There is some truth to this linked article. Excerpt:
The long recovery over the past decade…left the working class further behind. The lasting effect of the slump was to increase polarization… The coming politics was populist… mutual hatred and endless vituperation among different camps…
But this truth is banal and obvious. Billions of words likely have been written saying the same thing in language that, if not exactly identical, could be copied and pasted into this article without anyone noticing.
This #MediaJackal in question, George Packer, is a talented fellow. He is able to glimpse some of the truth. But those glimpses are followed by tiresome and predictable partisan diatribes against Donald Trump, conservatives, Republican senators, Jared Kushner, and so on. About the only thing missing is how all gun owners are Nazi heteronormative white supremacists. Excluded from consideration is how the left’s language (bitter clingers, deplorables) coarsened and polarized. We are left with amusing claims untethered to reality like this #MediaJackal’s assertion that the biggest spending president in history was somehow–a reference to federal budgets–“squeezing it dry.”
We might reasonably speculate that George Packer values his well-compensated position as a staff writer at the Atlantic, owned and subsidized by the predictably left widow of Steve Jobs. She is the richest woman in technology–not to her own business skills but thanks to being an attractive blonde who showed up to the right Steve Jobs Stanford lecture at the right time. We might also speculate that George Packer is aware that ideological orthodoxy is strongly enforced at the Atlantic and would prefer not become a second example.
There is some truth to this linked article. Excerpt:
But this truth is banal and obvious. Billions of words likely have been written saying the same thing in language that, if not exactly identical, could be copied and pasted into this article without anyone noticing.
This #MediaJackal in question, George Packer, is a talented fellow. He is able to glimpse some of the truth. But those glimpses are followed by tiresome and predictable partisan diatribes against Donald Trump, conservatives, Republican senators, Jared Kushner, and so on. About the only thing missing is how all gun owners are Nazi heteronormative white supremacists. Excluded from consideration is how the left’s language (bitter clingers, deplorables) coarsened and polarized. We are left with amusing claims untethered to reality like this #MediaJackal’s assertion that the biggest spending president in history was somehow–a reference to federal budgets–“squeezing it dry.”
We might reasonably speculate that George Packer values his well-compensated position as a staff writer at the Atlantic, owned and subsidized by the predictably left widow of Steve Jobs. She is the richest woman in technology–not to her own business skills but thanks to being an attractive blonde who showed up to the right Steve Jobs Stanford lecture at the right time. We might also speculate that George Packer is aware that ideological orthodoxy is strongly enforced at the Atlantic and would prefer not become a second example.