No doubt we have maddeningly frustrating situation in the United States for people vaguely " on the left ". It is nonsense to believe any individual who just calls himself a " socialist " can rise above the pro-capitalist political machine to which he chooses to belong , to which he owes loyalty. If you are a Catholic " free thinker " , it would be rather unprincipled of you to run for Pope.
The neo-liberal Democrats in general make New Deal president Franklin D. Roosevelt look like a flaming Bolshevik. And yet so far right has the ruling class shifted the political spectrum that President Obama and Hillary Clinton- and even Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse- are called rabid Marxists or fellow travelers taking this " land of the free and the home of the brave " down the path to socialist ruin.
I just read the celebrity " socialist " Democrat Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont wants the U.S. to finish the job in Afghanistan. A too quick pull out would be " irresponsible " ( to whom ? ). Reminds me of liberal Hubert Humphrey in Chicago in 1968. A crowd of tear gassed pacifists -protesting the criminal war in Vietnam- heard the " Happy Warrior " declare it " a just war ".
Did " socialist " Bernie Sanders ever read the famous Canton Speech of Eugene V. Debs ?
In fact, the ONLY Democratic candidate for president with an unambiguous anti-war position was the born plutocrat Lincoln Chafee. Ralph Nader made this observation and commented that the hapless Chafee was quickly marginalized in the Great Debate. Yesterday Chafee withdrew from the race. And he is clearly prepared to endorse Harpy Hillary for president.
No, the Democratic Party will corrupt any obtuse " reformer " more quickly than he or she will " socialize " it.
A liberal Democrat just told me that Ralph Nader was responsible for the horror show in Afghanistan and Iraq. Ralph dared to challenge the political system with a third independent party. What nerve ! What malice ! To tell the truth is a sin against " progressive " principles.
The above article, I think , just told the truth.
I am still " waiting for Lefty ".
The neo-liberal Democrats in general make New Deal president Franklin D. Roosevelt look like a flaming Bolshevik. And yet so far right has the ruling class shifted the political spectrum that President Obama and Hillary Clinton- and even Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse- are called rabid Marxists or fellow travelers taking this " land of the free and the home of the brave " down the path to socialist ruin.
I just read the celebrity " socialist " Democrat Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont wants the U.S. to finish the job in Afghanistan. A too quick pull out would be " irresponsible " ( to whom ? ). Reminds me of liberal Hubert Humphrey in Chicago in 1968. A crowd of tear gassed pacifists -protesting the criminal war in Vietnam- heard the " Happy Warrior " declare it " a just war ".
Did " socialist " Bernie Sanders ever read the famous Canton Speech of Eugene V. Debs ?
In fact, the ONLY Democratic candidate for president with an unambiguous anti-war position was the born plutocrat Lincoln Chafee. Ralph Nader made this observation and commented that the hapless Chafee was quickly marginalized in the Great Debate. Yesterday Chafee withdrew from the race. And he is clearly prepared to endorse Harpy Hillary for president.
No, the Democratic Party will corrupt any obtuse " reformer " more quickly than he or she will " socialize " it.
A liberal Democrat just told me that Ralph Nader was responsible for the horror show in Afghanistan and Iraq. Ralph dared to challenge the political system with a third independent party. What nerve ! What malice ! To tell the truth is a sin against " progressive " principles.
The above article, I think , just told the truth.
I am still " waiting for Lefty ".
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