Recent
Trump's back and forth against clear condemnation of racist violence
on the context of the horrible incident in Charlottesville, proved
that he is completely incapable of leaving behind, or at least
smoothing, his dangerous far-right rhetoric and positions. Trump
already finds himself in a difficult position as he sees his
popularity in free fall, and the only way to maintain his hard core
of white nationalist voters, is to keep the profile of the 'hothead
cowboy', even if he has to dangerously
provoke North Korea.
On the other
side, the neoliberal establishment of the Democratic party appeared
to be completely incapable to acknowledge responsibility for the
shocking defeat in 2016 election. Almost everyone else was blamed
apart from Hillary Clinton, or the DNC failed strategy: Bernie
Sanders, Jill Stein, the Russians, the most progressive voters who
didn't want to vote another corrupted and warmongering
banking/corporate puppet like Clinton.
No matter
what's happening around, the DNC establishment simply ignores the
scream of the American society for a radical change down to the roots
of the Party, away from the lobbyists and the super PACs. The Dems
are in total denial. They can't even give a chance to someone that
simply supported by Bernie Sanders, as has been proved by the
election of Tom Perez as the chair of the DNC, early this year. Perez
defeated Keith Ellison, who was supported by progressives within the
party, including Sanders and Massachusetts Senator, Elizabeth Warren.
Indeed, the
Democrats seem to promote another establishment puppet for 2020,
instead of seeking a true, radical change for the Democratic Party.
As Mintpress
News reports:
Kamala Harris, a career prosecutor who served as
California’s attorney general and is now a United States senator,
is seen by liberals as the Democratic Party new “rising star”.
Democrats are already touting the possibility of a 2020 presidential
run, and any inkling of criticism, regardless of how genuine, faces a
backlash from influential people in the political and media arena.
Critics are attacked on multiple levels. First,
defenders argue Harris is a cog working within a larger unjust
machine. Condemning her political decisions is frivolous because
“she’s doing her job.” They also argue critics are “purists”
in search of a politician without imperfections. This assertion,
while undoubtedly pretentious, is intended to malign leftists as
immature and unable to understand the dirty realities of politics.
The third component of attacks involves malicious
misrepresentation, a claim that critics reject Harris because she is
a woman, or more specifically, a black woman. By weaponizing
neoliberal identity politics, even the whitest liberals freely
manipulate the wider discourse on race and gender in order to shape
it into their favor.
Trump's
behavior becomes the perfect tool in the hands of the DNC
establishment to demonize the most progressive voters and force them
to compromise with a neoliberal candidate for the 2020 election.
People around the Democratic party have gone as far as equalizing the
alternative right with the -now called - alternative left, in terms
of violence.
This was a
tactic that was excessively implemented in Greece, where after the
burst of the crisis, the then political establishment which
bankrupted the country, with the help of the mainstream media, was
equalizing the 'radical left' with the Golden Dawn neo-nazis, in
order to prevent voters to vote for the then unpredictable, rising
political power, the leftist SYRIZA.
Indeed, as
Mintpress
News also reports:
Liberal and centrist Democrats did not necessarily coin
the label “alt-left,” however, in recent months, the term was
popularized by them. It was deployed against anyone on the left who
challenged their politics, especially those perceived as supporters
of Senator Bernie Sanders or members of the Democratic Socialists of
America.
But in a recent press conference, President Donald Trump
blamed “both sides” for violence in Charlottesville on August 12.
He invoked the “alt-left,” a term largely unknown to the wider
public and establishment press, and promoted a false equivalency in
remarks rife with apologism for neo-Nazis. Republican politicians
from Speaker Paul Ryan to Senator Marco Rubio condemned Trump for
refusing to assign all of the blame to white supremacy groups. And,
in the span of seconds, Trump made a label liberals and Democrats had
reflexively employed toxic.
[...]
The Washington Post’s Alex Horton and Dave Weigel
produced a piece attempting to define the genesis of the “alt-left”
label. Horton and Weigel acknowledged the term was used by “some
right-wing websites, commentators and Fox News personalities” to
describe “a violent segment of left-wing activists — the
alt-left.” Both ignored its prevalent use by Clinton Democrats and
other centrists and liberals fed up with Sanders supporters and their
“purism.”
Several prominent Democrats, who see themselves as a
part of #TheResistance, suggested progressive critiques of identity
politics and demands from the left were the product of an “alt-left”
that increasingly seems to be converging with the worst elements of
the “alt-right” (the term for far right groups that includes
white nationalists).
[...]
[...]
There simply can be no equivalency between the
“alt-right” and the “alt-left.” Nor is the “alt-left”
responsible for any threat the rise of the “alt-right” may pose
to the country. It is neo-Nazis and neo-Nazis alone, who are
responsible for their acts, and any centrist or liberal Democrat, who
equates their acts with the behavior of the “alt-left” or invokes
the “alt-left” to marginalize dissent is cravenly attempting to
stunt movements for social, economic, racial, and environmental
justice, which threaten the Democratic Party establishment.
There
is no doubt that the DNC establishment seeks to restore power without
changing current status. Which means that it is completely devoted to
its corporate donors who have been enormously benefited from the
domination on the neoliberal ideology at the expense of the majority
of the American citizens.
The
hypocrites around DNC establishment demand from everyone to align
with them in order to confront the 'scary monster', Donald Trump.
While they openly condemn Trump's racism, they pray quietly for more
far-right provocative behavior by him because this will give them
more power to crush any truly progressive criticism against their
routine functioning, dominated by these rich donors.
Most
importantly, they seek to crush any prospect for a new, truly
progressive and independent political movement under Bernie Sanders,
away from the bipartisan dictatorship. Once Bernie will dare to make
such an attempt, they will fiercely seek to finish him politically by
using the known story: he will be considered responsible for breaking
the unity of the Democratic Party and letting someone like Trump
remain in power. Bernie knows it. That's why he rushed to endorse
Hillary Clinton after his defeat in the primaries due to the dirty
war from inside the DNC.
Just
keep in mind that these hypocrites who condemn Trump's far-right
behavior and actually blackmail everyone from the left in order to be
aligned behind them, belong to the same syndicate which, under Obama
administration, had overthrown a democratically elected government in
Ukraine and brought the far-right nationalists and neo-nazis in
power.
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