[Peace] A useful set of opinions and suggestions

[Karen Aram]

I don’t agree with the statement  “As compromised and bad as Biden and the Dems in general are nationally, they are better than the Repubs on many crucial, if not all, issues. The environment, equity/justice?, education, universal health, climate change, …, some arguable. Better at holding back emerging facism.” 

 This assumption is precisely what must be debunked. They offer band aids to stop bleeding from a bullet wound. We need much more to prevent WW3, and or the catastrophic conditions many are facing due to global warming, etc. 

As long as people believe there is hope in elections, as long as they believe removal of Trump will solve the major problems, they will do nothing. This is the major reason we aren’t successful mobilizing an active populace opposing our corporate capitalist government. Incremental death as applied by the Dems. in power maybe preferable to the crashing bomb being dropped on us by the Trump administration but it is like a snowball rolling down a hill, gathering momentum with time. 

Chris Hedges is another one who agrees with me, there are many others, we’re simply not hearing from them. 

As to elections, vote third Party, support a non corporate owned Party with a platform that is more likely to solve problems than support them. Resist, rather than conform, if we look at history it was resistance that brought about positive change, not conformity to those in power. 



> On May 7, 2020, at 09:38, Morton K. Brussel <mkb3 at icloud.com> wrote:
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> You will be interested in a debate/exchange/discussion between Paul Jay and ?? Prasad, who takes your position. This debate is also available on Jay’s new outlet. 
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> The question not answered to my satisfaction is what to do about the coming election? Ignore it, and wait for better opportunities, or realize that another four years of Trump administration can be world shaking, one way or the other. Chomsky understands and worries about this; he is not alone.   Prasad says “we" just have to work harder to assemble a truly militant and progressive mass who could swing things towards a more promising world for most of its population. Yet, he is not optimistic that it can be done!. So what to do now? As compromised and bad as Biden and the Dems in general are nationally, they are better than the Repubs on many crucial, if not all, issues. The environment, equity/justice?, education, universal health, climate change, …, some arguable. Better at holding back emerging facism. 
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> It’s a pretty dreadful situation we are all facing, agravated now with the pandemic and its foreboding consequences.
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>> On May 7, 2020, at 9:14 AM, Karen Aram via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net <mailto:peace at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:
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>> Sorry, but I found the article very disappointing. Paul Jay is little different than Chomsky, with his support for Biden “as the lesser evil.” 
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>> They do a great job of defining the problem, but their recommended solutions support the very problem defined.
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>> This continuation of support for the Democrat Party, I’m referring to the federal government, not local which is a different topic all together, because the Republican Party is so awful, given they are basically one and the same, differing only in respect to strategy and tactics, keeps liberals in fantasy land, and on their asses arguing over which team is better as if a football game, and every four years voting, which is also a joke, given the corruption involved in our so called democracy. 
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>> The statement: "Before Covid-19, as the primaries were held, the economy appeared to be robust and enough people were doing well enough to avoid social unrest. Fear of Trump and a full court press against Sanders waged by the Democratic Party establishment and its media allies, made people reluctant to break from conventional politics. It swung the vote to Biden,”
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>> is the most accurate portrayal of US electoral politics. It is the goal of the DNC ruling elites to prevent social unrest, which could possibly result in system change. Make no mistake there will be social unrest, the disenfranchised will break out in anarchy, and violence resulting in chaos and destruction unless middle class liberals join up with those suffering inequality and whats to come, in changing our system of capitalism which is responsible for all. 
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>> Yes, there needs to be a plan, organized with an agenda for what takes place after, as well as leadership. There are organizations offering such, and only if they join together in common cause utilizing civil resistance with protests, marches, strikes, sit downs, preventing business as usual, focusing not on one person in the WH, but Congress, Wall St., the banks, etc……….
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>>> On May 6, 2020, at 18:31, Morton K. Brussel via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net <mailto:peace at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:
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>>> By Paul Jay. 
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>>> https://theanalysis.news/commentary/covid-19-get-ready-for-the-coming-storm/ <https://theanalysis.news/commentary/covid-19-get-ready-for-the-coming-storm/>
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