REV CAN’T BE DONE WITH INSTRUMENTS CONTROLLED by BILLIONAIRES
That is the main
lesson from the Super Tuesday. And this is why:
We urge
Sanders to call LEADERS of Unions & working classes who support his
campaign for REV, plus Senator E.Warren, J.Stein, Tulsi Gabbard and other progressive people
to meet and define the creation of the 3rd option for democracy in
America: the NATIONAL FRONT to REBUILD AMERICA. The super Tuesday has shown
that we cannot waste the money
contributed by people in a race totally controlled by billionaires. We
have to get out from this trap and be consistent with the need for a REV to
change the whole corrupted economic
& political system we have. We cannot achieve that aim with the instruments
controlled by billionaires. We need to get
out from the DEMs party and register the 3rd option for real
democracy in America.
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Here my unpublished
art with a critique to Hedges wonderful doct:
IS SANDERS A POTENTIAL TRAITOR TO THE CAUSE of REV?
Hugo Adan. March 1, 2016
That judgment above is implicit in the art of Chris Hedges. Notice
that Hedges didn’t used the word “traitor” but “COURT JESTER”. So, jester could
be: A- a fool or stupid person easily to be tricked. Or B- an expert in saying
jokes (like a clown or charlatans) and delivering tricks (like magicians in a
circus ) to entertain their masters (the
court) OR an audience to whom they hide
the real aims and interest of their masters ( in this case “the big
corporations”). To Hedges the main “court jester” is Sanders” not Hillary although she declared
being financed by big Corporation, so her potential servant.
Read Hedges:
FIRST, the master or owner of “democratic elections”:
“The superpredators
are not poor people of color walking the streets of marginal communities. They
inhabit the exclusive corporate enclaves of the privileged and the powerful.
“Corporations control
the three branches of government. Corporations write the laws. Corporations
determine the media narrative and public debate. Corporations are turning
public education into a system of indoctrination. Corporations profit from
permanent war, mass incarceration, suppressed wages and poor health care.
Corporations have organized a tax boycott. Corporations demand “austerity.”
Corporate power is unassailable, and it rolls forward like a stream of lava.”
SECOND, Hedges sentence on Sanders’ as potential betrayal
“Bernie Sanders, who
at least acknowledges our economic reality and refuses to accept corporate
money for his presidential campaign, plays the role of the Democratic Party’s
court JESTER. No doubt to remain a member of the court, he will not condemn the
perfidy and collaboration with corporate power that define Obama, Hillary and
Bill Clinton and the Democratic Party. He accepts that criticism of empire is
taboo. He continues, even as the party elites rig the primaries against him, to
make a mockery of democratic participation, to hold up the Democrats as a tool
for change. He will soon be urging his supporters to
vote for Hillary Clinton, actively working as an impediment to political
mobilization and an advocate for political lethargy. Sanders,
whose promise of a political revolution is as hollow as competing campaign
slogans, will be rewarded for his duplicity. He will be
allowed to keep his seniority in the Democratic caucus. The party will not
mount a campaign in Vermont to unseat him from the U.S. Senate. He
will not, as he has feared, end up a pariah like Ralph Nader. But he, like everyone else in the establishment, will have sold us out.”
THIRD. Read the “What to do”, according the Heges: ANSW Nothing, they will implode
themselves
“The seeds of destruction of corporate power, however, are embedded within its own structure. The elites have
no internal or external constraints. They will exploit,
manipulate, lie and oppress until they create an
ideological vacuum.(sic) No one
but the most obtuse, including the courtiers who have severed themselves from
reality, will sputter out the inanities of neoliberal ideology. And at that point
the system will implode.”
FOUR. The consequences
of this election : the revolt of the right wing
“The revolt may be
right-wing. It may have heavy overtones of fascism.
