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A Delayed Reckoning

A few more thoughts on left and right
(cobbled together partly from responses to JtC)

Left and Right

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/15/magazine/jon-stewart-inte...

Apologies if this is showing up already, but a very thought provoking interview. One gem on voting ‘‘Participation in this corrupt system is inherently a corrupting process.’’

I just found this written by Matt Taibi in our local online expat newspaper.

America's Political Left Has Abandoned Its Roots

OK I guess I was set off by this piece written last year that popped up when I opened Mozilla. It comes from last year, but the filter misidentified it as recent.

WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE LEFT

I don't presume to be worthy of a seat at One Pissed Off Liberal's keyboard, damn ... I sometimes wish he hadn't beaten me to that handle, but I share his sense of being tired of being tired thanks to what has become of the liberal politics I used to love. Sometimes words do sound good when a pseudo progressive pretends to "feels your pain." Yet, behind the voices, we've learned to be wary of snake oil salespersons.

Nothing changes that might preempt the dysfunctional status quo.

Where has all the healthy political energy gone? Is it simply the case of a devil's deal with Wall Street or is there more to it than that? Has the last crossroads where we might choose a radical turn worthy of a Mother Jones come and gone? From Where I sit in Louisville, it sounds like ABC Radio National does a better job of exploring these questions than most of what pretends to be doing journalism here at home.

But once upon a time there were truth telling writers in America. Joe Bageant is a good example

What does it mean to be a leftie today? Do you and I have the same goals as the lefties of yesterday? Or has the old ideal of being left changed beyond recognition?

Folks, I'm not seeing a lot of point to all this discussion unless we can get some real answers. I mean, why bother?

Preface: This is just my uneducated opinion...and the rantings of a mindless lunatic.

The sad state we find ourselves in today hasn't been the republicans or the democrats fault, but a combination of both corporate bought and sold political parties, not to mention a population that seems to be able to only think in terms of binary logic. "You're either with us, or against us".