In truth, the American Empire and American capitalism is in a state
of acute crisis and tension. In the past such tensions invariably led to
world war. The neo-liberal Democrats sound more and more like the Cold
War Republicans -the driving force of 1950s McCarthyism.
President Obama's bright picture of America can hardly begin to explain the fervor of the Bernie Sanders " political revolution " campaign or the Trump victory in the presidential election.
It can hardly explain the implosion of the two party system. We face a future of war abroad and austerity at home. We are all Greeks now.
The mainstream news media 's demonization of Russia 's leader Vladimir Putin is as false as its confidence in a Hillary Clinton victory. The capitalist two party system undermined faith in the political system far more effectively than any Putin " sabotage " real or imagined.
Hillary Clinton's contempt for white working class " deplorables " - mostly decent people betrayed by neo-liberalism -was a big factor in the Rust Belt surprise . And Hawk Hillary never tossed a bone to the anti-war movement -which the Trump Junta will soon revive.
The Democratic Party long ago betrayed its New Deal soul. It now has Hillary Clinton's voice , the voice of a neo-con War Party, the kind anti-imperialist author Mark Twain ridiculed more than a century ago.
The American working class has no interest in war with nuclear powers Russia and China, no interest in the New Colonialism in the Middle East, or increasing austerity in government.
To be sure, in war or peace the ONE PERCENT will sacrifice nothing.
President Obama's bright picture of America can hardly begin to explain the fervor of the Bernie Sanders " political revolution " campaign or the Trump victory in the presidential election.
It can hardly explain the implosion of the two party system. We face a future of war abroad and austerity at home. We are all Greeks now.
The mainstream news media 's demonization of Russia 's leader Vladimir Putin is as false as its confidence in a Hillary Clinton victory. The capitalist two party system undermined faith in the political system far more effectively than any Putin " sabotage " real or imagined.
Hillary Clinton's contempt for white working class " deplorables " - mostly decent people betrayed by neo-liberalism -was a big factor in the Rust Belt surprise . And Hawk Hillary never tossed a bone to the anti-war movement -which the Trump Junta will soon revive.
The Democratic Party long ago betrayed its New Deal soul. It now has Hillary Clinton's voice , the voice of a neo-con War Party, the kind anti-imperialist author Mark Twain ridiculed more than a century ago.
The American working class has no interest in war with nuclear powers Russia and China, no interest in the New Colonialism in the Middle East, or increasing austerity in government.
To be sure, in war or peace the ONE PERCENT will sacrifice nothing.
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