BLOG: YEP, HERE WE ARE!
"It decries “the intentional use of social media to spread misinformation,” i.e., exposures of the real conditions confronting working people in every country, as a challenge to “global governance.”
AMERICA’S SUICIDE:
PATHOLOGICAL
VIOLENCE, OPIOID ADDICTION, STAGGERING POVERTY, SOARING JOBLESSNESS FOR LEGALS
AND POVERTY FOR ALL….. While the rich only get SUPER RICH!
PRINCETON REPORT
American middle-class is addicted,
poor, jobless and suicidal…. Thank the corrupt government for surrendering our
borders to 40 million looting Mexicans and then handing the bills to middle
America?
“Fractures,
Fears and Failures:” World’s ruling elites stare into the abyss
18 January 2018
Next week will see some 2,500 bankers, hedge fund managers,
corporate CEOS, government officials and celebrities descend once again on the
Swiss Alpine resort of Davos for the World Economic Forum (WEF).
Paying $55,000 a head as the price of admission, one could well
assume that the representatives of the financial and corporate oligarchy drawn
to the annual meeting, and the lavish parties that accompany it, have a lot to
celebrate.
The Bloomberg Billionaires Index published last month established
that the fortunes of the world’s wealthiest 500 billionaires—many of whom will
be in attendance—rose 23 percent over the past year, making them $1 trillion
richer than at the end of 2016. And the obscene amounts of wealth keep rolling
in, with the Dow closing at 26,000 Wednesday, recording its fastest ever
1,000-point rise.
Yet the principal report issued as the basis for the four days of
meetings and closed-door discussions presents a picture of a global ruling
elite living in mortal fear that growing economic and social crises, and, above
all, the threat of world war and social revolution, may rob them of not only
their fortunes, but their heads as well.
Titled “Fractures, Fears and Failures,” the WEF’s 2018 Global
Risks Report includes subheads such as “Grim Reaping,” “The Death of Trade,”
“Democracy Buckles,” “Precision Extinction”, “Into the Abyss”, “Fears of
Ecological Armageddon” and “War without Rules.”
The report was drafted in conjunction with a survey conducted
among nearly 1,000 banking and business executives, government officials and
academics, which found that 93 percent of them feared a worsening of
confrontations between the major powers in 2018. Fully 79 percent foresaw a
heightened threat of a major “state-on-state” military conflict. The report cited
both the confrontation between the US and North Korea, which has created the
greatest threat of nuclear war since the height of the Cold War, and the
increasingly complex inter-state conflicts produced by Washington’s military
intervention in Iraq and Syria.
The fears of global war are well-founded. Last month, US President
Donald Trump presented his new National Security Strategy, targeting Russia and
China as “revisionist powers” standing in the way of the US assertion of global
hegemony, and outlining an aggressive first-strike nuclear war policy,
including against adversaries using conventional or cyber weapons.
This policy has been further fleshed out by a draft Nuclear
Strategic Posture document to be unveiled by Trump later this month calling for
the development of new smaller and more “usable” nuclear weapons for deployment
on battlefields in Eastern Europe and Asia, making a full-scale global
conflagration all the more likely.
This year’s gathering at Davos—sealed off and surrounded, as
always, by thousands of troops and police—will be overshadowed by the
attendance of Trump, the first US president to make an appearance since Bill
Clinton 18 years ago. Aides indicate that Trump intends to deliver his standard
“America First” tirade to the final session of the gathering.
While Trump’s speech may provide a particularly crude rebuff to
the official slogan of this year’s forum— “Creating a Shared Future in a
Fractured World” —it will constitute only one of the more noxious symptoms of
the unraveling of the entire previous framework for international economy and
politics under the impact of capitalism’s deepening contradictions and the
incapacity of the various rival capitalist state to create a new “shared
future” or mend the world’s fractures.
The contents of the WEF risk report point to the deep and
insoluble character of the crisis gripping global capitalism.
The document states that while “headline economic indicators,”
i.e., the soaring rise in share prices that have fattened the portfolios of the
Davos attendees, are positive, this only “masks continuing underlying
concerns.”