It may cement into place a frightening police state. But that revolt is coming is incontrovertible. The
absurdity of the election proves it. “
…
[In the last
statement Trump appears either as expression of such
implosion, or as main actor of it. In both cases Hedges considers the implosion
as “incontrovertible” = necessary fact. The 3rd and 4th
point are certainly the weakest part of
his argument, as you with notice so in my comments below.]
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Global Research,
March 01, 2016 : http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-graveyard-of-the-elites-politicians-are-little-more-than-brands/5511161
Original in: Truthdig.com 26 Feb/16. www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_graveyard_of_the_elites_20160228/the_graveyard_of_the_elites_20160228
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MY CRITIQUE TO CHRIS HEDGES:
1-On the implosion: The owners of the system “will exploit,
manipulate, lie and oppress until they create an ideological vacuum”.(sic).
In my opinion they always live in ideological vacuum, they never had ideological
consistency. Neither Keynesian nor Friedman & Austrian economist provided them
the ideology nor answers to current debacle of the neoliberal system. This
ideological vacuum is that makes crook gamblers in Wall Street and fraudulent
bankers, super-billionaires night over or bankrupts with amount of beggars
imploring for more QEs and bailouts. So expecting the “implosion by ideological
vacuum” as Chris said, is like expecting that pigs fly .. no sense at all.
Neither the “sputting out of the inanities
of the neoliberal ideology” .. they can’t
vomit what they didn’t eat .. implosion won’t occur the way Hedges expect. . bad apples have to be shake out from the
tree. .. and this may be the time to do it.
In a socialist view a social change system will explode
when there is a REV (bottom-up first, and top-down, then after). REV depends on
organized people to take power -via elections in the US- and on the use of
State power to put dawn the fraudulent corp and political mafias who support
them.
2- In point 4th Hedges assumes that revolt, not
REV, is the solution. “The revolt may be
right-wing. It may have heavy overtones of fascism. It may cement into place a
frightening police state. But that revolt is coming .. is incontrovertible. The
absurdity of the election proves it”. Here
Trump appears either as expression of such implosion, or as main actor of the
“revolt”. In both cases Hedges considers
Trump’s revolt as “incontrovertible” = or necessary. However, the revolt Hedges
described is chaos, or anarchy in pejorative terms, .. Not real anarchism.. but
looting & cruel violence similar to IS
Since Hedges didn’t
make clear statement rejecting Trump “fascistic overtones” , people may think
that Hedges is in favor of him as actor of such “incontrovertible”, and
necessary revolt. .. The fact is that big Corp are prepared for such event.
They already militarized the police and are ready to put troops in the street
.. So there won’t be a successful revolt but a massacre of the people .. such
revolt has no sense at all. ..
We have to use
elections and peaceful methods to remove big-bad corp from power. We cannot do it playing their games, rules and
control .. we have to get out from the DEMs party and create our own org: the
national PEOPLE FRONT for Rebuilding America and the cells across the country
to support such FRONT: the revolutionary committees to rebuild America RCRA. It
means: organize sympathizers among the working classes and young people to work
for change at local, regional & national level.
3- To say that the revolt is incontrovertible because “the absurdity
of the election proves it”, has no sense either. Everybody accept as
fact that current “elections” are very corrupted 1st, and 2nd that
there is a chance that Trump could win the Presidency, the senate, the house
and the Court because their amount of people registered to vote & that their
voters turnout is greater than the DEMs.
This does not mean that we have to accept the probability of revolt if the establishment
don’t accept Trump. Elections in the year 2000 prove it. Although clear fraud,
Gore conceded victory to Bush .. “the people will was sold out” by Gore, it was
said so in the media and there was not revolt.
Hedges assume that
this time will be the same, that now Sanders will betray and sell the people’s
will. I don’t think so, I do think that Sanders is very honest person and really committed to defeat
the big Corp that today control this game .. “Sanders knows now that his REV cannot be done
by using instruments controlled by big Corp” (updated).
