WHILE SANDERS HOWLS ABOUT NOTHING HE IS FOR AMNESTY, OPEN BORDERS AND NO E-VERIFY AS HE LIES ABOUT THE ASSAULT ON THE AMERICAN WORKER HIS MEXICANS HAVE CAUSED
PHONY “POPULIST” BERNIE SANDERS
For all of his talk about leading “political revolution” against
the “billionaire class,” Sanders backed Clinton, a shill of
Wall Street
and the Pentagon, who has nothing but contempt for the tens of
millions of workers devastated by the 2008 financial crash and
Obama’s
pro-corporate policies.
AMERICAN POVERTY and the LA RAZA MEXICAN
WELFARE STATE on AMERICA’S BACKS.
"Congress must prioritize four repairs for the
immigration system before contemplating any DACA-style amnesty negotiation,
said Brat: 1. Ending chain migration and the visa lottery; 2. Mandating
employer use of E-Verify; 3. Construction of a
southern border wall; and 4. Interior enforcement of immigration law."
REP. DAVE BRAT
OBAMA’S CRONY BANKSTERISM destroyed a TRILLION DOLLARS
in home equity… and they’re still plundering us!
Barack Obama created
more debt for the middle class than any president in US
history, and also
had the only huge QE programs: $4.2 Trillion.
OXFAM reported that during Obama’s
terms, 95% of the wealth created went to the top 1% of the world’s wealthy.
Bernie Sanders seeks to
derail growing working class opposition to capitalism
17
January 2018
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders issued a call, published Sunday in
the Guardian, for
a global effort to overcome mounting economic inequality. It cites evidence of
gross disparities in wealth, but offers not the slightest prospect for a
genuine struggle against the economic system that has produced such levels of
social inequality. Indeed, it is aimed at preventing such a movement.
What is most remarkable about the statement issued by Sanders is
that in the course of nearly 1,200 words, there is not a single mention of
either capitalism or socialism.
Sanders notes that “the six richest people on Earth now own more
wealth than the bottom half of the world’s population—3.7 billion people.
Further, the top 1 percent now have more money than the bottom 99 percent.”
He continues: “[A]s the billionaires flaunt their opulence, nearly
one in seven people struggle to survive on less than $1.25 (90p) a day
and—horrifyingly—some 29,000 children die daily from entirely preventable
causes such as diarrhoea, malaria and pneumonia.”
Sanders goes on with a litany of the terrible realities
confronting working people on a global scale. But what does he propose to do
about it?
Sanders offers the emptiest of abstractions: “a new and
international progressive movement” that will be committed to “tackling
structural inequality both between and within nations.” It must aim at raising
living standards for poor and working people while seeking to “rein in
corporate power.”
Who will join and lead this international progressive movement?
What role will existing parties, trade unions and political leaders play?
Sanders does not say.
There are myriad political forces claiming to be “progressive,”
ranging from pseudo-left groups like Syriza in Greece, now ending its third
year in power as the policeman of austerity and inequality for the European
Union, to openly pro-imperialist parties like the Democratic Party in the
United States, whose presidential nomination Senator Sanders sought in 2016.
Sanders takes care to offer no names as potential partners in his
“international progressive movement” other than Pope Francis, head of the Roman
Catholic Church, one of the most reactionary institutions on the planet, a
pillar of the social order that has produced the devastating social conditions
cited in Sanders’ column.
Perhaps Sanders aspires to become a secular version of this pope,
offering high-flown homilies about social justice while in day-to-day politics
he works in the trenches with Senate Democratic leader Charles Schumer, who has
received more Wall Street cash than any other member of Congress.
The senator is quite aware of the subjects he is avoiding. He has
based his political career on professions to political “independence” and
support for “democratic socialism.” This stance attracted the support of
millions in the 2016 Democratic primary campaign, shocking and dismaying not
only the bourgeois political establishment, but Senator Sanders himself.
