Good people -whom I love - voted for Trump. They were not influenced by Putin's internet " trolls "

Why this massive insult on Americans who voted for Donald Trump ? Good people- whom I love- voted for Trump to " make America great again ". Hillary Clinton never inspired the crowd enthusiasm that Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump did.

How do you explain the vitality of the Trump and Sanders campaign if Americans were so happy with the status quo ? Bad Vlad Putin poisoned their cheery thoughts ?

Again, no internet trolls could possibly have magnified the negative image of neo-liberal Democrat Hillary Clinton.

The anti- Hillary Clinton vote highly influenced by Russian internet " trolls " ?

Senate probe on Russian interference in US election begins today

I voted for the presidential candidates of the Socialist Equality Party. I was told that not voting for " Hawk Hillary ", " Wall St. Hillary ", " Corrupt Hillary " was a stupid decision.

 Was I influenced by Vlad Putin ? I simply agreed that Hillary Clinton was the face of World War III.

Those working class voters in the Rust Belt states did not need " trolls " operating for Putin to convince them that Bill and Hillary Clinton were no " friends of labor ".

Make the world safe for the American plutocracy ?

The headquarters for CIA influenced " fake news " is the New York Times. The US ruling class is preparing for war and imagines that working class Americans are stupid enough to support  the New Colonialism in the Middle East and nuclear World War III with Russia and China.

As that " American Bolshevik " Eugene V. Debs said more than a century ago : the only just war is class war. Make the world safe for the American plutocracy ?

Was the Bernie Sander's " political revolution " inspired by Vladimir Putin and Russian controlled internet " trolls " ? The Democrats have degenerated into a neo-con war party- the kind ridiculed by anti-imperialist author Mark Twain more than 100years ago .

In general, capitalism is as rotten in Russia as it is in the United States. Expect a tremendous revival of the anti-war movement in this country.

The American ruling class is preparing for war

• The American ruling class is planning for war - with no visible support from the American people. FAKE NEWS ? Its national headquarters is the New York Times.
  
  The Czar of Russia was also planning for imperialist war early in the 20th century. A guy named Vladimir Lenin had a CLASS war strategy at the same time.
  

   
  

Our Memorial Days mostly honor war -confusing patriotism with militarism

The association of patriotism with militarism is quite wrongheaded. As a youth famous scientist -pacifist and socialist- Albert Einstein joked about soldiers marching in the grand Prussian style : " They don't need a brain. A spinal cord would suffice ", he thought.

" America First " militarism is just as stupid. " What if they start a war and nobody shows up ? " ( a Vietnam era question ) .

Our Memorial Days mostly honor war- not the mentally and physically ruined veterans - or the speechless dead . The Dalton Trumbo novel " Johnny Got His Gun " speaks for all of them-even many years after the Great War - " the war to make the world safe for democracy ".

Sad to see the Democrats evolve into a neo-con war party, the kind anti-imperialist American author Mark Twain ridiculed more than a century ago.

Even our " good wars " always begin with a lie.

Intellectual dishonesty is second nature to mainstream American journalists

This truth is so obvious except to mainstream news media " experts ". Conformity to our capitalist way of life makes intellectual dishonesty second nature to professional journalists.

 They tremble at the thought of offending their plutocrat masters.They don't know much or read much- and they are not very bright. Being puffed up they are incurably self- deluded

.Above all they have a " fear of falling ". Did Dante have a special circle of hell for liars ?

Despair and alienation - the root cause of drug deaths

White House study group clueless about the root of Opioid addiction ?

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  What THE GROUP will never do is ask about the root cause of drug addiction : the inner despair of individuals deprived of hope too early in life. The root cause is an economic system that mass produces " losers " and a political system that supports it - with very little principled differences between Democrats and Republicans.
  
  Jobs for the jobless, homes for homeless ? Not on the agenda of capitalist politicians in the USA. But we can all agree on the wickedness of Bad Vlad Putin, right ? He sabotaged our " democracy " ! Right ?
  
  
  

  

What does historian Doris Kearns Goodwin think about the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution ?

