The ERA is a proposed constitutional amendment beyond the powers of a president to enact, but you’re absolutely right that Biden is trash and that his administration has been a colossal failure. I’ve seen organizations call on Biden to “publish” the ERA, but it would require completing the amendment process spelled out in Article V of the Constitution, which is a high bar.
In the interest of focusing on consensus, you’re absolutely right that Biden’s president presidency has (as his previous career would suggest) served capital and militarism more than any defensible values shared by the grassroots Democrats who put him in office. It’s almost as if millions of voters were duped by legions of corporate journalists constructing a cult of personality contradicted by the facts.
People(some, anyway)will say we are cynical. But I say we see that the emperor has no clothes. And anyone who is willing and able to open eyes and ears can perceive the same. I am disappointed, of course, in those grassroots groups you named as being vulnerable to the same.
Have you considered, wondered, etc., if the nominally left-liberal outfits you name here have been infiltrated by the FBI and the other usual intelligence suspects?
A long time advocate with whom I once worked suggested to me that I should be more skeptical of the DNC than the CIA, but Occam’s razor suggests involvement from the intelligence community. No candidate for public office in the United States since Russ Feingold posed a comparable political threat to the intelligence agencies and their dystopian fiat. And my character assassination emerged not long after I called for the nationalization of the fossil fuel sector, which is exactly what prompted the CIA’s 1953 coup in Iran.
All that said, I have no capacity to prove the involvement of intelligence agencies, and the journalists who we might normally rely on for transparency have had better things to do then show up for work, so I suspect proof will remain elusive.
Thank you for recognizing the possibility. As a target of what was likely a corrupt intelligence operation, it’s tough to voice my suspicions without inviting skepticism.
COINTELPRO never died; it was just renamed and outsourced.
In FAHRENHEIT 9/11, Michael Moore had the story of a small antiwar group that a police informant infiltrated. If they did this for a group that occasionally stood on street corners with protest signs, it's not hard to imagine more being done for groups that pose a greater threat.
Here in the UK the Democrat's real objectives became crystal.clear when the DNC cheated Sanders, who could have won, and let HRC run and lose to Trump, at which point she blamed the "deplorables". Never mind the criminal Russiagate hoax and the damage that has done. The "Democrats" will never change, though to be fair they have finally become a fully-fledged and reckless neocon bunch these days. Different voting systems, but the actual left in the UK and USA are wasting their time hoping Labour or the Dems will ever change, and in fact both parties are worse now than they've ever been, aiding and abetting genocide to boot, but the systems are rigged against third parties.
I’m ready for AOC and the other progressives to take over the party. And let the established democrats retire. AOC should be our Wonder Woman.and leader of the Party.
It’s not surprising, we have a progressive young female state rep where I live and she puts forth the bills that the Democrats claim that they want to support, and she gets the most pushback from Democrats. Other women usually. It’s frustrating but eye-opening.
Fraud might be a strong characterization, but to describe so-called “progressives” in Congress as co-opted is comparably mild.
The Squad learned from Pelosi how to engage in political theater while abandoning the substance of policy making. That was the subtext of the vanity fair cover featuring all of them together. We have all watched progressives in Congress bend their knees to the corporate establishment, putting their careers before their supposed values.
At the risk of putting too fine a point on this, this is part of why it’s important to support not just young, inspiring figures, but those who have actually put in years doing hard work and revealing our commitments and priorities. Cori Bush and Ilhan Omar, for instance, charted different paths in Washington than AOC precisely because they were both community advocates long before going to Congress.
Political theater is a pale substitute for meaningful governance, and celebrity a poor substitute for policy expertise and an actual record of public service.
Same old Dem strategy. Serve the Oligarchs. Run crappy candidates.
Collect corporate cash. Attempt to browbeat/scare the base. Lose, so they
have an excuse for doing nothing. Promise to codify Roe.
Biden won’t even give us the ERA on his way out. I am done with them.
