Monday, August 29, 2016

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Robert Reich: After Trump
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Glynn Kalara said...

I see no future of America's Left progressive movement and tRump's White Nationalist populist movement) ever getting together. The two are flip sides of each other and although they might seem to share some similar goals they are world's apart culturally and emotionally. Reich is wrong about them ever coming together. It's more likely tRump with go on to smash apart the GOP and widen the gap between it's base and it's donor class. On the Progressive side of the Dem. party it's likely the Clinton's will purge this group from any ruling coalition. Of course that will leave a mass of issues unresolved, but they aren't concerned because they'll make sure the GOP holds onto the House so they have a firewall there they can blame for why their hands are tied on domestic issues. They'll use that same majority though with a Corp. Dem. Senate majority to do whatever they need to do to enrich the already unbelievably rich and wage whatever Imperial wars they want to fight, so nothing much will change. Unless, parts of the economy collapse ( like the already bloated greedy and massive Health Ins. monopolies et al. Even then the Clinton's are neo-Liberals and will IMO never allow a single payer system to appear or even a public option. The sad truth is the Clinton's couldn't care less about the health of the American public or what's left of it's middle class. So, pressure from below will build and build. Still it will only be allowed to express from the right. This will open the door for another rightist insurgency in 2020. This time they'll pick a better candidate and maybe win.

11:12 AM
Jim Sande said...

Perhaps we are about to have a three party system. The alt-right, the neo-liberal GOP, and the Green/Bernies. It strikes me that Cinton is consolidating the middle, moderate/establishment/donor GOP, and moderate liberals. The fringes of her party will drift in and out of the left and right as it is doing now to a certain degree. But, the country is changing, cities are liberal, rural areas remain deeply conservative and evangelical. And white people are about to become the minority. I still favor a two state solution.

1:20 PM

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