11-21-2021, 10:12 AM
(11-20-2021, 06:02 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: It was rising here too-- but our pattern has been since the 90s: we rise up, and the result is to elect a Democratic Party government, and then the people quickly refuse to support it when it doesn't deliver right away because it (according to your views) is too "socialist" and too successful at getting rid of the neoliberal noose, or else too much of a failure because neo-liberal power and ideology is still great enough to block the real Democrats from doing enough.
I'll take issue with one thing. My view of the Democrats is simple enough: they're gutless and monumentally indecisive. The only thing Bill Clinton ever said that I endorse: people prefer wrong and strong to right and weak. The Dems have a platform that doesn't even fly well inside their own party, because there is no internal party-based pain to being a petty self-serving jerk -- just ask Sinema and Manchin. People won't follow handwringers, so the party needs to pick a position, adopt it as policy and enforce compliance on their members -- just like the GOP does with theirs. I don't like that model, but, sadly, it works
more from Eric Wrote:One good thing is, at least on the government spending side, congress has approved more spending for the needs of the people and society, even since late March 2020, than ever before; a partial rebuke to neoliberal trickle-down. But the other side of this revocation of trickle-down fascism needs to begin when the Senate passes some version of BBBBB; including raising taxes on the rich to pay for it. It also need to bypass the filibuster to pass voting rights. I don't know if or when these things will happen.
The real problem with legislation that's complicated: the public's eyes glaze over and they ignore what's actually happening. Instead, they go for bumper sticker memes, no matter how innane.
more from Eric Wrote:The movement against racism that ballooned in June 2020 with the cop killing of George Floyd, has been overwhelmed by a pro-racist movement in October/November 2021 against "critical race theory" and support for a coup, for police, and for police and vigilante killings. So, we may be headed for the race war that the Republican fascists and racist-murderers want.
CRT is a perfect example of a brainless meme, and cheering for "the good guy" falls right in line with the rest of the nonsense. Yes, I think general violence may ensue. Where it leads and how the US government (i.e. Joe Biden) responds are open questions.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.