I worked for a Democratic Party Congressman for eight years and I am here to tell you that "bi-partisanship" is a code word for "don't prosecute Republicans and they won't prosecute you" and "don't rock the boat, protect the status quo and you too will receive hot stock tips that will double your net worth every year or so."
Democrats and Republicans have net worth in the millions on a $174,000 gov't salary thanks to the bi-partisan buddy system of protecting their own.
Biden respects the bi-partisan system of grift more than Biden cares about codifying a woman's right to choose or expanding this rogue, woman-hating GOP Supreme Court to a Democratic Party majority on the Court.
Things are even worse than you can see......I know a lot and none of it is good news; in fact, things are going to get even worse precisely because DNC leaders are presenting fake opposition to Republicans.
Why are Democrats so quiet? Because Democrats support Trump bombing Yemen, Gaza and Muslims in general.
Remember, Democratic Party Senators have the same AIPAC donors as Republicans and both Democrats and Republicans march in Nazi lockstep over the dead bodies of Muslim men, women and children.
DNC leaders hate Muslims so much they forbid the use of the term Palestinian in DNC literature.
The DNC hates Muslims so much they make damn sure no DNC candidate will ever become the DNC nominee UNLESS they are willing to drop bi-partisan bombs on brown people.
Again, as I've written many times before, BIG MONEY in federal elections is what allows mega-corporations and special interest groups to control U.S. domestic policy and foreign lobby control of U.S. foreign policy.
The day We The People institute 100% federal funding of ALL federal campaigns, shorten the campaign season to 90 days and eliminate the multi-billion dollar political consultation business, will be the day We The People END corporate and special interest group control of U.S. domestic policy and END foreign lobby control of U.S. foreign policy.
Unfortunately neither Democrats nor Republicans wil END BIG DONOR CASH in their bank accounts in favor of 100% federal funding of all federal campaigns.
I agree with most of what you say, except this -> "The day We The People institute 100% federal funding of ALL federal campaigns, shorten the campaign season to 90 days and eliminate the multi-billion dollar political consultation business, will be the day We The People END corporate and special interest group control of U.S. domestic policy and END foreign lobby control of U.S. foreign policy."
(1) At the late stage of Capitalism that the US is in, it will be IMPOSSIBLE to get the 'money out of politics'. Money is in EVERYTHING. Can you name me even one thing (in politics, economics, and governments) where there is NO influence of BIG MONEY? People that think they can get 'money out of politics' are pipe dreaming.
(2) Even IF you manage to successfully execute on all your suggestions (and that is a BIG IF), it still WOULD NOT fix the inherent flaws and systems in US politics. Why? Because the 1%, the Oligarchs, the Corporations will not give up that power. They will attempt to use a level of force on Americans that Americans would not be able to imagine. It would be class warfare - and I believe they would go to ANY lengths to maintain the status quo.
(3) Compare the politics in other developed nations (eg. UK, Canada, Australia, etc.) to the US. These other countries don't have BIG MONEY in their political systems the way the U.S. does. But you STILL find most of the same issues facing these countries. Why? Because the REAL PROBLEM is NEOLIBERAL CAPITALISM (the money is just one facet of this system).
(4) Until one changes the SYSTEMS underlying the workings of the U.S. (and ALL Western nations), I very much doubt any potential 'band-aid' fixes to the political system will stick.
Money is part of the problem, but removing the 'money element' is not sufficient for the changes that need to be made to give ordinary Americans back their country from the 'power elite', global capitalists, oligarchs, and corporations.
Well said, Chang. The big money in US politics has to go--no doubt about it--but what will we have left then? We'll still have a system that favors the wealthy and their sycophants. I'm at the point that I don't see the use in "amending the Constitution." It's time to call a Constitutional convention and throw the ancient, oligarchic piece of crap out.
At this point in history, no I don't. The US Constitution was written by capitalists, for capitalists, with really no thought as to those who would suffer from its future dictates (enslaved persons, persons of color, women, children, immigrants, the poor, the elderly, the disabled, etc.). The Bill of Rights were forced upon the original authors in order to "dress the Constitution up a bit" to make it seem more palatable to the working class, but we could easily write a new and improved constitution that puts the workers' needs first and foremost and add a bill of rights to it.
The Constitution, The U.S. Constitution is the problem that so many aggrieved Americans yearn to bring back to relevance, when it is and always was a document to promote theft and murder in the name of FREEDOM. By enshrining the propertied and the greatest amassers of wealth - no matter how it was obtained- with rules to rule by, the Constitution is a legal framework for a mafia. It eschews any legal standing for the poor and the infirm, and the wide majority that threatens none. It stands behind the bold takers who use their weapons and their goons to get by force that which they cannot gain legitimately. it is the greatest Zionist creed ever committed to paper.
A lot of hard truths in that comment, and I don't see any way around them. Capitalism is the problem and as a system it seems to adapt itself to the challenges that are proposed by those who would reform it. Note that the consumer-oriented reforms initiated in the 1960s by Ralph Nader and others have been co-opted to enmesh consumers more and more into being the agents of their own destruction. Capitalism doesn't care about humanity and it never will.
You may be right, but we don’t have to make it easier for them. Capitalism as we know it will self-destruct without any help from anyone, albeit with a shitload of discomfort for the majority of us.
