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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: Lane3 who wrote (214351)10/12/2021 11:24:35 AM
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In which case, the ideological challenge for progressives is to redefine what it means to be “entitled” — to return, in a sense, to that older meaning, in which it is the owners of capital who are the takers and the ordinary citizens of this country who are the makers.


I gave some further thought to that piece by Jamelle Bouie about entitlement and producerism. I was not award of the 19th century version of producerism so I pondered his notion that progressives could flip the notion back to when the little guys were considered producers and the money guys were considered idlers.

The more I thought about it, the less it made sense given the safety net, which did not exist in the earlier era. The more progressives extend the safety net, the harder it is to intellectually justify calling the little guys producers. They'd have to propagandize the notion to get buyers. Although, propaganda worked for Trump so maybe it could work for the progressives, as well.
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