JHK: Potemkin Party

[Binkie The Clown]

Potemkin Party

How many of you brooding on the dreadful prospect of Hillary have chanced to survey what remains of Democratic Party (cough cough) leadership in the background of Her Royal Inevitableness? Nothing is the answer. Zip. Nobody. A vacuum. There is no Democratic Party anymore. There are no figures of gravitas anywhere to be found, no ideas really suited to the American prospect, nothing with the will to oppose the lumbering parasitic corporatocracy that is doing little more than cluttering up this moment in history while it sucks the last dregs of value from our society.

I say this as a lifelong registered Democrat but a completely disaffected one — who regards the Republican opposition as the mere errand boy of the above-named lumbering parasitic corporatocracy. Readers are surely chafing to insert that the Democrats have been no less errand boys (and girls) for the same disgusting zeitgeist, and they are surely correct in the case of Hillary, and indeed of the current President.

Readers are surely also chafing to insert that there is Bernie Sanders, climbing in the opinion polls, disdaining Wall Street money, denouncing the current disposition of things with the old union hall surliness we’ve grown to know and love. I’m grateful that Bernie is in the race, that he’s framing an argument against Ms. It’s My Turn. I just don’t happen to think that Bernie gets what the country — indeed what all of techno-industrial society — is really up against, namely a long emergency of economic contraction and collapse.

More at the link above.

[Fred Sanders]

1. More Hillary and Obama-bashing at the unknown hyper-link? No thanks, Binkie the Clown!

[Binkie The Clown]

2. "JHK" = James Howard Kunstler. Hardly unknown.

and, of course, all "true believers" call any criticism "bashing". Predictable.

[Fred Sanders]

4. FYI, "JHK" is unknown, as is your hyperlink. Your liberal use of Emojis are funny, though, Binkie.

[NuclearDem]

6. Hardly a household name.

[LiberalElite]

3. You missed the Bernie mention-

there, feel better?

[Fred Sanders]

5. On the contrary, the Bernie mention is equally absurd, but back to the topic....Obama-bashing??

[LiberalElite]

7. Criticism isn't bashing eom

[Fred Sanders]

8. Maybe if you read the post again you might notice that, yea, it absolutely is. Have a nice day.

Binkie the Clown can handle it himself, I am sure.

[Octafish]

9. These are important ideas to discuss now.

Do we want to be a Party that represents millionaires and billionaires, let alone first and foremost?

I don't. The wealthy already have a Party, they're called Republikons.

[Binkie The Clown]

10. It's encouraging to know that some Dems get it. Thank you. n/t

[Octafish]

11. It's my fault for being so old.

I remember what it was like when JFK was president. We lived in a time when anything was possible, even going to the moon.

These days, like George H.W. Bush put it at his inaugural address, "We have more will than wallet."

Odd thing to say, considering Reaganomics put all that loot into Poppy's pockets, as well as those of his friends. Today, thanks to unending war and austerity for the rest of us, even more loot resides with the 1-percent, a lot of which is off shore.

[Binkie The Clown]

13. Well, I've got you beat.

I remember when Eisenhower was president, although the first president I really paid any attention to was JFK. (I was in the barracks (at Lackland AFB in San Antonio) folding my laundry when the news came that he had been shot.)

[jwirr]

14. Many of us know who James Howard Kunstler is. We have read his books "The Long Emergency"

and others. And there are important issues he raises.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

12. I see that the "Not as Bad", "Love it or leave it", wing of the party is here.

Freedom for supporters of the government only, for members of one party only, no matter how big its membership may be is, no freedom at all. Freedom is always freedom for the man who thinks differently.

Rosa Luxemburg