Interfluidity
Your theory of politics is wrong
Steve Randy Waldman
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Steve Randy Waldman — Your theory of politics is wrong
Interfluidity
Your theory of politics is wrong
Steve Randy Waldman
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SRW is entitled to be for Bernie because of his values, but SRW never spells out what those values are. Flooding the country with cheap immigrant labor? Exterminating Palestinians? Apartheid Israel? The F-35 boondoggle? Imperialism? The new cold war with Russia? Regressive taxes on the working class?
Bernie's values are petite bourgeoisie, with a few bones thrown to the working class. Bernie may be a lesser evil, but he does not represent me or my values.
NEP has gone offline? Anyone else able to access it? CloudFlare??
SRW is entitled to be for Bernie because of his values, but SRW never spells out what those values are.
SRW says that he is for Bernie because Bernie is for him, implying that none of the other candidates are. I would agree with that.
When people are in the voting booth, they don't judge the candidates by any other standard than the one with whom they most identify.
NEP has gone offline? Anyone else able to access it? CloudFlare??
It's up for me.
On a related note, the author of "What's the Matter With Kansas" zooms in on what's wrong with today's politics:
Democrats abandoned "the New Deal, with its fixation on working-class people. What had to be embraced, the party’s reformers agreed, was the emerging post-industrial economy and in particular the winners of this new order: the highly educated professionals."
What I have been saying for a while -- Democrats have become the party of the petite bourgeoisie. Bernie is no exception though he at least throws the working class a few bones.
SRW's position is the petite bourgeoisie equivalent of "I'll vote for the person I'd like to have a beer with." Or a latte, or whatever the petite bourgeoisie drink these days. I do not think that is how a healthy democracy should function. Identity politics is inherently divisive and tends to divert attention away from issues.
I would prefer to vote on issues. I don't want to have a beer with any of those rascals. :-)
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