[Peace-discuss] Why the Democrats are hopeless

[C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss]

When the Democrats abandoned their vestigial New Deal class politics in the 1970s, under the conscious calculated attack of neoliberalism, they shame-facedly substituted an increasingly hysterical "identity politics" - primarily rhetorical censorship ("You can't say that!")

One of the earliest and still one of the clearest analyses of the IP malady was Walter Benn Michaels (2006) "The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality."

--CGE


On Jan 2, 2015, at 1:16 PM, 'C. G. Estabrook' carl at newsfromneptune.com [sf-core] <sf-core-noreply at yahoogroups.com> wrote:

> A brilliant psychological/political dissection of the wretched Democrat party:
> 
> http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/01/02/the-age-of-surrealpolitik/
> 
> "The Democrats’ death embrace with neoliberalism has gone almost unchallenged since the rise of Jimmy Carter in the 1970s, the grip tightening with each successive election...
> 
> "...I think this election [2014] was about more than the dismal economic circumstances. I believe the election was a mass expression of contempt: for Obama, for the Democrats, for the whole rancid system that promises hope and delivers only deprivation and more war. Sooner or later the bill for these betrayals comes due. A price must be paid.
> 
> "The contradictions of the Democratic Party have reached the cracking point. Who would defend a party that refuses to defend its own most vulnerable adherents? Who would join a party that sedulously squelches each new spark of idealistic fervor, from Occupy Wall Street to the Dream Defenders, to the $15 an Hour movement, while maniacally pursuing job-killing trade pacts like the TPP? It should be torn asunder, before it collapses from its own internal state of decay..."
> 
> --CGE