Democrats and Stockholm Syndrome

 

The DNC's documented decision to throw Bernie Sanders under the bus in 2016 was, for this longtime Democrat, the final straw. I re-registered in my home state as "Unaffiliated" and joined the CPUSA so that they could count one more head among their numbers. The CPUSA is a mere shadow of its former self, however: it has not run a ticket in a Presidential election since 1984 and, in 2020, endorsed Joe Biden for President. How its leadership can do that and still consider themselves "Communist" in some sense is utterly beyond me, but I remain a nominal Party member because I affirm Marx and Engels' definition of a Communist Utopia: An association (note: not a State) in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all. That definition (from the Communist Manifesto no less) has long struck me as an admirable expression of Anarcho-Communism and Marxist Humanism. In my view, all authentic Leftist politics begins there.

To those who remain members of the Democratic Party to this day, and who continue to reassure one another that their Party will regroup and somehow regain the political territory lost since the Reagan Revanchement of 1980 and its sequellae under every subsequent Republican and Democratic Administration, I ask: Has it ever occurred to you that you may be suffering from Stockholm Syndrome? 

 

The Heart of the Christian Right

                                               Has an XX genotype.          

Where's the Outrage?

         There are few things less reassuring than watching Joe Biden approach a podium.

Reflection on Dobbs

I will admit that I thought the Roberts approach would win the day--even after the leaked draft hit the media. But reading Alito's opinion, with its brazen comparison of Dobbs to Brown v. Board, was truly shocking. The outlawing of abortion will disproportionately affect the poor who, in the United States, are disproportionately people of color. The majority sitting on the court clearly have no sense of historical context or present exigencies, much less irony. And how about Clarence Thomas' concurring opinion? Thomas, who Sen. Joe Biden helped into Justice Thurgood Marshall's seat despite the objections of Anita Hill, strikes me as unhinged and should be removed from the Court....We should recall that Harry Blackmun, a Nixon appointee to the Court, wrote the majority opinion in Roe--an opinion that I have always thought a model of "judiciousness." There is no judiciousness in Dobbs. Instead you have ideologues out for revenge. But this is what you get when you treat an 18th century document as Holy Writ and then put highly privileged, narrowly educated, politically motivated, and morally stunted individuals in the position of interpreting that document--interpretations that have the force of law. The fact that this decision came as a surprise to me tells me that I still harbor some small faith in the workings of the judicial system. I'll see what I can do to remedy that.

On Roberts.

USSC Overturns Roe and Casey

                                                 Read the Slip Opinion here.

Clintonomics

                                                 The final nails in the coffin of the Democratic Party.

The Meddlers

                                         The imperial origins of the IMF and the World Bank.

DENVER IN DECAY / DOCUMENTARY FILM

Time for a Second French Revolution?

                                                             France Insoumise.

Shaking the Foundations of Neoliberalism in Europe

                                                         One can only hope...

Orwell

 

If Chile was the Cradle of Neoliberalism...

                                                             it will also be its grave.