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How Wage Suppression has Created a New Housing Crisis

Submitted by gulfgal98 on Sun, 05/14/2017 - 5:10pm

It has been quite a while since I last wrote about neo-liberalism due to the focus on the 2016 Presidential election. I fully expected to continue this series shortly thereafter, but the current disarray in our government has taken the spotlight. It is weird because I have had a rough draft for this essay sitting in my draft folder for some time and it is quite often I am reminded as to how timely the issue addressed in this essay is.

What Are Your Demands?

Submitted by joe shikspack on Sun, 05/14/2017 - 9:08am

Howdy folks! It's been a while since I've written much of anything. Since the election, I've been pretty much dealing with the anger and disgust at what has happened.

I've read a lot of election post-mortems and proposals for how left/progressive people should move forward in the current political climate.

It appears that there is a very real political realignment going on now. On the right, there is a lot of energy, enough to elect somebody who promised to pay attention to the 99% (though seems quite unlikely to do anything useful for them). On the left, there is energy, but it is (as usual) being co-opted by the Democrat party and being channeled into a fake resistance movement which is an attempt to associate electing corporate democrats and preserving Obama's neoliberal "achievements" as real change that will help the 99%. The establishment Democrats at the head of this fake resistance have no intention of making actual change.

If left/progressives don't organize behind an agenda and force the Democrats to swallow it, the "resistance" will fizzle out into support for more of the same, sorry, "pragmatic" corporate crap that establishment Democrats have been shovelling out for decades and the right will own the nation's politics - perhaps even awarding them the preponderance of states (they are one state shy now) to amend the constitution or call a constitutional convention.

The stakes are a lot higher than most people realize and the corporate donors behind both parties would be delighted by an opportunity to modify the constitution to more fully lock down the prerogatives of the 1%.

The Weekly Watch

Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 05/14/2017 - 6:43am

I've had no internet this week. It is a capacity issue they hope to resolve shortly, which I think means they oversold their capacity and are making up for lost time. Do you think they will discount my $60/month for 3 Meg service?

At any rate, I couldn't do any research this week and only heard the big stories...Macron, the banker, wins the French presidency; the son of N. Korea refugees won the S. Korean election; and Comey, Comey, Comey ad nauseum.

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