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The Democrats' proposals would amount to the biggest changes in Social Security since 1983, when the program faced a financial crisis.
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Sunday, June 19, 2016
NYTimes: Bernie Sanders Die-Hards Gather and Try to Look Past November
Case: I don't know if this article accurately characterizes the People's Summit. I doubt it since it works hard at painting, a la Krugman, the Sanders campaign as a fringe movement.
Nonetheless there is indeed an infantile, and in some cases, outright scab, element persistently trying to exploit the Sanders campaign in a witting or unwitting effort to elect Trump. The #anyonebuthillary, #bernieorbust groupings have equivalent hashtags: #OKTrump, and just plain #bust.
None of these forces have paid much attention to Sanders actual politics or history. Some are Republican plants. Some can't seem to grasp the third grade political math of the two party system.
Here is a bit of Vermont Sanders historyy these forces may not be aware of: lots of leftist factions of sectarian bent over the years have tried to ride Sanders to advance feet-firmly-in-mid-air "principles" only to be disappointed, and full of flatulent outrage, when it turned out they did not own Bernie. Instead, he would Use Them in agitation, but discard them in governing. Also, not a few economically and socially privileged progressives were frequently put off with Sanders straightforward and consistent working class first style and approaches to politics. He always understood that working families do not often have the luxury of "remaining pure and aloof" of the "lesser evil". Even though he ran for office as an independent he always ran to win, never as a spoiler.
Perhaps this PEOPLE'S SUMMIT was premature. As Sanders has said: the first task is to crush Trump AND Every possible Republican. The second is to launch 100, or 1000, Bernie style campaigns at the local and state levels.
Or, perhaps this article is a complete fraud, like the"bitter and angry Bernie" politico pieces sourced by a staffer Sanders had fired for being an R agent. In which case this commentary is a waste of time.
Cheers
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Here's a story from The New York Times I thought you'd find interesting:
At an event called "The People's Summit" in Chicago, Mr. Sanders's backers discussed their plans to carry on his message and their intentions for the general election.
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The Pacific zone must not become a battleground [feedly]
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The Pacific zone must not become a battleground
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Lately, the pressure exerted by the US on China is relatively high, and it focuses on two fronts. First, the field of international trade: recently, the US company XpressWest announced the termination of its collaboration with China Railway International USA. Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China Railway. Previously, the US Department of Commerce announced the launch of an investigation into the Chinese company Huawei for alleged violations of US export restrictions. Then, the field of (...)
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Re: [CCDS Members] [socialist-econ] Orlando
Orlando: Also, another step on the road to fascism, by definition:
"A politico-economic system in which there is: total executive branch control of both the legislative and administrative powers of government; no independent judiciary; no Constitution that embodies the Rule of Law standing above the people who run the government; no inherent personal rights or liberties; a single national ideology that first demonizes and then criminalizes all political, religious, and ideological opposition to it; the massive and regular use of hate, fear, racial and religious prejudice, the Big Lie technique, mob psychology, mob actions and ultimately individual and collective violence to achieve political and economic ends; a capitalist/corporate economy; with the ruling economic class' domination of economic, fiscal, and regulatory policy."
Steven Jonas, (from my book "The 15% Solution: How the Republican Religious Right Took Control of the U.S., 1981-2022"): June 9, 2014
And currently:
All the best to all, and to those to whom it applies, Happy Father's Day! (Dr.) Steve Jonas
In a message dated 6/18/2016 10:14:19 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, patfry123@gmail.com writes:
John, I am getting lost - what do you mean by who is going to do the disarming? Are you for or against a ban on assault weapons? Pat
On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 10:06 AM, John Case <jcase4218@gmail.com> wrote:
I am NOT talking about infantile "armed" theories of revolution. I am simply and only talking about the slaughter right now going on in every American community. Who is going to do the disarming?
On Jun 18, 2016 8:37 AM, "Sam Webb" <swebb@cpusa.org> wrote:
What's this "Arm Up" and "blood-dimmed tide" stuff? I thought we put that rhetoric to bed a long time ago. And as a former Catholic, I was told that one sin (Hillary's) never negated another sin (Bernie's); even a good deed didn't clean the slate. Sam
On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 8:07 AM, John Case <jcase4218@gmail.com> wrote:
What is going on with Hillary and half the Dem establishment (maybe more) leaning toward military involvement in Syria as a response to the Orlando shooting??--Is this part of the dues we pay for relying upon a liberal to defeat Trump? We get war-baited by that horses ass, that complete fraud, into another complete fuck-up in the Mid EAst? We right off abandon the reluctance of Obama to to blow some more Mideast shit up?I confess a certain sexist error in tending to attribute Hillary's hawkish posture to a perception issue -- can a woman president pull the trigger? Its not just posture.There is ONLY ONE short term response to the Orlando shooting: ban ALL assault weapons. period. And enforce it. There's the rub. If you can't do that, then, just at least, please, tell the truth -- There is NO Protection against the insanities arising from this increasingly divided, unjustifiably unequal society. You better Arm UP and prepare yourself for the blood-dimmed tide.I see Sanders response -- ban the assault weapons -- did not stop him from remaining focused on the basics confronting our society. But doing so left him open to the accusation of be "tone deaf" to the importance and sensitivity to "hateful ideologies". I was prepared to consider that accusation until I heard Hillary -- and many others on the liberal side -- sing the true tone: go to war against "radical jihadism".NO thanks.
John Case
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How can the world bridge its infrastructure gap? [feedly]
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How can the world bridge its infrastructure gap?
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