Trump Wins, Cory Doctorow Has Cancer

Cory will be OK, but I'm worried about the USA.

If Trump accomplishes half of what he says he wants to accomplish, we're in big trouble.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/11/06/us-second-trump-term-threat-rights-us-world-0 President Trump vs human rights
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/05/carcinoma-angels/ from Cory about his cancer
https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5181315 The Dow Jones jumps over 1,300 points after Trump wins the election

This vindicates all the things I wrote about the Democrats screwing up, but that's small comfort now.

First the Democrats were the party of slavery.
Then they were the party of racial segregation.
Then, for a short time, they were the party of labor rights and black civil rights.
Then Bill Clinton took over, and they became, and still are, the US equivalent of Tony Blair's New Labour Party.

So what should progressives do? Migrate to the Green Party en masse? Start a new Progressive Party? Try to do to the leadership of the Democratic Party what Trump did to the Republicans?

I favor a new Progressive Party that would be built around the few real progressives in Congress. The new party should be a labor party. It should be a populist party, fighting the wealthy elite (Musk, Bezos, the mega-corporations, etc.). It should advocate buying locally produced products over imports. It should advocate more local production, especially of semiconductors and other items essential to economic survival. It should advocate international partnerships and treaties designed to end discrimination against certain ethnic and national groups (e.g., Russia should stop trying to end Ukraine, Israel should stop trying to end Palestine, Turkey should stop trying to end the Kurds, all former colonial empires should stop trying to "assimilate" indigenous people, etc.). It should stop attempts to worsen the on-going climate catastrophe. It should oppose government involvement in anything to do with sexuality and reproduction. It should oppose misogyny. Most of all, it should oppose rewarding greed.

Why did Trump win?

I would say, he appealed to blue collar workers more than the Democrats. Think about what that says about the Democrats.

He also appealed to misogynists who can't stand the idea of a female President. Why weren't we expecting this?

He appealed to all kinds of xenophobes, including racists and Christian Nationalists.

#election #politics #trump #democrats #democratic-party #xenophobia #misogyny #progressives #progressive-party #progressive-politics #ultra-wealthy #musk #bezos #racism #genocide #human-rights #christian-nationalism #conservatism

Progressives fear. That's it. They also fear a Biden candidacy.

♲ br00t4c - 2024-07-16 20:41:50 GMT

'It's over!' Progressives fear Trump's assassination attempt will win him the presidency#election #progressives

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-assassination-attempt-progressives-election-b2580856.html

Ariel Beery

Rallies by human rights and pro- #Palestinian activists around the world have called for an immediate ceasefire between #Israel and #Hamas. Many of those rallying have only good intentions at heart: they seek no more harm to innocents. They seek to protect the children of #Gaza, who have no responsibility for the crimes of members of their parents’ generation. They seek to mitigate the chances of an outbreak of a regional war that could cause further damage to even more innocents across Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt. They seek peace.

Seeing Israel as the stronger party, these well-intentioned activists have come to a simple conclusion: if only Israel stopped its military operations, a #ceasefire would emerge. #Hostages would eventually be returned. Lives would be saved. The problem is, as the leadership of the US and EU have already concluded, that is not #realistic. In past wars with Hamas, Israel has ceased fire and increased economic development for Gaza. Each time, Hamas used the time and money they siphoned off to build #weapons of war and aim those at both #Israelis and the #Palestinians who disagree with their #theocratic #dictatorship. Which is why the only way for the #Left, us #progressives, to live up to our morals and keep the high ground is to call for the immediate unconditional #surrender of Hamas.

Calling for the unconditional surrender of Hamas would prove that the Left cares about children of all countries, without ascribing to a hierarchy of human life. It avoids the moralistic laziness of publicly funded intellectuals such as Nicholas Kristof, among others, who essentially argue that a person planning to shoot you or your children has the same right to life as his victims. It avoids the abdication of responsibility by progressive leaders who forgive the war crimes of the party dedicated to carrying them out.(...)

Hamas depends on #international opinion far more than Israel. Hamas cannot exist without international aid, without international diplomatic air cover.

Those who care deeply about protecting the lives of #innocents need to think not just about today, but tomorrow.

Calling for a ceasefire would mean Israel #accepting a certain number of innocents dead by the hands of Hamas tomorrow in order to save innocent lives today. Calling for an alternative — for the unconditional surrender of Hamas — would solve this problem. Without Hamas in power, the threat to innocent lives on both sides drops precipitously. A ceasefire is made possible because the promise of future bloodshed is virtually eliminated.

