How Fear Drives American Politics, a speech by David Rothkopf, is an enlightening viewpoint of the American government’s responses to terrorism in the 21st century. In his speech, Rothkopf conveys an observation that he has been aided in discovering by his unique vantage point of growing up a Jewish boy in New Jersey amid the fear of global thermo-nuclear war in the 1950‘s. His observation is this; Fear is one of the front-running catalysts for change in governmental, social, and societal changes in America. These changes in his opinion have come for the better, and worse in different situations throughout history. The Cold War gave birth to a heightened nuclear program, our space program, the interstate system, and the Internet. In Rothkopf’s
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Mitchell explains in his opinion the differences between racial strategies and views from Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. Lincoln states that some of Sanders shortcomings stem from not addressing racial issues as much as his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton, while maintaining that one of Trump’s major problems is blaming America’s problems on the countries minority demographics. He goes on to state that Sanders lack of racial insight and unwillingness to address racial issues allowed Clinton to run up huge margins of non white voters including African-American voters in the deep south, and also in the north. Mitchell explains that Trump has run most of his campaign on demonizing Mexicans, and Muslims. Promising immigration reform and to deport all illegal aliens not committed to trying to obtain …show more content…
Fish describes Identity politics as when you do or don’t vote for someone because of his or her skin color, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or any other maker that leads you to independently say yes or no to a candidate despite their policies. He goes on to make known some of the things that an identity politics voter might say, such as; “I’m voting for him because he’s my brother”, or “I’m voting for him because he’s from my hometown”, “I won’t vote for her because I don’t want a woman in power”, etc. Fish makes it more clear by using the phrase “My country right or wrong” to convey what identity politics is really about. Fish refers to Identity politics as illiberal, saying that it is particularist, as to where liberalism is universalist. He separates identity politics into two types, calling one immoral and wrong, and the other the way voting should always be
Mitchell explains in his opinion the differences between racial strategies and views from Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. Lincoln states that some of Sanders shortcomings stem from not addressing racial issues as much as his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton, while maintaining that one of Trump’s major problems is blaming America’s problems on the countries minority demographics. He goes on to state that Sanders lack of racial insight and unwillingness to address racial issues allowed Clinton to run up huge margins of non white voters including African-American voters in the deep south, and also in the north. Mitchell explains that Trump has run most of his campaign on demonizing Mexicans, and Muslims. Promising immigration reform and to deport all illegal aliens not committed to trying to obtain …show more content…
Fish describes Identity politics as when you do or don’t vote for someone because of his or her skin color, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or any other maker that leads you to independently say yes or no to a candidate despite their policies. He goes on to make known some of the things that an identity politics voter might say, such as; “I’m voting for him because he’s my brother”, or “I’m voting for him because he’s from my hometown”, “I won’t vote for her because I don’t want a woman in power”, etc. Fish makes it more clear by using the phrase “My country right or wrong” to convey what identity politics is really about. Fish refers to Identity politics as illiberal, saying that it is particularist, as to where liberalism is universalist. He separates identity politics into two types, calling one immoral and wrong, and the other the way voting should always be