Latest in "Grand" Ole Partee electoral suicide march:
GOP to Latinos -- get the hell out.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2014/06/27/the-gop-is-now-officially-the-party-of-get-the-hell-out/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2014/06/27/the-gop-is-now-officially-the-party-of-get-the-hell-out/
With immigration reform's death, Republicans make their choice.
washingtonpost.com
I think in people like Palin, the tea party is bringing down capitalist politics from the inside. They actually are revolutionary agents , but they don't know it. They are unconscious revolutionary agents, negative dialecticians. By negative dialectic I mean that by their extreme rightwing proposals , they are gradually begetting more and more radical left proposals from Democrats, such as this one
Law for a lifetime ban on Members of Congress working as lobbyists by Senator Michel Benet
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=278754672306415&set=a.268624786652737.1073741828.268311603350722&type=1&theater
The half-term quitta' from Wasilla joined Sean Hannity this Wednesday to...
Crooks and Liars|By Heather
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/06/palin-accuses-president-obama-starting-so
In the long run, I think Palin's impact on the American political consciousness is to contribute to the destruction of many right-wing ideas as sensible , destroys them as sensible for more and more American voters.
Clearly a snake biting its own tail should raise the notion of dialectic for us (chortles)
In terms of class struggle, contradictions, dialectic the source of change, the tea Party is begetting a fight back from the voters for the working class interests. For example, in Michigan the tea Republicans have picked a profound long term fight with the UAW and all unions in Michigan by passing Work-for-LESS law. The same in Indiana. This contradiction is pushing the Obama Rainbow Coalition more and more to the left, radicalizing it. http://take10charles.blogspot.com/.../i-d-rather-have... Barack Obama's national electoral coalition majority, his winning Presidential mass of voters, is essentially an actualization of Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition idea from the 1984 and 1988 Presidential Campaign. Listen to the speeches linked below. They are politically prophetic in articulating themes that became winners for Obama in 2008 and 2012.
LABOR POWER examined an overlapping web of dialectical movement here:
http://take10charles.blogspot.com/2014/05/michigan-political-dialectics-for-every.html
Specifically, they are enabling President Obama to move further and further left, in response to their extreme right-wing positions, so often rudely, ignorantly, piggishly expressed. It is truly getting to be astonishing how grossly stupid and fascistic the tea Party rhetoric is getting.
Charles Brown I've been calling them fascists from the start. I called Bush fascist. ( I can show you copies of articles from 2009 or so ) .Forgetting that they are fascists is not my particular shortcoming. (smiles). The above formulation has a touch of comedy. However, history repeats itself first time tragedy , second time farce. Hopefully , we can make the tea Party the farcical fascists... by invigorating and politically enculturating _today_'s 99%
- Charles Brown In terms of class struggle, contradictions, dialectic the source of change, the tea Party is begetting a fight back from the voters for the working class interests. This contradiction is pushing the Obama Rainbow Coalition more and more to the left, radicalizing it. http://take10charles.blogspot.com/.../i-d-rather-have...
In terms of tactics and strategy, it is important to assess contradictions and conflicts within the ruling class. The tea Republican phenomenon is turning out to be a whopper in this period.
The 2014 Rainbow is an even larger majority than reflected in elected offices because of all the despicable Republican gerrymandering and voter suppression that we are all here all too familiar with; that means there and even bigger ,not so much sleeping, but suppressed Rainbow Voter giant. We saw what happened in 2012. The dialectic resulted in Rainbow voter backlash against Republican suppression.
take10charles.blogspot.com
One Richard Lucke was onto this theme in 2011
http://open.salon.com/blog/rick_lucke/2011/09/03/america_the_snake_eating_itself_only_the_rich_can_vote
So, we’ve finally come to this: a caste system that specifies who can and cannot vote based on income levels. I believe we are truly seeing a transformation of America into something completely unrecognizable in terms of the ideals I was taught while growing up. A columnist by the name of Matthew Vadum writing for the American Thinker has stated plainly what most Republicans and conservatives will only think and will only state in veiled claims of fictitious “voter fraud”; the poor should not be allowed to vote. From Vadum’s article:"It is profoundly antisocial and un-American to empower the nonproductive segments of the population to destroy the country …"Encouraging those who burden society to participate in elections isn't about helping the poor. It's about helping the poor to help themselves to others' money. It's about raw so-called social justice. It's about moving America ever farther away from the small-government ideals of the Founding Fathers."Vadum asserts that allowing poor people to vote only moves America “...ever farther away from the small-government ideals of the Founding Fathers," and that registering poor people to vote at welfare offices is “is a policy that would cause the Founding Fathers to roll over in their graves”. As is usually the case with right-wing assertions, there is no factual support, merely bigoted opinion. Interestingly, and glaringly obvious, Vadum selectively ingnores the primary foundational premise of the concept of Founders’ ideal of democracy; that “all men are created equal”. I’m reminded of Orwell’s Animal Farm where the pigs in charge declare that “all animals are equal but some animals are more equal.”The irony of conservatives decrying their interpretive definition of “socialism” while simultaneously advocating the same repressive practices they wrongly attribute to socialism is overwhelming to anyone who is not simply bigoted, or completely ignorant. Like in the Orwell story mentioned above, those who do the most work become less equal by having less wealth. While there were certainly individuals among the Founders who thought this way, and despite the fact that property ownership was an important inspiration, I do not think the idea that some men are more equal was a foundation for the Founders’ ideals as expressed in America’s founding documents.Vadum asserts that the poor and less fortunate, those who do the majority of actual work, are responsible for the “destruction of the republic”. I can’t help but wonder about the power these less fortunate and poor people have to destroy the republic. How and when did they amass all of this power with which they destroy the republic? We should feel sympathy, I guess, for all the distressed, powerless wealthy people as they watch the rest of us destroy the republic. I guess it’s no mystery why those wealthy elites choose to give back to this nation virtually nothing after extracting its wealth and resources.Why should they support a nation that allows workers to set value on their work and productivity by collectively bargaining for a fair living wage. After all, isn’t a democracy a government of the wealthy, by the wealthy, for the wealthy?When I read Vadum’s article, I was suddenly reminded of the image of the snake eating itself; it seems appropriate for what is occurring in American society today. Consumers are a necessary component in a capitalist society, yet corporate CEOs and the wealthy elites are destroying the middle class, the primary constituency of consumers and, in so doing, are destroying the republic. Now, after eliminating employment opportunities for a large swath of the middle class, those same elites are attempting to blame those who have become jobless for the “destruction of the republic”.The snake is eating itself might be seen as an analogy for "history repeats itself", which might mean that ultimately something good will emerge from the other end.
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