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Of course his comments on "working the room" vs. "storming the barricades" are simply a defense of capitalist politics. I should have mentioned that I don't agree with that part, but I thought that would be assumed. But his other part is most significant. John Edmundson seems to think that Biden can lead a return to "normalcy", as does Biden himself. On the very first day after his Super Tuesday victories, Biden backtracked on his wanting to repeal the Hyde amendment. That's the amendment that prohibits federal funding of abortions. Biden had voted for it but, under pressure during the campaign said he'd now agree to repeal it. Now he's backtracked. He's going to do exactly what he said - try to "work both sides of the aisle", meaning making concessions to the Republicans. Neither David Brooks nor I think he can get away with that. As Brooks writes, "legitimate crises that are driving the Sanders voters — or the legitimate crises that are driving Trump voters — will [not] go away. "Their problems will still be all our problems. And if our current system can’t address them, then that system will be swept away." In other words, the arrangement between the Republicans and the Democrats that has served the US capitalist class so well for 150 years is at risk of being "swept away". Some of us on the far left have been pointing to this mounting political crisis. It's most significant that a minor institution like David Brooks is also pointing to it. John Reimann -- *“In politics, abstract terms conceal treachery.” *from "The Black Jacobins" by C. L. R. James Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