It would be fair to say the Schumer, a supporter of anything Jewish, Israeli, Zionist, IDF, genocidal, ethic cleansing would have the standard number of very welcome AIPAC appointees (dual nationality spies) in his office as would the other 86% of 'Israel's fully paid for members' of both houses in the USA.
Sorry. That should be 'Adelson / Musk paid for members'. Same dollar, different sources. More available by the truckload. Just whistle.
Adelson's loyalty to the USA? A sick joke. But Israel. Well now, that's an entirely different matter.
The Dems work alongside their brothers and sisters in the other half of the duopoly. Many refuse to see them as essentially the same party, but many more are beginning to suffer painful cognitive dissonance from all the clues the Dems are leaving behind their trail of working for the billionaires.
You are so right, and based on all that, this is indeed the world's most corrupt system, and yet it sits on the highest pedestal and lectures the globe
Hi, Ron, how are you? How long did you work in the D - Rep’s office before you discovered all the odious actions you added to your short essay comment?
I recently rode my bike by a large group of liberal protesters at a major intersection holding various signs condemning Elon, supporting Ukraine, etc. Not a single sign about the genocide in Gaza. Not a peep about the demonic Israeli war machine and the US support which supplies it. I abandoned the Democratic left years ago, and this type of silence is exactly why I did.
Used to hate Galloway as I opposed most of his "left wing" policies and conspiracy theories. I think I so called "awakened" and now think "how wrong I was"... love watching him now, when I do.
If he states 2 cheeks as well - he stole it from me though !!???.Err maybe...
Extermination of the Palestinian people is being carried out by t he United Nazi States of Genocide: 340 million slaves, pacified, brainwashed by 200,000 oligarchic vampires. Israel doesn’t control the US empire. The US empire is an oligarchic, Zionist, Nazi entity—the world’s largest death cult.
I think that you hit on a salient point. The blogosphere and youtube are rife with leftist critiques of the American empire, and its “relationship” with an apartheid state. That state is owned and sponsored, underwritten, and facilitated by the American empire. When intellectuals like John Mearsheimer call out the sins of the vassal state, as if it is the root of the problem, it gives shade to the rot in Washington that conducts a bloodbath in West Asia with relative indifference by the population that pays for it.
A "liberal Zionist" is just a Zionist like any other. They all believe and support the idea that it's perfectly fine for an alien population to settle in a foreign land and ask the existing population to voluntarily leave or be kicked out. this is what ALL Zionists stand for. Some claim it is because G_d gave them the right, others because they have been discriminated against or even attacked. Whatever their reason, they all share the crack-pot ideology.
Get the fuck out of my country if you work in Congress or Government for another Terrorist State you traitors. Bernie is the "New" Schumer working to sheep herd. Has he ever said "Free Palestine? Palestine has the right to defend itself. "If you're reading this, it means I have been killed" RIP Hossam Shabat..
Caitlin is so right about Schumer and Bernie blaming Netanyahu for US-backed war crimes, state-sponsored terrorism and genocide of the Palestinian people.
Israeli Institute polling proves that a majority of Israelis OPPOSE ending the Occupation, OPPOSE sending food and aid into Gaza, OPPOSE statehood for Palestinians and SUPPORT Israel's national goal to steal every inch of Palestinian land and all the land "from the river to the sea."
Don't think so? Google "Greater Israel."
Every Israeli Prime Minister "swats the hornet's nest" to instigate war with Hamas.
Netanyahu "Swatted the Hornet's Nest" for over two years trying to make Hamas launch an attack on Israel.
"Swatting the Hornet's Nest" is an old Israeli Prime Minister tactic that involves sending Israeli police and settlers to the al Aqsa mosque to beat, arrest, hogtie worshippers during Ramadan and other prayer services.
The real problem is no Democrat - especially Schumer and Bernie will specifically state much less support the legal right of any civilian population to form and maintain armed resistance groups.
No Democrat or Republican will ever state the following: Palestinians have a right to statehood and a state military, and until then, Palestinians enjoy a legal right under the Geneva Conventions to form and maintain armed resistance groups to evict the illegal OCCUPYING POWER ISRAEL.
Instead Schumer and Bernie Sanders AGREE WITH THE BI-PARTISAN STATUS QUO that "Hamas must be eliminated at all costs, no matter what or how many Palestinians are killed with bi-partisan bombs."
Schumer and Bernie are afraid of being called "Hamas supporters."
Democrats, Republicans and the U.S. Ziomedia treat Hamas as if they were alien beings from Mars sent here to destroy the West. Over 90% of Hamas are under the age of thirty years old and have family members who were killed by Israeli forces.
The more Israelis kill Palestinians, the more Palestinians join Hamas.
Israelis, Democrats and Republicans expect THANK YOU NOTES from their victims and expect Palestinians to disarm themselves and deport themselves immediately.
Americans don't think about every Gazan, including the resistance WERE BORN INTO US-BACKED ISRAEL CAPTIVITY behind barbed wire and 24 foot concrete walls, with no economy, no future except state-sponsored murder of their friends and family.
This is why Democrats and Republicans love to protect their state-sponsored mass murder of Muslims by designating any Muslims fighting for freedom from US-backed terror and occupation as a "terrorist organization," to eliminate any American support for peace, diplomacy and following international law.