There are those who would say that calling for Hamas’ unconditional surrender is unrealistic. That Hamas would not do it, and therefore the Left should focus on the only party who can be pressured by the international community: the democratic State of Israel. That, in my opinion, is worse than moralistic laziness. It is an abdication of morals, a cynical pragmatism that sacrifices Israeli innocent lives due to a lack of self-confidence that the Left should advocate for the truth. It is the path of least #resistance that leads towards the #victory of #evil over good.

Moreover, it is wrong. Because, again, Hamas depends on international opinion far more than Israel. Hamas cannot exist without international aid, without international diplomatic air cover. Without suitcases of cash coming from #Qatar with the active assistance of the #Netanyahu governments over the ages. If anyone can be influenced to stop the violence — if the Left’s progressive voice can have any impact whatsoever — it is by calling for the unconditional surrender of Hamas.

Because if Hamas emerged from its #bunkers, weapons down, hostages free, there would be no international justification for Israel to go to war, and Israel’s war aims would be met. Israelis who recognize now that there is no solution to the conflict that does not include a #political #transformation of the region would join with those #progressives who aided in freeing Gaza from Hamas to envision a new regional order. And there very well might just be peace
#antifa against #islamism #islamistic #clericalfascism and #antisemitism = #antizionism
https://jungle.world/blog/von-tunis-nach-teheran/2023/10/gaza-was-linke-auf-demonstrationen-fordern-sollten
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Hope for the future.

'Incapable of understanding the reality': Scott Walker’s meltdown about Gen Z voters blows up in his face

The tweets from Gen Z-ers at the end of the article are especially uplifting.

#ScottWalker #GenZ #Progressives #ConserrvativesAreFucked

https://www.rawstory.com/incapable-of-understanding-the-reality-scott-walkers-meltdown-about-gen-z-voters-blows-up-in-his-face-2659755586/

The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Kshama Sawant

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-chris-hedges-report-podcast-with-23b

The Democrats and Republicans both answer to the billionaires, that’s why #working #people keep getting screwed, she says. Even so-called #progressives in #Congress, she notes, have completely failed to fight against the #establishment, and offer no #solutions. #Sawant in her decade as a member of the #Seattle-city-council has an impressive track record. She helped win a $ #15-minimum-wage for #Seattle #workers, pushed the council to #tax #Amazon, and championed #renter #protection as the #Chair-of-the-Renters-and-Sustainability-Committee. She joined the #Socialist-Alternative-party in 2006.

#chrishedges #kshamasawant #podcast #interview #workers-strike-back #labor #unions #organization #movement #strikes

well, if these two are managed opposition shills buying trust, they're succesfully making a fairly large purchase here with me and those #healthy #rants.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/8ifPYY72bR6a/

"This _Deregulation is what makes this wealth transfer happen

• absolutely dont become a victim of fear-mongering
• rebuild community
• see through the deceptions that generate fragmentation
• rebuild innovatively for life and freedom
• better ideas, diversely
• become aware, eating well, eating good food, is the single most important ingredient to health
• grow food in the right way, and combine with this awareness of good food eaten well for health
• taking care
• love all people
• respect your butterfly wings, flap them well, in civildisobedience
• develop strategies to get rid of the robber barons
• acknowledge we dont have the luxury to be hopeless
• cultivate hope
• saveseeds
• grow your own food, know your farmer
• do what you can. help those who cant
• invigorate lived democracy for when electoral democracy fails us.
• remain hopeful

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Must see Beto's response.

https://twitter.com/donwinslow/status/1557555770203377665?s=20&t=9dJqoqO7JWivLLFsJ9oEZg

#youtube #video #politics #progressives

Economic Update ~ Noam Chomsky on Fragile US Empire

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=saE-OQlXtno
https://www.democracyatwork.info/eu_noam_chomsky_fragile_us_empire

#ProfWolff gives updates on #US #freight #workers #strike #preparations; #progressives and #labor targeting #municipal #government; #Chipotle #store-closing to stop #unionizing, and #OccupyWallStreet's " #Debt-Collective" $5.8 billion #student-loan-forgiveness #win. In the second half of the show, Prof. Wolff #interviews #NoamChomsky on the #decline and #fragility of the #US #empire, the role of US #military and the rise of #fascism as a coping mechanism.

