We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Friday, December 3, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Friday, December 3, 2021

  • What’s Left? How Greenwald, Covid and Rittenhouse Exposed a Plague Among Progressives by Riva Enteen from Mint Press News. My reaction: Although Greenwald is not a socialist, he has integrity and he, as a lawyer, knows the law. Having tamed the Democratic Party, the ruling class has switched sides from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party; and by doing so exposed fake leftists and created some confusion as to what the "left" means. Now it appears to mean "liberals" or soft capitalists in the Democratic Party who fake concern about racism. The true "left" has always meant public or worker ownership and control of the economy which is anathema to all capitalist-loving people in the Democratic Party. Clownish Trump is only a flash-grenade to excite these simple-minded people. What concerns me most is that the people at World Socialist Web Site have supported the Democrats and major media, and have gone along with the fakeries of their fear campaign and the mandates during the covid pandemic.
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