Sucking up to ruling class figures - Democrat or Republican - is not the way for any professional historian to be guaranteed " credibility " for the ages.

 If History teaches anything it is this : don't trust the words and perspective of " official " historians, of complacent VOICES stupefied by applause, flattery, and privilege.

Democratic socialists think Karl Marx got it right way back in 1848. There is an irrepressible class conflict in history, you see.

In his popular text book, " A People's History of the United States ", Professor Howard Zinn gets much closer to TRUTH : see the world from the point of view of the oppressed.

Lenin did- a hundred years ago. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution.

What are Doris Kearns Goodwin's thoughts on that ?

                      Another slant on historian Goodwin :  " quote by Nora Connolly

[ Listening to this discussion, my thoughts turned to the late great American historian, Howard Zinn.  I wondered what he would have thought about this annual dinner.  I have a feeling that the event wouldn’t have been as much of a “fun dinner” with the late Dr Zinn among the diners, though Zinn was a man of great wit and humour.   He surely would have drawn some perceptive parallels with President Obama`s foreign policy and Theodore Roosevelt`s agenda.  Zinn might also have pointed out some important points about Andrew Jackson, “responsible for the brutal treatment of the Indians in the South-East driving them across the Mississippi.  Thousands of them dying. Jackson is racist.  Jackson is a slave owner.”  Professor Kearns Goodwin doesn’t name any of the historians who attend her annual dinner but I think it`s safe to assume that Howard Zinn was never a guest – which is a pity.]  "

Bad Vlad Putin did not-and could not - sabotage the 2016 presidential election

The biggest FAKE NEWS story is the sabotage of the 2016 presidential election by Russia's Bad Vlad Putin. Contemptuous of the American working class , " Corrupt Hillary " just could not arouse any enthusiasm in the streets of the USA- in such contrast to " socialist " Democrat Bernie Sanders and the right wing nationalist Republican Donald Trump.

The blatant support of Establishment USA could not get Hillary elected president. But now the Hillary Democrats are promoting this vile New McCarthyism - demonizing post-communist Russia.

 Is our plutocracy morally superior to Putin's capitalist oligarchy ? Any future war with Russia is utterly senseless - to working class America.

The wisdom of historian Doris Kearns Goodwin on " Our Times "

Socialist criticism of historian Goodwin

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  "  And it was a time of demagoguery and populism, but luckily for the country,
much of that energy got channeled through Teddy Roosevelt and the
Progressive movement... "]

There was a a guy, a passionate socialist, named Eugene V. Debs- self described as an " American Bolshevik -" who scared the capitalist ruling class into those- back then- very significant reforms. With the help of a mass socialist movement !

But if History can be rationally explained , how can ANY nation imagine itself exceptional - no matter how wonderful and progressive ?

Does Doris Kearns Goodwin imagine that Hillary Clinton was going in the direction of historical progress ? " Wall St. Hillary ", " Hawk Hillary ", " Corrupt Hillary " ?

The American capitalist class- which patronizes liberal historians- needs endless assurance that it must be around forever. But only CHANGE is eternal on this side of paradise.

A scent of mindless approval for US militarism here ? What did Trump " having no military experience " signify for the American historian Doris Goodwin : a reluctance to start World War III with nuclear power Russia ?

Indeed ,it was Hillary Clinton who had the visible support of the CIA and the Pentagon- these quintessential " progressive " American institutions.

[ The CIA also patronizes university scholars ]

Goodwin a little over-impressed perhaps ?

In Rhode Island a state computer " problem " or Raimondo's CLASS WARFARE on the poor ?

Governor Gina Raimondo is as clueless as that " let them eat cake ! " Queen of the French Revolution ( 1789 ) fame.

 So complacent is she about the misery and frustration of thousands of Rhode Island citizens affected by her ballyhooed advanced computer technology.

Now I wonder : is this really just a technical snafu or a cunning form of CLASS WARFARE on the poor, on those insufferable ( to rich people ) " entitlements " ?

