What, realistically, can one expect from corporate Democrats? What can and should we do as socialists in an increasingly monstrous and murderous corporate dictatorship? As I managed to get posted on the Times in response to an op-ed by Michelle Goldberg:
"The Democrats are a lost cause too tied to corporate power -- and that is the crux of the problem. We need a non-corporate party and movement to take our country back from the utter corruption of corporate dominance. I think the best potential lies in the Working Families Party. Progressives, aside from holding views the majority support, are more despised by ruling centrist, corporate Democrats than are Republicans. They need to join us in abandoning the Democrats and building the Working Families party as way of taking back our Republic from the big money players; separating private wealth from public governance and restoring citizen representation." There has been a long-standing delusion that we could take over the Democratic party but it was taken over years ago. The Working Families party is more doable as it is already progressive and claims to be a coalition party. We could build it around a progressive populist agenda of taking back Our citizen representation from the corporations that are killing us and the planet. As I wrote in the intro the the Blue Collar Review, ( http://bluecollarholler.blogspot.com/ ) The massive reaction to the recent killing of the CEO of a deadly greed-driven company in a greed-driven industry shows that all of us object to being harmed by big business greed. It isn't just the insurance industry. We are daily poisoned, impoverished and exploited by the corporate dominance that has undermined our government. Our massive righteous anger twisted against us by corporate "think tanks" and media have led us here. In this common outpouring of rage, we see the possibility for change ( https://www.michaelmoore.com/p/a-manifesto-against-for-profit-health ). . . Trump, in many ways is the epitome of a self absorbed CEO knowingly harming us for his own personal enrichment. At this point, roughly 87% of working class Americans feel sympathy for the perpetrator of this direct action. We need to push an anti-corporate power focused agenda and the WFP could be the mechanism to build a much needed and overdue movement to unseat corporate power and the rule of money. If we miss this point, that will say more about who we are not than anything else. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#34505): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/34505 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/110521662/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