“This has been the weakest post-recession recovery on record,” the
report states, adding, “Productivity growth remains puzzlingly weak.”
BLOG: THE BANKSTERS ALREADY HAVE THEIR NEXT BOTTOMLESS BAILOUTS EARMARKED!
The world capitalist economy, it continues, is beset by
“unsustainable asset prices, with the world now eight years into a bull run;
elevated indebtedness ... and continuing strains in the global financial
system.”
In a section titled “Into the Abyss,” the document warns: “Against
a backdrop of domestic and international political strife—and with economic
policy-makers already operating in uncharted territory—the eruption of another
global financial crisis could overwhelm political and policy responses. A
systemic collapse of the sort that was averted in 2007-2008 could push
countries, regions or even the whole world over the edge and into a period of
chaos.”
In addition to “rising military tensions,” “military buildups,”
“proxy conflicts” and multiple “flashpoints” threatening war, the document points
to the danger of rising social tensions within every capitalist country.
BLOG: THE ENTIRE REASON AMERICA'S BORDERS ARE LEFT WIDE OPEN AND BILLIONS FOR WELFARE ARE HANDED OVER TO ILLEGALS IS TO KEEP THE HORDES COMING TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED!
“In many countries the social and political fabric has been badly
frayed by many years of stagnating real incomes,” it states, pointing to
figures illustrating decelerating wages and rapidly rising social inequality.
“High levels of personal debt, coupled with inadequate savings and
pension provisions, are one reason to expect that frustrations may deepen in
the years ahead,” the report states.
It also recalls the 2014 WEF Global Risk Report’s warning that one
of the world’s greatest threats was a level of youth unemployment so high that
it threatened to create a “lost generation.” The report notes dryly that in the
four years since, this level has remained “broadly static.” It warns that with
so many millions of young people without work, “generational clashes over
fiscal and labour-market policies” may erupt.
Concern over explosive social divisions is coupled with a worried
section dealing with the Internet, headlined “Digital Wildfires”. It decries
“the intentional use of social media to spread misinformation,” i.e., exposures
of the real conditions confronting working people in every country, as a
challenge to “global governance.” The report welcomes measures taken by Google
and Facebook, as well as governments, to crack down on the “disruptiveness of
online misinformation” through outright censorship.
The political conclusions drawn by the report are particularly
stark:
“Democracy is already showing signs of strain in the face of
economic, cultural and technological disruption. Much deeper damage is
possible: social and political orders can break down. If an evenly divided
country sees polarized positions harden into a winner-takes-all contest, the
risk increases of political debate giving way to forms of secession or physical
confrontation. In these circumstances, a tipping point could be reached. A
spiral of violence could begin, particularly if public authorities lost control
and then intervened on one side with disproportionate force. In some
countries—with widespread ready access to weapons or a history of political
violence—armed civil conflict could erupt. In others, the state might impose
its will by force, risking long reverberating consequences: a state
of emergency, the curtailment of civil liberties, even the cancellation of
elections to protect public order.”
In other words, the world’s financial oligarchy is assembling in
the exclusive and scenic Alpine resort of Davos to hold a frank discussion on
the prospects for a new world war, the eruption of social contradictions into
civil wars and the imposition of police state dictatorships.
What is described in the WEF report are conditions already
emerging in the United States and every major capitalist country.
In 1938, on the eve of the Second World War, Leon Trotsky wrote of
a capitalist ruling class that “toboggans with closed eyes toward an economic
and military catastrophe.” While the WEF risk report suggests that at least
some elements of today’s ruling elite see the catastrophe on the horizon, they
are as powerless as their forebears of 80 years ago to prevent it.
This places the greatest urgency upon the working class
formulating its own independent strategic response to the global capitalist
crisis, based on the perspective of uniting workers of every country in the
fight to reorganize society on socialist foundations.
Bill Van Auken
CALL IT OBAMA-CLINTONOMICS OR TRUMPERNOMICS FOR THE SUPER
RICH!
BOOK:…..TRAGIC!