Sanders was the beneficiary of a leftward movement of broad
sections of workers and youth, but he did not represent this sentiment. His
task was to channel opposition back behind the Democratic Party, culminating in
his endorsement of Hillary Clinton, the preferred candidate of Wall Street and
the military. For his services, Sanders was elevated to a top leadership post
in the Democratic Party caucus in the US Senate.
For the past year, the Democrats have sought to work with the
Trump administration on its reactionary domestic agenda, including tax cuts for
corporations and an escalation of the assault on immigrants. Sanders indicated
his own support for the latter when he declared last week: “I don’t think
there’s anybody who disagrees that we need strong border security. If the
president wants to work with us to make sure we have strong border security,
let’s do that.”
One day after Sanders’ column, the New York Times reported that
top Democrats are preparing to work with Republicans in removing all remaining
restraints on banks imposed after the 2008 crash.
Perhaps most significantly, Sanders says nothing about the growing
danger of imperialist world war, one that would be waged with nuclear weapons.
He makes no reference to North Korea, Iran, Syria and other global hotspots, or
to the record of the Democratic Party under Obama in bombing Libya, escalating
the war in Afghanistan and making drone warfare a staple of American foreign
policy. “Military” is another word that makes no appearance in his Guardian column, because
Sanders is a supporter of American imperialism.
The last thing Sanders wants to see is a mass anti-imperialist and
anti-capitalist movement among working people in the United States and
worldwide. That is why he begins his column with a dismissal of “revolutions,”
which he claims haven’t changed anything. This year has already seen
significant manifestations of working class anger, including demonstrations and
strikes in Iran, Greece, Tunisia, Germany and India. The American ruling class
is well aware of the substantial growth of left-wing sentiment and desperate to
direct it away from revolutionary politics.
Hence the passive and anemic character of his calls to “action.”
He implores, “Let’s wrench power back from the billionaires.” No, there should no longer be billionaires. The
international working class must overthrow the ruling class and expropriate its
wealth. The giant corporations and banks must be transformed into public
utilities owned and democratically controlled by the entire population, not a
handful of super-rich individuals.
Sanders epitomizes the type of political fraud long associated
with Democratic Party politics, combining hollow “progressive” rhetoric with
pro-capitalist politics. Only Sanders makes previous figures in this tradition
look like revolutionaries. All those who promoted his socialist and left-wing
credentials—Jacobin and
the Nation magazines,
the Democratic Socialists of America, the International Socialist Organization,
Socialist Alternative—are complicit in this fraud.
A genuine movement against social inequality must be based on the
only social force that is unalterably opposed, by its position in society, to
the profit system: the international working class. The World Socialist Web Site has
every confidence in the growth of a worldwide movement of the working class
against capitalism and for socialism.
This movement must be politically educated in the struggle against
those who, in the guise of its “friends,” seek to administer political
sedatives to the working class.
Sanders: DREAMer Issue ‘One of the Great Moral Crises of Our Time’
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) stated that the treatment of DREAMers is “one of the great moral crises of our time” and allowing them to be subjected to deportation is “unspeakable.”
Sanders said, “I think I speak for the vast majority of members of the Democratic caucus, we’re not going to desert these young people. This, to my mind, is one of the great moral crises of our time. As you’ve indicated, these are young people who were raised in the United States. They’ve spent almost their whole lives here. They know no other country. And as a result of Trump’s precipitous action in September, when he rescinded the executive order that Obama established, these young people, if we do not get our act together, will be subjected to the possibility of deportation. This is unspeakable. It is unacceptable. When Trump rescinded the executive order, he said to Congress, you guys have got to fix it. We need legislation. Well, there have been some serious people, Democrats and Republicans, who have been working on a variety of ideas to fix it. And we cannot keep kicking this issue down the can. Trump started this crisis, we have got to resolve it, and we have got to stand with the DREAMers of this country.”
(h/t Grabien)
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