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Rubbish. The Women's marches the day after Trump's inauguration set the tone for a new rise of the left in the United States, and this is an important continuation of it. In terms of Democrat-Republican political rivalry, Andrew has also completely missed what is going on, probably because he himself is a progressive Democrat and lesser evilist. Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris, Chuck Schumer et al. have pressured Conyers and Franken to resign because they are planning to reprise the Hillary Clinton strategy of 2016 in 2018. The Republicans are the party of racists and rapists, and the Democrats are the anti-racists and anti-rapists - therefore the Democrats need to say nothing else about anything else. This strategy almost worked in 2016: Clinton won a popular majority of nearly 3 million votes. One reason Clinton did not do better was that she is the wife of Bill Clinton, a man who has the reputation of a liar and abuser, even if he was never convicted of anything. Hillary has the reputation of a woman who accepted all of that in the name of lesser-evilism and getting herself elected later. Nancy Pelosi learned a lesson in 2016, and so did Chuck. Hence, they can give up a couple of votes now in a gamble that it will help them out next year. Why not? They are in the minority anyway and will continue to be after Conyers and Franken are gone. One of the best things that could happen to the United States, and to the world,would be for BOTH imperialist parties of racists and rapists - those would be the Democrats and the Republicans - to blow up into pieces. Hopefully, the current me-too moment will help make this happen. Anthony _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
