> > I seriously hope and predict (but not support) a Harris victory over > Trump. I will eagerly await the reactions of progressives – especially the > young – who are so excited today with her "differences" with Trump > (conveniently ignoring her support from non-Trump war criminals like W Bush > and Cheney - "show me who your friends are and I'll know whom you are"). > When a couple of years into her term, her policies reveal that they were > misled – that she doesn’t represent any substantial differences other than > her color, gender, and rhetoric, with those who for decades have upheld the > status quo of the leaders of the Democrats such as Biden, Obama, the > Clintons – > > a blank check of military/political/financial support for the hated > apartheid/genocidal Israeli state; > > economic war (“sanctions”) against leftist governments in South America, > especially Venezuela with the result of the economy being devastated at 3 > times the rate as the 1929 stock market crash that hit the US so hard, > resulting in an outpouring of desperate immigrants; > > opposition to immigrants
> a green light to fossil fuels > > a continued waste of the peoples’ wealth on the military, > > no meaningful actions against the racial brutality of big city cops > > > there will be one of two responses by progressives (the older ones have > been giving in to lesser evil BS for too long to “change horses in > midstream” or to put it another way, “you can’t teach an old dog new > tricks”). > > > Either the young will abandon the Dems and demand that labor and the left > form a new party that, which at first would probably be more > social-democratic than radical, will be take clear progressive positions, or > in the event that no such alternative to Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dumber is > born, I see massive demoralization and cynicism and withdrawal from > political activism – a disaster for the Left since the far right will not > be demoralized but emboldened. > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#32944): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/32944 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/109066560/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
