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The Democratic Party Should Lose its "Lesser Evil" Privileges
by Danny Haiphong
“The Democratic Party, especially under the leadership of Barack Obama, is building a long resume of work in the field of servitude for the imperial ruling class.”
With mid-term elections fast approaching, both corporate parties are doing all they can to turn real grievances into superficial loyalty to Washington. Republicans and Democrats are jockeying for the position of "lesser-evil" as they do every election cycle. The Obama Administration's Democratic Party has held this title for the last six years and will probably hold onto it regardless of which party wins at the polls in November. Democrats, all of whom are loyal to Obama, are waging a war for American hearts and minds by leading the nation into a military intervention against ISIS, giving lip-service to Black America's struggle against racist police murder and brutality, and pitifully pushing for the passage of a $10.10 federal minimum wage. What should be clear at this point in US imperialist history is that there is no "lesser-evil" in Washington, just a "progressive" brand marketed by the ruling class to channel popular discontent into the Democratic Party machine.
In the day-to-day struggle of building political organization, it is common to find that many workers and oppressed people are willing to accept anything Washington does as long as it does "something." Some will passionately make the argument that “something” is better than “nothing." Washington and its corporate masters are responsible for the confusion, manipulating the oppressed with its game of gridlock between the Republican and Democratic Party. The game presents two versions of poison. Workers and oppressed people must choose between the imperatives both Parties agree upon or accept prevailing social conditions. The corporate elite are thus able to effectively pressure the oppressed into choosing one side of the Empire (Democrat) or the other (Republican). And because the Democratic Party is branded the “progressive” party in Washington, many justice-seeking folk choose to ingest blue-stained poison.
“There is no ‘lesser-evil’ in Washington, just a ‘progressive’ brand marketed by the ruling class to channel popular discontent into the Democratic Party machine.”
go read da rest iff oonno want
by Danny Haiphong
“The Democratic Party, especially under the leadership of Barack Obama, is building a long resume of work in the field of servitude for the imperial ruling class.”
With mid-term elections fast approaching, both corporate parties are doing all they can to turn real grievances into superficial loyalty to Washington. Republicans and Democrats are jockeying for the position of "lesser-evil" as they do every election cycle. The Obama Administration's Democratic Party has held this title for the last six years and will probably hold onto it regardless of which party wins at the polls in November. Democrats, all of whom are loyal to Obama, are waging a war for American hearts and minds by leading the nation into a military intervention against ISIS, giving lip-service to Black America's struggle against racist police murder and brutality, and pitifully pushing for the passage of a $10.10 federal minimum wage. What should be clear at this point in US imperialist history is that there is no "lesser-evil" in Washington, just a "progressive" brand marketed by the ruling class to channel popular discontent into the Democratic Party machine.
In the day-to-day struggle of building political organization, it is common to find that many workers and oppressed people are willing to accept anything Washington does as long as it does "something." Some will passionately make the argument that “something” is better than “nothing." Washington and its corporate masters are responsible for the confusion, manipulating the oppressed with its game of gridlock between the Republican and Democratic Party. The game presents two versions of poison. Workers and oppressed people must choose between the imperatives both Parties agree upon or accept prevailing social conditions. The corporate elite are thus able to effectively pressure the oppressed into choosing one side of the Empire (Democrat) or the other (Republican). And because the Democratic Party is branded the “progressive” party in Washington, many justice-seeking folk choose to ingest blue-stained poison.
“There is no ‘lesser-evil’ in Washington, just a ‘progressive’ brand marketed by the ruling class to channel popular discontent into the Democratic Party machine.”
go read da rest iff oonno want
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