I think the Militant's position on the attacks on Trump is that they are
red herrings. That is, whoever the ruling class allows to be president
is going to look after the interests of the ruling class and the rest of
us should be concentrating on other issues like getting rid of the
ruling class altogether. I tend to agree. After all, what if Trump is
impeached and removed from office? Would Pence be any better? I don't
think so. We would have to oppose him and his policies too. I will
admit, though, that some of these articles that try to make that point
have come perilously close to defending Trump and that makes me a bit
uncomfortable. This article started out the same, but by the second half
of it I think it was explaining what Trump really is all about. On my
own part, though, I will say that Trump is a bit different from other
presidents in that in this case rather than the ruling class installing
one of their flunkies to administer the bourgeois state a member of the
ruling class has decided to dabble in administering the bourgeois state
himself. Another president may represent one or more factions of the
ruling class, but when the president is a member of the ruling class
himself he is more likely to represent only one faction and Trump may be
a faction of his own. If this causes a rift in the ruling class then it
could offer opportunities for the working class to take advantage of.
The trouble is that if the rift becomes big enough then I suppose you
can guess who will be forced to fight their civil war.
On 7/24/2018 7:58 AM, Bob Hachey wrote:
Hi Roger,
Interesting read here.
While I do believe that Russia did attempt to influence elections here and
still are trying, I agree that it is more important for Putin and Trump to deal
with other issues like Syria and nuclear stockpiles on both sides. Trump ought
to be working on all three issues here.
I did think the post was too easy on Trump. Do you really think that Trump
wants peace? IF so, then why is he advocating for yet more military spending?
In his campaign, he rightly complained about how we ought to throttle back on
bases around the world.
Trump keeps claiming that all investigations against him and his campaigns are
witch hunts. IF that is so, then he should be willing to release his tax
returns. The fact that he will not informs me that he has something to hide.
I am no fan of our military, FBI or CIA, but I'll also not take the side of a
dictator like Putin. For a guy who claims to be tough, he really did look like
Putin's poodle in Helsinki.
Bob Hachey
