AMERICAN PARTY DUOPOLY

SOLOMON COMMISIONG—The Democrats, however, are treated as Hollywood super-heroes by the bulk of Black folks – many of whom think they own the Party, rather than the Party owning them.  Blacks have been politically domesticated into believing every story line mouthed by the Democratic thespians, who are terrible at passing legislation that helps Black and poor people but fantastically talented at political theater.

MARGARET KIMBERLEY—The manufactured impeachment drama even turned Mitt Romney into a hero for liberals. The man rightly despised as a hedge fund chieftain who condemned half of the population — the 47% who receive some public benefit — is now revered after voting to convict Trump in the senate trial. The fact that one-time villains can become heroes is proof that the differences in the duopoly are small and getting smaller. Image making and public relations count for more than any policy differences. 

KOLLIBRI TERRE SONNENBLUME—As Kimberley illustrates, the history of the US is very much the history of white supremacy, pivoting on slavery and its aftermath. Every president from the beginning has either been a southerner defending southern racism or a northerner afraid to challenge it for fear of losing southern votes (all the while denying northern racism).

ERIC LONDON—The proposed cuts would transfer trillions of dollars from the masses of working people into the hands of the financial aristocracy and affluent upper-middle class, having devastating consequences for hundreds of millions of workers from cradle to grave and exposing the utter fraud of Trump’s claim to represent the “forgotten men and women.”

ERIC ZUESSE—As for Democrats who don’t understand what a neocon or shill even is, they’d do both the Party and the nation a favor by entirely avoiding to vote, at all, and letting the Party’s progressives take over the Party, so as to win the war, to restore democracy to America and advance it further in the progressive direction.