late wrote:It's not going to get better. Netanyahu shows little interest in peace because he will get kicked to the curb the minute fighting is over.
America should freeze all aid to Israel. Actually, we should kill most of it, Israel is not a struggling country, they are a powerhouse. We don't give aid to England or France, it wouldn't make sense. Giving lots of aid to Israel also makes no sense, doubly so given the contempt with which the Israeli Right gives us.
That freeze won't happen. No politician is going to risk getting that much grief. That could change, if Israel kills enough, but don't expect it in the short term.
I like most of what Sanders says. His understanding of economics is quite limited, Congress has only one that does, Liz Warren. But because he was the only Lefty in Congress, I have a warm place in my heart for him.
Liz Warren is a liberal and believes in capitalism. She is a senator. Sanders is a Senator in Vermont. Bernie Sanders is not a congressman. AOC is for the 14th district of New York for part of Queens and the Bronx. She is a congresswoman and Sanders is a senator. Both are self described Democratic socialists. How many of those are there in the US Congress and Senate? Lol.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrati ... of_AmericaBasically, it has more or less 3 congresspeople in the US Congress. And in the US Senate full of extremely old men with money, it has?
One guy;
Who is the socialist senator in the United States?
Bernard Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is an American politician and activist who is the senior United States senator from Vermont.
Meanwhile @skinster is very much part of a vocal group criticizing the DSA in the USA for their lack of leadership on the Gaza Palestine situation.
The issue that the entryists have is that they want to have control of a large group that does not share a vision with their ideas of how change needs to be manifested.
It leads to these issues one finds in here:
https://www.thenation.com/article/activ ... za-israel/Read that entire article carefully.
Again, the future for me is about cooperation between small and large groups on the Left. Why? Because it has proven to be a successful formula for success on breaking the stranglehold that the two big parties have on American US-based political parties and power.
In Mexico, a lot of small Leftist organizations decided to put their bickering aside and concentrate on getting rid of the neolibs on the Right and the liberals and conservatives in the two big parties that had an ironclad hold on political power in Mexico for over 60 years or more. The way out of that monopoly on power was not allowing differences in Leftist political thoughts to break them up and make them easy targets to dominate by the big powerful parties used to not doing a damn thing for the working class.
That is why entryists are not going to get far in political life in many nations. The key to success is to keep your eyes on the prize and work with the ones who are humanist and humane and leave the bickering about purism to the ones who want to never get anything done over time. You will be stuck in fighting forever. Because the ones whom you disagree with are as much your enemies as some super bad neoliberal Republican dictators.
For me, that is a tragedy.
Talking about being scientific and objective in politics Late, it is very important to understand that what makes a nation's political life weak and eventually vulnerable to destruction is a lack of cooperation from the very inside of that political platform. The political parties that stay the course and cooperate with each other for a greater goal? Win the democratic voting blocs and wind up getting legit power not based on extreme situations. If the extreme situation presents itself then I would say the Communists and the Socialists who are Scientific are going to be an alternative. But how long does that take in societies that have tiny percentages of Communists or active socialists?
I do not mind losing elections. That is normal for me. What I will never do is kick every other Leftist group in the face, because they do not agree with every fucking thing I believe. That is shooting yourself in the foot. Literally. Do not wait for the neoliberal capitalists who are the ruling class with billions to spend on influencing the least educated in the USA or in other countries to go along with agendas against their own class interests. Do the work for them, by killing anything that does not go with a complete agreement agenda.
Complete agreement will never happen in this world. Too many people with too many variables for that to even be a realistic goal in politics or in life.
Do the Charrettes and work on what is doable. Pragmatic politics. I am a humanist. An Erich Fromm socialist. A Marxist in many ways. And an internationalist. That is what I think is the most effective road to progress in human societies.
I am open to changing that if I am convinced that some other way is more realistic over time. Killing people in conflicts is not that hard to do. Destruction is fairly easy to plan and execute. Preserving life, and working constantly to replace bad habits, bad plans, and selfish elitism with true community and true security for all people who work and who depend on their fellow human beings for sustenance is HARD WORK. ANd is far more difficult to do.
Plus, you never will win the moral ground justifying taking people's lives. But getting rid of the ones on the power seat that do harm through a legitimate changing of organizational superiority and superiority of thought and results? Is the right way to win. Right thought, right action and right attitudes. For me put humans and society first. Not profits. That is just true. No matter how you cut it.
- By Rich