If a politician appeared on CNN or MSNBC and simply recited the actual legal rights of the Palestinian people to be armed and free of US-backed terrorist rebels Israel, that politician would be deemed an official supporter of terrorism and adjudicated accordingly.
Simply reciting the legal rights of the Palestinian people would be considered an "act of terror."
Our government was hijacked long ago by BIG DONORS and it's only getting worse.
Neither Republicans nor Democrats will ever vote in 100% federal funding of ALL federal campaigns because that would END BIG DONORS DROPPING BIG BUCKS IN THEIR BI-PARTISAN BANK ACCOUNTS.
there should be more polling in the us and the west, imo. until that happens i'm inclined to assume that a majority of eu and us westerners also oppose ending the occupation, oppose sending food and aid into gaza, oppose statehood for palestinians and support israel.
Yes it is. It should always be an awkward time to be a liberal Israel supporter. Perhaps it's an awkward time to be a liberal in general as they are morphing themselves more into alt-right conservatives every day.
At this point, get off the liberal train or be assimilated.
DAWN has urged the ICC prosecutor to investigate and prosecute former President Biden, State Secretary Blinken and Defense Secretary Austin for their personal roles in aiding and abetting Israeli war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide in Gaza as part of his ongoing investigation into the situations in Palestine since 2014.
Let’s give them our support. Maybe they will expand their complaint to include this latest US administration, and include all the leaders of the western nations supporting this genocide.
Israel is not a Democracy no matter how many times US-Western MSM repeats the lie.
It's not a Democracy when it's for illegal Jewish settlers in the illegally occupied West Bank, but an Israeli Military Dictatorship for Palestinians with Military Courts for those who Legally resist the Israeli Occupation allowed them by the Terms of the Geneva Convention.
The Jewish settlers are the latest reincarnation of Hitler's Brown Shirts as they terrorize the defenceless Palestinians with Israeli-IDF protections.
‘Chuck Schumer said in a recent interview that his job “is to keep the left pro-Israel.”’
My job as a Marxist and Trotskyist is to indict Chuck Schumer for his heinous support of this monstrous genocidal state and of the fascist programme that shapes and drives it.
Wait — did I just call Chuck Schumer a supporter of fascism? Oh — apparently so.
‘Chuck’ Schumer. His ‘left’ credentials are hereby revoked.
Senator Wall Street was never liberal. He’s consistently protected and enriched the oligarchs in the US, at the expense of the common man. And he’s never seen a war of aggression or a destabilisation agenda abroad that he didn’t like.
Schumer is no liberal. Ever.
The con job was all the conservatives saying they like abortion and pretending this make them liberal. BS.
You touch a point of critical importance to understanding class struggle. Those who cannot assimilate the nature and workings of the ruling class in its Democratic and Republican factions together are condemned to live as political illiterates. They will be suckers for every political campaign and propagandist slogan set before them.
The NUMBER ONE LIE that Netanyahu and Israelis use to justify mass murdering Palestinians and stealing their land is, "Palestinians hate and attack us because we're Jews, and therefore we must kill them all before they drive all the Jews into the sea."
Not only Netanyahu, but Democrat and Republican warmongers use THE BIG LIE to beat up any Democrat or Republican trying to end the US-backed Occupation and genocide of the Palestinian people.
Chuck Schumer and Bernie Sanders have no ability to properly respond to, much less negate THE BIG LIE.
Debunk the BIG LIE and you will debunk the Occupation, genocide and land theft.
This is why the U.S. designates certain groups "terrorist organizations" so the American people cannot hear the cries and complaints of the victims of US-Israeli mass murder and occupation.
Palestinian leaders have repeatedly, repeatedly stated for decades that the reason the Resistance fights Israelis has nothing to do with Israeli religious beliefs or even Muslim beliefs.
Palestinian leaders have consistently stated that the Palestinian resistance attacks Israel because "Israel steals our land and kills our people."
You won't hear Schumer or Sanders say, "Stop bombing and demonizing Palestinians fighting for their legal right to be free of US-backed terror, occupation, mass murder and the Israelis mass imprisonment of over two million Palestinians."
Instead, Schumer and Sanders agree with Democrats and Republicans: WE MUST ELIMINATE HAMAS NO MATTER HOW MANY PALESTINIANS ARE KILLED TO PROTECT AND DEFEND ISRAEL ON PALESTINIAN LAND.
The truth is as long as BIG DONORS remain in politics and federal elections, Democrats and Republicans will murder Palestinians every day for the rest of your lives, until We The People form a new party and overcome Democrats and Republicans.
Cement-heads: that’s the way I think of Walz, Witkoff, and the rest of the testa di roccia (rockheads in Italian) — the useless irrelevancies dubbed “negotiators” in the current US admin. Add in Sanders (an "independent" -- snicker) and his Democrat "liberals". Sure, they’re all sellouts to the various tentacles of the Israel lobby, but these are also mostly individuals whose life experience has amounted to the continual practice of synaptic in-flexibility within an atherosclerotic political system.
Actually changing their minds is a change of state requiring such an infusion of activation energy that its probability is vanishingly small. This is what’s so disheartening about this country of which I’m a resident citizen — its socioeconomic system favors the emergence of these rock-heads.
