Why I will never trust the 'resistance' to Donald Trump.

Simple - they just approved a $674 Billion budget for the military -

https://www.democracynow.org/2018/9/20/headlines/senate_passes_674_billion_military_spending_bill

Senate Passes $674 Billion Military Spending Bill

HeadlineSep 20, 2018

In news from Capitol Hill, the Senate has voted 93 to 7 to approve a $674 billion military spending bill. Every Democratic senator supported the bill. Six Republicans and independent Senator Bernie Sanders opposed it.


Next time some idiot asks you how to pay for things like Single-Payer Health Care for all, Free College, etc., point their front in this direction and kick them in the rear.

The best end-of-weeks ...

... are the ones where a vacation begins.

Gotta love the graffiti on this freight train.

A train going on our commuter line - in the opposite direction.

One step forward, two steps back.

It always seems that way.

At least I get trapped in the perspective at times.

Cynthia Nixon MUST be related to Bernie Sanders somehow.

Why, you may ask?

A word I've come to distrust - intersectionality.

Here's why -

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/09/14/set-theory-of-the-left/

For example, a common refrain among the intersectionalist left is that Trump won the 2016 election due to the racism of white people, working-class whites in particular, and therefore the set we call working-class whites has nothing to bring to the intersection, so to speak. It can be ignored as a potential ally in the struggle against neoliberalism.   However, the set of all working-class white people is not the same as what we find at the intersection of the set of working-class white people and the set of racists. By conflating the two sets, the intersectionalists are

1) excluding a large set of people that have been crushed by neoliberalism and
2) committing themselves to a much diminished coalition.

The question is:  Why is this idea of intersectionality, which is logically flawed on its very face, so prevalent among various leftist factions and “progressives”?  There are two likely possibilities, in my view:

1) The Left is being deliberately fractured by government and corporate policies or
2) The Left is exhibiting a sort of schizophrenic break with reality induced by both a perpetual inability to obtain economic and social relief from neoliberalism and the election of Donald Trump.

Hard to disagree with this guy.

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