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What a fantastic piece observing the contours of a city and a region.
Anyone who's lived for any time in the SF-Bay Area will recognize this.
To get any adequate local perspective we need this kind of observation
everyplace!
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Anthony Boynton wrote
Impressions of elections in San Leandro
Two years and three months ago, for reasons totally unrelated to
politics, we moved back to the United States from Colombia. After nearly
twenty years of life in Bogotá, we landed in San Leandro, California.
During that time, I kept up on the USA through Marxmail, the New York
Times, the Sacramento Bee and sundry other sources, but I paid close to
zero attention to the nitty-gritty details of local politics in this
country.
A few months after we arrived, Donald Trump was surprisingly elected.
Ouch. That was a wake-up call. I had thought that the next big crisis of
capitalism in the USA was going to be presided over by a Democrat and
that one result would be radicalization to the left of the Democratic
Party - something like what happened during the 1960’s when Kennedy and
Johnson presided over US escalation of the war in Viet Nam.
Now, it seems that the new radicalization is occurring during the
presidency of a racist, misogynist, authoritarian Republican. One
consequence is that radicalization to the left is occurring mostly in,
and through, the Democratic Party.
I guess you could say that the United States suffers from a form of
bipolar disorder.
Leaving aside any deeper discussion of the present conjuncture, here are
my impressions of the 2018 midterm elections from my current vantage
point on the border of East Oakland and San Leandro.
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Laura Wells https://laurawells.org/
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