11-24-2016, 06:00 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-24-2016, 06:02 PM by Eric the Green.)
(11-24-2016, 11:27 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:(11-21-2016, 07:33 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: I used to worry that there would be convergence between the Kremlin / SCO and the Western Left. Some years ago I even briefly flirted with certain notions that Obama was "the one" - groomed somehow by Russian intelligence to become a Quisling.
The issue here is that people like Obama and Hillary Clinton seemed loyal to Soviet ideas from the 1970s, not to current Russian ideas. Putin is no believer in the workers rising up against the middle class, as Marx predicted. At most Obama could have recreated the Soviet Union here, which he seemed on track to do for a few months until the Democrats lost their supermajority in the Senate.
Soviet ideas from the 1970s have no relation whatever to those of Obama and Hillary Clinton. The Soviets were entirely dedicated to military competition. Even though typical Democrats still bend to the notion that the USA needs to be top dog, it's not their primary interest.
It is the greedy corporate tyrants that you Republicans support and enable, who are the equivalent of Soviet tyrants; NOT those who support the social services that all people need. The only people who at all might feel as if what the government does to them is "Soviet," are the CEOs and wealthy financiers whose "freedom" to exploit and tyrannize over us all would be cut back. Why do you take their side, Warren? Now it's up to CA to take the reins of government service and regulation into their hands. If the Feds resist, then CA must stand its ground.
For example, the FCC still refused, even under Obama, to break up the radio monopoly which the Feds forced upon us in 1996. CA should get its own FCC and require the monopoly broken up in California. I'm going to suggest that to my state representatives. There are many other examples that the Feds are supposed to do for us, but haven't done, or will refuse to do under Trump. another example is the car mileage standards that Obama imposed, but Trump will throw away. CA started the whole trend earlier before Obama by imposing its own standards, and should go its own way again. The car makers will have to pay attention to what such a large market as CA requires.