NOTE: This essay is adapted from some experimental fiction I've been kicking around. No point in reccing this, it doesn't belong on the front page. But if you enjoy it (or if you don't) let me know in the comments. As always, thanks to anyone who takes the time.
In light of the recent FarceBook purging of political websites (most notably anti-police and anti-capitalist, as well as RW ones) this story shook me too.
Reagan, the actor, warned us that Medicare would doom us all to a socialist tyranny.
It didn't turn out that way.
What it did do is give millions of elderly people access to health care that they otherwise wouldn't have.
It gave working class people a chance to live their final years with some amount of dignity.
Like Hitler in the last days under Berlin, neoliberal/neocon Democrats have completely lost touch with reality. They are convinced that one more try with Russiagate (or now Khasshogi-gate) will bring victory over the hated Trump. They fantasize that "we're not Trump" is going to raise a voter army from people who were screwed over by Obama, demonized by Hillary, and shut out by the Democratic Party insiders.
(Pershing II missiles being transported away from a US base in Heilbronn)
Will John Bolton rescind it? By all accounts he was the maniac who’s convinced his Boss Tweet to pull out of the INF (Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty). Bolton will be in Moscow today and tomorrow and will discuss (cough) the issue with Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov, National Security Advisor Nikolay Patrushev, FM Sergei Lavrov, and possibly Vladamir Putin on Tuesday.
Trump supporters claim that Trump is "winning" on trade.
Let's look at the facts.
It's hard to see how a significant worsening in the trade deficit means you are winning.
ISIS take 700 refugees hostage as US keeps ‘imitating’ fighting terrorists in Syria – MoD https://t.co/H3I113pFzq
— RT (@RT_com) October 15, 2018
Remember 2016? Our Candidate of the Left was Bernie Sanders. After having defeated the other Candidate of the Left, Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose election would have delivered nothing to the Left, Sanders was cheated of victory by election fraud. Sanders then endorsed Clinton, who then lost to Trump. And Trump delivered the Left less than nothing.
