Why you can Forget About a Populist Social Movement at the Moment

Yes, this is a totally invalid and off point essay. All that history where "movements from the ground up" induced leaders to get busy changing things is irrelevant to the present moment.

In the present moment there are no mainstream center, let alone left parties in the US. Both the Republican and the Democratic parties are right wing parties now, one far right and one right. (There are a few centrist and center-left politicians in the Democratic Party but they are always ignored when it comes to real legislation.)

Those successful historical movements occurred when the Democratic Party was a centrist or at least a center-right party. Once a party becomes a true right wing party, as the Democrats most definitely are today, they are not going to respond in the least to populist social movements.

There are real differences between centrist and right and that is one of them: again for emphasis, right wing parties will not respond to populist social movements. It is absurd to think that they will. It is absurd for anyone to blame non-right people for Obama being the failure that he is.

This is why there is one and only one solution: non-right people must unify their five zillion low traffic websites and their many thousands of ultimately meaningless political organizations into a unifying umbrella organization, from which eventually a non-right wing party would emerge that would be so large that there is no way it could be kept off the ballot by petty ballot laws which do, however, keep any of the "many thousands of meaningless political organizations" who want to contest elections off of the ballot most of the time.

The above was in response to this article at Common Dreams.

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Everyone Killed Should at Least get an Apology

Civilians killed by Americans abroad receive an apology but American civilians killed by the economic collapse (fathers killing their families, suicide, death by cop etc.) don't even get that. Maybe they get an unmarked grave provided by the town.

As for the Democrats, they can't create any jobs, they can't reform the health system, and they can't grow the economy except for the rich getting richer, but by God they can kill civilians abroad and they can promote killings, suicides, and crime in general at home as well as the Republicans can.

The above was in response to this article at Common Dreams.

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Stop Feeding the Beast

Don't ever vote for any Republicans or any Democrats ever again. Stop feeding the beast. Stop being an accessory to murder and to economic collapse. That's the real message from this writer, fully intended or not.

The above was in response to this article at Common Dreams.

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