 Why is the federal government not involved ? Collusion with the Trump plutocracy agenda ?

    It is not the abstract collective entity called " Rhode Island " that is hopeless. It is decaying capitalism - so well represented by " Wall St Gina ," pal of " Wall St. Hillary " - both dedicated enemies of working class people - THAT is the problem. 

Did not WE vote for " socialist " Democrat Bernie Sanders ? But why oh why did he endorse " Corrupt Hillary " ? 

In what sense does our ruling class want young people to be well educated ? More useful to capitalist exploiters ? More critical consumers ?

When will " hearings get going " on US war crimes in the Middle East ? Mosul the latest !

• And just when will hearings get going on US war crimes in the Middle East ? The latest killed many hundreds of innocent civilians in Mosul. Must we wait for the World Court ?
  
  TOP SECRET : no working class support in America for imperialist hegemony in the Islamic countries.
  
  No working class support here for the New McCarthyism demonizing post-communist Russia.
  
  No working class support in America for nuclear World War III.
  
  Our hearts are certainly not with the Trump Junta and " making America great again " .
  

   

Kushner grilled on ties to Russia... the New McCarthyism with a vengeance ?

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  Would any " progressive " Democrat grill Kushner on sinister contacts with Israel ? Was the American working class consulted on this notion that WE have " special relationship " with Israel but a hostile relationship with Vladimir Putin's CAPITALIST oligarchy ?
  
  Is ruling class tyranny in America less obnoxious than in post-communist Russia ?
  
  And how can President Trump possibly be accused of promoting anti-Semitism ? There does seem to be a bizarre dispute going on between pro-Trump Zionists and pro-Hillary Zionists.
  
  Jared Kushner questioned by Senate over Russia ties

   

" Progressive " street- panhandling right protest in Cranston, Rhode Island.... Stop police bullying !

ACLU protests panhandling ordinance in Cranston

Social justice should not be incompatible with common sense and public safety. The so called liberal " progressive " types protesting this crack down on street panhandling would be more credible demanding rent control and reasonable restraint on sacrosanct private property rights.

 Should there even be an obscene RIGHT to be homeless, right to BEG in capitalist America ?

These lawyers with a social conscience could also insist on a right to a job. But in general I commend them . No police bullying in Cranston !

Controversial  street panhandling in Cranston

" Get off the Hillary Bashing ", Radical Ron ?

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  [ " Get off the Hillary bashing. Hillary would have continued beefing up the State Dept. as well to seek a political solution in the Middle East. "]
  
   
  
  • What I say about the right wing nationalist, President Donald Trump , of course, applies to Democrat Hillary Clinton : there is no point in over-demonizing her.

     

     Democratic socialists focus on the CLASS character of political leaders- and acknowledge whatever outstanding qualities or personal virtues they have- that made them so " successful ". 

    
    

    Both the Democrats and the Republicans serve the American plutocracy. The American working class has " no friends in high places ".
    

How do WE get rid of Bad Vlad Putin ? Wink at CIA murderous plots ?

•  [  We cannot let our kleptocrat "president" ruin this country, and we need to help Russian citizens get rid of their murderous kleptocrat "leader".
  Together we stand.]
  
   
  
 
• How do WE" help " the Russian people get rid of Bad Vlad Putin ? Wink at murderous CIA plots ?
  
   Wink at our own militarism ? Overthrow Trump and put Hawk Hillary, " Corrupt Hillary " in charge as Commander-in-Chief ?
  
  DEMOCRACY should begin at home !
  

Where is the PEACE movement ?

Mass protests in Russia

Politically literate ( most are ) NPR listeners need not be reminded that this year marks the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. In this sense only was the collapse of the Stalinist Soviet Union a great historical tragedy ( as Vladimir Putin himself called it ) : it gave neo-liberal philistines in all countries the false idea that global capitalism was the forever FUTURE. And Karl Marx -not the plutocrats - had been tossed into the garbage can of History.

