Faced with Trump's populist seizure of the Republican Party, establishment conservatives and libertarians are trying to redefine republicanism to exclude anything other than market capitalism.
then you'll be the "socialist" bogeyman for life.
Check out this piece from Thursday:
The Facebook group "Action Items for the Political Revolution" reposted this set of misunderstandings, published online by Business Insider, under the illusion that it was hip to do so. It wasn't.
"We don’t grasp internally what an oligarchic class is finally about, or how venal and morally bankrupt they are. We need to recover the language of class warfare to grasp what is happening to us. And we need to shatter this self-delusion that somehow if, as Obama says, we work hard enough and study hard enough, we can be one of them."
- Chris Hedges
It's hard to imagine just how completely the political leadership of the left-wing has failed us until they try to do something. For example, progressives in the Democratic Party are only now trying to create a comprehensive foreign policy stand.
I'm not a fan of Paul Krugman, but every once in a while he says something intelligent, and recently it's something that I've been investigating.
This 11th hour smear by the New York Democratic Party establishment is exactly what you would expect from the Cuomo campaign.
Just a quick hit. Didn't see it here and thought some folks might like to see this.
For the establishment media, socialism is an extremely flexible thing.
On one hand, socialism has failed and been discredited. It's followers have already abandoned it. Any poor soul who still gives it a second thought is an anachronism deserving of public humiliation.
Everyone, this is in response to Matthew Huber's "Five Principles of a Socialist Climate Politics." It's a good piece but it seems to be asking for a bit more.
