"Ours Was the Shining Future"

Here's a review of Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream. 

Sounds like an interesting read. 

"The completely justified anger that civil rights and feminist leaders felt toward reactionary elements in the labor movement, he concludes, unfortunately helped to produce a backlash that pushed many unions and working-class people away."

Damage we still live with today. When you look at it all through this lens, the so-called heterodox types are just a re-litigation of those cultural grievances, on behalf of "working people" by credentialed SubStack entrepreneurs who thought college loan forgiveness was "elitist" because things like community colleges don't even exist in their world view.

It'd be hilarious if it weren't so tragic, because they rail against "woke" opposition to universal programs owing to their grudge against identity politics, but use the  same reasoning to oppose something like loan forgiveness because a socioeconomic class their market has a beef with also benefits.

Our politics are fucked.

Anyhow, I still need to finish Gerstle's The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order. And I just added Did It Happen Here? to my Kobo. 

I always enjoy that period where I've been reading a lot of comfort food, but feel the slowly mounting gentle pressure to get some fiber, too.