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In the end, Mike, I don't think it's a matter of the dangers of Trump and "Trumpism," but the effectiveness and seriousness of the Democratic Party in opposing it. I'm sure we're all agreed that the Democrats coauthored what we all agree to be the curse of neo-liberalism and of plaguing the planet with more and more intense wars. I think we are also agree that neither earned any praise for directly addressing the persistence of systemic racism and sexism. They never do without a massive and insistent pressure from the people. The key question is what have the Democrats done over the last half century to justify our seeing them as a viable vehicle for opposing Trump. The record certainly indicates that they were utterly incapable of thwarting the Trump ascendancy, a task rather easier than unseating an established wrong. Indeed, they boasted that they would not hold Bush to account for his WMD lies, something that the most minimal requirement of their oaths of office required. But, then again, they didn't even investigate Reagan's criminal activities with any seriousness and they dropped their investigation of Nixon's activities once he decided to leave office. Can you provide a single case of the Democratic party nationally accomplishing something for the laboring people of this country? (The nationalization of Romneycare--the implementation of Nixon's old proposal doesn't count.) And, if you can't do that, give me one real reason to justify any faith in a party that has embraces and celebrates the same ideology and practice of the Republicans--from trickle down economics to war drones--and hasn't really even felt much of an impulse to do anything substantive for us since the civil rights legislation of the middle 1960s . . . half century ago. Comradely, Mark L. _________________________________________________________ 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
