Long ago Ralph Nader and different socialist parties spoke for me on this : the American plutocracy controls BOTH the Republican Party and the Democratic Party . For me voting for the " lesser evil " was voting for socialist third parties which up close and personal resemble CULTS - their devoted members much like those daffy " Clears " in the Church of Scientology.
Ordinary - but getting rare in " OUR democracy" - HONESTY compels me to defend even plutocrats like Donald Trump against lies and smears and not so subtle hints of physical violence .
The long vacuous Mueller Russia investigation - with Trump the unnamed CRIMINAL IN THE DOCK - was nothing less than a Kafkaesque nightmare for thinking PATRIOTIC Americans .
As a democratic socialist I can separate SANE American patriotism - the kind I feel watching Red Sox baseball games and New England Patriot football games or seeing an American ON THE MOON - from homicidal fantasies " patriotism ", from deranged war fever patriotism .
Ordinary - but getting rare in " OUR democracy" - HONESTY compels me to defend even plutocrats like Donald Trump against lies and smears and not so subtle hints of physical violence .
The long vacuous Mueller Russia investigation - with Trump the unnamed CRIMINAL IN THE DOCK - was nothing less than a Kafkaesque nightmare for thinking PATRIOTIC Americans .
As a democratic socialist I can separate SANE American patriotism - the kind I feel watching Red Sox baseball games and New England Patriot football games or seeing an American ON THE MOON - from homicidal fantasies " patriotism ", from deranged war fever patriotism .
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