Rev will happen only if people organize themselves at two levels. A-
By creating across America the RCRA (Revolutionary Committees
to Rebuild America) with two tasks: first to make Sanders the winner of
the race to the Presidency and 2nd to support his plan to change
America if elected President and/or to organize REFERENDUMS to make electors
obey what people demand. B- to organize the PEOPLES
FRONT to REBUILD AMERICA, as 3rd
choice party, out of the DEMs party.
We will press Sanders to call J.Stein from
the green party, Senator E.Warren and Tulsi Gabbard to join the current electoral
REV against the 1%. We know that
the electorate will respond in favor of a FRONT if we show them that
progressive people in America is united. Worker-Union leaders and new young
leaders across America including Ashley
Williams should accompany Sanders during his presentations across
American. The purpose of the election is to organize people beyond election to
implement that FDR did in similar circumstances (the great depression of 1930),
we have to update that program and implemented now, that is that we called today-socialism
in America.
4-The FACT is that we have inside the democratic party the
worse obstacle for democracy, that is Hillary Clinton. If we plan to defeat big
corp (the owners of the system) we need to defeat her in this primaries.
To win her we cannot depend on one person: Sanders. The enemy is huge to leave
this task on the hand of one person.
Another FACT is that
we didn’t fight her properly so far: we didn’t defend people’ vote stolen by superdelgates in NH, those was
given to Hillary by them… The worst is that we did not organize the FRONT to go
beyond the election and support the plan to change the whole economic &
political system we are in. Without this instrument nothing that Sanders promised
will be achieved.
5-The PEOPLE FRONT to REBUILD AMERICA is also the KEY instrument
to get out from the DEM party & create the 3rd option for real
democracy. If we don’t organize the RCRA (Rev-Committees
to Rebuild America) and the PEOPLE FRONT to run the 3rd choice for
real democracy & peace, we cannot achieve our aims. . We should consider the
lack of those instruments as a facts or sign
of self- treason to the REV fostered by Sanders. We should not depend on him,
one person won’t do the whole job. We should depend on the organization of the young
people & and the working classes and on their will to defend their own
interests. The FRONT is just the instrument for such aim.
6- We have to be ready to get out from the DEMs party (we do
not want Sanders to call us to vote for Hillary if he lost the nomination, not way.
We should not have any commitment to the DEMs party. Both DEMs and GOP are instruments
of oppression and fraud from big corp. If Sanders call us to vote
Hillary, then Chris Hedges is right (we were used as toilet paper by big corp
and her servant Hillary Clinton). If Sanders disagree with the FRONT and the
right to register the 3rd option, then he will be the traitor
described by Chris Hedges. I repeat, if Sanders disagree with the FRONT and the
3rd democratic choice in this election, there won’t be point in supporting Sanders,
since he will become the “jester” described by Chris Hedges.
7- This doesn’t mean that we have to support Trump and his fascistic overtones. That
only mean that the election will become an absurdity, so we do not have to vote
for anyone. We don’t want to have such dilemma. We will make all efforts to
create the PEOPLE FRONT and the RCRA to continue the fight for democracy, peace
and socialism. If we don’t vote this time because of betrayal to our cause, it
doesn’t mean that elections are always an absurdity, as Hedges believe. Our
main task is organize people to go beyond elections and if we get the RCRA and
the FRONT our work will be considered a success. Election then make total sense
if we organize people beyond elections, as an instrument to defend our interest
against the 1%. They are the cause of
our misery and that is a fact. Elections make sense if our vote is respected,
first by our leaders and by the corrupted bureaucracy behind superpack and superdelegates
and their Electoral College. Election will make sense also if the right for 3rd
option (independent FRONT) is also respected at State, Regions and National
level. Even if PEOPLE FRONT to REBUIULD AMERICA lose this election, our Nation will have an instrument
to continue fighting later on for
Referendum to make the elected be respectful of peoples demand.
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