Robert Reich shared a link.
- "The establishment doesn’t see what’s happening because it has cut itself off from the lives of most Americans. It also doesn’t wish to understand, because that would mean acknowledging its role in bringing all this on.Yet regardless of the political fates of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, the rebellion against the establishment will continue.Eventually, those with significant economic and political power in America will have to either commit to fundamental reform, or relinquish their power."Robert Reich saw this in February of this year. But HRC and her supporters thought that selling the fear of Trump would be enough to insure that business as usual won the election. It wasn't, and they lost. They lost HARD.They have much to answer for.
- "She was the Democratic candidate because it was her turn and because a Clinton victory would have moved every Democrat in Washington up a notch. Whether or not she would win was always a secondary matter, something that was taken for granted. Had winning been the party’s number one concern, several more suitable candidates were ready to go. There was Joe Biden, with his powerful plainspoken style, and there was Bernie Sanders, an inspiring and largely scandal-free figure. Each of them would probably have beaten Trump, but neither of them would really have served the interests of the party insiders. …To try to put over such a nominee while screaming that the Republican is a rightwing monster is to court disbelief. If Trump is a fascist, as liberals often said, Democrats should have put in their strongest player to stop him, not a party hack they’d chosen because it was her turn. Choosing her indicated either that Democrats didn’t mean what they said about Trump’s riskiness, that their opportunism took precedence over the country’s well-being, or maybe both....The even larger problem is that there is a kind of chronic complacency that has been rotting American liberalism for years, a hubris that tells Democrats they need do nothing different, they need deliver nothing really to anyone – except their friends on the Google jet and those nice people at Goldman. The rest of us are treated as though we have nowhere else to go and no role to play except to vote enthusiastically on the grounds that these Democrats are the “last thing standing” between us and the end of the world. It is a liberalism of the rich, it has failed the middle class, and now it has failed on its own terms of electability. Enough with these comfortable Democrats and their cozy Washington system. Enough with Clintonism and its prideful air of professional-class virtue. Enough!"
Where's the silver lining?
Jim Wright's post.
Add: American Ignorance & apathy, Racism, Intolerance, FBI incompetence & partisanship, Corporate Media PROPAGANDA Machines, Neo Cons & Chicken Hawks....and so on.....
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