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BC Idonwanna sez: After another recess! |
An important factor that saves the racist minority party from complete dissolution is the fecklessness of their opposition. Responsibility for the mixed messages issued about impeaching the
obviously disordered chief executive is with the Democrat leadership led by the crypto-plutocrat, Nancy Pelosi. Therein lies the rub. All of Washington's governing elites belong to the same class, and rule number one of that club is to not rock the boat in which their fortunes float. Sure Chairman Nadler finally held a vote and can
legitimately call his committee's dithering an impeachment inquiry, but even then über insider Steny Hoyer tried to deny the inquiry's existence. Make no mistake, the extremist regime in power
will stop at nothing to block the inquiry from any further progress in uncovering the whole truth.
Impeachment is a bad word around the House, despite 137 Democrats publicly supporting the process of sending The Malignant One to trial. Pelosi is putting all of her
eggs in the election basket--a clear mistake if the party establishment
puts 'Gramps' Biden at the head of its ticket, which it will, unless the party's left unites behind Sanders and Warren at a brokered convention. The question the convention will face is whether it will put country before party by turning against the political elites (aka "superdelegates") and the reactionary corporate media which control the process.
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Wackydoodle sez: Y'al got a license for that weapon? |
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US Person does not suffer from "low T" and he is not a "small dude", so he dares offer this suggestion: to save democracy from fascist
creep¹, Sanders and Warren must cut a deal to share the next eight year administration. Sanders serves first on the condition that he will not seek a second term, but backs Vice President Warren to serve a progressive second term in which Sanders serves as Vice President if he so desires. Sanders has much more
legislative experience that he remembers than Warren². All the leading Democrat contenders poll ahead of the despicable clown in office; electabiity debates are therefore diversionary. This pact will provide the necessary political continuity to undertake fundamental progressive reform. It may help to remeber that FDR had three terms in office. Warren may be cool to this suggestion now because she is playing her cards to option a second to Biden, as she demonstrated in the debate last night, but then
US Person never believed the turncoat Repugnant was authentic. Just look at her genome.
¹"The non-fascist ethnocentric populism of the far right is crucial in the
fascistization process. In the US, this has involved Willis Carto
promoting the ideas of global racial apartheid in the Right journal and
working with white and Black nationalists to oppose the supposed common
enemy of Zionism. The resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan under David Duke’s
leadership, accelerating settler-colonial fantasies about creating a
“white homeland” in the Pacific Northwest, and the emergence of the
neo-Nazi “Order” terrorist group represent other important historical
examples of the cross-over between the far right and fascism in the US.
Moreover, the Patriot and Minutemen movements--allies to Pat Buchanan,
the Tea Party and Trump--are strongly tied to the idea of private
property, while the collaboration of the “Chicago School” of market
fanatics with Augusto Pinochet’s fascism is well known", writes Reed Ross in his book, Against the Fascist Creep.
²Sanders is soft on the filibuster rule. When pressed, he refuses to consider eliminating the rule suggested by Burr, saying he does not want to turn the Senate into the House of Representatives. He has served in both, and one can appreciate the need for a more deliberative body inclined toward larger majorities than one. He also says he would use the budget reconciliation process--a cumbersome process at best--to work around the 60 vote majority now needed to pass any legislation and permits rank obstructionists like Moscow Mitch to shut down Congress. It is clear the current rule cannot stand as practiced in the Senate if progressive reform is to succeed.
