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It is not clear to me that Sanders, AOC and others on the left of the Dem party realized in advance that they would be betrayed/opposed by the party “leaders" and that they would in turn betray their initial followers. You’d have to crawl into their minds to
know that. In any case, they did emasculate their following in compromising their initial positions and then nosing up to Schumer, Pelosi and company. Deciding finally to back Biden, and voting for the retrograde budget. They will most likely be disappointed
if they think they made friends and gained influence with that group. Their seeming initial independence, with its more radical policies on health policy, economics, environmentalism, even criticism of Israel, were never appreciated. On the contrary, they
were considered to be a threat to the desired corporate inspired status quo.
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<div class="">The political system in the country is, and has been, corrupt, and it is unclear how it can be cured, except by a mass public eruption, perhaps initiated by some disaster such as we are on the verge of seeing. The problem has been that the narrative
promulgated (on TV, radio, mainstream newspapers and periodicals) is controlled by this pervasive media, lubricated by money and power interests. Their propaganda makes it difficult to effectively organize a large public following against the reigning system
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<div class="">As an aside, I watched the Jimmy Dore program. He made his points compellingly, but I wondered why he needed to use the obscene language he so readily employs? To reach and identify with the masses? To emphasize his anger, his dismay, his disgust?</div>
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<div class="">Please when able, post your response on FB, on the JD posting I have up on AWARE’s FB page, etc. </div>
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<div class="">None of this either disappoints or surprises me, given I have no hope that the Democrat Party will do anything but either corrupt well meaning people, or in the case of AOC and Ilhan, they were groomed to be sheepherders for the DNC, ensuring
no third Party captures the majority, ensuring the people don’t see the theatrics being played out by these individuals receiving media attention as celebrity’s. Something neither Jill Stein or Ajamu Baraka were ever able to do. </div>
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<div class="">I agree, elections are tools in the toolbox, the PSL as a Party knows and uses this in order to enlighten the public. They however know being a minority they will never succeed in winning an election, they just want to be heard. </div>
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<div class="">My letter to the NG last December is negative, but it was a warning to those who had their hopes up, of what was to come:</div>
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There is a current, new direction the Democrats are forced to take, to clean up their image.</p>
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We shouldn’t be fooled though, it’s the position many have been taking for some time now, given they aren’t able to hide it any longer.</p>
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The strategy: point out the “division” within the party, and how necessary it is to vote and support the new “left wing” of the Democrat Party i.e. Sanders, Warren, Gabbard, AOC, etc., as they battle the conservative Pelosi, Adam Schiff, Schumer, etc., and
all the other war mongers, who supported everything the Republicans have been doing, with an occasional complaint, to maintain the image of “liberal.”</p>
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It shows a lack of comprehension and acknowledgement that our institutions are broken, our capitalist system of empire is dying, and a total lack of knowledge related to history and power.</p>
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These leaders aren’t ignorant or stupid. But they are counting on our ignorance, our political illiteracy as well as our focus on positive thinking to continue this circus of elections ensuring our elitist oligarchs maintain power under our two-headed one-party
system, thus ensuring a third party does not challenge their power.</p>
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Our foreign policy continues as if on auto-pilot, it matters not which of the two-party system is in power.</p>
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The goal: to keep us focused on individuals, as the U.S. government continues to destroy and impoverish, both here and abroad, as if removal of specific individuals will eliminate the rot of our system, given the corporate capitalist powers behind the throne.</p>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Of course it is disheartening at the same time, since one tries to use whatever is available, no matter if it is a bit flawed, to accomplish something, anything,
just so there is some movement in the direction we need to be going.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">This really reveals just how corrupt and powerful the DNC controlled Democratic party is.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">For anyone including myself, who thought that there was a tactical chance of creating a people’s opposition inside the Democratic party that might someday actually
become the majority, well, this is now proof positive that that will NEVER happen.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">It appears that anyone who enters the realm of the Democratic party at the national level, no matter how well intentioned they are at first, always become corrupted
or compromised. OR they are driven out of office like they did to Dennis Kucinich and Cynthia McKinney.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">There is no sugar coating it – Bernie Sanders, AOC and even my favorite, Ihlan Omar, SOLD US OUT !<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">By voting for the corporate robbery bill that is the greatest transfer of wealth from the people to the wealthy in the history of the world.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Of course the above mentioned could not have stopped it, but they could have refused to vote for it and used that opportunity to speak out and state why, and
to attempt to break the bill into two parts. One an immediate people’s bail out and the 2<sup class="">nd</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the corporate bail out to be delayed for scrutinizing and negotiation.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Negotiation ?... YES, like demanding immediate ; Medicare for All, student debt forgiveness, free post high school education, bringing ALL U.S. troops home to
fight the virus, $ 15 per hour national minimum wage, and a $ 1200 per month PERMANENT UBI ( Universal Basic Income ) with NO reduction in current social security, food stamp, or public assistance.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">But oh no, not a single act of opposition, just theatrical speeches from Sanders , AOC, et al about how horrible the bill is and then all of them voting for it
anyway. Boy, that is really using political leverage. What a phony opposition, a pseudo resistance to corporate power that Pelosi, Schumer, et al and the DNC of course are a part of, along with their allies the Republicans.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">The ONLY solution is building a people’s party coalition OUTSIDE the Democratic party.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Of course, electoral politics is NOT the main tool in the tool box. Nonviolent yet very confrontational direct action tactics need to be used. However, electoral
politics is important IF used correctly. That being as a tactic ( a bully pulpit organizing tool ) in conjunction with direct action / mobilizations, as opposed to an end in and if itself.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">WE all have tried to do what we can in the past with varying degrees of success, but ultimately it will have to be a huge mobilization by younger people in their
20’s and 30’s before any real change will begin to happen.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">The big question of course is – how bad does it have to get before that happens ?<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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