But History has not ended. Capitalism in Russia - led by ex-communist Putin and his undemocratic oligarchy ( just like our undemocratic plutocracy )- has a short but dismal record there.. Long ago Leon Trotsky predicted ( " The Revolution Betrayed " ) that the Stalinist bureaucracy was fully capable of leading Russia all the way back to capitalism- restoring private property relations in the state economy. Guess WHO became today's millionaires and billionaires in capitalist Russia ?

Democratic socialists around the world call for real socialism in Russia, in China, in India, in Cuba.... in Europe .... and yes, in the good old USA .

We do not support an insane war against still nuclear power Russia.We do not support the DNC based New McCarthyism in the United States ( which now has a treacherous celebrity voice in erratic film maker Michael Moore ) .

      Where is the PEACE movement ?

" Leftist " film maker Michael Moore berated on World Socialist Web Site

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  As a guide to the perplexed : " Above all, don't trust PRIVILEGED peope " ( Trotsky, I recall ) .
  This web site gets this very right : too many anti-socialist " socialists " promoted in that capitalist cesspool mainstream news media.
  
  THEY invariably lead us nowhere. ALL EGO !
  
    I will recommend this World Socialist  Web Site article today on my blog.
  
  
  

  Discussion on World Socialist Web Site 15 comments

  Filmmaker Michael Moore calls on Democrats to declare national emergency over Trump’s “espionage”

   

" A way out of marriage " ? Private or social ?

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  " A way out of marriage " ? Yes, that is also the socio-economic question . But the pillars of society - the intellectual and " moral " representatives of the ruling class-a class with a rock foundation of " private property "- fear even public debate on the institution of marriage, an institution designed to perpetuate social inequality.
  
  Recall the old 60s pop song " Patches " ?
  
  By the way, this debate is more than 100 years old on the democratic Left. Really so shocking ?
  
  The German Weimar Republic had a higher level of understanding here.
  
  
  

  
  

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" There is something seriously wrong with you " - really ?

• [  " There is something seriously wrong with you. I'm sure you can find a board to discuss this with other weirdos, rather than minimizing and making a mockery of someone's murder on this board. "]
  
   
  • There is something " seriously wrong " with educated, intelligent people who refuse to question the established social order.
    
     What is the ROOT of evil here ? Original sin ?
    
    Not for nothing spouse murder is a common theme of modern crime fiction- which always reflects social reality .

Putin- Trump " connection : the most boring FAKE NEWS out there !

The " investigation " of the Trump-Putin connection is nothing less than a throwback to Cold War era McCarthyism. " Progressive " Democrats like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders should be ashamed of themselves for condoning it.

Also, it is now the most boring FAKE NEWS out there. Working class Americans are not cheer leading for World War III with nuclear power Russia.

No enthusiasm for World War III ?

Spouse murder : " They seemed like the perfect family.... "

Horrific crime scene -a for hire murder of a beautiful wife

No doubt fiendish evil may lurk in the souls of any-or all- human beings. But too much of it is associated with this venerated institution of legal marriage.

 In any public library you can find a whole shelf of books on the topic of divorce. Browsing them one gets the sickening feeling that the institution itself is toxic in capitalist society: all about money and private property .

 Love is not a commodity.

Present day marriage should evolve " back " into a less self-centered, isolated, precarious COMMUNAL form. Children should be a collective obligation- not extremely personal burdens.
Not too many democratic socialists talk about this very old now perspective on " bourgeois marriage ".

In general, even romantic love need not be selfish. Until then we will have more " Alfred Hitchcock Presents " crime fiction." They seemed like the perfect family.... "

Kelley Clayton and " loving " husband Thomas

Air strike on Western Mosul kills as many as 200 civilians

You want to know the root of terrorism in the world today ? A routine headline story on the World Socialist Web Site today :

[ " An air strike on western Mosul on March 17, carried out by either the
United States or one of its allies, resulted in the destruction of
homes and the slaughter of as many as 200 civilians." ]

No support among the American working class for US New Colonialism war in the Middle East

The  New Colonialism in action

What has Harvard Business School or Harvard Law School done for working class Americans ?