#economic #update #prof #richardwolff #rdwolff #wolff #chomsky #fragile #audio

AOC & Noam Chomsky: The Way Forward

*In this historic, inter-generational meeting of minds, Laura Flanders brings together New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and MIT professor emeritus Noam Chomsky—for the first time ever—to discuss the way forward for people, politics, and the planet. From labor strikes to racial uprisings to climate action to the Great Resignation, they reflect on the renewed power of collective organizing and the changing tide in economic thinking and electoral politics. Their insights demand that we think differently about everything from our nation’s history and its place in the world, to who can run for office in America and win. In their first face-to-face conversation, the mutual admiration is palpable. Laura closes with some thoughts on thinking the unthinkable. *

“We’re now having one of the major strikes in American history when workers are simply saying, ‘We're not gonna go back to the rotten, oppressive jobs, or precarious circumstances, with no health[care].’ The one-sided class war of the last 40 years is becoming two-sided…” —Noam Chomsky

“There are already communities actively experimenting and developing solutions… What I work on is not how we find solutions but how we scale [them] to transform our society.” —AOC

GUESTS
Noam Chomsky, Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, U.S. Representative, NY-14th District

CONTENT
Introduction 0:00
Changing Tide & Alternatives to Capitalist System 2:11
Addressing White Supremacy 9:00
Prospects for a Green New Deal 12:06
Popular Activism & Politics 15:27
The Progressive Agenda & The Way Forward 17:12
Laura's Closing Commentary 24:19

CREDITS
Executive Producer: Laura Flanders
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● NEWS ● #TruthOut ☞ #Progressives Unite as Conservative #Democrats Continue to Sabotage #Biden Agenda https://truthout.org/articles/progressives-unite-as-conservative-democrats-continue-to-sabotage-biden-agenda/

What this ProPublica piece fails to reveal is that Chicago is keeping those 20 Libraries open because it’s cheaper than what it would cost to house Chicago's 16,451 registered homeless students, about 4.5 percent of its student body

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Homeless children have no internet access. That means they will be prevented from taking part in the Chicago Public School's online study program during the elongated school closings due to COVID-19.   

As if those kids didn’t have it bad enough already.  So Chicago’s mayor, Lori Lightfoot, is doing what she can to help those kids by keeping those 20 Libraries open. Everything is not always black and white.
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ProPublica should have delved a little deeper to understand that during last fall's Chicago Teachers Union Strike, one of the teacher’s main demands was for the Chicago to provide housing for these deeply disadvantaged students. Mayor Lightfoot refused. It was because she had to negotiate where she could within budget constraints. Again, everything is not always black and white. Shame on you, ProPublica.

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Here’s where having a Democrat in the Oval Office and a democrat-heavy Senate and House would make a world of difference. Instead of giving tax cuts to the 1% and multi billion dollar corporations, we could be helping cities like Chicago tackle this travesty of so many children being denied a chance at life.

No, we do not need a revolution to fix this. All we need is sane, humane people in key positions of government who do the right thing while keeping an eye on a balanced budget …. so we can keep doing the right thing.

Bernie helped ensure Hillary’s electoral defeat in 2016 and that is why things are as bad as they are today. Now, many of Bernie’s people are saying that they refuse to vote for Biden because they are furious, AGAIN, that Bernie isn’t going to be the nominee. If that happens, AGAIN, it will be on the shoulders of those immature, self-serving Bernie supporters that those homeless children in Chicago (and other cities) will remain homeless forever. Those who repeat 2016 had better not think for a minute that anyone is going to buy their lies about caring about people. Once was enough. Twice would be an insult to intelligence. If Sanders allows his followers to pull the same stunt, his name will be remembered in infamy. And he will deserve every trashing he gets from every historian who mentions his name. So will the generation who helped him. They will be remembered as the antithesis of "The Greatest Generation.”

#mywork #socialism #socialists #capitalism #dissent #Politics #Democrats #Election2020 #Warren #Sanders #FauxDisagreement #AmericaHatesProgressives #progressives #centrist #FollowTheMoney #DSA #Democrats #Liberals #gop #diaspora #friendica #USpolitics #Bernie2020 #FightThePower #election2020 ShelennAyres @Shelenn Ayres
https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-public-libraries-are-staying-open-even-though-librarians-say-it-is-not-safe