And generation after generation of these intractable people line up to be our representatives in government.
Listening to and carrying out the will of their constituents.
Did you see the look on Witkoff's face when he reneged on the ceasefire? He did not look like someone speaking from a place of comfort. Unlike the Schumers and the Huckabees, and whether he ever was, Steve, at this moment, does not look or act like a true believer. If he ever gets off that leash, I wouldn't want to be anywhere near those who forced him to recant.
I'm assuming that your tongue was firmly implanted in your cheek. Yes these were moments that should be strung together in a looped video and shown at the Smithsonian. A truly patriotic billionaire (another oxymoron?) might fund a new wing called "the roots of the dilemma" or something similar. I jest of course.
Sabby Sabs had a good program on this the other night, highlighting as how Bernie and AOC are traversing the country in an attempt to exhort sheeple ( sorry, sheep) back into the Democratic Party in order to CHANGE it 😂
All the while, ignoring the obvious: START A NEW PARTY, motherfuckers, if you actually want change!
I'd disagree, but only slightly, Jenny. There was once a blip of a Black left -- Malcolm X and those folks who truly followed him knew the score about the USA (as only the enslaved can fully appreciate). But with his death and the FBI assassination of Fred Hampton and imprisonment of other Black movement leaders, that Black leftist movement was co-opted into the American nightmare like all other movements in that direction, leaving us with only the vapors of true radicalism.
the us has a somewhat impressive left history, though. there is a reason that the reactionaries cracked down so heavy on it (so now only a few americans remember). the us labor-movement kinda invented may 1st.
Yes, you are indeed correct, going back farther in history than I considered (only my sorry lifetime, sadly). Eugene Debs et al.; a fairly active Communist party even. Probably because I experienced Malcolm and the Black Panthers directly, both as a flabbergasted child, and then later as a 22-year old advocate in 1970, when they killed Fred and began the crush of the Panthers, an early hint at how scummy the FBI was.
Kilgore Trout/Current Resident below given a good summary of the Wobblies and how that movement was crushed
Jenny, not since Vietnam. How I miss the unbridled activism of those days, and the underground organizations.
I spent a lot of time in Ann Arbor during the late 60,s and early 70’s when my brother attended university there. It was known as the most radical college east of California.
We stopped a war. But not many seem interested in stopping a genocide 🤬
When I read your comment and remember those day, my rage against Columbia U. triples. I recall the five occupied building on campus, including the office of the president in Low Library -- that famed building fronted by the statue of alma mater whom we urinated upon freely during that month of May 1968. How we shutdown finals and forced the end of spring semester -- we dictated to the bloody university, at least at that level. And ultimately how the effing NYC cops rode horses onto campus and bloodied heads with their truncheons. But they divested part of their investments in that war. A transient "win" of course, but a win no less -- compared to the freak show of disgusting genuflection and ass kissing to Trump that's currently transpiring. Screw you alma mater!!!!!!!!!!
There has been actually. Just very small. The Working Families Party. The Green Party. The Black Alliance for peace for example.
Was bigger but basically wiped out in the 1920s to 1960’. And never recovered. And the left minority movements like the Black Panthers and SNCC were basically hunted to extinction by the police.
"liberal" has been thoroughly Orwellized. It means whatever the DNC says it means. Nowadays a liberal believes in genocide, blanket censorship, endless war, and rule by Wall Street.
There are liberals in America. They are very few. Like single digit percentage And not in the leadership of the Dems at any level. Not even city or county.
I worked for a Democratic Party Congressman for eight years and I am here to tell you that "bi-partisanship" is a code word for "don't prosecute Republicans and they won't prosecute you" and "don't rock the boat, protect the status quo and you too will receive hot stock tips that will double your net worth every year or so."
Democrats and Republicans have net worth in the millions on a $174,000 gov't salary thanks to the bi-partisan buddy system of protecting their own.
Biden respects the bi-partisan system of grift more than Biden cares about codifying a woman's right to choose or expanding this rogue, woman-hating GOP Supreme Court to a Democratic Party majority on the Court.
Things are even worse than you can see......I know a lot and none of it is good news; in fact, things are going to get even worse precisely because DNC leaders are presenting fake opposition to Republicans.
Why are Democrats so quiet? Because Democrats support Trump bombing Yemen, Gaza and Muslims in general.
Remember, Democratic Party Senators have the same AIPAC donors as Republicans and both Democrats and Republicans march in Nazi lockstep over the dead bodies of Muslim men, women and children.
DNC leaders hate Muslims so much they forbid the use of the term Palestinian in DNC literature.
The DNC hates Muslims so much they make damn sure no DNC candidate will ever become the DNC nominee UNLESS they are willing to drop bi-partisan bombs on brown people.
Again, as I've written many times before, BIG MONEY in federal elections is what allows mega-corporations and special interest groups to control U.S. domestic policy and foreign lobby control of U.S. foreign policy.
The day We The People institute 100% federal funding of ALL federal campaigns, shorten the campaign season to 90 days and eliminate the multi-billion dollar political consultation business, will be the day We The People END corporate and special interest group control of U.S. domestic policy and END foreign lobby control of U.S. foreign policy.
