[Peace-discuss] Carl's letter from yesterday's N-G

[David Green]

Dems fail to seize on U.S. exploitation  
 
 The congressional Democrats posturing around the “Dreamers” and government shutdown are running a zombie Hillary Clinton campaign.

 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.

 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.

 How right he was is demonstrated by the furious reaction of the political establishment — which has had the effect of ensuring 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).

 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.

 C.G. ESTABROOK Champaign

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