Yes and no. Because the power elites in the Democratic Party will not do
precisely the same things as the ones who support the Republicans. They
will not, for example, privatize Medicare and social security nor will they
openly encourage mob violence against certain minorities. They won't make
abortion illegal, and they were closing down private prisons at the point at
which Trump was not elected President. Democrats would not suggest
registering all Muslims. They would not appoint a White nationalist to a new
administration.
Miriam
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From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2016 3:36 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: The Standing Rock Protests Are a Taste of
Things to Come
If we assume that there is only one Power source in the USA, then this
article makes perfect sense, Miriam.
Barack Obama or Donald Trump. Hilary Clinton or Ted Cruz. Tweedle Dee or
Tweedle Dum?
All are puppets strung up by the same Puppeteers. We, the working class,
are peering through a peep hole in the wall built by the Empire, using our
dollars. Where else would Trump have gotten the idea to build a wall on our
Southern border and make Mexico pay for it.
The Wall between the Working Class and the Oligarchy appears invisible, but
it is every bit as strong as the Great Wall of China was, in its day. Sure,
we can fight constantly, and gain some crumbs from the Table of Plenty, but
we will never have a seat at that table.
And the crumbs that are tossed to us can be taken away just as quickly. How
do we get the message out? This is not our government!!!
Our task is to work hard and to support that government which is not ours.
As our reward for not being seated at the table, we are allowed to keep a
token of what we earned for the Oligarchy. We are just one more natural
resource, as are coal, oil wheat or hogs.
At best we are Consumers. At worst we are Cannon Fodder.
It is far past time for us to build our own table, a table which will seat
all working class people, and be served by the members of whatever remains
of the oligarchy.
Carl Jarvis
On 11/27/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm a bit confused by this article. The horrific scenes coming out offor the past 8 years.
the Sstanding Rock Protests are happening now, under President Obama,
not under Trump. The Army Corps under Obama, is removing an
encampment. It is during the Obama Presidency that fracking has
increased, as have oil spills. It is during the Obama Presidency that
huge numbers of mostly unarmed black people have been killed by police
who have been found to be not guilty of any crime. It is under Obama,
that people's homes were foreclosed, banks paid fines they could well
afford, and individual financiers who stole money from us were never
brought to trial. It is during the Obama Presidency that white
ranchers used our public lands for their private profit and paid no
penalty and white anti government activists took over government
property holding the government at bay, and were not physically
removed or attacked in any way by police or soldiers. Yes, I'm sure
things will get worse under Trump, but it's not as if they've been fine
many sent to the hospital.
Miriam
Aronoff writes: "The way opponents of the Dakota Access pipeline have
been treated by police is likely to be replicated on a massive scale
under Donald Trump."
Police confront protesters near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation,
North Dakota on 20 November. (photo: Stephanie Keith/Reuters)
The Standing Rock Protests Are a Taste of Things to Come By Kate
Aronoff, Guardian UK
23 November 16
The way opponents of the Dakota Access pipeline have been treated by
police is likely to be replicated on a massive scale under Donald
Trump Horrific scenes have been coming out of North Dakota these last
several days, where the battle is ongoing to stop the Dakota Access
pipeline. On Sunday night, police turned tear gas and rubber bullets
on hundreds of unarmed "water protectors", as those taking on the
pipeline prefer to be called. They deployed water cannons as well, in
temperatures well below freezing. More than 160 people were injured, and
As a result of the standoff, a young woman could lose her arm.Rock become all too common.
For those with a passing knowledge of the kind of tactics faced by
America's civil rights movement, the above might sound like blast from
our more brutal past. As Donald Trump prepares to enter the White
House, it should also sound like our possible future.
Every signal we have from the president-elect points to an
administration defined by three core tenets: white supremacy,
unprecedented corporate influence and an uptick in state violence.
Aside from climate catastrophe, the result could be a disturbing and
dystopian new normal, where episodes like the one unfolding in Standing
The signs aren't hard to spot. Breitbart News head Stephen Bannon willthe campaign.
be chief strategist. Jeff Sessions could be attorney general, with a
resume that includes a battle against the 14th amendment and joking
about the Ku Klux Klan. Beating up protesters was a regular fixture of
Trump rallies, and one surrogate recently referenced internment camps
as a precedent for how the Trump administration might deal with Muslim
Americans.
As with Trump's fledgling regime, the notion that certain lives don't
matter is also at the core of the Dakota Access pipeline. At one point
slated to run just north of Bismarck, Energy Transfer Partners
rerouted the project away from the overwhelmingly white city due to
concerns about the threat it might pose to water supplies there. Of
course we can't know exactly what ETP's motivations were in this case,
but other fossil fuel companies have a long history of treating
indigenous and poor communities - overwhelming black and brown
neighborhoods - as sacrificial zones, where they can hide their toxic
externalities and keep profits flowing in at full speed.