Unfortunately neither Democrats nor Republicans wil END BIG DONOR CASH in their bank accounts in favor of 100% federal funding of all federal campaigns.
It's a big bi-partisan club, and you ain't in it.
https://thediversityparty.com
Watching these monkeys stand up and clap for the genocidal POS tells the picture of rented cheer leaders not thinking congressmen.
There is no need to insult monkeys.
Exactly. It's antisimianism!
‘"bi-partisanship" is a code word for "don't prosecute Republicans and they won't prosecute you.”’
That speaks volumes about ‘reform’ narrative.
I agree with most of what you say, except this -> "The day We The People institute 100% federal funding of ALL federal campaigns, shorten the campaign season to 90 days and eliminate the multi-billion dollar political consultation business, will be the day We The People END corporate and special interest group control of U.S. domestic policy and END foreign lobby control of U.S. foreign policy."
(1) At the late stage of Capitalism that the US is in, it will be IMPOSSIBLE to get the 'money out of politics'. Money is in EVERYTHING. Can you name me even one thing (in politics, economics, and governments) where there is NO influence of BIG MONEY? People that think they can get 'money out of politics' are pipe dreaming.
(2) Even IF you manage to successfully execute on all your suggestions (and that is a BIG IF), it still WOULD NOT fix the inherent flaws and systems in US politics. Why? Because the 1%, the Oligarchs, the Corporations will not give up that power. They will attempt to use a level of force on Americans that Americans would not be able to imagine. It would be class warfare - and I believe they would go to ANY lengths to maintain the status quo.
(3) Compare the politics in other developed nations (eg. UK, Canada, Australia, etc.) to the US. These other countries don't have BIG MONEY in their political systems the way the U.S. does. But you STILL find most of the same issues facing these countries. Why? Because the REAL PROBLEM is NEOLIBERAL CAPITALISM (the money is just one facet of this system).
(4) Until one changes the SYSTEMS underlying the workings of the U.S. (and ALL Western nations), I very much doubt any potential 'band-aid' fixes to the political system will stick.
Money is part of the problem, but removing the 'money element' is not sufficient for the changes that need to be made to give ordinary Americans back their country from the 'power elite', global capitalists, oligarchs, and corporations.
Well said, Chang. The big money in US politics has to go--no doubt about it--but what will we have left then? We'll still have a system that favors the wealthy and their sycophants. I'm at the point that I don't see the use in "amending the Constitution." It's time to call a Constitutional convention and throw the ancient, oligarchic piece of crap out.
The Revolution continues,
It is not a "constitutional convention" you need but a full blown Revolution!
Do you believe the Constitution can be amended to abolish Neoliberal Capitalism?
At this point in history, no I don't. The US Constitution was written by capitalists, for capitalists, with really no thought as to those who would suffer from its future dictates (enslaved persons, persons of color, women, children, immigrants, the poor, the elderly, the disabled, etc.). The Bill of Rights were forced upon the original authors in order to "dress the Constitution up a bit" to make it seem more palatable to the working class, but we could easily write a new and improved constitution that puts the workers' needs first and foremost and add a bill of rights to it.
The Constitution, The U.S. Constitution is the problem that so many aggrieved Americans yearn to bring back to relevance, when it is and always was a document to promote theft and murder in the name of FREEDOM. By enshrining the propertied and the greatest amassers of wealth - no matter how it was obtained- with rules to rule by, the Constitution is a legal framework for a mafia. It eschews any legal standing for the poor and the infirm, and the wide majority that threatens none. It stands behind the bold takers who use their weapons and their goons to get by force that which they cannot gain legitimately. it is the greatest Zionist creed ever committed to paper.
»”It's time to call a Constitutional convention and throw the ancient, oligarchic piece of crap out.”
Agree 100%!!
A lot of hard truths in that comment, and I don't see any way around them. Capitalism is the problem and as a system it seems to adapt itself to the challenges that are proposed by those who would reform it. Note that the consumer-oriented reforms initiated in the 1960s by Ralph Nader and others have been co-opted to enmesh consumers more and more into being the agents of their own destruction. Capitalism doesn't care about humanity and it never will.
You may be right, but we don’t have to make it easier for them. Capitalism as we know it will self-destruct without any help from anyone, albeit with a shitload of discomfort for the majority of us.
It would be fair to say the Schumer, a supporter of anything Jewish, Israeli, Zionist, IDF, genocidal, ethic cleansing would have the standard number of very welcome AIPAC appointees (dual nationality spies) in his office as would the other 86% of 'Israel's fully paid for members' of both houses in the USA.
Sorry. That should be 'Adelson / Musk paid for members'. Same dollar, different sources. More available by the truckload. Just whistle.
Adelson's loyalty to the USA? A sick joke. But Israel. Well now, that's an entirely different matter.
I’ve been saying all along the Democrats won’t save us but there are too many sheep on Substack to get it.
The Dems work alongside their brothers and sisters in the other half of the duopoly. Many refuse to see them as essentially the same party, but many more are beginning to suffer painful cognitive dissonance from all the clues the Dems are leaving behind their trail of working for the billionaires.
You are so right, and based on all that, this is indeed the world's most corrupt system, and yet it sits on the highest pedestal and lectures the globe
Hi, Ron, how are you? How long did you work in the D - Rep’s office before you discovered all the odious actions you added to your short essay comment?
