What the left can learn from Italy
Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 04/19/2017 - 6:39pmThere are few who will deny the similarities between Donald Trump and former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
There are few who will deny the similarities between Donald Trump and former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Perhaps the all-time peak of Democratic misrepresentation was when President Wilson got America into WWI after campaigning on how he kept us out of the war.
However, the present Democratic Party is trying to rival that level of misrepresentation.
Remember when neocons were hated and vilified by Democrats? It wasn't that long ago that Democrats considered neocons to be the worst of the worst.
Well, those days are over.
It's not surprising that the news media loved Trump's new pointless war against the Syrian government.
Sell-out Sen. Kamala Harris, while attorney general of CA, ordered subordinates who had already uncovered 1000 illegal transactions by Steven Mnuchin's Bank One of California, to drop the whole thing; the attorneys under her control, were already working on another 1000 cases, not quite ready for prosecution when the order was given. Of course, Mr. Mnuchin is now a Trumpocrat, Secretary of the Treasury.
Now into to Day 4 of the Susan Rice unmasking story link we are learning more and more about what certain people and organizations stand for. A huge, and I am not exaggerating, dust cloud is gathering, just as the first shock wave from a nuclear explosion is nearing.
If blasphemy was possible on a secular website, inhabited mainly by Bitter Berners, this would be a cardinal sin. My excommunication from the congregation may be vitiated by the following explanation.
First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.
- union leader Nicholas Klein, 1914
I say the insurgency in the Democratic Party has arrived because the neoliberals are no longer ignoring it. They are now slandering it.
First off, I would like to thank my inspiration for this article or essay or rant, whatever to the following:
1. CS in AZ whose post about Ryancare (AKA Trumpcare, AKA Death panels for the sick) provided the primary inspiration.
If you were wondering if the anti-Trump Resistance was going to turn into the Tea Party Of The Democrats, wonder no longer.

