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Yes, and...<br>
“If it is a sudden change in status to a once dominant group that
drives electorates to the far right, as political scientist Roger
Petersen has argued – then we have to start with the biggest change
in status of all time. That is the reproductive shock that began 50
years ago, with the pill, which has put women into boardrooms,
frontline combat roles and, more relevantly, control over who they
have sex with, and when, and how.” <a
href="https://gu.com/p/5b5ee/sbl">https://gu.com/p/5b5ee/sbl</a><br>
from Paul Mason Guardian today<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/10/2016 8:18 AM, Michel Bauwens
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CAK_2xiKmQO+Sg5PGAsnoTaU_1ZYhP99XgeuW+tVwmYk9WXY7Zw@mail.gmail.com"
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<div dir="ltr">I strongly agree with Michael Lerner's approach
here:
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<div>"<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/opinion/election-night-2016/stop-shaming-trump-supporters">http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/opinion/election-night-2016/stop-shaming-trump-supporters</a></div>
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<div>"<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14pt">The right
has been very successful at persuading working people that
they are vulnerable not because they themselves have failed,
but because of the selfishness of some other villain
(African-Americans, feminists, immigrants, Muslims, Jews,
liberals, progressives; the list keeps growing).</span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:12pt;font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span
style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Instead of
challenging this ideology of shame, the left has buttressed
it by blaming white people as a whole for slavery, genocide
of the Native Americans and a host of other sins, as though
whiteness itself was something about which people ought to
be ashamed. The rage many white working-class people feel in
response is rooted in the sense that once again, as has
happened to them throughout their lives, they are being
misunderstood.</span><span style="font-size:14pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:12pt;font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span
style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">So please
understand what is happening here. Many Trump supporters
very legitimately feel that it is they who have been facing
an unfair reality. The upper 20 percent of income earners,
many of them quite liberal and rightly committed to the
defense of minorities and immigrants, also believe in the
economic meritocracy and their own right to have so much
more than those who are less fortunate. So while they may be
progressive on issues of discrimination against the obvious
victims of racism and sexism, they are blind to their own
class privilege and to the hidden injuries of class that are
internalized by much of the country as self-blame.</span><span
style="font-size:14pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:12pt;font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span
style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">The right’s
ability to portray liberals as elitists is further
strengthened by the phobia toward religion that prevails in
the left. Many religious people are drawn by the teachings
of their tradition to humane values and caring about the
oppressed. Yet they often find that liberal culture is
hostile to religion of any sort, believing it is irrational
and filled with hate. People on the left rarely open
themselves to the possibility that there could be a
spiritual crisis in society that plays a role in the lives
of many who feel misunderstood and denigrated by the fancy
intellectuals and radical activists.</span><span
style="font-size:14pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:12pt;font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span
style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">The left needs to
stop ignoring people’s inner pain and fear. The racism,
sexism and xenophobia used by Mr. Trump to advance his
candidacy does not reveal an inherent malice in the majority
of Americans. If the left could abandon all this shaming, it
could rebuild its political base by helping Americans see
that much of people’s suffering is rooted in the hidden
injuries of class and in the spiritual crisis that the
global competitive marketplace generates.</span><span
style="font-size:14pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:12pt;font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span
style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Democrats need to
become as conscious and articulate about the suffering
caused by classism as we are about other forms of suffering.
We need to reach out to Trump voters in a spirit of empathy
and contrition,"</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:22.5pt"><b><span
style="font-size:18pt;color:rgb(0,51,102)">Stop
Shaming Trump Supporters</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:white"><span
style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">By Rabbi
Michael Lerner</span><span style="font-size:14pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:white"><span
style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">[<i>This
article originally appeared in The New York Times.
You can read it online </i><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=VoYZD9t540fVX7rvXlzkHo0bZ2Z1n%2Bij"
target="_blank"><i>here</i></a><i>. Below the
article, Rabbi Lerner adds some of the ideas that
the N.Y. Times took out in order to make it fit for
their blog space.</i>]</span><span
style="font-size:14pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:white"><span
style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">It turns
out that shaming the supporters of Donald J. Trump is
not a good political strategy.</span><span
style="font-size:14pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:white"><span
style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Though job
loss and economic stagnation played a role in his
victory, so did shame. As the principal investigator
on a study of the middle class for the National
Institute of Mental Health, I found that working
people’s stress is often intensified by shame at their
failure to “make it” in what they are taught is a
meritocratic American economy.</span><span
style="font-size:14pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:white"><span
style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">The right
has been very successful at persuading working people
that they are vulnerable not because they themselves
have failed, but because of the selfishness of some
other villain (African-Americans, feminists,
immigrants, Muslims, Jews, liberals, progressives; the
list keeps growing).</span><span
style="font-size:14pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:white"><span
style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Instead of
challenging this ideology of shame, the left has
buttressed it by blaming white people as a whole for
slavery, genocide of the Native Americans and a host
of other sins, as though whiteness itself was
something about which people ought to be ashamed. The
rage many white working-class people feel in response
is rooted in the sense that once again, as has
happened to them throughout their lives, they are
being misunderstood.</span><span
style="font-size:14pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:white"><span
style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">So please
understand what is happening here. Many Trump
supporters very legitimately feel that it is they who
have been facing an unfair reality. The upper 20
percent of income earners, many of them quite liberal
and rightly committed to the defense of minorities and
immigrants, also believe in the economic meritocracy
and their own right to have so much more than those
who are less fortunate. So while they may be
progressive on issues of discrimination against the
obvious victims of racism and sexism, they are blind
to their own class privilege and to the hidden
injuries of class that are internalized by much of the
country as self-blame.</span><span
style="font-size:14pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:white"><span
style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">The right’s
ability to portray liberals as elitists is further
strengthened by the phobia toward religion that
prevails in the left. Many religious people are drawn
by the teachings of their tradition to humane values
and caring about the oppressed. Yet they often find
that liberal culture is hostile to religion of any
sort, believing it is irrational and filled with hate.