THE DEATH GAP:
INEQUALITY IS KILLING AMERICA!
INEQUALITY IS KILLING AMERICA!
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.
Obama Quietly Erasing Borders (Article)
GET THIS BOOK!
Obamanomics: How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You and
Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, and
Union Bosses
BY TIMOTHY P CARNEY
Editorial Reviews
Obama Is Making You Poorer—But Who’s Getting Rich?
Goldman Sachs, GE, Pfizer, the United Auto Workers—the same
“special interests”
Barack Obama was supposed to chase from the temple—are profiting handsomely from
Obama’s Big Government policies that crush taxpayers, small businesses, and consumers.
In Obamanomics, investigative reporter Timothy P. Carney digs up the dirt the mainstream
media ignores and the White House wishes you wouldn’t see. Rather than Hope and
Change, Obama is delivering corporate socialism to America, all while claiming he’s
battling corporate America. It’s corporate welfare and regulatory robbery—it’s
Obamanomics.
Barack Obama was supposed to chase from the temple—are profiting handsomely from
Obama’s Big Government policies that crush taxpayers, small businesses, and consumers.
In Obamanomics, investigative reporter Timothy P. Carney digs up the dirt the mainstream
media ignores and the White House wishes you wouldn’t see. Rather than Hope and
Change, Obama is delivering corporate socialism to America, all while claiming he’s
battling corporate America. It’s corporate welfare and regulatory robbery—it’s
Obamanomics.
WHAT DID THE BANKSTERS KNOW ABOUT OUR ACTOR OBAMA THAT WE DIDN’T
KNOW?
Records show that four out of Obama's top five contributors are
employees of financial industry giants - Goldman Sachs ($571,330), UBS AG
($364,806), JPMorgan Chase ($362,207) and Citigroup ($358,054).
BY DAVID SALTONSTALL
DAILY NEWS SENIOR CORRESPONDENT
Wall Street firms have chipped in more than $9 million to Barack
Obama. Zurga/Bloomberg
Wall Street is investing heavily in Barack Obama.
Although the Democratic presidential hopeful has vowed to
raise capital gains and corporate taxes, financial industry bigs have
contributed almost twice as much to Obama as to GOP rival John McCain, a Daily
News analysis of campaign records shows.
“The administration has been pushing hard for a settlement among
state attorneys general, the nation's five largest mortgage servicers
— Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Wells Fargo &
Co., Citigroup Inc. and Ally Financial Inc. — and certain federal
agencies.”
state attorneys general, the nation's five largest mortgage servicers
— Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Wells Fargo &
Co., Citigroup Inc. and Ally Financial Inc. — and certain federal
agencies.”
OBAMA’S CRONY CAPITALISM, A LOVE STORY BETWEEN THE ACTOR
PRESIDENT, AND HIS BANKSTER DONORS!
Records show that four out of Obama's top five contributors
are employees of financial industry giants -Goldman Sachs
($571,330), UBS AG ($364,806), JPMorgan Chase ($362,207)
and Citigroup ($358,054).
AMERICAN POVERTY and the LA RAZA
MEXICAN WELFARE STATE on AMERICA’S
BACKS.
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
THE MANY CRIMINAL
LIVES OF BARACK OBAMA AND HILLARY CLINTON
The thuggishness of
Barack was clear early on. There was his land deal, wherein he enriched
himself with Tony Rezko in Chicago. All his political wins came by
nefariously taking out his political opponents rather than beating them fairly
in the arena of ideas. Everyone should have known.
STAGNANT WAGES and
the Dem Party’s obsession with open borders, amnesty and no damned legal need
apply!
THE LA RAZA
SUPREMACY PARTY for OPEN BORDERS, AMNESTY, NON-ENFORCEMENT, NO E-VERIFY and no
Legal need apply!!!
