Spot on once again. House progressives got re-elected, including AOC, Pressley, Omar, Talib, and others like Greg Casar of TX, Summer Lee of PA, Delia Ramirez of IL. Keep reminding us to stay authentic
If I may suggest one thing, and if politics is somewhat similarly played on both sides of the pond, I'd say that we must consider the disturbing fact that Democrats and Republicans are just the same really when considering the class system: they will defend their class interests before democracy, before the good of the people, and before the good of the world.
In other words, a class analysis of the election might be interesting here. Not in the sense that capitalists voted one way while proletarians the other, but in the sense that capitalists have been using, used, and continue to use tools and artifices to manipulate the masses into maintaining the status quo with them in power (let's be real, Democrats or Republicans in the white house changes little for any elected official's life, think about it), with them in control of the country's direction (Democrats and liberals and progressive all only stop the crank wheel from turning more to the right, they never undo the right's changes ...).
What I'm saying is that the other -isms are but tools used by the capitalist elits to maintain control over society. That has been the name of the game since the debut of capitalism.
It has been the same throughout human history (10,000+ years since the start of agriculture and complex societies) but the names changed (feodalism, monarchy, tyranny, etc.). Fear of other in any form is always instrumentalized for control.
Why does that have to do with anything today? Racism (white supremacy more precisely) first and sexism (systemic patriarchy) second are the masters' tools to dismantle if we the people want to win one day.
Spot on once again. House progressives got re-elected, including AOC, Pressley, Omar, Talib, and others like Greg Casar of TX, Summer Lee of PA, Delia Ramirez of IL. Keep reminding us to stay authentic
Great points. Progressives did do well.
If I may suggest one thing, and if politics is somewhat similarly played on both sides of the pond, I'd say that we must consider the disturbing fact that Democrats and Republicans are just the same really when considering the class system: they will defend their class interests before democracy, before the good of the people, and before the good of the world.
In other words, a class analysis of the election might be interesting here. Not in the sense that capitalists voted one way while proletarians the other, but in the sense that capitalists have been using, used, and continue to use tools and artifices to manipulate the masses into maintaining the status quo with them in power (let's be real, Democrats or Republicans in the white house changes little for any elected official's life, think about it), with them in control of the country's direction (Democrats and liberals and progressive all only stop the crank wheel from turning more to the right, they never undo the right's changes ...).
What I'm saying is that the other -isms are but tools used by the capitalist elits to maintain control over society. That has been the name of the game since the debut of capitalism.
It has been the same throughout human history (10,000+ years since the start of agriculture and complex societies) but the names changed (feodalism, monarchy, tyranny, etc.). Fear of other in any form is always instrumentalized for control.
Why does that have to do with anything today? Racism (white supremacy more precisely) first and sexism (systemic patriarchy) second are the masters' tools to dismantle if we the people want to win one day.
So true.