I recently rode my bike by a large group of liberal protesters at a major intersection holding various signs condemning Elon, supporting Ukraine, etc. Not a single sign about the genocide in Gaza. Not a peep about the demonic Israeli war machine and the US support which supplies it. I abandoned the Democratic left years ago, and this type of silence is exactly why I did.
To my mind, you probably abandoned the center (as I did back in 1992), when I figured out that "Democrat left" was an oxymoron.
As stated before, the two parties are just "just 2 x cheeks of the same @rsehole"... which I believe is the same as what you state.
We have the same in the UK and EU.
George Galloway is my go-to for the two cheeks comment about the UK.
Used to hate Galloway as I opposed most of his "left wing" policies and conspiracy theories. I think I so called "awakened" and now think "how wrong I was"... love watching him now, when I do.
If he states 2 cheeks as well - he stole it from me though !!???.Err maybe...
Extermination of the Palestinian people is being carried out by t he United Nazi States of Genocide: 340 million slaves, pacified, brainwashed by 200,000 oligarchic vampires. Israel doesn’t control the US empire. The US empire is an oligarchic, Zionist, Nazi entity—the world’s largest death cult.
>>"United Nazi States of Genocide" 🎯🙏 Accurately described!
>>"The US empire is an oligarchic, Zionist, Nazi entity—the world’s largest death cult" 💯 Couldn't agree with you more! Well expressed!
I think that you hit on a salient point. The blogosphere and youtube are rife with leftist critiques of the American empire, and its “relationship” with an apartheid state. That state is owned and sponsored, underwritten, and facilitated by the American empire. When intellectuals like John Mearsheimer call out the sins of the vassal state, as if it is the root of the problem, it gives shade to the rot in Washington that conducts a bloodbath in West Asia with relative indifference by the population that pays for it.
A "liberal Zionist" is just a Zionist like any other. They all believe and support the idea that it's perfectly fine for an alien population to settle in a foreign land and ask the existing population to voluntarily leave or be kicked out. this is what ALL Zionists stand for. Some claim it is because G_d gave them the right, others because they have been discriminated against or even attacked. Whatever their reason, they all share the crack-pot ideology.
Get the fuck out of my country if you work in Congress or Government for another Terrorist State you traitors. Bernie is the "New" Schumer working to sheep herd. Has he ever said "Free Palestine? Palestine has the right to defend itself. "If you're reading this, it means I have been killed" RIP Hossam Shabat..
100%
Is there any war "Bernie" did not like?
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Israel, the most racist state on earth, and living off our tax dollars…. Says this old Jew.
The state that underwrites it is as racist, and yes American dollars do prescribe its aggression.
Without US dollars, Israel would collapse. Think about it. .
Caitlin is so right about Schumer and Bernie blaming Netanyahu for US-backed war crimes, state-sponsored terrorism and genocide of the Palestinian people.
Israeli Institute polling proves that a majority of Israelis OPPOSE ending the Occupation, OPPOSE sending food and aid into Gaza, OPPOSE statehood for Palestinians and SUPPORT Israel's national goal to steal every inch of Palestinian land and all the land "from the river to the sea."
Don't think so? Google "Greater Israel."
Every Israeli Prime Minister "swats the hornet's nest" to instigate war with Hamas.
Netanyahu "Swatted the Hornet's Nest" for over two years trying to make Hamas launch an attack on Israel.
"Swatting the Hornet's Nest" is an old Israeli Prime Minister tactic that involves sending Israeli police and settlers to the al Aqsa mosque to beat, arrest, hogtie worshippers during Ramadan and other prayer services.
Learn about that here: https://uo7.website
The real problem is no Democrat - especially Schumer and Bernie will specifically state much less support the legal right of any civilian population to form and maintain armed resistance groups.
No Democrat or Republican will ever state the following: Palestinians have a right to statehood and a state military, and until then, Palestinians enjoy a legal right under the Geneva Conventions to form and maintain armed resistance groups to evict the illegal OCCUPYING POWER ISRAEL.
Instead Schumer and Bernie Sanders AGREE WITH THE BI-PARTISAN STATUS QUO that "Hamas must be eliminated at all costs, no matter what or how many Palestinians are killed with bi-partisan bombs."
Schumer and Bernie are afraid of being called "Hamas supporters."
Democrats, Republicans and the U.S. Ziomedia treat Hamas as if they were alien beings from Mars sent here to destroy the West. Over 90% of Hamas are under the age of thirty years old and have family members who were killed by Israeli forces.
The more Israelis kill Palestinians, the more Palestinians join Hamas.
Israelis, Democrats and Republicans expect THANK YOU NOTES from their victims and expect Palestinians to disarm themselves and deport themselves immediately.
Americans don't think about every Gazan, including the resistance WERE BORN INTO US-BACKED ISRAEL CAPTIVITY behind barbed wire and 24 foot concrete walls, with no economy, no future except state-sponsored murder of their friends and family.
This is why Democrats and Republicans love to protect their state-sponsored mass murder of Muslims by designating any Muslims fighting for freedom from US-backed terror and occupation as a "terrorist organization," to eliminate any American support for peace, diplomacy and following international law.
