Harvard University philosophy professor Dr. Cornell West appeared on CNN Friday night amid nationwide protests over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota and offered a searing indictment not just of white supremacy, the neo-fascism of President Donald Trump, and a criminal jus
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Democrats: Dump Biden Now
Listen up Democrats: dump Joe Biden; dump him now. I implore you not as one of you, but as someone who considers voting for Republicans unthinkable, and who nearly always does vote for Democrats for want of better alternatives. Ever since Ralph Nader’s campaign twenty years ago, I have always voted for the Green candidate More
House Democrats Push to Cancel Student Debt Because of Coronavirus
The bill for the next COVID-19 relief package is expected next week. Will it include up to $30k in student debt relief?
Source: House Democrats Push to Cancel Student Debt Because of Coronavirus – VICE
By Picking Joe Biden Over Bernie Sanders, Democrats Are Kissing Their Future Goodbye
The coronavirus, which has validated everything Bernie Sanders has been saying for years, should be radicalizing us. Instead, social distancing is pacifying us.
Source: By Picking Joe Biden Over Bernie Sanders, Democrats Are Kissing Their Future Goodbye
Senate Democrats’ Plan for Net Zero Carbon Emissions by 2050 Is ‘Wishful Thinking’ on Solving Crisis, Climate Action Groups Say
“We need binding emission reduction targets, in line with what climate justice and historical responsibility demand, far sooner than 2050.”
Because Bernie Showed ‘There is a New Way Now,’ Younger Democrats Backing Sanders, Says Michael Moore
“There have been approximately 15 million 17-year-olds in the past four years that have turned 18. And they are massively behind change.”
Trump, Democrats and the Lumpenproletariat Problem
The American Democratic Party has a problem with white working-class America–they lost them, or at least large segments of them to Donald Trump’s Republican Party. Policy reasons may explain part of this. But a better explanation may be that these voters fit the description of what Karl Marx used to call the Lumpenproletariat–reactionary working class opposed to revolution or at least progressive politics. Understanding who these individuals are may be critical to Democrats winning in 2020. More
Source: Trump, Democrats and the Lumpenproletariat Problem – CounterPunch.org
Trump’s shameless disinformation puts Democrats in a bind — and could trigger the unraveling of civil society
As 2020 nears, disinformation—intentionally false political propaganda—is increasing and getting nastier. Central to this disturbing trend is President Trump, whose re-election campaign and allies revel in mixing selected truths, half-truths, knowing distortions and outright lies, especially with me
Facing the climate change monster: can politics react?
Break Up the Democratic Party? –
Thursday’s debate on Walt Disney’s ABC channel shaped up as yet another shameless charade. The pretense was that we are to select who the Democratic presidential candidate will be. But most Americans, as the Irish say, vote with their backsides, belonging to the informal but dominant party of non-voters who choose not to be sucked More
