Win-Lose: Bernie's Realism v. Hillary's Pragmatism
I just read this article by the always brilliant and clear headed Naomi Klein:
http://www.thenation.com/article/the-problem-with-hillary-clinton-isnt-j...
While it is a beautiful teardown of Hillary's victimization at the hands of a Greenpeace activist, Klein presents it as part of Hillary's completely misguided notion that, through the Clinton Foundation, all dreams come true: the poor and mistreated are aided, the superwealthy find good uses for the coins under their sofa cushions, and the Clintons are the linchpins that allow this to happen. But at what costs?
Klein states the blunt fact that to solve difficult problems, like global climate change, the polluters cannot skate free. They will have to be the losers (relatively) in the equation so that all of us don't, you know, die. Please read.
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The point
I read the article to say that Hillary sees her bedroom relationship with the corporations as a good thing that lets her "work with them". The problem as Klein relates is that it will be a fight to get off fossil fuels, not possible from a cozy relationship.
Hard to bite the hand that feeds you.
It will indeed be a fight to "leave it in the ground". They want MORE profits!
As you suggest it is worth a read. I think Martha has the link posted in a comment somewhere too.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
If She wins, and loses or
If She wins, and loses or takes the WH, we all lose anyway
So long, and thanks for all the fish
I think you are missing the point of
The Revolution. Whoever is in the WH, it is those millions that Sanders has gathered and stirred up (and with his help whether elected or not), we in larger numbers and more organized than ever will march and petition and post and whatever it takes to make government sit up and listen.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
Revolution
The Revolution is in its infancy,no matter who is POTUS it will continue to grow but with Bernie it will be better nourished!
essential points
Thank you, NWIA. As the article by Naomi Klein suggests, "we are just plain out of time."
And as WindDancer13 said, no matter who is in the White House, it will require us millions to "march and petition and post and whatever it takes to make government sit up and listen."
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It's a one-note act with those Clinton folks....
It's all about corporate partnerships, and Klein is so right on this (as she is on so many things -- The Shock Doctrine is a must-have on the bookshelves of anyone who dares call themselves "progressive" let alone "of the left"). Another example of such partnership, and indeed of the kind of corporate elitist feminism promoted by HRC, can be found in this article by Thomas Frank on the whole "microlending" cult they swear by.
(And by the way, I would put Frank's latest book, Listen, Liberal right next to Klein's.)
"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."
-- John Lennon