The worst part is they’re often just left of center. They’re not extreme, they’re not radical. This is the bare fucking minimum!
This is the first time I've ever seen a post that correctly characterizes American Politics on the Left/Right scale.
There is no Left in American Politics. Those of us actually on the Left are dismissed as extremists while extreme Right-Wing Fascists are barely ever denounced by one of the two major Political Parties.
Oh wait...
Nevermind..
I thought I was about to tear up but it was just a burp
She’s doing a great job
I mean getting the government running is a priority RN. I’m sure Dems will get to it in time
Like they got around to closing Gitmo right?
the bill wasnt to fund ICE by itself the bill was to FUND THE GOVERNMENT PERIOD. Like seriously voting no to stop funding the government specifically to stop ICE from being funded is 1. not actually going to deal with the problem of abolishing ICE and 2. Only will continue to harm those who are affected by the shutdown. Like those whos families need the welfare programs that the bill voted to fund?? If we want to abolish ICE you dont do that by just saying ‘hi i vote to stop funding it’ once?? it takes LEGISLATION and WORK. Not just voting on one bill that isnt even focused on the issue at hand.
this is such a bullshit outrage piece and yall keep falling for it. incredible.
So now it's okay to fund Fascist institutions like ICE because you're funding the government?
And how have these "necessity" votes worked out for the Left lately?
The fact is the whole point of these giant funding bills are to neuter the left and right wing members of both Parties.
It's designed to insure the stability of the interests of Capital. NOT to insure stability of programs to help workers, the poor or retirees. Those issues are incidental the purpose of Omnibus spending packages. By including these minimal programs in the spending bill, Democratic Party leadership can use this to clobber any opposition to Fascistic institutions, deregulatory measures, cuts to social programs and increases to Military spending on Defense Contractors, weapons deals, illegal occupations, surveillance programs, oil and gas interests and the continual greasing of the gears of the US Imperialist war machine and the Bourgeois Capitalist speculators who profit endlessly of it.
No. It is not okay to fund US Imperialism and death for profit just to poorly fund a handful of meager programs to "help the poor" that are also used to create artificial profits for the Bourgeoisie.
At best this is simple political opportunism or ignorance, at worst a sinister ploy to co-opt the Socialist Movement.
We have to hold our political leaders accountable and make it clear that votes like this are absolutely UNACCEPTABLE, whether we're talking about AOC, Rashiada Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley or Ilhan Ohmar. We cannot afford to put the blinders on just because we personally like the politician in question and whether or not they call themslves "Progressives" or "Democratic Socialists".
In fact, that's an even BIGGER reason to hold them to account for their actions, words and votes.
Just because a person calls themselves a Democratic Socialist or a Progressive doesn't mean they should get a free pass.
If we're going to make an attempt at Reformism (and I'm absolutely cynical about the chances of even the most meager successes of this strategy and the general strategy of the DSA and the Working Families Party) than its only chance of success requires the constant pressure of and holding accountable by our Working Class comrades and the wider Proletariat.
I'm a true believer in Revolutionary Scientific Socialism. I'm a Marxist, a Leninist, a Trotskyist, an internationalist, and a Communist.
Political opportunism and Reformism is NOT going to win this war against the Bourgeoisie. Only a revolution led by the Proletarian masses, a true Working Class Movement that follows a Socialist Program and installs a dictatorship of the Proletariat is going to achieve a true Worker's Democracy and create a society, economy and government based on the principals of equality, anti-racism, anti-sexism, anti-Islamaphobia, anti-homophobia, anti-transphobia, anti-xenophobia, and anti-bigotry.
THAT is the ONLY road to Socialism. We need everyone who believes in freedom and equality for all to hit the streets and start organizing against the Bourgeoisie and against the institutions and tools of HATE that they use to divide us.
Hit the streets NOW! Organize, Unionize, join your local Revolutionary Socialist party, and protest in every way you can! Destroy Bourgeois Private Property! Default on your student loans! Refuse to be a part of the Capitalist System! Reject US Imperialism!
NO DEMOCRAT CAN SAVE US. ONLY WE CAN SAVE US. ONLY WE CAN SAVE OUR CENTRAL AMERICAN COMRADES. ONLY WE CAN SAVE OUR PLANET FROM THE DESTRUCTION WRAUGHT BY NEOLIBERAL CAPITALISM!
OUR POWER LIES IN OUR NUMBERS AND OUR REFUSAL TO GO ALONG WITH THE SYSTEM.
An excellent breakdown of Socialist politics without getting hung up on all the various Socialist terminology. If you're interested in Socialist, Progressive, or other Left Wing politics, understanding your goals is important for achieving them.
