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Well I have to confess, to a sneaking pleasure that Sanders was doing well. I know, I know. My Bad. But there is an absolute dearth of anything like the Good News. Here in Australia a billionaire Tory phoney has the liberal progressives in a swoon. The Arab Spring was strangled in the cradle. Syriza cut its own throat. And the sight of Putin in Moscow makes me want to retch. I won't go on. Alewitz is absolutely correct, (unfortunately). And I have been pulled into line, and I promise I won't backslide...still.... comradely Gary On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 3:25 AM, Michael Yates via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > From the fine artist, Mike Alewitz's Facebook page: > UNDERSTANDING THE SANDERS REVOLUTION > Let me see if I get this correctly: > Bernie Sanders went on demonstrations in the early 1960s, but then took a > 50-year break until 2014.So he skipped the anti-Vietnam War movement, the > women’s movement and the other critical social movements of his > generation.Now he supports working people, but thinks its ok to bomb them > in other countries.And he’s for democracy, but he supports monarchies and > Israeli apartheid.He’s for government transparency, but wants Snowden to > stand trial.He’s independent, but has always supported the corporate > Democratic Party candidates.He’s against police violence, but thinks the > police are a socialist institution.He voted against the Iraq War, but then > voted to fund it.He’s battling the Washington establishment, but he’s a > lifelong professional politician.He’s against Hillary Clinton, but has > pledged to support her after she wins the primary.He’s a democratic > socialist, but assures us he will not threaten capitalism.And he has > proclaimed that his vote in Iowa was the beginning of a Political > Revolution...So - he’s getting movement activists off the streets and > signing them up to strengthen the Democratic Party, a party that destroys > progressive movements, so he can lead the revolution that will end > Democratic Party politics, in order to move to a kind of socialism that > preserves capitalism? > Makes total sense.___________________________ > What a complete waste of time by left-liberals devoting their energies to > tweeting and facebooking every ten seconds during Sanders-Clinton debates, > going on and on about a Sanders' revolution. Meanwhile, death and > destruction are rained down upon people all over the world, ignored by both > candidates, who would do nothing to end it. And the environment gets more > unlivable by the month, and again neither candidate gives a shit about it > and has no plan to change things. Just as those who support, directly or > indirectly, butchers like Assad and Putin should be shunned, so too should > those who more or less demand that leftists support Sanders be, scorned and > shunned. They are enemies of the left and make no mistake about it. > > > > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/gary.maclennan1%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
