Longstanding orthodoxies of the Democratic Party are crumbling and large swathes of its base have had enough. Have the chickens of so-called Resistance liberalism finally come home to roost?
Joe Biden was a genocidal war criminal. AOC and Bernie Sanders decided to go out and rally support for them. A respectable left should work diligently to imprison people like Biden, Trump, Blinken, and Hegseth and deport them to the Hague, in accordance with our own laws. We are signatories to the genocide convention and have a legal obligation to prosecute war criminals on US soil. We have a domestic legal obligation to withhold arms from states violating humanitarian law and to withhold arms from states which have clandestine nuclear weapons. AOC and Bernie are not willing to rock the boat too far because they are controlled opposition, they are nutless. Gaza is a microcosm and these issues repeat themselves all over their policy platform.
They want a kinder empire. Maybe it will work but you should not confuse this with the actual project at hand. Which, even in their wildest dreams, is fundamentally still a world where brown and asian people wipe your ass and make your clothes and funko pops while migrants do the hard work to get our food. It's a lazy and parastic mentality and not an adult mentality.
(1) Wall Street should be shotgun blasted in the dick and seized under state banks that serve the social interest.
(2) The US military should be reduced to a defensive force.
(3) The US dollar as an international reserve currency should be replaced internationally shared unit of account.
(4) Israel should be completely embargoed.
(5) Reparations should be paid to Iraq, Libya, Aghanistan, Haiti, Palestine, and Cuba. To name a few. Reparations can critically take place through productive investment in basic infrastructure, as China pursue with BRI but with even more favorable terms to those countries deserving amends. It's the right thing to do, and we get rich when the world gets rich.
(6) We should seek a progressive unified government including us, Canada, and Mexico - perhaps Greenland could actually interested if it was not so clearly about bullying them and spewing billionaire corruption all over their people. Forging unity between our peoples is the opposite of imperial bullying.
(7) Land reform should be conducted, land reform not just zoning reform, and state enterprises should immediately begin spamming mass social housing projects to deflate housing costs. High speed rail and green energy (solar, wind, Nuclear) should be deployed with similar speed.
(8) Medicare for All. And a primary care doctor in every neighborhood. And a pursuit of healthier foods over profitable foods.
(9) Abolish the attention economy in favor of cultural development.
(10) Reduce the service economy in favor of shorter work hours and communal services. Maybe you don't have a right for a waitress to dance around and put on a happy pretend smile like they are your friend. Maybe we should promote social connections and your actual friends should cook for you.
If someone were to visit us at 5 years intervals, we should dream that they feel that America as a different planet each time they visit. This rapid pace of development cannot last forever but, once it is all said and done, the nation will be upended - kinder, easier, stronger, healthier, and smarter.
THAT should be our goal. Why settle for anything less? We get shit when we let shit represent us.
Great stuff as always, Luke! I think I share your view: although I'm heartened by the fact that MSNBC-watching liberals are turning out for Bernie's rallies, I still have trouble putting any faith in these people. They've demonstrated time and again how easily they can be shepherded back towards the status quo. I really hope I'm wrong, though, and that these rallies are the beginning of something positive.
Joe Biden was a genocidal war criminal. AOC and Bernie Sanders decided to go out and rally support for them. A respectable left should work diligently to imprison people like Biden, Trump, Blinken, and Hegseth and deport them to the Hague, in accordance with our own laws. We are signatories to the genocide convention and have a legal obligation to prosecute war criminals on US soil. We have a domestic legal obligation to withhold arms from states violating humanitarian law and to withhold arms from states which have clandestine nuclear weapons. AOC and Bernie are not willing to rock the boat too far because they are controlled opposition, they are nutless. Gaza is a microcosm and these issues repeat themselves all over their policy platform.
They want a kinder empire. Maybe it will work but you should not confuse this with the actual project at hand. Which, even in their wildest dreams, is fundamentally still a world where brown and asian people wipe your ass and make your clothes and funko pops while migrants do the hard work to get our food. It's a lazy and parastic mentality and not an adult mentality.
(1) Wall Street should be shotgun blasted in the dick and seized under state banks that serve the social interest.
(2) The US military should be reduced to a defensive force.
(3) The US dollar as an international reserve currency should be replaced internationally shared unit of account.
(4) Israel should be completely embargoed.
(5) Reparations should be paid to Iraq, Libya, Aghanistan, Haiti, Palestine, and Cuba. To name a few. Reparations can critically take place through productive investment in basic infrastructure, as China pursue with BRI but with even more favorable terms to those countries deserving amends. It's the right thing to do, and we get rich when the world gets rich.
(6) We should seek a progressive unified government including us, Canada, and Mexico - perhaps Greenland could actually interested if it was not so clearly about bullying them and spewing billionaire corruption all over their people. Forging unity between our peoples is the opposite of imperial bullying.
(7) Land reform should be conducted, land reform not just zoning reform, and state enterprises should immediately begin spamming mass social housing projects to deflate housing costs. High speed rail and green energy (solar, wind, Nuclear) should be deployed with similar speed.
(8) Medicare for All. And a primary care doctor in every neighborhood. And a pursuit of healthier foods over profitable foods.
(9) Abolish the attention economy in favor of cultural development.
(10) Reduce the service economy in favor of shorter work hours and communal services. Maybe you don't have a right for a waitress to dance around and put on a happy pretend smile like they are your friend. Maybe we should promote social connections and your actual friends should cook for you.
If someone were to visit us at 5 years intervals, we should dream that they feel that America as a different planet each time they visit. This rapid pace of development cannot last forever but, once it is all said and done, the nation will be upended - kinder, easier, stronger, healthier, and smarter.
THAT should be our goal. Why settle for anything less? We get shit when we let shit represent us.
Great stuff as always, Luke! I think I share your view: although I'm heartened by the fact that MSNBC-watching liberals are turning out for Bernie's rallies, I still have trouble putting any faith in these people. They've demonstrated time and again how easily they can be shepherded back towards the status quo. I really hope I'm wrong, though, and that these rallies are the beginning of something positive.