If successful parties are organized, political strategy being a prerequisite of gaining power, we'd have a difficult time considering any movement with a prime time record disorganized. It may be more a matter of moral resolve masquerading as heightened organization on the right. Robert Reich recently opined* that US Republicans tend to react to political difficulty by moving further to the right whereas US Democrats will react to the same by approaching the domestic center. Keep in mind that a right wing ideologue is the quintessential reactionary in a traditional sense. * Insufficient post count to include links. huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/after-the-midterms-why-de_b_773672.html
national health care, you mean the mass give away to insurance companies??? obama bailed on most of his left promises and we certainly do not have a national health care system
a national health care system is one over reaching system that everyone is a part off or connected too. what we have is basicly just forcing us to buy into different system( companies)
You don't pay much attention to anyone actually on the left, apparently. Installing rightwing friends of Goldman Sachs in the Presidency (even moderate or competent ones) and massive government support for corporate insurance and drug companies, are not exactly parts of a left agenda.
An interesting radio special called 'building a powerful Left': http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/building_a_powerful_left_in_the_united_states_report_20110201/
Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! 30,000 odd protestors in Wisconsin.
Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! look carefully at those faces they probably are the ones that gave the wisconsin govt over to the rebublican nazis. ja, the faces of retarded schiltz drinking cheese eaters soon to be beaten up and killed by the national guard serves the fuckers right
So it's up in arms when the "Tea Party" does it, and murders are blamed on it, although when put into a corner, no one will come out and place the blame squarely on them? But when leftists (for lack of a better term) do it, it's just retribution... How bout get angry at both, or neither? If you're gonna blame one side, why give the other side a free pass? Two wrongs now make it all right? Or is it wrong to begin with? But anyhow. There is not a thread currently on this Wisconsin thing, so I'll just ask right now: what is actually at stake? So far I have seen that the governor of the state wants to increase the amount of money (deduction from salary) paid into state workers' pension and healthcare funds, for one thing. It looks to me like they already pay a pittance. Now, removing certain rights for workers to collectivize isn't something I'm about either. We don't need to go back to the dark ages. But, maybe unions have gained too much strength in certain areas? Certainly if/when workers are forced to join a union when they are hired. This subject deserves a larger thread. For now, call me when there are mass layoffs of public workers. This doesn't look like one of those times. My opinion, for those who give a f***: the issue needs to be JOBS. Period. This country has been sold out to the lowest bidder, it seems, and so government services are a reflection of that. We will have almost no rights as citizens at all if this country continues to outsource, continues to spend on it's foreign policy, etc, and continues to value worthless financial institutions and the monetary voodoo they engage in.
Exactly, the left always wants to dish it out, but they don't have the guts to eat from the same dish.
Kids that don't know the score, and the imported by bus, union thugs from Obamas Organizing for America.