Here is a simple question which will non-plus nine out of ten neo-liberals in oh -so-liberal Boston : there is a class struggle in the world between workers and capitalists. Socialists have studied this struggle since the Great French Revolution. Which side are YOU on ?

Hardly any Harvard professors have any loyalty to the American working class. They grovel before their capitalist masters. For them social climbing is a matter of becoming more and more hostile and contemptuous of the " underprivileged ". They think that being " smart "- with DEGREE- should set no limits on your income. Or your snobbery ! Or your arrogance !

What has Harvard Business School or Harvard Law School done for common people in America ? This university mass produces neo-con , war mongering ,politicians

They don't teach socialism

" Obamacare " still the law of the land

A greedy, clueless American plutocracy has no clarity on health care as basic human right. THEY want young American working class soldiers to risk their lives in the crazy Middle East to protect THEIR way of life ? Trump's way of life and Hillary's way of life is not our way of life.

 " Republicans Kill Health Care Vote As GOP Members Defect "

Obamacare was a miserable compromise

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  " Wall St. Hillary ", " Corrupt Hillary " , " Hawk Hillary " was surrounded by millionaires and billionaires - indeed by Establishment USA - when Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders endorsed her - with the mainstream news media over demonizing now President Trump.
  
  Obamacare was at best a miserable compromise - a long way from Ted Kennedy's vision of health care as a basic human right. Health insurance as a COMMODITY is not very " progressive " at all. It leaves millions of Americans hopeless and helpless.
  
  Still no end in sight to the BIPARTISAN attacks on the common people of the USA.
  
  
  

  

   

But to whom are you hitching your political wagon - if not those dear neo-liberals ?

The common sense of the American working class : those long suffering " deplorables " smeared by the Hillary Democrats. In the Rust Belt states they voted for Republican Donald Trump - knowing that they were betrayed by the neo-liberal Clintons.

Next time they will not be fooled again. Next time they will reinvent "American Democracy " in the streets - much like Paris in 1789, Moscow in 1917, Cuba in 1959, China in 1949.

I am all for peaceful revolution . But HISTORY has not ended !

The BIG LIE will not defeat incipient fascism in the United States

A sooner than later war with Russia ?

My democratic socialist views are explained daily on my blog :
[ http://radicalrons.blogspot... ]

The BIG LIE will not defeat incipient fascism in the United States. Who are slobbering over the CIA and the FBI , who are fanning the flames of World War III ? The neo-liberal Democrats with the obscene support of phony " socialists " of the pseudo Left.

Check out the World Socialist Web Site. I am presently a critical supporter of the Socialist Equality Party. I voted for their presidential candidates in the 2016 election.

I was a critical supporter of Bernie Sanders -until he endorsed Hawk Hillary, " Corrupt Hillary ".
From a Roman Catholic background I did not appreciate Hillary Clinton's plans to sabotage the Church from within ( see Wiki Leaks ).

I am also influenced by the pacifism of A.J. Muste.

Let me add that there is not a hint of the spirit of FDR's New Deal in the Hillary Democrats.

Our ruling class is more moral than Russia's ruling class ?

Please explain why our state connected plutocrats are on a higher moral level than the corrupt billionaires who emerged- mysteriously from the Soviet bureaucracy- after the collapse of " communism " in Russia in 1991 ?

We democratic socialists call for real " socialism " in Russia and China. Meanwhile the Hillary Democrats in the USA have evolved into a neo-con, " Hate Russia ", war party- completely out of touch with the American working class.

On the Left we are in the ironic position of defending President Trump against a New McCarthyism smear campaign . To be sure , Trump is NOT an anti-Semite nor a KKK type white racist. He IS a rather typical, arrogant , American ruling class male.

Betrayed all the way back to CAPITALISM

The root cause of terrorism is the Koran ?

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  The root cause of terrorism is the Koran.
  And, of course, the enablers to these evils, are self-righteous Lefties, like you.
  

   

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    Compare with the kind and gentle Old Testament ?

