There is a radicalization unfolding in this country. It reached its highest point Saturday with over a half million in DC and three quarters of a million in Los Angeles. All across country. Ten thousand in Augusta, Maine and 5000 in Ann Arbor for example. All over. We saw history being made by people taking control of their own lives. These were the largest demonstrations of people we have ever had.
It began with Occupy. Then Black Lives Matter. Three years ago 49% of young people under the age of 29 said they preferred socialism over capitalism. This spread. Sanders got 13 million votes. Now Saturday’s historical outpouring.
Why? Real wages haven’t gone up in 40 years. Unemployment and underemployment is huge, perhaps 20 %, double that for black people. New jobs are temporary and low paying. The rich are getting richer. Health care and education are good only for the well off. Half the population is either poor or near poor.
Trump’s solutions are BS. Scapegoating Mexicans and Muslims, building a wall, creating a registry, deporting young people, strengthening local cops, spending even more on the military, lowering taxes for the rich, charging tariffs, cutting health insurance. drilling for more oil, fracking for natural gas, denying climate change, denying women the right to control their own bodies. All of this will do nothing to relieve people’s plight.
So they hit the streets. Initiated by women. Millions. Diverse. Young. Trump had only been in office 2 days.
The genie is out of the bottle and the ruling class must be terrified of what will come. They didn’t want Trump in the first place. But their candidate Clinton didn’t cut the mustard. People didn’t like or trust her and not enough of them would vote for her.
So the elite tried to delegitimize Trump with the lie that the Russians interfered with the election. This only added fuel to the fire. Saturday’s tremendous outpouring first and foremost sent a message to the people there: look how many and how powerful we are. It sent a message to the American people. All the marchers have families and friends. Multiply three million times this.
It was mobilizations like this that ended the war in Vietnam. Antiwar sentiment spread to the soldiers over there. They wouldn’t fight. They stopped fighting and it was all over. That’s what could happen here. Trump could be all over.
We know now we can stop Trump and his deplorable cabinet full of billionaires and generals. He found a fox for every chicken copp. These people want to end public education, pollute the environment, impoverish workers, control women’s bodies and further unleash the cops.
Can they get away with this? After Saturday I think not. The man has been in office but a few days and his plan to “make America great again” might succeed but ironically in a way he didn’t plan on. He mobilized the American people who are out there acting in their own interests for a change. When this happens and it doesn’t happen often people make their own history as Howard Zinn taught us. They realize they have a world to win.
looks like the only way Establishment Dems develop a conscience (flimsy and self-absorbed, though it is) is when they’re out of office.
MICHAEL SMITH- “There is a radicalization unfolding in this country.”
Dream on.
Interesting article from Paul Craig Roberts.
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2017/01/20/trumps-declaration-war/
(I particularly like the bit where he points out the tension between claiming (a) that America is a racist society, and Trump will make it worse, and (b) that it is wrong for Trump to prevent persecuted people from entering America. But that is not the main message of the piece.)
America will not be Great again until the American people demand an end to the Special Relationship with Israel that allows its government to be manipulated and run by Israeli money and pro Israeli paid employees of Israel. America will not be Great until it puts America and Americans first and not Israel and illegal settlements. Imagine what $38 billion could do for American taxpayers in a positive sense instead of making Americans complicit in Israeli War Crimes. Trump is but a puppet of Israel. March for American Self Respect and reclaim your nation. You all deserve better than what Netanyahu and his criminals want to allow you. Britain has woken up to the damage the Israel Lobby has been doing there. C’mon America…..you’ve started……reclaim your nation….make your nation mean something again.
Looks like the zionists are salivating over Trump, flattering him, and buttering him up. He is going to be their savior now that Obama is gone. I guess crooked Nutty and Drumpf have so much in common too.
“A senior Israeli official has praised the new US President Donald Trump as Israel’s “true friend in the White House”, marking a dramatic shift in relations between the two countries after the bitterness of the Barack Obama years.
Tzipi Hotovely, the Israeli deputy minister of foreign affairs, said that the country was “very happy about the new administration” after a phone call between Mr Trump and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme on Monday, Ms Hotovely said: “I think that all the declarations of the Trump administration were showing a deep friendship to Israel. They understand the complexity of the situation in the Middle East, in a world where everything is falling apart around us.”
“When Israel continues being the only democratic regime in the region, they want to keep Israel in its best shape.”
In the “very warm” phone call on Sunday evening, Mr Trump and Mr Netanyahu reportedly discussed military, security and intelligence cooperation between the two allies, a statement from Mr Netanyahu’s office said, including the “threat posed by Iran”, which has pledged Israel’s destruction. ”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-friend-in-white-house-benjamin-netanyahu-donald-trump-phone-call-tel-aviv-jerusalem-a7541031.html