If a politician appeared on CNN or MSNBC and simply recited the actual legal rights of the Palestinian people to be armed and free of US-backed terrorist rebels Israel, that politician would be deemed an official supporter of terrorism and adjudicated accordingly.
Simply reciting the legal rights of the Palestinian people would be considered an "act of terror."
Our government was hijacked long ago by BIG DONORS and it's only getting worse.
Neither Republicans nor Democrats will ever vote in 100% federal funding of ALL federal campaigns because that would END BIG DONORS DROPPING BIG BUCKS IN THEIR BI-PARTISAN BANK ACCOUNTS.
https://progressives.substack.com
there should be more polling in the us and the west, imo. until that happens i'm inclined to assume that a majority of eu and us westerners also oppose ending the occupation, oppose sending food and aid into gaza, oppose statehood for palestinians and support israel.
Yes it is. It should always be an awkward time to be a liberal Israel supporter. Perhaps it's an awkward time to be a liberal in general as they are morphing themselves more into alt-right conservatives every day.
At this point, get off the liberal train or be assimilated.
Make "liberal" befit a freeman again!
DAWN has urged the ICC prosecutor to investigate and prosecute former President Biden, State Secretary Blinken and Defense Secretary Austin for their personal roles in aiding and abetting Israeli war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide in Gaza as part of his ongoing investigation into the situations in Palestine since 2014.
https://dawnmena.org/latest/
Let’s give them our support. Maybe they will expand their complaint to include this latest US administration, and include all the leaders of the western nations supporting this genocide.
Israel is not a Democracy no matter how many times US-Western MSM repeats the lie.
It's not a Democracy when it's for illegal Jewish settlers in the illegally occupied West Bank, but an Israeli Military Dictatorship for Palestinians with Military Courts for those who Legally resist the Israeli Occupation allowed them by the Terms of the Geneva Convention.
The Jewish settlers are the latest reincarnation of Hitler's Brown Shirts as they terrorize the defenceless Palestinians with Israeli-IDF protections.
Geneva convention, UN, ICCJ, ... common sense...nothing work when a big pimp puts many air craft carriers in the red Sea and the Mediterranean
Petition for the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil.
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/demand-the-immediate-release-of-columbia-student-pro-palestine-advocate-mahmoud-khalil-from-dhs-detention
‘Chuck Schumer said in a recent interview that his job “is to keep the left pro-Israel.”’
My job as a Marxist and Trotskyist is to indict Chuck Schumer for his heinous support of this monstrous genocidal state and of the fascist programme that shapes and drives it.
Wait — did I just call Chuck Schumer a supporter of fascism? Oh — apparently so.
‘Chuck’ Schumer. His ‘left’ credentials are hereby revoked.
Senator Wall Street was never liberal. He’s consistently protected and enriched the oligarchs in the US, at the expense of the common man. And he’s never seen a war of aggression or a destabilisation agenda abroad that he didn’t like.
Schumer is no liberal. Ever.
The con job was all the conservatives saying they like abortion and pretending this make them liberal. BS.
You touch a point of critical importance to understanding class struggle. Those who cannot assimilate the nature and workings of the ruling class in its Democratic and Republican factions together are condemned to live as political illiterates. They will be suckers for every political campaign and propagandist slogan set before them.
The NUMBER ONE LIE that Netanyahu and Israelis use to justify mass murdering Palestinians and stealing their land is, "Palestinians hate and attack us because we're Jews, and therefore we must kill them all before they drive all the Jews into the sea."
Not only Netanyahu, but Democrat and Republican warmongers use THE BIG LIE to beat up any Democrat or Republican trying to end the US-backed Occupation and genocide of the Palestinian people.
Chuck Schumer and Bernie Sanders have no ability to properly respond to, much less negate THE BIG LIE.
Debunk the BIG LIE and you will debunk the Occupation, genocide and land theft.
This is why the U.S. designates certain groups "terrorist organizations" so the American people cannot hear the cries and complaints of the victims of US-Israeli mass murder and occupation.
Palestinian leaders have repeatedly, repeatedly stated for decades that the reason the Resistance fights Israelis has nothing to do with Israeli religious beliefs or even Muslim beliefs.
Palestinian leaders have consistently stated that the Palestinian resistance attacks Israel because "Israel steals our land and kills our people."
You won't hear Schumer or Sanders say, "Stop bombing and demonizing Palestinians fighting for their legal right to be free of US-backed terror, occupation, mass murder and the Israelis mass imprisonment of over two million Palestinians."
Instead, Schumer and Sanders agree with Democrats and Republicans: WE MUST ELIMINATE HAMAS NO MATTER HOW MANY PALESTINIANS ARE KILLED TO PROTECT AND DEFEND ISRAEL ON PALESTINIAN LAND.
The truth is as long as BIG DONORS remain in politics and federal elections, Democrats and Republicans will murder Palestinians every day for the rest of your lives, until We The People form a new party and overcome Democrats and Republicans.
Cement-heads: that’s the way I think of Walz, Witkoff, and the rest of the testa di roccia (rockheads in Italian) — the useless irrelevancies dubbed “negotiators” in the current US admin. Add in Sanders (an "independent" -- snicker) and his Democrat "liberals". Sure, they’re all sellouts to the various tentacles of the Israel lobby, but these are also mostly individuals whose life experience has amounted to the continual practice of synaptic in-flexibility within an atherosclerotic political system.
