Re: <nettime> the great re-alignment

[Allan Siegel via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>]

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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