Yesterday the mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, condemned people for protesting against the sale of land in the West Bank, sales which were happening in a New York synagogue.
The Democratic Party is the graveyard of social movements. Its appointed historic role is to siphon off antiestablishment energy and ideas into the dead end of the two-party duopoly where they can be swiftly neutralised. The Democratic Party did this to the Civil Rights movement, the Women’s movement, the anti-war movement and Occupy. Any ‘radical’ who attaches themselves to the Democrats knows this and is complicit with it—look at the sad but instructive cases of Bernie and AOC.
Yes, I'm using the same comments alot. And everyone posting about our situation and all the "alt" stramers are really doing the same thing. Endlessly reciting more circumstances that amount to "We're fucked." I've had decades to come to these conclusions, and like others, have had periods I too was deceived enough to set them aside, but eventually of course, the deceptions became obvious, both the people and the policies. Here's my repeat.
"You have NO effective friends in high places who can use civil reform to reverse the psychopathic horrors of a dying empire. Look to Gaza and Venezuela to grasp what would happen to any real threat it encounters. Look to Nov 22, 1963. We are not facing something new. We are facing the culmination of something parasitic and irrational, that cloaked itself in effective manipulations our entire lifetime. Now the cloak is gone and the monster stands before us, swinging Death’s scythe."
Will Mandami best AOC in shredding progressive principles? That's a high bar I hope he does not clear. But I have visions of the bar being raised as Mandami and AOC sell us out hand-in-hand.
I had adopted an I’ll wait and see attitude with respect to Mamdani. I am not surprised in the least to hear about what he has done. I almost expected something like this would happen sooner or later.
We go through this same cycle again and again.
The political systems there, here and elsewhere never bring real or lasting change for the good of the people and planet, and they are too slow to act on our collective needs in any case.
We need new political systems - radically different and distinct from our current systems.
'we might as well pack up and go home', but where is home now? Where do you go to escape this unfolding fascist nightmare?
Funny how people like Mamdani only show us who they REALLY are once they are elected. You are right, its the destruction of a frail hope that people were clinging to, the terrible betrayal much much worse than monsters like Trump, Netanyahu and Putin- we know who they are, we know what they are capable of. We may be shocked, sickened and horrified, but not betrayed, not lose all hope. That is a much greater wound which does not heal and festers and takes away any drive to try again to get someone elected who will surely betray again. Best to keep your head down, try to keep your loved ones safe, and wait for it all to end.
We have the same problem in the UK, a government who came in on a promise of change and hope and are a moral vacuum, incapable of governing and just laying down the laws and path to fascism that Nigel Farage will bring us in a few years. Like Mamdani we have Zack Polanski, he seems so good at the moment, he's giving thousands hope, but will he be the same as Mamdani if he gets near power?
There are so many signs that our civilisation is ending now, decadence, greed, betrayal, cruelty- just like so many civilisations before, the speed is terrifying, the Roman empire dragged on for ages but ours looks like it will end in a blaze of wars, extreme violence and irreversible climate breakdown. We are already at the beginning.
"An ally who stabs you in the back is worse than an enemy who stabs you in the chest."
I absolutely agree with this. What passes for the left in the West has become an absolute fraud, so naturally they will be very upset when you are able to see through their latest version of AOC. This is the kind of flack you get when you're getting close to the target.
The fake left are insideous in the West. They have managed to maintain a shread of political credibility via Mandani while always finding some left sounding phraseology to support Israel and US Imperialism. The Hallmark of the fake left is that they always protect Israel. They enabled it's genocide and continue to do so. They can parade their virtue all they want, but in the end they are an agency of Imperialism and Zionism.
Women who have chosen a self described “nice guy” only to wind up abused know exactly what you mean.
There’s no hating the abuser more than the fake nice guy because they’re the same.
Anyone who chose Biden in 2020 in hopes of keeping public health knows exactly what you mean.
When we look at the historical wastewater data we can see the winter of 2021 was the worst covid wave of all time, to date anyway. I hate his covid response more than trump’s because at least there was some resistance when trump wanted us all infected. Once Biden called for it all the “good guys” ripped off their masks and went all in on the genocide of the vulnerable.
No Kings really does have to mean No Kings. Handing this much of our collective hope and faith to one person, no matter how likable he is, is never a good idea. One person never has the answer. One person will never save us.
I already didn’t have high hopes for Mamdani because he didn’t say one word about the ongoing pandemic and public health crisis. If you don’t stand for basic public health, you are a tool of Empire.
Keep at it, Nate. You are absolutely correct. Don't let the priestcraft of these liberal eunuchs put doubt in your mind. They are just as culpable as Trump for the perverted world we live in. More so because, as you pointed out, they come as friends.
he also didn't even bother to condemn the kahanist flags & chants & threats from the zionist mobs either so even by his own bullshit framing he's spineless and a hypocrite
Audre Lorde wrote, "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." What more is there to say. Change from within is a fantasy, and attempts to prop up the failing "democracy" experiment are just pissing in the wind.
The Democratic Party is the graveyard of social movements. Its appointed historic role is to siphon off antiestablishment energy and ideas into the dead end of the two-party duopoly where they can be swiftly neutralised. The Democratic Party did this to the Civil Rights movement, the Women’s movement, the anti-war movement and Occupy. Any ‘radical’ who attaches themselves to the Democrats knows this and is complicit with it—look at the sad but instructive cases of Bernie and AOC.
