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Post by jdredd on Oct 24, 2022 21:08:20 GMT -5
What Is depressing is to see tired old lefties like Michael Moore and Bernie Sanders still pushing the fantasy that unionization is the most important thing the Left can push. Talk about living in the past. Our problems are way beyond whether workers are organized or not. In fact, unions are more often in bed with Nationalists than not.
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Post by jdredd on Nov 4, 2022 12:28:23 GMT -5
It’s pretty obvious now that what’s left of anti-war Progressives are left out in the cold, as liberals flock to support NATO’s war against Russia, and Biden raises the anti-China rhetoric over Taiwan. But I’ve been disgusted with liberals for 50 years. Of course, if you raise questions about our overseas belligerence now you will be accused of being an “America Firster”. Too bad those folks are so wrong on everything else.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 20, 2023 19:00:06 GMT -5
Now I’ve heard everything: Victor Davis Hanson claiming it is the Left dragging us into the war in Ukraine. And another commentator saying the Left has “woke up” to the threat of China and Russia. I guess what the “Left” is is in the eye of the beholder.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 11, 2023 16:00:59 GMT -5
Elsewhere I talk about how everyone wants to save the world. And that was what Marxism was all about, it just didn’t work. Now the left has lost its way, and the right muddles things by claiming everyone to the left of Ron DeSantis is a Marxist. Whatever. If they want to chase phantoms, go for it. Of course, any real Marxist would be against arming Ukraine so Ukrainian proletariat can kill Russian proletariat, but the only opposition to the war seems to be from the America First crowd. And war with China doesn’t seem unthinkable to the neocons. I think the case can be made Biden is the worst President ever. At least he’s in the top five. A real Marxist would hate his guts.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 23, 2023 12:33:32 GMT -5
Byline in the NYT: “ Meet the Lonely New York Progressive Defending TikTok”. So there is at least one congressmen standing up to paranoid buffoonery of both the Democrats and Republicans. I wish my Congresswoman would. Of course it could worse. The nutcase Mayor of El Cajon is running against her.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 16, 2023 2:48:41 GMT -5
As I said elsewhere, God it sucks seeing the Left being MIA on the war in the Ukraine, not only here but in Europe. The spirit of 1968 is long, long dead. Oh well, I’m 71 and life expectancy for males Is 73.5 years so I may escape this wretched place soon. Good luck, Millennials, I think you’ll need it.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 8, 2023 14:49:04 GMT -5
Listening to Podcast I think is from Netherlands of an author Susan Neiman, who describes herself as a leftist. Her book is called “Left is not Woke”. With a dangerous war in Ukraine happening, does she really have time to attack “woke”? Seems evidence to me that what’s left of the Left has lost its way.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 14, 2023 0:38:44 GMT -5
In the NYT today, Ross does a pretty good job of taking apart what’s left of the Left over its stand, or stands on the Hamas/Israel tragedy. He at least notices there is more than one Left. Leftists have always been vulnerable to factionalism. Anyway, my Left has always been anti-religion, which mean both sides suck. The religious crazies will be fighting over land long after I’m gone.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 16, 2023 20:06:00 GMT -5
One place the Left has been extinct for a while is Israel.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 27, 2023 10:45:32 GMT -5
From the NYT: “ Democrats Splinter Over Israel as the Young, Diverse Left Rages at Biden”. The question is, can the minuscule Left make difference in the 2024 election? Doubtful. But it is encouraging that some young Democrats are splitting from Neocon King Joe.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 30, 2023 21:50:25 GMT -5
There is a column in the NYT today about how what’s left of the Left in Germany is splitting into “woke” and “unwoke” factions. Makes me laugh. But the old traditional Left-right spectrum is falling apart anyway. For one thing, Feminism has always been a hard sell to the old Labor Union Left. Also, Environmentalism and open borders.
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Post by jdredd on May 10, 2024 11:09:53 GMT -5
Confession time: I have started watching “Democracy Now” news, which is what passes for the left nowadays. So to balance it out I watch CBN news, which is the voice of Christian Nationalism. Who is telling the truth? Both? Neither? How do you define truth? They take the same information and spin it.
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