    Well, if that is true, the ONLY cure for terrorism is a Crusade inspired by the Old Testament - which rivals the Koran ( in numerous isolated quotes ) in blood thirsty viciousness. How popular is Jesus with our neo-con Democrats ?
    
    We have learned nothing from Vietnam ?
    
    

    
    

     

" Hold on, this is waiting to be approved by Patch "

Hold on, this is waiting to be approved by Patch. 
 

We can certainly do something about terrorism but declaring " war " on it suggests an obtuse understanding of world history. People are alike everywhere. They hate oppression and foreign domination. The root of all this terrorism- for decades now- has been the New Colonialism in the Middle East.

        We can end terrorism by ending our own state terrorism on the Islamic people of the Middle East. Pity poor Syria - a whole country in ruins ( thanks to  Hawk Hillary's " love and kindness " ) .

       Nowhere in the Middle East will American soldiers be welcomed as " liberators ". We must co-operate with Russia to restore some stability in the region. Could it just be that Vladimir Putin is more worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize than American President Barack Obama ?

Yes, people are alike !

End terrorism by ending our own state terrorism ?

The root cause of terrorism -and the unprecedented world refugee crisis - is the destruction of whole countries in the Islamic Middle East. ( Poor Syria ! ) . Old Europe imperialism continues to seek hegemony there .

 The United States is a ring leader of this New Colonialism. Do our great leaders think perhaps that only slow genocide will " solve " the terrorism problem ?

             It just is not all about " Allah is great ! "-this terrorism plague . Human beings are alike everywhere in hating oppression and foreign domination.

           It was rather absurd to declare " war on terrorism "after the events of September 11,2001. How do you terrify the terrorists ? Is any poor Muslim individual in the Middle East- with a chip on his shoulder for " Uncle Sam "- a worthy target of a Pentagon drone bomb ?

     End terrorism by ending our own state terrorism ?

British leader David Cameron for " responsible capitalism " ?

[ “If we don’t address the problem of people left behind economically, they will fall prey to the far left, and socially, the far right,” Cameron said. He added that responsible capitalism — characterized by tax, trade and transparency — will make globalization better and fairer for all involved.]

          These deep thinking capitalist-imperialist politicians cannot even imagine a future without parasite plutocrats. In a universe where EVERYTHING evolves and changes, only " free enterprise " is forever ? The more obviously rotten their economic system becomes the more its intellectual apologists insist on its eternal virtues.

    But would even American capitalism last a month without lies and brutality ? Falling prey to that
terrible Far Left ?
 

A squeaky clean FBI makes Trump look ridiculous ?

A squeaky clean FBI making Trump look ridiculous ? Ask Comey about any" evidence " that the FBI was involved in the assassination of American black leaders Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. No, they never lie !

          Why are " progressive " liberals slobbering over this old enemy of the Left - not much different from J. Edgar Hoover's FBI ? How far will this New McCarthyism go ? A holy war against post communist Russia ?

Wind Turbine catastrophe at Salty Brine Beach

I agree with the writer about that " environmental friendly " turbine generator at Salty Brine Beach. Solar power there would be less in- your- face obnoxious. But there is no pristine innocence in the very NAME of the beach : it was changed from the beautiful sounding Biblical name of Galilee. The Old Salt was no doubt a fine person to those people who knew him in private life. But as a radio celebrity - like most radio and TV celebrities in Rhode Island - Salty Brine was a symbol of noisy shallow commercialism .

[ Joyce Hindle: No more wind turbines at Salty Brine State Beach " ( Letter, Providence Journal ) ]

" Salty Brine Beach "  - I liked " Galilee "

One " last wish " for Dorene Rousseau : see her beloved pets " Dottie " and " Mindy "

Dorene , who had to give up her beloved pets " Dottie " and " Mindy " , is now under Hospice care. She would still love to see them at least one more time.

 If you spot them, let the present owner know of Dorene's " last wish ". Contact me at radicalron72647@gmail.com . Or leave message here. 

 Thank you. We live in Cranston , RI . The Knightsville neighborhood-near St. Mary's Catholic Church.

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