Another great article! I didn't know much of the history you shared. Thanks.
Expanding the court is a great idea, but Biden won't do it and has said so repeatedly. There is no "left" in the USA. What we consider "left" is center right (and "Marxist-Communist to the extremist right, which is to say, the Republican Party.)
Another great article! I didn't know much of the history you shared. Thanks.
Expanding the court is a great idea, but Biden won't do it and has said so repeatedly. There is no "left" in the USA. What we consider "left" is center right (and "Marxist-Communist to the extremist right, which is to say, the Republican Party.)
Today's Republicans conflate Communism with Socialism with Marxism. But I take your point, William. There's not much thought going into it, or reading. It's just an emotional type outburst. I have been called all three by MAGA, and yet I am none of the three. I do believe in socializing those things that are critical to health and well-being, especially health care and education. I am very liberal about things such as equality for all, yet very conservative about personal responsibility and some semblance of social restraint. I'm not red and I'm not blue, through right now voting blue is the only real option. Reminds me of the Stealers Wheel song:
Suzie, you and I are in the same boat. By the way equating socialism (the common good in the constitution) with communism started with FDR if not before, but defnitely after the Bolsheviks,the idea of capitalists losing control of a country scared the shit out of the real estate developers, finance capitalists, and industrial oligarchs and so they used their money and power to buy propaganda (the media and publishers). It really took off with Sen McCarthy and Army hearings.
I agree. And I too, grew up in that era. I am starting to wonder if democracy can really work, or if once so corrupted, it may be over? I don't like even having to consider that.
Thanks Thomm, for another great, informative article!
I shudder to admit that Democracy is a short lived concept, especially when it was founded by a small group of wealthy, would be nobility.
I am sad to report that all of the troubles in Central and South America have been caused by the U.S. and its wealthy overlords. They have destabilized every fledgling democracy, from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador to Colombia, Brazil and lately Venezuela, doing the bidding of Exxon Mobil.
Chile is the handiwork of Milton Friedman and the Chicago boys, and especially that war criminal Henry Kissinger.
Another great article! I didn't know much of the history you shared. Thanks.
Expanding the court is a great idea, but Biden won't do it and has said so repeatedly. There is no "left" in the USA. What we consider "left" is center right (and "Marxist-Communist to the extremist right, which is to say, the Republican Party.)
Marx was NOT a communist, much less a socialist, he was a proto libertarian,
A free trading gold bug and misogynist, A puke who abused and failed to support his family.
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia said that Adam Smith was the intellectual father of Karl Marx.
Today's Republicans conflate Communism with Socialism with Marxism. But I take your point, William. There's not much thought going into it, or reading. It's just an emotional type outburst. I have been called all three by MAGA, and yet I am none of the three. I do believe in socializing those things that are critical to health and well-being, especially health care and education. I am very liberal about things such as equality for all, yet very conservative about personal responsibility and some semblance of social restraint. I'm not red and I'm not blue, through right now voting blue is the only real option. Reminds me of the Stealers Wheel song:
Clowns to the left of me
Jokers to the right
Here I am stuck in the middle with you
Suzie, you and I are in the same boat. By the way equating socialism (the common good in the constitution) with communism started with FDR if not before, but defnitely after the Bolsheviks,the idea of capitalists losing control of a country scared the shit out of the real estate developers, finance capitalists, and industrial oligarchs and so they used their money and power to buy propaganda (the media and publishers). It really took off with Sen McCarthy and Army hearings.
That is the era that I grew up in.
I agree. And I too, grew up in that era. I am starting to wonder if democracy can really work, or if once so corrupted, it may be over? I don't like even having to consider that.
Thanks Thomm, for another great, informative article!
I shudder to admit that Democracy is a short lived concept, especially when it was founded by a small group of wealthy, would be nobility.
I am sad to report that all of the troubles in Central and South America have been caused by the U.S. and its wealthy overlords. They have destabilized every fledgling democracy, from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador to Colombia, Brazil and lately Venezuela, doing the bidding of Exxon Mobil.
Chile is the handiwork of Milton Friedman and the Chicago boys, and especially that war criminal Henry Kissinger.