The ERA is a proposed constitutional amendment beyond the powers of a president to enact, but you’re absolutely right that Biden is trash and that his administration has been a colossal failure. I’ve seen organizations call on Biden to “publish” the ERA, but it would require completing the amendment process spelled out in Article V of the Constitution, which is a high bar.
In the interest of focusing on consensus, you’re absolutely right that Biden’s president presidency has (as his previous career would suggest) served capital and militarism more than any defensible values shared by the grassroots Democrats who put him in office. It’s almost as if millions of voters were duped by legions of corporate journalists constructing a cult of personality contradicted by the facts.
People(some, anyway)will say we are cynical. But I say we see that the emperor has no clothes. And anyone who is willing and able to open eyes and ears can perceive the same. I am disappointed, of course, in those grassroots groups you named as being vulnerable to the same.
Have you considered, wondered, etc., if the nominally left-liberal outfits you name here have been infiltrated by the FBI and the other usual intelligence suspects?
A long time advocate with whom I once worked suggested to me that I should be more skeptical of the DNC than the CIA, but Occam’s razor suggests involvement from the intelligence community. No candidate for public office in the United States since Russ Feingold posed a comparable political threat to the intelligence agencies and their dystopian fiat. And my character assassination emerged not long after I called for the nationalization of the fossil fuel sector, which is exactly what prompted the CIA’s 1953 coup in Iran.
All that said, I have no capacity to prove the involvement of intelligence agencies, and the journalists who we might normally rely on for transparency have had better things to do then show up for work, so I suspect proof will remain elusive.
Thank you for recognizing the possibility. As a target of what was likely a corrupt intelligence operation, it’s tough to voice my suspicions without inviting skepticism.
COINTELPRO never died; it was just renamed and outsourced.
In FAHRENHEIT 9/11, Michael Moore had the story of a small antiwar group that a police informant infiltrated. If they did this for a group that occasionally stood on street corners with protest signs, it's not hard to imagine more being done for groups that pose a greater threat.
Here in the UK the Democrat's real objectives became crystal.clear when the DNC cheated Sanders, who could have won, and let HRC run and lose to Trump, at which point she blamed the "deplorables". Never mind the criminal Russiagate hoax and the damage that has done. The "Democrats" will never change, though to be fair they have finally become a fully-fledged and reckless neocon bunch these days. Different voting systems, but the actual left in the UK and USA are wasting their time hoping Labour or the Dems will ever change, and in fact both parties are worse now than they've ever been, aiding and abetting genocide to boot, but the systems are rigged against third parties.
I’m ready for AOC and the other progressives to take over the party. And let the established democrats retire. AOC should be our Wonder Woman.and leader of the Party.
Very disappointed to read about the Congressional vote against AOC regarding committees.
I haven’t yet looked for the names of the supporters & the opponents, other than the predictable what’s-her-name.
It’s not surprising, we have a progressive young female state rep where I live and she puts forth the bills that the Democrats claim that they want to support, and she gets the most pushback from Democrats. Other women usually. It’s frustrating but eye-opening.
She's a fraud. Wearing expensive frocks that say tax the rich is as far as she goes.
Fraud might be a strong characterization, but to describe so-called “progressives” in Congress as co-opted is comparably mild.
The Squad learned from Pelosi how to engage in political theater while abandoning the substance of policy making. That was the subtext of the vanity fair cover featuring all of them together. We have all watched progressives in Congress bend their knees to the corporate establishment, putting their careers before their supposed values.
At the risk of putting too fine a point on this, this is part of why it’s important to support not just young, inspiring figures, but those who have actually put in years doing hard work and revealing our commitments and priorities. Cori Bush and Ilhan Omar, for instance, charted different paths in Washington than AOC precisely because they were both community advocates long before going to Congress.
Political theater is a pale substitute for meaningful governance, and celebrity a poor substitute for policy expertise and an actual record of public service.
Never learn
Too true, hence Luigi Mangione.