Hyperbole around continuity in history is bad history. Anyone who thinks nothing has changed since 1619 is an unreliable narrator of history. The problem is today’s continuity historians have a neurotic attachment to “bad stuff.” A citational compulsion is also a compulsion to repeat.

Like feudalism, life in the old Soviet bloc is an historical curiosity now.

Labor journalists once were working class. Today’s labor journalists come from a haute bourgeois background, with credentials from the Ivies or some posh J-school, collect 300K per annum for their “content,” and another 100K from monetized substacks. They share nothing with the proles.

While America continues to suffer from GOP carnage, boutique pundits clutch pearls about Democrats, who have sent $1.7 Trillion USD and $1.2 Trillion USD to the American people, and have to go back 50 years to find fault.

This is the clown show of US media.

The “labor movement” died for several reasons, none controlled by Democrats: deindustrialization, labor (let’s be honest, “labor” is a euphemism for “white working class”) defection to GOP after 1965 for racist reasons, Reagan’s destruction of the ATC, & right-to-work statutes.

The two most dangerous places in the US are elementary schools and christian churches.

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