Trump hopes to streamline that process, and has invested heavily in
two of the companies behind the pipeline, Phillips 66 and ETP. Company
CEO Kelcy Warren gave more than $100,000 to the president elect through
(Warren has since relayed that he was "very enthusiastic about what'svery, very rough".
going to happen with our country".) Fossil fuel executives could reign
over the Department of Energy. JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon was
floated as an option to run the Treasury. The US Chamber of Commerce
is feeling optimistic, and so is Bloomberg Businessweek, whose cover
this week invited readers to "Cheer up! Business is going to be great."
While he ran a populist candidacy, Trump is building a cabinet for the 1%.
If his history of dealing with protests is any indication, he'll
protect their interests - his interests - by force. At campaign
events, when interrupted by protesters, Trump reminisced about the
"good old days", when "this doesn't happen because they used to treat them
Comemany sent to the hospital.
January, he'll be commander-in-chief, potentially with a man who
called Black Lives Matter an "enemy within our borders" by his side as
secretary of homeland security. With the national guard already in
Standing Rock, what comes next - in North Dakota and elsewhere - could
be far more brutal than what water protectors have faced.
Standing Rock has for months been a frontline in the fights for
indigenous sovereignty and against reckless extraction. It may also
now be the frontline of Trump's America. Anyone looking for clues
about what the next four years could entail should be paying close
attention to the battle over the Dakota Access pipeline - and doing
everything in their power to support it.
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Aronoff, Guardian UK
23 November 16
The way opponents of the Dakota Access pipeline have been treated by
police is likely to be replicated on a massive scale under Donald
Trump orrific scenes have been coming out of North Dakota these last
several days, where the battle is ongoing to stop the Dakota Access
pipeline. On Sunday night, police turned tear gas and rubber bullets
on hundreds of unarmed "water protectors", as those taking on the
pipeline prefer to be called. They deployed water cannons as well, in
temperatures well below freezing. More than 160 people were injured, and
As a result of the standoff, a young woman could lose her arm.Rock become all too common.
For those with a passing knowledge of the kind of tactics faced by
America's civil rights movement, the above might sound like blast from
our more brutal past. As Donald Trump prepares to enter the White
House, it should also sound like our possible future.
Every signal we have from the president-elect points to an
administration defined by three core tenets: white supremacy,
unprecedented corporate influence and an uptick in state violence.
Aside from climate catastrophe, the result could be a disturbing and
dystopian new normal, where episodes like the one unfolding in Standing
The signs aren't hard to spot. Breitbart News head Stephen Bannon willthe campaign.
be chief strategist. Jeff Sessions could be attorney general, with a
resume that includes a battle against the 14th amendment and joking
about the Ku Klux Klan. Beating up protesters was a regular fixture of
Trump rallies, and one surrogate recently referenced internment camps
as a precedent for how the Trump administration might deal with Muslim
Americans.
As with Trump's fledgling regime, the notion that certain lives don't
matter is also at the core of the Dakota Access pipeline. At one point
slated to run just north of Bismarck, Energy Transfer Partners
rerouted the project away from the overwhelmingly white city due to
concerns about the threat it might pose to water supplies there. Of
course we can't know exactly what ETP's motivations were in this case,
but other fossil fuel companies have a long history of treating
indigenous and poor communities - overwhelming black and brown
neighborhoods - as sacrificial zones, where they can hide their toxic
externalities and keep profits flowing in at full speed.
Trump hopes to streamline that process, and has invested heavily in
two of the companies behind the pipeline, Phillips 66 and ETP. Company
CEO Kelcy Warren gave more than $100,000 to the president elect through
(Warren has since relayed that he was "very enthusiastic about what'svery, very rough".
going to happen with our country".) Fossil fuel executives could reign
over the Department of Energy. JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon was
floated as an option to run the Treasury. The US Chamber of Commerce
is feeling optimistic, and so is Bloomberg Businessweek, whose cover
this week invited readers to "Cheer up! Business is going to be great."
While he ran a populist candidacy, Trump is building a cabinet for the 1%.
If his history of dealing with protests is any indication, he'll
protect their interests - his interests - by force. At campaign
events, when interrupted by protesters, Trump reminisced about the
"good old days", when "this doesn't happen because they used to treat them
Come
January, he'll be commander-in-chief, potentially with a man who
called Black Lives Matter an "enemy within our borders" by his side as
secretary of homeland security. With the national guard already in
Standing Rock, what comes next - in North Dakota and elsewhere - could
be far more brutal than what water protectors have faced.
Standing Rock has for months been a frontline in the fights for
indigenous sovereignty and against reckless extraction. It may also
now be the frontline of Trump's America. Anyone looking for clues
about what the next four years could entail should be paying close
attention to the battle over the Dakota Access pipeline - and doing
everything in their power to support it.
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