The Democratic Party used to
be the party of blue collar America- supporting laws
and policies that benefited that segment of the U.S. population. Their
leaders may still claim to be advocates for American working families, however
their duplicitous actions that betray American workers and their families,
while undermining national security and public safety, provide clear and
incontrovertible evidence of their lies…. MICHAEL CUTLER …FRONTPAGE mag
VIDEO:
THIS AMERICAN LIFE
NPR PROGRAM ON
AMERICA UNDER LA RAZA OCCUPATION – GRIM!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/12/american-life-america-under-mexican.html
We spent eight months and did over a hundred interviews to try to bypass the usual rhetoric and get to the bottom of what really happened when undocumented workers showed up in one Alabama town. Pictured: Albertville “Miss Chick” 1954.
“Open border advocates, such as
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, claim illegal aliens are a net benefit to
California with little evidence to support such an assertion. As the CIS has
documented, the vast majority of illegals are poor, uneducated, and with few
skills. How does accepting millions of illegal aliens and then granting them
access to dozens of welfare programs benefit California’s economy? If illegals
were contributing to the economy in any meaningful way, CA, with its 2.6
million illegals, would be booming.” STEVE BALDWIN – AMERICAN SPECTATOR
THE LEGACY OF A LOOTER:
THE BARACK OBAMA STORY
"Obama is no fool and he understands -- having
encouraged Black Lives Matter and the war on police and law enforcement, having
facilitated ballooning welfare rolls and doubling student debt to $1.35
trillion, having presided over a flood of immigrants illegally crossing the
southern border, and having pushed unprecedented deficit spending that added
nearly a trillion dollars annually to the federal debt and doubling that debt
in eight years to $20 trillion -- that the U.S. is nearer collapse than at any
previous time. And every Marxist knows that socialist transformation first
requires collapse of the old order."
BARACK OBAMA and
ERICK HOLDER:
BUILDING OBAMA’S MUSLIM-STYLE DICTATORSHIP requires destroying white middle class first. BLACKS HAVE ALREADY SELF-DESTRUCTED!
BUILDING OBAMA’S MUSLIM-STYLE DICTATORSHIP requires destroying white middle class first. BLACKS HAVE ALREADY SELF-DESTRUCTED!
TRUMP’S TAX BILL:
A massive tax cut
for his plundering Goldman Sachs infested administration.
TRUMP’S SECRET
AMNESTY, WIDER OPEN BORDERS DOCTRINE TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED.
"During the same month that Schlafly had backed Trump for his “America First” agenda, Nielsen’s committee released an ideologically-globalist report, promoting
the European migrant crisis as a win for big business who would profit greatly from a never-ending stream of cheap, foreign migrants."
AMERICA: ONE PAYCHECK AND TWO
ILLEGALS AWAY FROM HOMELESSNESS!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/12/rick-moran-los-angeles-mexicos-second.html
A dashcam video of downtown Los Angeles on
Christmas day reveals a stunning sight: hundreds of tents and lean-tos on the
sidewalks that serve as shelter for the homeless. The scene is reminiscent of a
third-world country. RICK MORAN / AMERICANTHINKER
com
HOMELESS CRISIS IN LOS ANGELES, MEXICO’S SECOND LARGEST CITY, WORSENS BY THE DAY….Approximates the great depression
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/11/homeless-crisis-in-mexicos-second.html
93% of the murders in Los Angeles are by
Mexicans
HOMELESS AMERICA’S HOUSING CRISIS as 40
million illegals have climbed U.S. open borders.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/12/homeless-in-america-hundreds-of.html
EVERY AMERICAN (Legal) only one paycheck and
two illegals away from living in their cars.
Trump promises Wall Street, the Plundering U.S.
Chamber of Corporate Fascist, Mexico and voting illegals:
THE WAR ON AMERICA’S
MIDDLE-CLASS waged by D.C., U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the La Raza Fascist Party
and Mexico!
The Washington-imposed economic policy of mass-immigration floods the market with foreign labor and spikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for manual
and skilled labor offered by blue-collar and white-collar employees. It also
drives up real estate prices, widens wealth-gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, pushes
Americans away from high-tech careers, and
sidelines at least 5 million marginalized Americans and their families,
including many who are now struggling with OPIOID ADDICTIONS opioid addictions. NEIL MUNRO
OBAMA’S INVASION OF ILLEGALS IS WORKING!