Yes, I'm using the same comments alot. And everyone posting about our situation and all the "alt" stramers are really doing the same thing. Endlessly reciting more circumstances that amount to "We're fucked." I've had decades to come to these conclusions, and like others, have had periods I too was deceived enough to set them aside, but eventually of course, the deceptions became obvious, both the people and the policies. Here's my repeat.
"You have NO effective friends in high places who can use civil reform to reverse the psychopathic horrors of a dying empire. Look to Gaza and Venezuela to grasp what would happen to any real threat it encounters. Look to Nov 22, 1963. We are not facing something new. We are facing the culmination of something parasitic and irrational, that cloaked itself in effective manipulations our entire lifetime. Now the cloak is gone and the monster stands before us, swinging Death’s scythe."
I had a low bar for my expectations of Mamdani, but he managed to limbo beneath them.
For brevity, I am sharing a link to the Socialist AI site that gives a timeline for Zohran Mamdani's back-peddling on progressive promises:
https://ai.wsws.org/en/threads/d5cf80af-69c3-42eb-a349-3844c03cc9cd
Mea culpa, I have form with misspelling Mamdani.
Will Mandami best AOC in shredding progressive principles? That's a high bar I hope he does not clear. But I have visions of the bar being raised as Mandami and AOC sell us out hand-in-hand.
If the establishment is good at nothing else, it is very good at determining whom to co-opt, whom to buy off, whom to neutralize, whom to ignore.
Thanks Nate. I agree with you.
I had adopted an I’ll wait and see attitude with respect to Mamdani. I am not surprised in the least to hear about what he has done. I almost expected something like this would happen sooner or later.
We go through this same cycle again and again.
The political systems there, here and elsewhere never bring real or lasting change for the good of the people and planet, and they are too slow to act on our collective needs in any case.
We need new political systems - radically different and distinct from our current systems.
I wish I knew how that could be brought about.
'we might as well pack up and go home', but where is home now? Where do you go to escape this unfolding fascist nightmare?
Funny how people like Mamdani only show us who they REALLY are once they are elected. You are right, its the destruction of a frail hope that people were clinging to, the terrible betrayal much much worse than monsters like Trump, Netanyahu and Putin- we know who they are, we know what they are capable of. We may be shocked, sickened and horrified, but not betrayed, not lose all hope. That is a much greater wound which does not heal and festers and takes away any drive to try again to get someone elected who will surely betray again. Best to keep your head down, try to keep your loved ones safe, and wait for it all to end.
We have the same problem in the UK, a government who came in on a promise of change and hope and are a moral vacuum, incapable of governing and just laying down the laws and path to fascism that Nigel Farage will bring us in a few years. Like Mamdani we have Zack Polanski, he seems so good at the moment, he's giving thousands hope, but will he be the same as Mamdani if he gets near power?
There are so many signs that our civilisation is ending now, decadence, greed, betrayal, cruelty- just like so many civilisations before, the speed is terrifying, the Roman empire dragged on for ages but ours looks like it will end in a blaze of wars, extreme violence and irreversible climate breakdown. We are already at the beginning.
So where is home? and is it safe any longer?
Looks like they got to him. Fast, and deep.
"An ally who stabs you in the back is worse than an enemy who stabs you in the chest."
I absolutely agree with this. What passes for the left in the West has become an absolute fraud, so naturally they will be very upset when you are able to see through their latest version of AOC. This is the kind of flack you get when you're getting close to the target.
The fake left are insideous in the West. They have managed to maintain a shread of political credibility via Mandani while always finding some left sounding phraseology to support Israel and US Imperialism. The Hallmark of the fake left is that they always protect Israel. They enabled it's genocide and continue to do so. They can parade their virtue all they want, but in the end they are an agency of Imperialism and Zionism.
Mamdani is an op.
thanks for that, mister bear. the arc of disillusionment is long.
Women who have chosen a self described “nice guy” only to wind up abused know exactly what you mean.
There’s no hating the abuser more than the fake nice guy because they’re the same.
Anyone who chose Biden in 2020 in hopes of keeping public health knows exactly what you mean.
When we look at the historical wastewater data we can see the winter of 2021 was the worst covid wave of all time, to date anyway. I hate his covid response more than trump’s because at least there was some resistance when trump wanted us all infected. Once Biden called for it all the “good guys” ripped off their masks and went all in on the genocide of the vulnerable.
Thank you for raising this point. It's one that gets missed or dismissed constantly in "progressive" circles.
No Kings really does have to mean No Kings. Handing this much of our collective hope and faith to one person, no matter how likable he is, is never a good idea. One person never has the answer. One person will never save us.
I already didn’t have high hopes for Mamdani because he didn’t say one word about the ongoing pandemic and public health crisis. If you don’t stand for basic public health, you are a tool of Empire.
I saw people getting excited about him, not because of him specifically, but because of the socialism angle. Socialists CAN win elections.
Keep at it, Nate. You are absolutely correct. Don't let the priestcraft of these liberal eunuchs put doubt in your mind. They are just as culpable as Trump for the perverted world we live in. More so because, as you pointed out, they come as friends.
he also didn't even bother to condemn the kahanist flags & chants & threats from the zionist mobs either so even by his own bullshit framing he's spineless and a hypocrite
Audre Lorde wrote, "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." What more is there to say. Change from within is a fantasy, and attempts to prop up the failing "democracy" experiment are just pissing in the wind.
i wanted to believe he was not captured but i knew in my gut when i saw how the dems and trump adored him he was bought.