabato's Chrystal Ball; the libertarian www.reason.com; Daily Beast Cheat Sheet for links to liberal-oriented news stories; Conservative News; for links to conservative-oriented news stories; Conte' Nash Spotlight; Vanity Fair's The Hive.
Financial news and commentary: CNBC.com; www.hussmanfunds.com for bearish commentary saying the stock market is wildly over-priced; Morgan Stanley research; Abnormal Returns, for links to financial news stories; Over My Shoulder links to financial commentary curated by John Mauldln.
Specialty:
Scientific American; Geopolitical Futures www.geopoliiticalfutures.com for foreign affairs commentary,
Podcasts:
The Bulwark, by Charlie Sykes, an old-school conservative Republican dismayed by what Trump has done to his party; Animal Spirits, a lively fast paced conversation on financial markets; Pivot, a lively fast-paced conversation between technology journalist Kara Swisher and NYU marketing professor Scott Galloway; Honestly, with Bari Weiss; Useful Idiots, a leftist political commentary by Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper; FiveThirtyEight Politics, an audio version of the web's political commentary.
5 comments:
"ethno-nationalistic authoritarianism"...??
You mean white supremacism, right?
Also, Trump actually didn't cause anything, he's an effect, and not even the worse one given the corruption of the Republican party. Also, if one follows the progression from Nixon-Reagan-Bush 1&2-Trump...the next one is gonna make Trump look like a choir boy.
"What people think of me is none of my business." (Overheard by the Ladies Room) Personal reflection is just that, personal. How you look at yourself is mostly or largely how we "see" ourselves interacting with the world around us. Sales techniques and "the con" are aimed at rewarding "right-thinking" and affirming your personal, strongly held beliefs and feelings. That is the manipulative use of the technique. On the other side is group dynamics when you find yourself wanting to fit into a group. Reading or hearing information or commentary that is counter to our way of thinking and feeling creates, within you, a conflict. Mostly it is handled swiftly by rejecting those thoughts regardless of its veracity. It is a rare person with the ability to sort through the static and noise and information that comes at us now with firehose force.
Thank you for your blogging efforts Peter.
RealClearPolitics gives links to an ideologically balanced set of articles about politics every day.
Trump turned the Republicans into Pat Buchanan’s party? Please. Trump is not fit to tie Buchanan’s shoes intelluctually nor even programmatically. Trump is only a Republican by happenstance, primarily because of the party the two-term incumbent represented when Trump seized his moment....and also that Obama skillfully made fun of Trump in public. Policies which paralleled Buchanan’s worldview were the work of aides, especially Steven Miller in this particular connection. Myriad others would—and did—draw Buchanan’s rebuke.
The crucial divide going forward remains those who view America as a glass mostly full versus a glass mostly empty. The rest cleave as a default matter to which one is closest to their own view. For most practical public purposes, there are only these two outlooks.
Hmmmm. The better phrase is "YOU ARE WHAT YOU DON'T ELIMINATE," used by a colon-cleansing product I once sold. Think about it.
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