Splendid concern trolling from old faith-based Bushist Michael Gerson in today's Washington Post, under the headline:
What might help Democrats’ prospects? A focus on workers’ dignity.
The headline alone is a near perfect example of how it works: building a series of idiotic false assumptions
- Democrats need Michael Gerson's help
- Michael Gerson in the pure goodness of his heart wants to give it to us—Christians are just like that
- Democrats don't care about the dignity of workers (in spite of the almost compulsive regularity with which it recurs, say, in the speeches of President Biden, generally with reference to the right of workers to organize, something Republicans are not known to be very hot on—if not as often as the less specific "dignity of work")
- No wonder they're in trouble!
To create out of nothing the impression that Democrats really deserve to lose, because our contempt for workers is such that we won't even consider Gerson's well-meant advice.
The column itself purports to be about an Aspen Institute conversation Gerson witnessed between two more or less Democratic eminences, Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado and the political philosopher Michael Sandel, which wasn't just about Democrats but about what Sandel would call the neoliberal world order, which many Democrats, notably President Bill Clinton, and most Republicans have favored, and some Democrats have thought to oppose—Sandel has repeatedly singled out President Joe Biden for praise on this score
