https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/19/opinion/chris-murphy-democrats.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EE4.rcBD.615DsPyEOXz1&smid=url-share
'“The signs are clear, and we shouldn’t be afraid to see them,” Mr. Murphy said that day. “The postwar neoliberal economic project is nearing its end, and the survival of American democracy relies on how we respond.”' I thought this article bookends Harris' recent economic policy statements on inflation. Instead of standing next to someone like economist Joseph Stiglitz and explain that inflation was from supply disruptions and supply chains that span oceans to outsource US jobs, Harris focuses on "price gouging." The US Democratic Party today calls the neoliberal order "democracy," while Trump and the MAGA Republicans talk about transformation. Rather than propose transformative changes to make the US electoral system democratic, Harris and the Democrats propose to preserve a system where money trumps popular sovereignty, US foreign policy kills millions of people overseas and US policy remains outside the reach of the peoples' control. Gaza is the current catastrophe that Harris will do nothing about. The Democratic Party champions the disintegrating neoliberal order while that the Party the did the most to shape it now talks about its transformation. Talks about transformation. From his first presidency, it's clear there's no chance that Trump will transform anything. He will be the "coin operated" president that US capitalism needs at this time. In a way, it is the ultimate solution to the issues raised by the "Powell Memo" that signaled an end to the US imperialism's partnership with the US working class: A president immune from prosecution and an electoral system that's even further beyond the reach of the people is their logical replacement to collapsing neoliberalism. The US Democratic Party has no replacement to the collapsing political order any more that we in the US have a replacement to the imperialist Democratic Party. Mark -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#31707): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/31707 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/107980941/21656 -=-=- 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. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