People on the left rarely open themselves to the
possibility that there could be a spiritual crisis in
society that plays a role in the lives of many who
feel misunderstood and denigrated by the fancy
intellectuals and radical activists.</span><span
style="font-size:14pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:white"><span
style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">The left
needs to stop ignoring people’s inner pain and fear.
The racism, sexism and xenophobia used by Mr. Trump to
advance his candidacy does not reveal an inherent
malice in the majority of Americans. If the left could
abandon all this shaming, it could rebuild its
political base by helping Americans see that much of
people’s suffering is rooted in the hidden injuries of
class and in the spiritual crisis that the global
competitive marketplace generates.</span><span
style="font-size:14pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:white"><span
style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Democrats
need to become as conscious and articulate about the
suffering caused by classism as we are about other
forms of suffering. We need to reach out to Trump
voters in a spirit of empathy and contrition. Only
then can we help working people understand that they
do not live in a meritocracy, that their intuition
that the system is rigged is correct (but it is not by
those whom they had been taught to blame) and that
their pain and rage is legitimate.</span><span
style="font-size:14pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:white"><span
style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Michael
Lerner, the rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue in
Berkeley, Calif., is the editor of Tikkun magazine and
chairman of the Network of Spiritual Progressives.</span><span
style="font-size:14pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:white"><span
style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">[<i>Up to
here is what the NY Times printed in their blog.
Lerner adds a bit more below, so as to deepen one's
understanding.</i>]</span><span
style="font-size:14pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:white"><span
style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">We need to
retool the discourse on the Left and train hundreds of
thousands of people to become part of an "Empathy
Tribe" that can reach out to Trump supporters to
apologize to them for the ways they've felt "dissed"
by the liberal and progressive world and to help
people understand that what the actual causes of their
suffering are the perverse spiritual distortions and
twisted psychodynamics of a global competitive
marketplace. We can and must help people understand
that the inequalities in this society are not a
function of who is or is not talented, smart, or works
hard, but instead are a function of the class
structure which will only allocate economic security
and jobs that feel fulfilling to a small percentage of
the population while the rest of the population is
scrappling for the leftovers. </span><span
style="font-size:14pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:white"><span
style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">What we do
not want to do is deny or lessen the importance of the
struggles against racism, sexism, homophobia,
Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and xenophobia. Rather,
what we want to do is insist that those struggles must
be carried out in ways that do not negate but rather
affirm the pain and suffering caused by classism and
the internalization of the materialism, selfishness
and "looking out for number one" consciousness of our
society. We want to avoid the kind of discourse that
we so often hear in liberal and progressive societies
in which one identity politics group fights with
another over who is most oppressed while
simultaneously demanding that others defer to their
will on question a, b, or c. Please read Peter Gabel's
piece below to get a fuller sense of what we are
talking about here. </span><span
style="font-size:14pt"></span></p>
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style="margin-bottom:12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:white"><span
style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">In fact, if
we could learn to listen to the life experiences and
work experiences of middle income working people and
the working and unemployed poor, empathically validate
their experiences, and really hear their grievances,
we would be in a much better inner place to build a
transformative movement that included people who
yesterday voted for Trump. In part, this means
compassionately challenging those in the liberal and
progressive world who are now talking as though
everyone who voted for Trump is racist, sexist,
homophobic, stupid and/or evil. Some fit into that
description but many do not, and when they hear
themselves described by liberals or progressives
reacting to the 2016 election by demeaning or shaming
everyone who voted for Trump, they become even more
attached to the Right, and even more outraged at what
they perceive to be the arrogance and elitism of the
Left. </span><span style="font-size:14pt"></span></p>
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style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">What I'm
describing here is a massive project, but one which is
absolutely necessary if the movements for
environmental sustainability and a slowing of global
climate change, human rights, anti-racism, peace and
nonviolence are to have any chance of achieving the
political power they need to actually change our
society. And the first step is one that YOU can be
personally involved in by circulating this analysis
and Peter Gabel's analysis, bringing your friends
together to talk about it, and then becoming an
activist with us in Tikkun's interfaith and
secular-humanist-and-atheist-<wbr>welcoming NSP--
Network of Spiritual Progressives. So if you are not
able to come to our conference this weekend, at least
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style="font-size:18pt;color:black">Coercive
Deference and Double Bind Politics on the Left </span></b></p>
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style="font-size:14pt;color:black">by <b>Peter Gabel</b></span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Many white
working -class communities feel robbed of much of
their sense of worth and recognition by the impact of
the global economy on the conditions of their life and
