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Thought experiment -- (doubt this will happen but....) The Democratic Party nominates Bernie Sanders for President --- What does the US ruling class do? --- we know what it did when the Repugs nominated Goldwater --- the US Ruling class went hell bent to support Johnson --- When the Dems nominated McGovern, the US ruling class went hell bent for Nixon .... faced with Trump vs. Sanders, will they take a risk on Sanders but decide Trump isn't "so bad"?? Another possibility -- Biden gets the nomination and offers the VP to Kasich as a "ticket of national unity" to defeat Trump --- --- what do all the "liberals" (and the miniscule group of leftists) do??? On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 1:44 PM, John Reimann 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. > ***************************************************************** > > ‘“There was polite applause, but a lot of people didn’t clap,” said a club > insider privy to the exchange. “There was a lot of talk that [Supreme Court > Justice Anthony] Kennedy sold out,” allegedly having agreed to retire from > the bench in exchange for President Trump’s picking his conservative former > law clerk *Brett Kavanaugh* to succeed him. > > Who was saying this? Was it the “left” liberals who were saying that > Kennedy sold out? Nope. It was the elite of the capitalist class at the > Bohemian Club’s annual retreat in Sonoma County, California, according to > SF Chronicle reporters Matier and Ross > <https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/ > At-Bohemian-Club-retreat-conservative-crowd-13102110.php> > . > > Matier and Ross continue: ‘In contrast, over at the Owl’s Nest encampment, > we’re told TV pundits *Chris Matthews*, *David Gergen *and *David Brooks > *lit > up the crowd, especially when Brooks lamented the “loss of honesty, truth > and civility” during the Trump era, calling it a “disaster and threat to > democracy.” > > ‘“The entire camp erupted into applause,” says our spy.’ > This anecdote is a window into what is happening within the mainstream of > the US capitalist class. They are in turmoil. Yet all too many socialists > wilfully ignore this. They think what's happening is simply a continuum of > what happened under Obama. They are greatly mistaken. They are also greatly > mistaken that we should not be paying attention. > > The article contains links to the five news reports (that I know of) that > document Trump's role as a money launderer for the Russian mafia. > > Full article: https://oaklandsocialist.com/2018/07/28/we-dont-care/ > > John Reimann > > -- > *“In politics, abstract terms conceal treachery.” *from "The Black > Jacobins" by C. L. R. James > Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/mameerop% > 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
