RE: Give 'Em Hell, Bernie
May 5, 2015 at 8:13 pm
(This post was last modified: May 5, 2015 at 8:43 pm by nihilistcat.)
Bernie, better than the other alternatives, although he still cow tows to Israel, and anyway, he probably doesn't have a realistic shot (although there's some scenario's where I could see Bernie winning the nomination). IMO we need a third party with new ideas (maybe a revitalized reform party or something like that).
I'm sick of both parties. On the one hand we have a militaristic, anti-science, blatantly anti-worker, and anti-intellectual republican party ... on the other hand, a democratic party who claims to like workers, yet they keep coming up with new ways to export our jobs to third world sweat shops (WTO, NAFTA, and the latest and greatest, Obama's TPP). So their solution is a never ending flurry of debt financed infrastructure spending and growth in government bureaucracy to compensate for the jobs we lost because THEY sent them overseas. It's both absurd unsustainable (and you can't even blame Keynes for this nonsense, he never endorsed never ending debt spending). Moreover, important problems get sucked into this whirlpool of political posturing. Take immigration reform. The consequences of our failure to secure our southern border, has been to transform Mexico into a narco-state (complete with mass migrations displacing millions of people, tens of thousands murdered, unprecedented levels of poverty, etc.). So the only thing both parties agree on is also (not so coincidentally) the only thing they manage to accomplish on a consistent basis, worker exploitation (and of course, creating new customers for our military contractors).
The status quo has given us mountains of debt, mass incarceration, institutional racism, militarization of police, a surveillance state, corruption, etc. We will eventually have to pay back all the money we borrow to keep our bureaucracy running, to fight these trillion dollar unjustified wars, etc., and borrowing today equals higher taxes tomorrow, which will hamper our ability to do things like ensure the solvency of important programs (like social security and medicare). I bet the banksters of Wall Street are salivating, eager to get their grubby hands on our retirement money.
Folks, if you ask me ... it's time to dust off our pitchforks and get rid of the plutocrats
I'm sick of both parties. On the one hand we have a militaristic, anti-science, blatantly anti-worker, and anti-intellectual republican party ... on the other hand, a democratic party who claims to like workers, yet they keep coming up with new ways to export our jobs to third world sweat shops (WTO, NAFTA, and the latest and greatest, Obama's TPP). So their solution is a never ending flurry of debt financed infrastructure spending and growth in government bureaucracy to compensate for the jobs we lost because THEY sent them overseas. It's both absurd unsustainable (and you can't even blame Keynes for this nonsense, he never endorsed never ending debt spending). Moreover, important problems get sucked into this whirlpool of political posturing. Take immigration reform. The consequences of our failure to secure our southern border, has been to transform Mexico into a narco-state (complete with mass migrations displacing millions of people, tens of thousands murdered, unprecedented levels of poverty, etc.). So the only thing both parties agree on is also (not so coincidentally) the only thing they manage to accomplish on a consistent basis, worker exploitation (and of course, creating new customers for our military contractors).
The status quo has given us mountains of debt, mass incarceration, institutional racism, militarization of police, a surveillance state, corruption, etc. We will eventually have to pay back all the money we borrow to keep our bureaucracy running, to fight these trillion dollar unjustified wars, etc., and borrowing today equals higher taxes tomorrow, which will hamper our ability to do things like ensure the solvency of important programs (like social security and medicare). I bet the banksters of Wall Street are salivating, eager to get their grubby hands on our retirement money.
Folks, if you ask me ... it's time to dust off our pitchforks and get rid of the plutocrats
