(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . The GQP's 'wake up' and 'woke' up in the age of false consciousness [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-10-01 “Woke” as a pejorative for Democrats always falls short since no one ever uses that self-referentially, whereas the false consciousness of Republicans is fairly obvious with the cognitive dissonance of their attempts to ban books in the age of the internet. x Trump wanted this government shutdown the fact that he wasn’t able to get Kevin McCarthy to do it, shows his somewhat diminished power. He’s still the gop front runner. He will probably be the nominee but he’s not calling all the shots anymore. — Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) October 1, 2023 x John Fetterman plans to give back the $5,000 that the embattled NJ Democratic senator gave the Pennsylvania Democrat’s Senate campaign in 2022. Fetterman wants to do it in envelopes full of hundred-dollar bills. @themessenger.https://t.co/ZJNCG8fQOh — The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) September 26, 2023 James Carville Warns ‘Somebody Better Wake the F*** Up’ When It Comes to The 2024 Election “Let’s assume the election was November the third of this year and the candidates are Joe Biden, the Democrat, Donald Trump, Republican Joe Manchin and Larry Hogan, No Labels, and Cornel West. Trump would be a betting favorite. If I told you I would give you even money, you would not take that bet. All right. And so somebody better wake the fuck up,” Carville said. “I might take even money. But you’re right. I’m totally on the same page,” Maher agreed. Maher noted that although Biden did great service, he might not be a great match to Trump in 2024. “In 2020, maybe he was the only one who could have beaten Trump, I think now he’s the only one who will lose to him,” Maher said. “He cannot run for president. He’ll look bad in the debates. It’s too much. And he’s — I think, going to lose. He will be Ruth Bader Biden, the Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the presidency. It’s not a good look. And any 50-ish, not stupid woke Democrat with a D by their name. People just vote down on that person can win,” Maher added. “Easily,” Carville said. “If we had somebody under 60 and ran against Trump, we’d get 55%.” www.mediaite.com/... The first treatment of false consciousness as a theoretical concept occurred in History and Class Consciousness (1923) by the Hungarian philosopher and literary critic György Lukács. x "Trump faces charges whose maximum sentences add up to a staggering 712 years and 6 months in prison." But we should not be vindictive and be satisfied if he only serves half as long. — Mark Hamill (@MarkHamill) September 30, 2023 In universities and newspapers, nonprofit organizations and even corporations, a new set of ideas about race, gender, and sexual orientation has gained huge influence. Attitudes to these ideas—which are commonly called “woke,” though I prefer a more neutral term, the “identity synthesis”—have split into two camps: those who blame them for all of America’s ills and those who defend them, largely uncritically. Right-wing polemicists deride these ideas as a form of “cultural Marxism,” which has substituted identity categories such as race for the economic category of class but still aims at the same old goal of communist revolution. They invoke wokeness to oppose anything they dislike, such as sex ed and insufficiently patriotic versions of American history. On the other side, many people in media and politics claim that wokeness is simply a matter of justice and decency: a willingness to acknowledge the cruelties of America’s past and a recognition of the ways they still shape the country. “Being woke,” Joe Walsh, a former Republican congressman who became a vocal critic of Donald Trump, has said, “just means being empathetic.” www.theatlantic.com/... “In defendants’ world: rent regulated apartments are worth the same as unregulated apartments; restricted land is worth the same as unrestricted land; restrictions can evaporate into thin air; a disclaimer by one party casting responsibility on another party exonerates the other party’s lies," Engoron wrote in his 35-page ruling. "That is a is a fantasy world, not the real world.” www.dailykos.com/... Republican Rep. Peter Meijer has a warning for his party: He fears baseless conspiracy theories like QAnon will destroy the GOP from within [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/1/2195595/-The-GQP-s-wake-up-and-woke-up-in-the-age-of-false-consciousness Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/