Actually changing their minds is a change of state requiring such an infusion of activation energy that its probability is vanishingly small. This is what’s so disheartening about this country of which I’m a resident citizen — its socioeconomic system favors the emergence of these rock-heads.
And generation after generation of these intractable people line up to be our representatives in government.
Listening to and carrying out the will of their constituents.
Sure thing!
Did you see the look on Witkoff's face when he reneged on the ceasefire? He did not look like someone speaking from a place of comfort. Unlike the Schumers and the Huckabees, and whether he ever was, Steve, at this moment, does not look or act like a true believer. If he ever gets off that leash, I wouldn't want to be anywhere near those who forced him to recant.
I bet you were proud of our monkeys standing up and clapping for every word Satanyahu said in congress?
I'm assuming that your tongue was firmly implanted in your cheek. Yes these were moments that should be strung together in a looped video and shown at the Smithsonian. A truly patriotic billionaire (another oxymoron?) might fund a new wing called "the roots of the dilemma" or something similar. I jest of course.
Bastet knows, there is little good to say about Trump, but at least liberals and democrats can pretend to care about human rights again.
Hi Feral
Sabby Sabs had a good program on this the other night, highlighting as how Bernie and AOC are traversing the country in an attempt to exhort sheeple ( sorry, sheep) back into the Democratic Party in order to CHANGE it 😂
All the while, ignoring the obvious: START A NEW PARTY, motherfuckers, if you actually want change!
Starting a new party requires dedication and hard work, and takes too long for careerist politicians.
They are? I hadn't noticed. Not that I pay any attention to what they say or do.
Does the word "liberal" (or the phrase "the left") actually mean anything?
Not to me. As far as I am concerned there has never been a 'left' in the US.
I'd disagree, but only slightly, Jenny. There was once a blip of a Black left -- Malcolm X and those folks who truly followed him knew the score about the USA (as only the enslaved can fully appreciate). But with his death and the FBI assassination of Fred Hampton and imprisonment of other Black movement leaders, that Black leftist movement was co-opted into the American nightmare like all other movements in that direction, leaving us with only the vapors of true radicalism.
the us has a somewhat impressive left history, though. there is a reason that the reactionaries cracked down so heavy on it (so now only a few americans remember). the us labor-movement kinda invented may 1st.
Yes, you are indeed correct, going back farther in history than I considered (only my sorry lifetime, sadly). Eugene Debs et al.; a fairly active Communist party even. Probably because I experienced Malcolm and the Black Panthers directly, both as a flabbergasted child, and then later as a 22-year old advocate in 1970, when they killed Fred and began the crush of the Panthers, an early hint at how scummy the FBI was.
Kilgore Trout/Current Resident below given a good summary of the Wobblies and how that movement was crushed
black panthers were indeed the real deal.
Vin, couldn’t let this one go by: my brother had the honor of hearing Malcolm X speak at Flint Junior College when he was taking pre-med there 🙂
Honor's the right word. gypsy. There was no other like Malcolm for raw truth telling.
His autobiography remains one of my favorite all time reads 🙂
So true! Well said Vin!
True.
Jenny, not since Vietnam. How I miss the unbridled activism of those days, and the underground organizations.
I spent a lot of time in Ann Arbor during the late 60,s and early 70’s when my brother attended university there. It was known as the most radical college east of California.
We stopped a war. But not many seem interested in stopping a genocide 🤬
When I read your comment and remember those day, my rage against Columbia U. triples. I recall the five occupied building on campus, including the office of the president in Low Library -- that famed building fronted by the statue of alma mater whom we urinated upon freely during that month of May 1968. How we shutdown finals and forced the end of spring semester -- we dictated to the bloody university, at least at that level. And ultimately how the effing NYC cops rode horses onto campus and bloodied heads with their truncheons. But they divested part of their investments in that war. A transient "win" of course, but a win no less -- compared to the freak show of disgusting genuflection and ass kissing to Trump that's currently transpiring. Screw you alma mater!!!!!!!!!!
I was in high school in Ann Arbor during those times. I'm a relic here in Crazyworld.
Hell no. You bear witness, bro.
There has been actually. Just very small. The Working Families Party. The Green Party. The Black Alliance for peace for example.
Was bigger but basically wiped out in the 1920s to 1960’. And never recovered. And the left minority movements like the Black Panthers and SNCC were basically hunted to extinction by the police.
Now it’s basically outside of the 2 big parties.
Thank you for this.
"liberal" has been thoroughly Orwellized. It means whatever the DNC says it means. Nowadays a liberal believes in genocide, blanket censorship, endless war, and rule by Wall Street.
That was pretty much my impression - which is why I pretty well never use the word.
There are liberals in America. They are very few. Like single digit percentage And not in the leadership of the Dems at any level. Not even city or county.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/liberal
So "liberal" means lots and lots of different things. No wonder everyone is confused. :-)
Read the definitions from the bottom. The top definitions are neoleftist.
No. In American politics it clearly refers to progressive leftists. Problem is Anerica has long had conservatives pretending to be left wing.
NO it just means white colonialism and racism.