<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div><div class="ydpdb3d0a46article_head" style="margin: 6.4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,Georgia; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; background-color: transparent;"><p class="ydpdb3d0a46maintitle" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px; color: rgb(154, 61, 61); line-height: 23.1px; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 700; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><font size="5">Dems fail to seize on U.S. exploitation </font></span>
</p></div><div id="ydpdb3d0a46articletext" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 504px; text-align: left; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,Georgia; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; display: block; white-space: normal; visibility: visible; orphans: 2; background-color: transparent;"><div class="ydpdb3d0a46first ydpdb3d0a46last ydpdb3d0a46column" style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 504px;">
<div class="ydpdb3d0a46div_paddingarticle" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 3px;"><p class="ydpdb3d0a46abody" style="margin: 10px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span class="ydpdb3d0a46Fid_10" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><font size="5"> The congressional Democrats posturing around the “Dreamers” and government shutdown are running a zombie Hillary Clinton campaign.</font></span></p><p class="ydpdb3d0a46abody" style="margin: 10px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span class="ydpdb3d0a46Fid_10" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><font size="5"> After 40 years of growing and accelerating inequality in America, the HRC campaign tried to build a majority by pretending that social distress was the result of discrimination.</font></span></p><p class="ydpdb3d0a46abody" style="margin: 10px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span class="ydpdb3d0a46Fid_10" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><font size="5"> Trump, almost by accident, expressed the real cause: exploitation. He was the first major party presidential candidate to attack — however incoherently — the neoliberal (and neocon) policies that characterized all administrations from Carter’s on.</font></span></p><p class="ydpdb3d0a46abody" style="margin: 10px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: normal; font-weight: 400;"><font size="5"><span class="ydpdb3d0a46Fid_10" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> How right he was is demonstrated by the furious reaction of the political establishment — which has had the effect of ensuring</span><span class="ydpdb3d0a46Fid_10" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> that the Trump administration continues the neolib and neocon policies of the previous administration (more war and more inequality) — not by defending those polices openly (which would court “populist” opposition), but by furiously attacking his character (to the extent of the Russiagate/“Putin’s puppet” fantasy).</span></font></p><p class="ydpdb3d0a46abody" style="margin: 10px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span class="ydpdb3d0a46Fid_10" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><font size="5"> With the Dreamers, the Democrats have found a small aggrieved group whose (real) grievances they can champion, while they cooperate with the Republicans in support of widespread exploitative policies — flat wages and the lack of social supports (health care, education, etc.) taken for granted in other countries.</font></span></p><p class="ydpdb3d0a46abody" style="margin: 10px 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: normal; font-weight: 400;"><span class="ydpdb3d0a46Fid_10" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><font size="5"> C.G. ESTABROOK Champaign</font></span></p></div></div></div><font size="5"></font><br></div></div></body></html>