Eric Alterman writes in The Nation that the crazier the Republicans become, the more people follow them. He follows the Republican leadership's lament that Hillary could screw up & we wind up with some sort of uncontrollable nut-job as president.
They are the ones that created Frankenstein's monster. What did they think was going to happen?
And then there is the standard liberal lament that the Democrats are elitist snobs that are alienated (my word) from the working class.
And then there is the usual tirade about the corporate media and how it has been easily manipulated by the candidates and how they (the media) refuse to call the candidates out on gross errors.
More of the same.
And the solution? Same old solution - vote for the Democrats because they are not as bad as the Republicans. Vote for the lesser of two evils. Vote for the party that is going to be the kinder, friendlier face of capitalism instead of the crazier face.
The analysis is the same and the solutions are the same. The only difference is the implementation.
It's time for one of these pundits in what passes for the (accepted) left wing media start talking about the alternatives to the two capitalist parties and started talking about socialism.
Instead of just surrendering the working and middle class to the capitalists build a party based on the needs of those two classes. Instead of relying upon the corporate owned and controlled media for information, build a worker owned and controlled media to advance our ideas and our needs. A media that tells our stories instead of those of the 1% (or their interpretation or what they want us to believe).
So, who are the real clowns?
The people running or the people reporting?
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