" There was not the slightest intellectual substance or reasoned political content to the so-called “debate.” No topic was addressed with either intelligence or honesty. Both candidates lied without effort or shame, slinging insults and prepared one-liners against each other while posturing as advocates of working people. "
Just a quote on last night's debate from the World Socialist Web Site. I agree. Clearly, Hillary Clinton is the darling of Establishment USA. The right wing nationalist Donald Trump has aroused significant -misguided- working class support.
Hillary Clinton 's stock in trade is this effete, intellectually bankrupt " identity politics ". While the Hillary Democrats smear Republican Trump as a racist and bigot they never stop pandering to race and gender.
The whole purpose of neo-liberal " identity politics " is to dull class consciousness and give American capitalist society a veneer of concern for social justice.
As if imperialist war and class oppression can continue without arousing racial and ethnic hatred. The real American political crisis will come the day after the next president takes office : a very divided America. [
Just a quote on last night's debate from the World Socialist Web Site. I agree. Clearly, Hillary Clinton is the darling of Establishment USA. The right wing nationalist Donald Trump has aroused significant -misguided- working class support.
Hillary Clinton 's stock in trade is this effete, intellectually bankrupt " identity politics ". While the Hillary Democrats smear Republican Trump as a racist and bigot they never stop pandering to race and gender.
The whole purpose of neo-liberal " identity politics " is to dull class consciousness and give American capitalist society a veneer of concern for social justice.
As if imperialist war and class oppression can continue without arousing racial and ethnic hatred. The real American political crisis will come the day after the next president takes office : a very divided America. [
Clinton-Trump debate: A degrading spectacle
By Patrick Martin, 27 September 2016
The 90-minute exercise in reaction and backwardness was an indictment not only of the candidates, but also of the political system that produced them. ]
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