by Kurt Nimmo, Kurt Nimmo on Geopolitics:
The “left” and “right” in America suffer from a form of delusion psychosis.
I like Chris Hedges. I subscribe to his Substack newsletter. Hedges calls himself a socialist and an anarchist (these are, in my opinion, incompatible). He is staunchly antiwar, a stance I wholeheartedly support. I have been antiwar since high school, way back in 1969. I actually got in a lot of trouble for this but that’s another story.
In his latest newsletter, Hedges cites Kshama Sawant, “a socialist who served for over a decade on the Seattle City Council,” but has decided to not run for office again, instead “she will launch a national coalition called Workers Strike Back this March in cities around the country.”
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[Sawant] will organize for a $ 25 an hour minimum wage, build grassroots labor unions in corporations such as Amazon and advocate for a shorter work week without a cut in benefits and pay. It will also employ strikes when its demands are not met.
I believe workers deserve a wage above the poverty level. However, the effort to do so is destined to fail, in much the same way the Occupy Movement failed—or rather, was undermined by the state and its political police.
I am not merely being negative and cynical. There is a long and sordid track record of the state destroying political movements it considers a threat to its dominance, from COINTELPRO in the 1960s and 70s to the recent frame-up of naive “far right-wingers” protesting the Biden ascension to the corporate-owned throne—and years of subversive monkey business in-between.
Unfortunately, Sawant has stretched the “movement” thin by including a raft of political and social issues pushed by the “left”—from a “green economy” to building a “united, multi-racial, multi-gendered movement of working people.”
The agenda is towering—and destined to topple, not merely under its unsustainable weight but also as a result of the subversive actions of the state.
However, Ms. Sawant is on the right path, even if her potpourri of social and political issues muddy the waters and offers too many opportunities for state subversion.
The Democrats and Republicans both answer to the billionaires, that’s why working people keep getting screwed, she says. Even so-called progressives in Congress, she notes, have completely failed to fight against the establishment, and offer no solutions.
This really is a no-brainer. AOC and the “Squad” were tamed, told to sit down and shut up, and ordered to follow the “leadership.” Like most politicians, they are primarily interested in retaining their seats, positions (in the cheering section), minimal influence, and careers.
The uniparty answers to the corporate elite—and the elite is certainly not interested in labor unions and living wages for its new serf class. In regard to war, it will demand a repeat of the engineered destruction of the antiwar movement (by Obama, a fact admitted by the CIA’s favorite propaganda conduit, a paywall enclosed Washington Post).
The Congressional Progressive Caucus supports the pro-war, pro-mass murder, pro-theft, pro-destruction agenda of the uniparty and its neoliberal mandarin overlords. These supposed “progressives” support Trump’s illegal occupation of eastern Syria. In this respect, they are on the same page as their supposed ideological enemies on the “right.”
However, in a typical wind shift fashion, now that the election campaign season is gearing up, the CPC hopes to capitalize on the growing sentiment against endless, expensive, and murderous wars of conquest.
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