leader of the "free world"

[neci]

life is more than a vote. it's a part of overall definition. a vote is always more than a vote. so few vote.

 

[neci]

community by community, life sways.

 

[underguy1]

not when numbers count and it is a step forward that could unify rifts instead of make larger divides.

The rich don't ever stop fighting the class war. Unity my arse.

 

[neci]

The rich don't ever stop fighting the class war. Unity my arse.

who is fighting?

 

[underguy1]

who is fighting?

Neoliberalism is class warfare waged by the rich against labour. They claim that it is economic rationality but it is anything but.

You hadn't noticed?

 

[BotanyBoy]

Neoliberalism is class warfare waged by the rich against labour. They claim that it is economic rationality but it is anything but.

You hadn't noticed?

How do they wage war against labor?

 

[removed9556]

 

[underguy1]

I've seen you around here, and I suspect our politics are very similar. But you do not help your cause in making personal attacks, nor in alienating those here who share at least some common ground with you, politically.

It sometimes feels as if left-wingers have, to adapt that old feminist phrase, to be twice as rational and balanced as right-wingers in order to be thought half as reasonable. But until we can change the system, this is the system, and most people are involved in it, consciously or not. We have to begin with where people are, not where we wish they would be - and, in any case, the US is such a special case politically that we who are not Americans born ought to tread very carefully.

Well met, anyway, and I shan't take it personally if you ignore the patronizing advice!

I take your point but I'm too old and too jaded to go lightly. And to be frank, I don't think one gets any further anyway. These sorts of people will never be polite anyway.

The world has lurched way to the right in my adult lifetime to the point where the nominal left is far to the right of the conservative politics of the 70s. And the right are really fascists.

 

[removed9556]

 

[underguy1]

Oh, agreed. And thank goodness for the Political Compass, for example, which continues to combat the laughable political ignorance that sees Blair and Clinton as left-wing. I am not sure where you are from, but in the UK, Corbyn is mocked as being an extreme socialist for policies somewhat to the right of 1950s Conservative policy.

Compasses, political and otherwise, have a way of swinging back, though.

The rich are very very good at white anting any leftist popular movements. And the propaganda is ubiquitous and incessant. From cradle to grave.

The campaign against Corbyn is extraordinary. And sickening.

 

[DeYaKen]

Leader of the Free world? Now there is an antiquated term.

First of all,very few people in this world are really free.
Second POTUS is not the leader, he does what the big corporations tell him to do.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

The United States contains an enormous amount of people.
It is a strange sight, to see a tiny fraction of the population trying to convince citizens that the majority should stand with them.

But, as I have stated before, it is that tiny fraction of a difference, that decides which way everything will slide.