FDR was a member of the ruling class. But one big difference between him and
Trump is that Trump is clinically crazy and FDR was sane. Another is that
Eleanor Roosevelt, also a member of the ruling class, had humanist values and
attempted to influence her husband in that direction with occasional success.
Another difference is that society wasn't as corrupted when FDR was President,
and therefore, people could be organized to fight for their interests. But the
poor and working people who were organized and who mainly benefited, were white
Americans. FDR sacrificed black Americans in his bargaining with congress.
Immigrants weren't even considered.
Miriam
Miriam
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Liberals’ furor against Trump fuels voice of the ‘war party’
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
