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Bernie Sanders: A Socialist In The White House?

June 15, 2015 By Adam Powell 5 Comments

That the American left has fled from its liberal responsibilities is an inarguable fact. Like many Americans, I rushed to the polls (twice) to elect and re-elect President Barack Obama. Obama represented a change in this country that many liberals thought was long overdue — a man who stood for the working class, aspired to make healthcare available to all, took Wall Street and big business to task and supported a whole host of other leftist agenda items.

But today, that man is only a husk of the man I went to the polls for — his most recent failures being his support for the Patriot Act and the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) — and I can’t fathom where this departure began. To be sure, Obama is a far cry better than anything the right has brought to the national scene in many years — Mitt Romney was an elitist fool, George W. Bush was inept and the current presidential hopefuls are slovenly business leaders, badly diluted fascists and religious extremists of the worst sort.

But no matter how bad the American right has become, it does not excuse the left from ignoring the plight of working men and women; it does not excuse them from cozying up to the same business dictators that they’ve claimed to stand against; it does not excuse them from taking part in the same idiosyncratic political business practices that their adversaries on the right have perfected over all these years. Thankfully, there is a class of true liberals coming up through the Washington ranks right now — specifically Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.

Filed Under: Elections, National News Tagged With: Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, inequality, socialism, Wall Street

Syriza & Podemos: A European Red Spring?

February 4, 2015 By David Seaton Leave a Comment

Before we get started, it would be useful to remember that the founding “parents” of the “conservative revolution” or “neo-liberalism” as it is known in Europe, Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, both died of Alzheimer´s disease … This might not be the cause of the ongoing disaster, but it sure is a nifty metaphor for the situation we are in.

Regular readers know that one of my favorite hobby horses is criticizing the blockheadedness of post Cold War politicians who seem to have totally lost their fear of popular wrath.

Those who are cheerfully going about the work of dismantling the welfare state seem blissfully unaware that the welfare state was created by men as, or even more conservative then themselves (Bismark, for example), in order to avoid revolutionary social movements which would destabilize and jeopardize the entire economic system and society itself. This was a strategy that was so eminently successful that it practically has destroyed revolutionary praxis.

Filed Under: Elections, Foreign Affairs Tagged With: Aaron Swartz, Albert Einstein, Alexis Tsipras, austerity, BBC News, capitalism, Cold War, economics, EU, Europe, European Union, Eurozone, Finance, Financial Times, FT, Germany, Gideon Rachman, Greece, history, insurance, labor, Madris, Margaret Thatcher, Marine Le Pen, Podemos, poverty, real estate, revolution, Ronald Reagan, Russia, socialism, Soviet Union, Spain, Syriza, unions, Wall Street

Why Are So Many Americans So Crazy?

November 27, 2014 By David Seaton 9 Comments

Just to begin by giving a quick answer to the question posed by the title of this post, “Why are so many Americans so crazy?”. The answer is that living in a cloud of misinformation, they are being driven insane.

There is always the temptation to see certain people as reasonable when they aren’t. “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Isaiah 1:18,” was the favorite bible passage of Lyndon Baines Johnson and it describes the basic attitude of all successful negotiators. The lesson learned from the epic battle to pass a more than tame and mediocre health bill or the reaction to legalizing human beings that have risked their lives to come to America, is that it is impossible to negotiate with whipped up insanity.

All of this insanity, from Tea Party to Obama being Antichrist is about using racism to distract people from seeing clearly what is right in front of their faces.

Filed Under: Media & Culture, National News Tagged With: Affordable Care Act, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Brazil, capitalism, class war, consumerism, Corporate America, Cuba, Ferguson, Fox News, George W. Bush, healthcare, history, inequality, Karl Marx, Leonce Gaiter, libertarianism, mainstream media, Michael Brown, middle class, Mike Brown, Nixon, race, racism, Ralph Ellison, Reagan, Republican Party, Richard Nixon, Robert Reich, Ronald Reagan, slavery, socialism, terrorism, The Invisible Man

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