They’re already signed up to vote LA RAZA
SUPREMACY DEM!
“According to Immigration and Customers
Enforcement data first obtained by the Associated Press this week, about 70
percent of the 40,000 migrant family members arrested at the border since May
did not follow up their arrest with a necessary visit to an immigration
office.”
OPIOID ADDICTION
IN AMERICA:
OBAMA AND HIS
CRONIES IN BIG PHARMA AT WORK!
WILL SWAMP
KEEPER TRUMP LEAVE WILLINGLY or be dragged away?
WILL OBAMA’S
PLAN TO RETURN FOR A THIRD TERM FOR LIFE MATERIALIZE?
DEATH OF THE AMERICAN MIDDLE-CLASS AND THE STAGGERING
COST OF MEXICO’S WELFARE STATE AND CRIME TIDAL WAVE ON AMERICAN BACKS.
"But
what the Clintons do is criminal because they do it wholly at the expense of
the American people. And they feel thoroughly entitled to do it: gain power,
use it to enrich themselves and their friends. They are amoral, immoral, and
venal. Hillary has no core beliefs beyond power and money. That should be clear
to every person on the planet by now."
---- Patricia McCarthy -
AMERICANTHINKER.com
"The tax overhaul would mean an
unprecedented windfall for the super-rich, on top
of the fact that virtually all income gains
during the period of the supposed
THE DEVASTATING COST
OF MEXICO’S WELFARE STATE IN AMERICA’S OPEN BORDERS
Will Trump’s Amnesty double
these figures?
TRUMPERNOMICS: THE
SUPER RICH APPLAUD TWITTER’S TAX PLAN!
"The tax overhaul would mean an
unprecedented windfall for the super-rich, on top
of the fact that virtually all income gains
during the period of the supposed
recovery from the financial crash of 2008 have gone to the top 1 percent income bracket."
THE WATERS ROSE AND CIVIL WAR II COMMENCED.
AMERICA UNRAVELS:
Millions of children go hungry as the super- rich gorge themselves
and ILLEGALS SUCK IN BILLIONS IN WELFARE!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/08/america-unravels-millions-of-children.html
JAMES WALSH
THE OBAMA HISPANICAZATION of AMERICA
THE DIRTY DEALS of DIRTY HILLARY….. looting
anything that moves!
UNDERWAY:
THE OBAMA COUP FOR A THIRD TERM FOR LIFE… for 8 years he laid the ground-works
for his Muslim-style dictatorship.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/08/seth-barron-obama-and-building-of.html
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/08/did-barack-obama-start-charlottesville.html
HOUSTON: ONLY THE POOR DROWN IN THIS COUNTRY!
THE HOUSTON FLOOD -
CRONY CAPITALIST LICK THEIR LIPS OVER REBUILDING.... FIRST, LIKE
KATRINA, CUT WAGES AND INVITE HORDES MORE ILLEGALS IN TO WORK CHEAP!
"Like
Katrina, Hurricane Harvey has lifted the lid on the ugly reality of
American society, exposing colossal levels of social
inequality, pervasive poverty and ruling class criminality."
"The reason why these warnings have been
ignored is not hard to fathom. They have been resolutely opposed by
corporate interests, including the real estate industry, Wall Street and
Big Oil. Their ability, operating through bribed politicians of both
parties, to veto and block elementary measures to protect the American
people, exemplifies the complete subordination of all social needs
under capitalism to the selfish drive of a corporate-financial oligarchy
to accumulate ever greater levels of personal wealth and profit."
WALL STREET TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE: DIE YOUNG…
your company pension dies with you!
OPIOID AND ALCOHOL ADDICTION KILLS OF MIDDLE
AMERICA
SOARING
POVERTY AND DRUG ADDICTION UNDER OBAMA
"These
figures present a scathing indictment of the social order that prevails in America,
the world’s wealthiest country, whose government proclaims itself to be the
globe’s leading democracy. They are just one manifestation of the human toll
taken by the vast and all-pervasive inequality and mass poverty.
