Nonetheless Frank, it doesn't have to end that way. Patience,
planning, teaching the thought process to our young, all this and more
will be needed to prepare the Human Species to survive.
Carl Jarvis
On 2/9/16, Frank Ventura <frank.ventura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Carl, your last phrase says it all. Meet the new boss, same as the old
boss.
Frank
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[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Tuesday, February 9, 2016 11:13 AM
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Capitalist crisis fuels demand for,change,
turn to Sanders, Trump
Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dumber.
First, there can be no comparison between events today and those of past
times. Sanders is no FDR. And despite the mess the Working Class is in,
the Empire is not close to a revolution, as was the case in 1932. Trump
certainly has a following, rallying many of the Right Wing Fringe Groups.
But these people are disrupters, not revolutionaries.
The fact is that all of the rest of the Republican candidates, Hillary
Clinton and even Bernie Sanders are controlled by the Empire's manipulators.
Under the current Corporate Capitalism, so tightly owned by the Ruling
Class, the best the Working Class can hope for are a few crumbs from the
Master's table.
To bring this nation out of the current Dark Age and into the sort of Land
working class families can find a future filled with hope, calls for nothing
less than a total reform of government, the removal of current systems and
those in control, an end to Corporations that are Too Big to Fail, and a
Working Class Movement to plan and establish a People's government.
We are a long, long way from such a movement. It will take great effort and
much energy to develop ways of offsetting the deeply entrenched propaganda
that the Empire has set in place. It will take planning and years of work
to turn back the effects of the Mass Media's saturation of our everyday
lives.
Our greatest hope for success is also my greatest fear. Greed will most
likely continue to squeeze the blood out of our Souls, until Greed has gone
too far. Then working men and women will rise up and crush the Ruling
Class. But if we have not done our work well, the new Power will soon be
wooed by Greed and succumb to His Evil Ways.
And then we will begin all over again.
Carl Jarvis
On 2/9/16, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://themilitant.com/2016/8006/800602.html
The Militant (logo)
Vol. 80/No. 6 February 15, 2016
(front page)
Capitalist crisis fuels demand for
change, turn to Sanders, Trump
BY BRIAN WILLIAMS
The growing support for Bernie Sanders as the presidential primary
voting begins is an indication of the depth of the social crisis of
capitalism and the disarray it is causing within the main parties of
U.S. imperialism. Sanders, who campaigns on the platform of the Occupy
Wall Street movement, scored a virtual tie with Hillary Clinton in the
Democratic Party caucuses in Iowa Feb. 1.
At the same time Donald Trump’s campaign for the Republican nomination
is not going away, despite coming in a close second to Ted Cruz, part
of the “Tea Party” wing of the Republicans, in Iowa.
What gives wind to Trump and Sanders is the broad discontent and anger
among workers and others fueled by years of smoldering depression
conditions, in which jobs, wages and conditions of life have stagnated
or worsened.
Clinton, once considered a shoo-in for the Democratic Party
nomination, is now scrambling to counter Sanders by presenting herself
as the practical way to carry out his platform. In her “victory”
speech in Iowa, where she beat Sanders by a hair, Clinton declared, “I
am a progressive, who gets things done.”
The editors of the New York Times and Washington Post came out in
support of Clinton in the days leading up to the Iowa vote. “Bernie
Sanders’s Fiction-Filled Campaign,” was the headline on the Post
editorial Jan. 27, which accused him of promoting “fantastical claims”
while “playing the role of uncorrupted anti-establishment crusader.”
“It’s the establishment view,” responded Jane Sanders, political
adviser and wife of Bernie Sanders, in an interview on MSNBC Jan. 29.
They say “anything that is bold is not doable. We just disagree.”
Jane Sanders also took issue with a commentator who compared her
husband’s campaign to 1972, when George McGovern, riding the crest of
anti-Vietnam War sentiment, secured the Democratic Party nomination
but lost in a landslide to Richard Nixon. The better analogy is to
1932, she said, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the presidency
during the Great Depression. “People were looking for bold leadership
and that’s happening now.” Roosevelt’s “New Deal” was a package of
reforms to rescue capitalism from collapse and thwart rising labor
militancy from growing into independent working-class political action.
Under the impact of depression conditions facing workers, Trump has
been gaining support within both the Republican and Democratic
parties. A recent study by AFL-CIO affiliate Working America of
households in working-class neighborhoods outside Cleveland and
Pittsburgh said that while a little over half of voters were
undecided, 38 percent who had made up their minds backed Trump. The
next highest share was 22 percent for Clinton.
Officials from the 2 million member Service Employees International
Union endorsed Clinton in November. But Trump is gaining a hearing
among some of its members. “There is deep economic anxiety among our
members and the people we’re trying to organize that I believe Donald
Trump’s message is tapping into,” SEIU President Mary Kay Henry told
the Times Jan. 29.
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is considering throwing his
hat into the ring as a so-called independent. If it looks like Trump
or Cruz will win the Republican primary and Sanders is the Democratic
nominee, Bloomberg “has told allies he would be likely to run,”
reported the New York Times. He has set a deadline for early March to
decide after results from some of the primaries are in.
Bloomberg, who served as New York mayor from 2002 to 2013, was in the
forefront of leading the bosses’ drive against workers’ rights and
living conditions in the city. He ran as a liberal Republican in 2001
and 2005 and four years later as an “independent,” but was on the
ballot line of the Republican party. During this time he toyed with
the idea of running for president.
If he runs, Bloomberg plans to spend at least $1 billion of his own
funds, the Times reported, to get on the ballot in all 50 states. This
is entirely different from what working-class parties face when trying
to gain access to the ballot under the restrictive laws in many states.
Related articles:
‘Build a party to lead the revolutionary struggle’
Paper showcases UK Communist candidate
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