Socialism is such a loaded term that it's almost useless at this point. But understanding the goals you're working toward is far more important. This video nails it.
Proff. Richard Wolff breaks down the three most common goals people have in mind when they say Socialism and makes it much easier to understand for people new to the Left. So I thought this would be good to share with so many young people joining the ranks of American Left in calling for a transformation in the economy and government.
I hope someone out there finds this video helpful. I would've killed to have Richard Wolff's videos at my disposal when I was forming my politics. Instead I had to do endless amounts of research, reading books, magazines, newspapers, manifestos and wikipedia pages for years and years. I wouldn't wish all that wading through political garbage on anyone, lol.
Hope someone finds this helpful
Can Howard Shultz please just go away? 😣
The last thing we need in this country is another super rich Neoliberal Corporate shill running the country. One that doesn't even try pretending to be anything different. 😒
No matter what she says, that was no joke. Particularly not when Betsy DeVos has made it clear that she fully intends to accelerate the school-to-prison pipeline to incarcerate black children en masse. And Ms. Swearingen is very obviously, FULLY aware of what would likely happen to a black child if she made that false report to the police. Shanna Swearingen’s “joke” was barely more than a veiled death threat to special needs black children.
This was not just another racist educator, but a school principal. I feel sorry for the black children under her “supervision”. She obviously doesn’t think much of them, nor does she care about their safety.
This is America 🇺🇸
This is the hell out parents and grandparents built. Thanks folks.
Now if we don't vote in every election, local to federal, WE'LL own this mess!
“The roots of the recent escalation of the fiscal crisis of state and local governments in the United States lie in demands of capital on these governments in the corporate-initiated game of locational competition for the past three decades or so, as capital itself relocated and reorganized. Cities and states desperate for new investment or even to stave off plant closings, as older industries withered or moved and new ones scanned the field of spatial possibilities, have offered businesses a variety of tax breaks, exemptions, subsidies, and incentives that cost states and cities at least $50 billion a year by the early 200s. By 2012 a New York Times expose reported that “states, counties and cities are giving up more than $80 billion each year to companies” in incentives alone.”
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Ha! Try explaining that to most Liberals and their heads explode!
One has been despair. It’s easy to see in the Trump administration’s attacks on the most vulnerable in U.S. society–from undocumented immigrants to Muslims to women–and in the increased organizing by the far right, invigorated by Trump’s hateful policies, evidence that the U.S. is in bleak times, with more of them to come.
The other response has been solidarity–from the first weeks of Trump’s presidency, when people rushed to airports to protest his Muslim travel ban, to NFL players taking a knee to protest police brutality, to the #MeToo wave when women stepped forward to talk about their experiences of sexual assault and harassment.
Today, in the so-called “red states” that voted for Trump, we’re seeing another example of solidarity: Teachers walking out of the classroom to demand the wages and working conditions they deserve, and finding that there are educators in other states who are part of the same fight.
The wave of teachers’ strikes that have struck five states this spring–so far–contradicts just about everything we’re taught in the U.S.: that we and our families are on our own and in it for ourselves; that whether we starve or succeed is totally up to what we decide to make of ourselves.
As a rural Kentucky social studies teacher explained in an interview with SW, referring to the West Virginia teachers’ strike the month before: “Seeing how those school teachers could come together in solidarity was really awesome. It lets me know that it’s possible for thousands of people to come together for a common cause.”
This is an important point because the society we live in sets up some intimidating obstacles to workers concluding that they have shared interests or that they have a stake in one another’s liberation.
The obstacles include obvious forms of discrimination and bigotry, like racism or sexism or anti-LGBTQ prejudice. But the divisions sown among workers are even more extensive: the unemployed are pitted against the employed; young worker against those who are nearing retirement; low-wage workers who don’t have a union against higher-paid workers who do.
Ha! Lol, I remember that. Instead I went from a Liberal, to a Socialist, to an Anarcho Syndicalist
I love this
Do you stay up to date with current events and news on a national level? International/global? Why/Why not? If so, how?
I read news and politics constantly because I want to watch and learn how to cause the downfall of Neoliberal Capitalism, Private Property and Copyright Law
it’s easy, radical, and free!
Liberals need to learn that there is no satisfying the rich and still helping the lower classes. A "rising tide" does not lift all boats, not in a world of Climate Change and Neoliberal economic policies. GDP growth means nothing if working class wages aren't keeping up with, let alone exceeding inflation. You can't raise taxes 2 percent on the rich and expect change. Change will come when the lower classes of all races, genders, and sexual orientations unite in solidarity against the top 10% of richest classes worldwide. Otherwise the rich will always slowly erode wages, progressive policies and programs, and slowly erode liberal democracies the world over
