Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey aroused controversy after labeling a Medium article “great” that claimed there’s no “bipartisan way forward” in the United States and that the country is engaged in a “fundamental conflict between two worldviews that must be resolved in short order.”
Dorsey shared the Medium article on his personal Twitter account Thursday night, with the accompanying acclaim that it was a “great read.”
Great read https://t.co/O2djSQf8Qv
— jack (@jack) April 6, 2018
Author and media consultant Peter Leyden and political commentator Ruy Teixeira argued in the article titled “The Great Lesson of California in America’s New Civil War” that America is already in the midst of a second major domestic conflict of sorts and the way out is for the rest of the country to imitate California.
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“In this current period of American politics, at this juncture in our history, there’s no way that a bipartisan path provides the way forward,” they wrote. “The way forward is on the path California blazed about 15 years ago.”
Essentially, the authors called for a complete marginalization of the Republican Party and its voters since they only care “about rule by and for billionaires at the expense of working people” and not “average citizens.”
California, despite its mass wealth inequality, growing lack of social cohesion, poverty, and soaring housing costs “provides a model for America as a whole,” according to Leyden and Teixeira. Interestingly enough, they claimed the state’s economy is booming, although arguably not for long. They also oddly claimed the state is running on surpluses without acknowledging its debt crisis.
“The public is happy with its political leaders,” they noted. However, California Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, has a 44 percent approval rating. The article also does not acknowledge that the state has seen tens of thousands of residents leave annually for the last few years.
Leyden and Teixeira are somewhat correct that America currently faces a dialectic of “two political cultures already at odds through different political ideologies, philosophies.” Yet, they do not call for Democrats to try to understand their political adversaries.
Instead, they proposed Americans “take the Republican Party down for a generation or two” in order to save the country.
“America can’t afford more political paralysis. One side or the other must win. This is a civil war that can be won without firing a shot. But it is a fundamental conflict between two worldviews that must be resolved in short order,” Leyden and Teixeira asserted.
Dorsey’s tweet comes in the midst of growing concerns about his website’s treatment of conservatives. Over the last few years, Twitter has banned a number of right-wing accounts that it says violate the site’s terms of service.
Critics say the site is selective in who it punishes and engages in so-called “shadowbanning,” which effectively makes a user’s post invisible to others without officially taking the account down.
Twitter has denied these allegations.
Dorsey’s tweet brings up a more fundamental question: If he agrees that the country is in the state of crisis that Leyden and Teixeira believe, does he feel an obligation to use all tools at his disposal to help the Democrats “win” this alleged second Civil War? Is Twitter — a social media site with considerable influence over the media’s day-to-day narrative — a vehicle for Dorsey to help accomplish this goal?
If the country is in as dire of a position as the Medium article claimed, how can Dorsey not feel an obligation to help steer the country away from collapse?
Dorsey did not respond to The Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment via Twitter after he disputed DCNF reporter Peter J. Hasson’s tweet that he “loves” Leyden’s piece.
Twitter’s CEO loves this article about driving conservatives from public life and turning the rest of the country into California in the “new civil war.” Literally what it’s about https://t.co/b8DUxlC9Cw
— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) April 6, 2018
Where did I say “love”
— jack (@jack) April 7, 2018
The Left has already started shooting Republican politicians. I don’t see any reason to wait for Dorsey’s neo-Cheka to show up at our doors.
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Dumb and dumber are perfect examples of the narcissistic, egotistical, egomaniacs who pretend to represent Californians while the best of them have long since moved to other states. The nuts will rot where they lay or the rats get ’em. What a state.
Peter Leyden is obviously a homosexual, and his article is complete bullshit. California got corrupted by judges. He doesn’t mention that once. It got saved by the tech industry in the Bay Area. California voters voted for prop 187 in 1994 by almost 60%. It got thrown out by a liberal rat judge. The state didn’t appeal. Huge mistake. One liberal rat overturning the will of 60% of the voters in the state. Poof. There went California.
Gray Davis dropped the appeal in ’99.
Poof indeed!
These types change their tune, when their necks are under the guillotine, and the 4th turning is upon us.
From your lips to God’s ears.
These people and the rest of the world will shit when this left half of our population loses their civil war that they started and that 160,000,000 are either killed or exiled forever. I don’t think anyone on the winning side will be in the mood for any rehabilitation of that losing side.
Don’t fret, lots of people think we can vote our way out of this situation.
And, if the whole country turns into California, they can do what the brave Conservatives did, and move to a new place to conserve.
So the answer if for everyone to go full f***ing retard? Really? The only trail Commiefornia has been blazing for the last 15 years is a road straight to hell. Amazing how every libtard has their brain in an echo chamber.
You never go full retard…
Picture my boot stomping his ass, FOREVER!
Wow we are surrounded by crazed half witted liberals on all sides and they want to imprison brainwash us or kill us and as usual from their side it sounds like a perfect idea . They also as usual left out a huge fact we are heavily armed and when surrounded we see it as an opportunity to take the enemy head on in every direction ! You see unlike them we have each other’s backs !
Forget Me Not !
This takes me back to the halcyon days right after Obama was elected. According to people like these clowns, a new day had dawned, setting the stage for liberal supremacy that would last a generation. Instead, the Democrats are in the worse shape since the 1920’s.
Having the presidency slip through her grasp, it is clear that Hillary has lost her mind, and the Democrats are just Hillary writ large. Not too long ago, all signals were clear for take-off, and now, the Light Bringer having flamed out, it’s all gone. Poof. They have become detached from reality, so much so that they can’t accept that Trump actually won without Russian help.
I do agree with the notion that we have two political cultures at odds with each other. However, one is based in reality and the other on wishful thinking.