USA: Republican victory in 2016 would strengthen new patrimonial oligarchy

Written on January 11th, 2016 in politics Comments Off

Published on People’s World, by John Bachtell, Jan 8, 2016.

The hateful and reactionary ideas spewing from the mouths of the Republican Party candidates confront us with the clear and present danger we would face next November were any one of them to be elected president … //

… These forces captured the Republican Party and engineered the nomination of Ronald Reagan.

The battle against the ultra right led by a growing broad multi-class alliance which includes the labor movement and other democratic forces has been fought out in election cycles, the legislative battlefield and in the arena of public opinion since then.

While income inequality has emerged as a major issue and important shifts against the ultra right have taken place on key issues the electorate is still deeply divided, with a substantial section, misled, disillusioned and disengaged.

The extreme wealth concentration is reverberating in the Democratic Party as well, with efforts by the conservative New Democrats to undercut a shift to the left. The 3rd Way is supported by the Chamber of Commerce, the Business Roundtable, banking and insurance corporations.

Extreme wealth concentration is and will continue to deepen class divisions and tensions within the multi-class coalition that works in and with the Democratic Party.

Right wing domination of significant levers of government in tandem with accelerating wealth concentration pose increased danger to democratic institutions at every level. And yet the mere concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few oligarchs, or .1 percent, creates the possibilities for the broadest kinds of coalitions and movements, unlike anything we have ever seen.

The challenge before labor, communities of color, women, youth and other democratic forces is to continue to build the biggest, broadest, most diverse and tactically mature movement possible to win in 2016 and set the stage for bigger victories ahead.

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Travailleurs indépendants et économie numérique, dans atlantico.fr, par Julien Gagliardi, le 8 janv 2016: ces solutions tellement plus pragmatiques à côté desquelles est passée la ministre du Travail;

Welfare experiment may have applications in Australia, on Canberra Times, by Mikayla Novak, Jan 8, 2016;

La révolution numérique ouvre la voie à un nouveau contrat social 2.0 – Benoît Thieulin, dans l’Express, le 6 janv 2016;

Justizministerium an Verfassungsschutz: Vorratsdatenspeicherung ist für alle da, auf Netzpolitik.org, von Tomas Rudi, 5. Jan 2016;

Medicine Doesn’t Solve The Causes Of Illness & Often Does More Harm – Dr. Finbar Magee, 49.30 min, uploaded by The Richie Allen Show, Dec 1, 2015 … website; Synergy Healthcare;

MUTATIONS DES SYSTÈMES PRODUCTIFS EN FRANCE, dans Alternatives Economiques, par Gérard Vindt, le 15 juillet 2014: Les territoires qui gagnent, les territoires qui perdent;

Spirit Science – 19 Cosmic Connections, 10.34 min, uploaded by FarFromDanK, April 28, 2013;
Spirit Science on: their YouTube channel; YouTube search; the Werbsite; Google Images-search;

The Sad Truth – To Why Most People May Not Wake Up, 10.00 min, uploaded by FarFromDanK, April 13, 2009;

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