Twitter CEO Shares And Raves About Article Calling For Dem Victory In Second ‘Civil War’
Twitter CEO Shares And Raves About Article Calling For
Dem Victory In Second ‘Civil War’
By Joe Simonson 5:19 PM 04/07/2018
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.”
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.
“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.
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