As a lifelong Democrat, it is painful for me to hear the truth about how Democrats stopped representing the worknig people of America, thus creating fertile ground for the rise of fascist-tending populists like Trump. It’s important to understand that Trump is a symptom, because unless the underlying conditions change, there will continue to…
Here Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate (of the Grayzone), two of our best investigative journalists, put the final nails in the coffin of the invented Russiagate “scandal.” From the caption: “The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate cover new Twitter leaks demonstrating a coordinated campaign between US intelligence, Democratic Party elites, and their corporate…
[Excerpt from the full article at Scheerpost] Democrats long since gave up challenging the war economy — which may kill us all, and is definitely bankrupting us By Chris Hedges The Democrats position themselves as the party of virtue, cloaking their support for the war industry in moral language stretching back to Korea and…
Don’s Note: I put quotation marks around the title because this is the title of the article as it appears in Jacobin, a socialist journal to which I subscribe. It’s a critique of the Democratic Party from a left-wing perspective. As a lifelong Democrat recently moved to one of the “trigger” states (Kentucky), it’s…