COUNTERPUNCH, NOVEMBER 13, 2020
Roaming Charges: After/Math
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BYJEFFREY ST. CLAIR <https://www.counterpunch.org/author/jeffrey-st-clair/>
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The end of the road, Alford Desert, southern Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St.
Clair.
“Nothing is more characteristic of the totalitarian movements in
general and of the quality of fame of their leaders in particular
than the startling swiftness with which they are forgotten & the
startling ease with which they can be replaced.”
– Hannah Arendt
+ The most predictable post-election event in American politics is when
the leadership of the Democratic Party gathers together for a searing
session of self-analysis, only to emerge a few minutes later with the
firm conclusion that they haven’t moved far enough to the right and that
all of their loses can be blamed on the socialist contagion from within.
+ But by all means purge the “leftists” from your party, Rep. Jeffries…
+ Even the FoxNews poll this week showed 70% support for Medicare for
All. But Biden continued to distance himself from it as the campaign
went on. Now, the most likely scenario is that the Barrett-Kavanaugh
Supreme Court strikes down ObamaCare and Biden negotiates something even
worse with McConnell as its replacement.
+ House Whip James Clyburn was one of the first to blame progressives
for the loss of House seats, even though most candidates running as
progressives prevailed and those running on as moderates got clocked.
“We keep making that mistake,” Clyburn moaned to Axios. “This
foolishness about you got to be this progressive or that
progressive. That phrase, ‘defund the police,’ cost [Democratic Senate
candidate] Jaime Harrison tremendously…I am mad! I’m not blaming
progressive members. I want everybody in my caucus to be as practical as
I am. That’s the difference here. How are you gonna look at me and say
I’m not progressive? This foolishness about you more progressive than I
am? That’s poppycock. Stop sloganeering. Sloganeering kills
people. Sloganeering destroys movements. Stop sloganeering.”
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