Thursday, October 1, 2015

The National Education Association should not endorse Hillary Clinton

NEA should endorse Bernie Sanders
     For many years now democratic Socialists-like Bernie Sanders- and the more militant CLASS STRUGGLE democratic Socialists -have both supported the fights of unionized workers and " professionals " and state workers AND criticized their union leadership for a lack of internal democracy.What is best for organized labor is some form of " democratic centralism " : complete freedom of debate followed by UNITY in action.
It would be a political disaster for the National Education Association( NEA ) to endorse the neo-liberal Democrat Hillary Clinton. The neo-liberal Democrats turned their backs on working- and the more precarious middle class Americans- decades ago. They made New Deal president Franklin D. Roosevelt look like a flaming Bolshevik.
The conservative leadership of these powerful unions identify more easily with the ONE PERCENT rich- the very definition of philistine SUCCESS- than with more ordinary-even if highly educated- Americans.
But the rise of " socialist " Jeremy Corbyn to the top of the British Labor Party says " the times are changing " .And so does the rise of this " socialist " Democrat Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
The crisis of global capitalism will not fade away.We must begin to question the very legitimacy of " legitimate " wealth.
And public school teachers must stop being the very medium for imparting ruling class values-competition, greed, narcissism - to America's youth
The Republicans were terrified that Donald Trump might form a dreaded third party. Bernie should play on that fear. Or just DO IT !

NEA leadership wants to endorse Harpy Hillary

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