Re: <nettime> the great re-alignment

[Jon Lebkowsky via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>]

The US has elected a narcissist whose MAGA movement depends on the gravity
of his strange charisma. Because he's a narcissist, he's self-focused, and
cares about the movement and the political party he's hijacked only insofar
as it serves him.  I suspect inevitable in-fighting and fracturing within
that movement, now that it's "won."  It's fragile, and will become even
more so if it can't deliver on its promises. I would avoid making too many
assumptions this early after the election. For my part, I'm working on
creating some guidance for online communities to form - not social media,
but actual communities - and thinking about how they might network to
scale.


On Sat, Nov 9, 2024 at 7:09 AM Allan Siegel via nettime-l <
nettime-l@lists.nettime.org> wrote:

> Hello Brian and Nettimers,
>
> Brian commented,
>
> "When it comes to national politics, you have to have a
> shared vision and the beginnings of a shared plan. The vision has to be
> encompassing enough to eventually constitute a majority."
>
> The left (for lack of a more detailed descriptor) in the U.S. is so
> splintered that it is unable to project on a significant scale "the
> beginnings of a shared plan." AMEN!
>
> AND
> "Contemporary polarization is spatial and educational."
>
> These are very basic points of attack - central to what Project 2025 has
> in its sights - towards undermining, eradicating, the remaining remnants
> of civil society and public institutions - especially public schools.
> The DeSantis program in Florida is a prime example of this. I think I
> understand better what you mean by 'polarization' - the resistance to
> the DeSantis program is limited because there is an atomization of the
> resistance instead of coalitions; Polarities, of one form or another,
> are fighting individual battles instead of some form of common front.
> Secondly, I agree that the polarization is spatial and this is extremely
> important; spatiality in this sense means a systemic delimiting of the
> public sphere either by the police or by the de facto censoring of
> information or robust forms of media discourse. We see this in terms of
> the repression of protests relating to the genocide in Gaza, closing of
> libraries, and the homogenization of popular culture and means of
> communication. best for now allan
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