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Cake day: March 4th, 2025

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  • Ideologie ist eine Ansammlung von zusammenhängenden Ideen, die Weltgeschehen und Politik auf ein einfaches Modell reduzieren und damit alles erklären. Anspruch auf Wahrheit, Starrheit, Ausblenden unangenehmer Fakten, Ablehnen von Kompromissen sind wichtige Eigenschaften. Es gibt eine klare Einteilung in gut und böse: Kapitalismus böse, Ausländer böse, Grüne böse. Dabei wird dann oft auch alles was der politische Gegner gut findet abgewertet oder unter böse einsortiert.

    Gedankenkette geht dann so:

    Kapitalismus schlecht -> USA schlecht

    Israel Freund von USA -> Israel schlecht

    Iran Feind von USA und Israel -> Iran gut

    Islamisten bekämpfen Israel -> Islam gut





  • They are more conservative in the following points:

    • traditional family is important
    • religion is important
    • hard work needs to be rewarded
    • most rich people are there by merit
    • criminals deserve punishment

    Elite leftists love to harp on the bigotry of white evangelicals, but completely ignore the religious and anti LGBT beliefs of Hispanics and African-Americans for example.

    So conservatives manage to appeal to the working class with culture war rhetoric and morality. Even though their economic and other policies are worse for them.

    Democrats don’t have a great track record either. Cities that have been ruled by Democrats for decades have lots of homelessness, crime, high cost of living, unaffordable rents, and so on. Democratic policies have failed to end the misery that is black urban areas for decades for example.

    On the other hand the democrats are also losing the growing number of overeducated underachieving folks, who increasingly look further to the left. They often claim to follow intersectional politics for everyone preaching according to the most virtuous trends, but then fail to build coalitions to actually change things. The only thing these knowledge worker elites managed, is to get hired as consultants, PR, and HR people. So yeah, there are bluehaired trans folks present in every media now. That doesn’t improve material conditions for the working class one bit. These serving virtue politics (aka wokeism) only helps a fraction of people, mostly the small class of overeducated knowledge capitalists.


  • Den Machthabern in Damaskus fehlt jedoch die Autorität und wohl auch der Wille, Konflikte mit den Minderheiten – Kurden, Alawiten, Drusen etc. – rein friedlich beizulegen und dafür darauf zu verzichten, den syrischen Staat wie schon zuvor als ein rein sunnitisch-arabisches Gemeinwesen wieder aufzubauen.

    Assad hatte seine Machtbasis bei den Alawiten. Die Baath Partei war säkular und erlaubte es Minderheiten erfolgreich im Staat zu sein. Die neue Regierung ist sunnitisch Islamistisch. Die sind ideologisch schon deutlich anders. Toleranz gegenüber anderen Richtungen des Islams ist da geringer als gegenüber Christen.



  • The world of 2025 is not the same one of decades earlier: Americans don’t like the undue influence of corporate power; they want their government to do more for them; they’re tired of war; they’ve been devastated by decades of offshoring and austerity; and, as they have made repeatedly clear, they’re not fans of the Clinton family.

    The Republicans cover several of these points.

    Voters also care about crime and immigration.

    What the democratic elite doesn’t get is the working class has more socially conservative values.