Miriam,
Actually, I'm unsettled as to which way to go, new party, seize and
revamp old Democratic party, go Green...but I do know for certain that
the language still popular in the Marxist/Socialist movements turns
young people off. Even back growing up in a Marxist environment, the
language troubled me. And it's the same phrases today that I read in
the Daily Worker, Northern Neighbors, the People's World and the local
handouts. It simply was not written in a language attractive to young
people.
I personally feel that the language ought to be made relevant. The
message is as sound as it ever was, but if no one reads it...well,
it's like trying to get people interested in what Shakespeare had to
say.
Carl Jaarvis
On 3/26/17, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Carl,
I read a lot of stuff written by young people and I also listen to them on
podcasts. The big debate among them is whether it is most efficient to try
to take over the Democratic Party because its structures already exist and
it is known by a majority of people, or to start a new party from scratch
because a new party would be uncorrupted, or to join the Green Party.
There's a faction who are trying to convince Bernie Sanders to lead a new
party. They believe that because he was so close to winning the Democratic
nomination, he would draw people. All of these young people appear to be
opposed to our current capitalist system. Many talk about Socialism, but not
all of them. None of them mention the traditional Socialist or Communist
parties such as the SWP. There's an article in this week's The Nation,
describing a number of groups that have formed to resist the Trump
administration. As always, the Left seems to be very fragmented. It doesn't
have these well funded think tanks like the Right has, like The Heritage
Foundation, The Peterson Institute, etc. which were able to move the whole
country to the right. All those think tanks had one consistent message which
was that "Big Government" is bad. Unfortunately, I don't think that the Left
has a loud and consistent message.
Miriam
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: He promised tax cuts
Hi Bonnie,
Good seeing you on blind democracy. I know that your schedule will not
permit you from attending the JCCB meetings, but if you would like, I will
put you on our email list so you can stay in touch.
It makes me chuckle...in an unfunny way, when I hear folks railing about how
we are lied to by Political Office Seekers. I think of the past
"Presidential Campaign", and my many friends who sat glued to their TV's and
radios and the Internet, analyzing every word dripping from the mouths of
some very glib fabricators.
We're better off spending our time researching the past performances of
these campaigners. For example, there is no connection between the campaign
super promises uttered by Donald Trump, and his track record, past and
present. Why would we believe the promises of a high flying, wheeling and
dealing real estate investor who chiseled everyone who came into contact
with him, cheated his contractors and treated his workers like animals.
My very first impression of Trump, many years ago, was that he was a
Founding Member of the, I'm for me First, Party.
He has done nothing to alter that image. It is a bit scary to think that
there are people who really believed that Trump really cared about their
needs. What were they all smoking?
But enough of Trump. He got the job, and we're all stuck with him.
The real focus ought to be on what we do about living in a nation that has
no political party for the vast majority of its people, the Working Class.
Following the disgusting actions of the DNC, along with the undemocratic
Super Delegate system, I officially withdrew from the Democrat Party. They
no longer represent me, and I will not allow them to use my name...not that
they care, since I am not among the 10% of the "Really Honest To God First
Class Citizens".
Carl Jarvis, also a former member of the Middle Class, until I woke up and
discovered that there is no "Middle".
On 3/25/17, Bonnie L. Sherrell <blslarner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Oh, yes, Donald J. Trump promised tax cuts, just as he implied he
would be closing tax loopholes that allow those who are wealthy to
avoid paying their fair share of taxes.
He might have intended to close those tax loopholes, but not before he
rammed through his first tax cut, which one would have to earn more
than
$200,000.00
per year to take advantage of it. Give a new loophole now, and when
he takes away others later, his fellow one-percenters aren't likely to
grouch as much, I suppose.
What frosts me most, however, that he proposed to counter the revenues
lost by giving those who don't need it this tax cut by cutting
Medicaid spending so much that it is estimated ninety million people
nationwide will lose Medicaid-funded services.
What services are we speaking about?
Home care services.
Home-health services.
Necessary consumable items such as disposable underwear and other
incontinence aids, catheter supplies and bags, dialysate and other
materials used by dialysis patients, wound care supplies, and
countless other things used everyday by caregivers, nurses, nurses
aids, and even primary care providers.
Hospital beds, Hoyer lifts, home commodes and bath and transfer
chairs, wheelchairs.
Physical therapy, speech therapy after strokes and facial injuries,
occupational therapy, blood transfusions....
Need I go on?
I've been working as a caregiver for the last ten years, and I work
hard, with ten-plus hours a day during my work week. My job is
largely paid for by Medicaid funds, and one client who receives a fair
amount in Social Security pays almost a third of her benefits per
month to help defray her caregiving costs. Without periodic blood
transfusions--paid for by Medicaid--and home health nursing services
she would probably have been dead long ago. This woman worked hard
until she was in her mid-sixties, much of it providing safe homes for
adolescent girls who'd been abused, neglected, raped, and otherwise
traumatized in their birth homes. If anyone deserves support now that
she is aging and is largely bed-bound, it's this lady. But had the
Republican and Trump-sponsored healthcare act passed, she'd have ended
up in a nursing home costing far more money a month and receiving most
likely insufficient care.
Imagine--secretively pushing through a healthcare act loaded with a
Trojan Horse of a tax cut for those who have no need for either said
tax cut or the benefits of the healthcare act!
Why is this former Republican totally disgusted with this Trump
administration and Paul Ryan's House of Representatives and Mitch
McConnell's Senate?
Guess!
Bonnie L. Sherrell
Teacher at Large
"Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the
very wise cannot see all ends." LOTR
"Don't go where I can't follow."
We gave the Goblin King control of our nation!