on their culture. They see elites...millionaires,
billionaires, tech wizards, bi-coastal cultural
sophistocates...benefiting from an economy that their
prior economic communities have been eviscerated by
(in the rust-belt states of Michigan, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, for example, all of whom
voted in large numbers for Trump). And they feel this
marginalization and cast-asideness not just because of
its material or economic aspect, but also and in some
ways more importantly because of its denigration of
their own sense of worthiness, recognition, and sense
of communal belonging and value. In this latter sense,
they feel spiritual suffering and the loss of human
solidarity and love. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255)">..</span></p>
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style="font-size:10pt;color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:white"><span
style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Instead of
responding to this with compassion and concern, the
liberal world has communicated to this community that
the world is or would be fine if these whites had
exercised their "equality of opportunity" to pursue
their god-given right to fulfill their dreams through
successfully competing in the marketplace... except
for minorities, women, the LGBT community, disabled
people, and other designated groups who must be given
"special benefits" due to past discrimination so that
they can gain the same "equality of opportunity" that
the so-called "white" community already has. This
liberal attitude reflected in the mainstream of the
Democratic Party not only denies the spiritual pain of
the white working class...it also blames the white
working-class for failing to succeed themselves and
for somehow contributing to the oppression of
African-Americans, women, and all the other groups
whom the liberal world (correctly) wants to extend
more rights to and more benefits to.</span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Thus the
liberal world in effect flaunts their own success as
elites, blames the working class for their own
failures, and then holds them responsible as "whites"
for the oppression of other oppressed groups,
requiring them to deny their own sense of
marginalization and spiritual pain, their own
invisibility, and to defer to the orthodoxy that it is
the other oppressed groups who are deserving of
concern and recognition. And even more, the white
working-class communities are not allowed to comment
upon this whole process because that would be racist,
or sexist, or otherwise not politically correct for
them to do. Understandably this makes these white
working class communities feel they are simultaneously
in pain and silenced from commenting on their pain, an
untenable and explosive hurt that Donald Trump
perfectly spoke to in his campaign.</span><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10pt;color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
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style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">What we saw
in the election results, furthermore, was that this
dynamic was not limited to to the white working-class,
but also to white college-educated men<i> and women </i>who
voted for Trump in large numbers, in spite of his
derogatory comments about women. While these "whites"
don't face the identical socio-economic conditions of
the white working-class, they also suffer the
spiritual pain of not being affirmed in a loving and
valuing way within our alienated culture, and they
also are expected to direct all their concern to
designated oppressed others and deny the pain of their
own spiritual isolation. And they too are not allowed
to comment upon this because they are supposed to be
guilty about the pain of others rather than crying out
themselves.</span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:14pt;background-color:white">This
is the coercive deference, the double-bind, that has
undermined the Left's appeal for the last forty or so
years since the Left abandoned a universalist view of
human liberation in favor of an exclusive focus on the
extension of liberal rights to previously
discriminated-against groups, and on identity politics
based on the past and continuing injuries to each
victimized identity group for which a designated
oppressor group ("whites") are responsible.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255)">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10pt;color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
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style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">The
solution to this is a new spiritual politics that sees
all of us as suffering from a capitalist social world
that fails to affirm all of us as worthy of love,
respect, and recognition, and seeks to build an
economy and a culture that carries forward that loving
affirmation to all human beings. Of course this must
include compassion for the historical and continuing
particular suffering inflicted on African-Americans,
women, the LGBT community and others who have been
harmed, demeaned, and unrecognized, but it must also
extend a loving solidarity to the "whites"--that is
to <i>all of us</i> as universal beings with
particular histories and circumstances who long for a
world based on love, care and the embrace of truly
being supported and valued.</span></p>
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style="color:rgb(255,255,255)">.</span></p>
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style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Bernie
Sanders did a great job of showing such a politics is
possible right now, even though he focused only on
economic issues as carriers of spiritual care and
concern rather than on a fuller truly
spiritual-progressive program that would have
addressed a broader array of spiritual and communal
needs. Until we move our politics in this universalist
healing direction, others like Donald Trump will
continue to succeed with messages that speak to
"white" people's pain in distorted ways with likely
harmful consequences.</span></p>
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is Editor-at-Large of Tikkun magazine, co-founder of
the Project for Integrating Spirituality, Law, and
Politics, and the author most recently of<u> Another
Way of Seeing: Essays on Transforming Law, Politics,
and Culture.</u></span><span
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