AMERICA UNRAVELS:
Millions of children go hungry as the super- rich gorge themselves
and ILLEGALS SUCK IN BILLIONS IN WELFARE!
"The top 10 percent of Americans now own roughly three-quarters of all household wealth."
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/08/america-unravels-millions-of-children.html
"While
telling workers there is “not enough money” for wage increases, or to fund
social programs, both parties hailed the recent construction of the U.S.S.
Gerald Ford, a massive aircraft carrier that cost $13 billion to build,
stuffing the pockets of numerous contractors and war profiteers."
JAMES WALSH
THE OBAMA HISPANICAZATION of AMERICA
How the Democrat party
surrendered America to Mexico:
“The
watchdogs at Judicial Watch discovered documents that reveal how the Obama
administration's close coordination with the Mexican government entices
Mexicans to hop over the fence and on to the American dole.” Washington
Times
“The cost
of the Dream Act is far bigger than the Democrats or their media allies admit.
Instead of covering 690,000 younger illegals now enrolled in former President
Barack Obama’s 2012 “DACA” amnesty, the Dream Act would legalize at least 3.3 million
illegals,
according to a pro-immigration group, the Migration Policy Institute.”
BARACK OBAMA:
THE PSYCHOPATH WHO WOULD BE DICTATOR FUNDED BY
HIS
CRIMINAL CRONY BANKSTERS AND REELECTED FOR A
THIRD TERM BY
MEXICO
MICHAEL BARONE:
The Lawlessness of the Obama Administration: A
never-ending story
SOARING POVERTY AND DRUG ADDICTION UNDER
OBAMA
"These figures present a scathing
indictment of the social order that prevails in America, the world’s wealthiest
country, whose government proclaims itself to be the globe’s leading democracy.
They are just one manifestation of the human toll taken by the vast and
all-pervasive inequality and mass poverty.
Harvey Weinstein has been exposed in the
media as the sexual predator he is, and Hillary
Clinton has been exposed as the craven money-grubber she is; money over
morality is the mantra she lives by. PATRICIA Mc CARTHY – AMERICAN THINKERcom
"But
what the Clintons do is criminal because they do it wholly at the expense of
the American people. And they feel thoroughly entitled to do it: gain power,
use it to enrich themselves and their friends. They are amoral, immoral, and
venal. Hillary has no core beliefs beyond power and money. That should be clear
to every person on the planet by now."
---- Patricia McCarthy -
AMERICANTHINKER.com
UNDERWAY:
THE OBAMA COUP FOR A THIRD TERM FOR LIFE… for 8 years he laid the ground-works
for his Muslim-style dictatorship.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/08/seth-barron-obama-and-building-of.html
“Obama’s
new home in Washington has been described as the “nerve center” of the
anti-Trump opposition. Former attorney general Eric Holder has said
that Obama is “ready to roll” and has aligned himself with the
“resistance.” Former high-level Obama campaign staffers now work with a
variety of groups organizing direct action against
Trump’s initiatives. “Resistance School,” for example, features
lectures by former campaign executive Sara El-Amine, author of the Obama Organizing .”
THE OBAMA COUP: IT STARTED IN CHARLOTTESVILLE
"We
know that Obama and his inner circle have set up a war room in his D.C.
home to
plan and execute resistance to the Trump administration and his
legislative
agenda.
None of these people care about the American people, or the fact that
Trump won
the election because millions of people voted for him."
Patricia
McCarthy / AMERICAN THINKER.com
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/08/did-barack-obama-start-charlottesville.html
"Cold War historian Paul Kengor
goes deeply into Obama's communist background in an article in
American Spectator, "Our First Red Diaper Baby President," and in an
excellent Mark Levin interview. Another Kengor article describes the Chicago communists whose
younger generation include David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and Barack Hussein
Obama. Add the openly Marxist, pro-communist Ayers, and you have many of the key players who put Obama into
power." Karin
McQuillan
Bernie Sanders seeks to derail growing working class opposition to capitalism
17 January 2018
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.
AMERICAN POVERTY and the LA RAZA
MEXICAN
WELFARE STATE on AMERICA’S
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"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
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