Stein, Sanders, Gabbard, Warren: the right time for the progressives to join forces against the US bipartisan dictatorship
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system failure
The
recent confirmation by the former interim chairperson of the
Democratic Party, Donna Brazile, that Hillary Clinton proceeded in an
internal "coup" to exclude Bernie Sanders from the race for
the Democratic nomination, has vanished the slightest doubt for what
the Party has become.
The
Democrats have been serving the US corporate/banking elite for
decades, but the ethical deterioration of the Party had taken an
accelerated course since the early 90s under Clinton administration.
Indeed, the Democrats adopted the neoliberal doctrine policies to
such an extent that ended to become a second Republican party within
the US. The elites secured their absolute domination through the
establishment of the bipartisan dictatorship. Especially since the
early 90s, it didn't matter at all who was in power. Either with
Democrats or the Republicans, the US deep state and the ruthless
neocons have seen their agenda fully implemented through for-profit
wars and through the gradual destruction of social state in the US.
The
evil face of neoliberalism had become clear a decade earlier under
Reagan administration. The biggest fairy tale that the neoliberal
priesthood managed to sell to the masses was the trickle-down
Reaganomics. The big fairy tale was fully exposed by the 2007-08
crisis from which the West still struggles to recover.
Finally,
Barack Obama himself, and even some liberal pundits from the
mainstream media, were forced to admit that Reaganomics simply don't
work. Yet, it seems that this was just a strategic maneuver by the
establishment to persuade American voters that the Democratic party
starts to distant itself from the neoliberal doctrine, and therefore,
it is worth to vote a Black American as the next US president who
could make the difference in favor of the majority after decades.
But
the Obama era was another big disappointment for the real
progressives. Despite all promises, nothing changed. Wall Street
continued to enjoy the most privileged position in the US economy.
Not a single banker went in jail. Abroad, the US contacted proxy wars
destroying Libya and bringing chaos in Syria. Indirect help was given
to Saudi Arabia to bombard civilians in Yemen. Drone strikes reached
record level with most of the victims not being the primary target.
Whistleblowers have been hunted fiercely. Police state and brutality
have been reinforced.
Then,
Hillary Clinton came. And the corporate Democrats had nothing new to
present about her as she was coming straight from the old school of
the Machiavellian Clintonian empire. It was more than obvious that
the neocon/neoliberal agenda would have been continued uninterrupted
under her potential presidency, without any divergence from the
schedule. The only trick that was left for the liberal media to
promote Hillary, was identity politics.
Then,
the corporate media pundits were shocked when they realized that
Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States. Yet,
their media were promoting
him during all the presidential race,
"surprisingly", even more than their favorite, Hillary
Clinton. The markets were going down for a moment, but then, nothing
happened. It looked like a well-directed live show by the monstrous
mechanisms of the establishment.
Then,
you could witness the first signs of fear and embarrassment on
pundits' voices and faces, when they were monitoring the rapid rise
of Bernie Sanders against Hillary Clinton. And then, consider this:
why they were constantly monitoring Bernie's and Hillary's strength
against Trump's, with such an anxiety? They were doing this quite
long before knowing the final result of the Democratic primaries. The
answer is simple: because they wanted to see whether they should act
seriously to put Bernie out of the game by all means.
When
they saw with terror that Bernie was beating Trump by a far more
significant percentage than Hillary, they knew that they had to get
rid of him. It was much easier to do it in the primaries with the
unfair and undemocratic system of superdelegates and the inside war
from DNC. They wouldn't risk to see Bernie at the finals with Trump,
where the whole world would watch closely. Indeed, WikiLeaks
revealed that the DNC establishment had launched a
dirty war against Bernie, but also that, some lobbyists wanted to get
rid of him too.
So,
the United States superpower ended with someone like Donald Trump in
the presidency. The 'anti-establishment' Donald joke has already
collapsed. What did Donald do so far? The usual, and he is just
warming up:
- Literally
hired Goldman Sachs to run USA.
- Signed a
bill to deregulate again Wall Street, so that the parasites of the
financial mafia to be able to play their games at the expense of the
majority, as happened so many times in the past, causing big
financial crises.
- Quickly
aligned with the neocon agenda and bombed Syria. In fact, the Donald
did even more than the puppet of the establishment, Barack Obama, by
provoking dangerously war games in Asia-Pacific.
-
Maintained US forces in Iraq, Afghanistan, continued the US
interference in Yemen and elsewhere.
- Pursued a
totally unacceptable health care program that - in case it will pass
- will push millions of Americans further to the cliff, without even
a rudimentary social safety net.
- Continued
to hunt fiercely all Whistleblowers.
- Wants to
pass more tax-cuts for the plutocracy.
So,
after
so much experience, we should know by now that the US bipartisan
dictatorship won't change, by no means. And you can't change
something that has been completely taken over by the banksters
and the corporate
lobbyists.
Yet,
the bipartisan monster is so powerful that the real progressives will
need all the power they can get, in order to have a good chance to
beat it.
The
2016 electoral process in the US was particularly useful because it
highlighted many interesting unprecedented aspects. One of them, is
that you don't need the mainstream media to promote you. Especially
the young Americans discovered and promoted Bernie Sanders through
the independent and social media on the Internet. Another aspect, is
that you don't need big money to support you. These new conditions
could be proven valuable towards the creation of a third political
movement, coming straight from the people, which could seriously
challenge the current corrupted political establishment.
We
can think at least four progressives that should join forces to lead
such a political movement right now: Jill Stein, Bernie Sanders,
Tulsi Gabbard, Elizabeth Warren.
All
four should be unconditionally devoted at least to the following:
-
Free health care and education, re-build the social state
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Definitely anti-war, anti-intervention
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Definitely anti-Wall Street
-
Pro-environmental
-
Pro-workers
All
four have exhibit hopeful signs with their political behavior so far
towards such policies that could literally change radically the
course of the American society for the benefit of the majority,
against the elites. However, it seems that still, in many cases, they
were forced to follow US Congress decisions against of some of these
principles, especially concerning the US permanent policy of endless
war, or direct/indirect intervention.
Well,
imagine that: the establishment already treats them as 'radicals'!
Anyone who dares to decline, even slightly, from the
neocon/neoliberal agenda in the US political life, is automatically
blacklisted and painted as 'radical'. And that happens exactly
because, for the first time, the establishment saw with terror that
the mainstream media narratives don't work. So, in reality, the real
fear of the establishment is the American people.
And
that's another reason for which the people of the United States need
a third political party coming straight from them, not the
billionaire class. And this means that progressives like Stein,
Sanders, Gabbard and Warren, who exhibit a promising political
behaviour, will be able to free themselves from any tight
establishment control, in order to become the 'tools' that will
deliver literally, for the first time, the real power to the American
people.
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