There are no “Safe Choices”!

[Cassiopeia]

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Broken landscape.

Our current political landscape is unprecedented. The Republican Party is coming apart at the seams. The Democratic Party is broken, the rift between Wall Street Establishment and populist insurgents grows ever deeper. It is generally recognized that there are now roughly four social forces — no, not just four nominal factions, but four distinct social forces, POLITICAL FORCES — contending for the soul of America. Distinct not merely by programmatic nuance, but by fundamental social vision. They are:

1 Establishment (Wall Street) Democrats trying to maintain the old post-WWII consensus;

2 Establishment (Wall Street) Republicans who would rule through the sheer power of money;

3 the Trump insurgency, taking the rage of the working class and trying to harness (divide) it in terms of race and nationality;

4 the Sanders insurgency, taking that same rage, and trying to unite it in terms of racial and economic justice. In terms of human solidarity.

The Clinton Democrats are desperately trying to maintain the familiar 2-party framework that has served Wall Street so well — and the poor and working people of this country so badly. But things have gotten more complicated since the last go-round. Establishment Republicans and Establishment Democrats are both threatened by a broad rejection of the neo-con vision of the Pax Americana, and the globalist economic policies that render the ordinary people of this country more impoverished every year. The Trump and Sanders insurgencies both reject that neo-con/neo-liberal death march, but while the Trump base is gravitating toward a social vision that is fundamentally fascist, the Sanders forces are gathering around a vision that is essentially socialistic, whatever your definition of “socialist.”

Much more at link, it's a pretty good read.
http://lifeinspice.com/?p=2480

[elleng]

1. Thanks for setting this out so clearly, Cass.