WHY WE
NEED TO ABOLISH THE DNC,
Even If That Means
Breaking Up The Democratic Party
Michael Hudson: Thu, 09/12/2019
SEE MY CRITIQUE AT THE END Hugo Adan
Here we offer only selected statement. Read the full art at:
1-Tonight’s debate
on ABC channel is shaping up another shameless charade.
The pretense is that we are to select who the Democratic presidential
candidate will be.
2a-But most Americans, [already] belong to the informal but dominant party, the
party of “non-voters” those who
choose not to be sucked into legitimizing the bad choices put before them.
2b- The effect has been to make America into a one-party state.
Republicans act as the most blatant lobbyists for the Donor Class. But people
can vote for a representative of the One Percent and the military-industrial
complex in either the Republican or Democratic column. That
is why most Americans owe allegiance to no party.
3- see
chart: who has qualified for the 3rd DNC debate
MH notice that Tulsi Gabbard –the antiwar lady- was not there
‘for obvious reason’
4- The debate is being presented as a reality entertainment show.
Most Americans are
now living from paycheck to paycheck and cannot come up with even $400 in an
emergency. They are afraid to go on strike or even to complain about their job,
because they are afraid of getting fired – and of losing their corporate
health care, knowing that getting sick may wipe them out.
These problems will not appear on Walt Disney debates.
5a- Voters
basically want what Bernie Sanders is promising:
a basic right to Single Payer health care and a retirement income. That
means protection against the Republican-Democratic threats to cut back Social Security
to balance the budget in the face of tax cuts for the richest One Percent and
rising Cold War military spending. This means a government strong enough to
take on the vested financial and corporate interests and prosecute Wall
Street’s financial crime and corporate monopoly power. When neoliberals shout, “But that’s socialism,” Americans
finally are beginning to say, “Then give us socialism.” It beats being ground
down into debt peonage.
I hope that the candidate who is clearly the voters’ choice, Bernie Sanders, may end up as the party’s nominee. If
he is, I’m sure he’ll beat Donald Trump handily, as he would have done four
years ago.
5b- The DNC pretended that it was all unfortunate political errors. But of course it was not a mistake
at all. The DNC preferred to lose with Hillary than win
with Bernie, whom springtime polls showed would be the easy winner over
Trump. Potential voters who didn’t buy into the program either stayed home or
voted green.
6- It is not the voters who are empowered to
choose the Democratic Party’s candidate. That privilege belongs legally to the
Democratic National Committee (DNC). Since stacking the
political deck in 2016 to serve up Hillary Clinton as nominee, it has put in
place rules that will enable its Donor Class members, super-delegates and other
lobbyists for the One Percent to repeat the trickery once again in 2020.
7a- But I
fear that the DNC’s Donor Class will push Joe Biden, Kamala Harris or even Pete
Buttigieg down the throats of voters. Just as when they backed Hillary the last time around, they hope
that their anointed neoliberal will be viewed as the lesser evil for a program
little different from that of the Republicans.
7b- DNC
donors favor Joe Biden, long-time senator from the credit-card and
corporate-shell state of Delaware,
and opportunistic California prosecutor Kamala Harris, with a
hopey-changey grab bag alternative in smooth-talking small-town Rorschach blot
candidate Pete Buttigieg. These easy victims are presented as “electable” in
full knowledge that they will fail against Trump.
8a- Donald Trump as the DNC’s nominee
The problem facing the Democratic National Committee today
remains the same as in 2016: How to block even a moderately left-wing social
democrat by picking a candidate guaranteed to lose to Trump, so as to continue
the policies that serve banks, the financial markets and military spending for
Cold War 2.0.
DNC donors favor Joe
Biden, long-time senator from the credit-card and corporate-shell state of
Delaware, and opportunistic California prosecutor Kamala Harris, with a
hopey-changey grab bag alternative in smooth-talking small-town Rorschach blot
candidate Pete Buttigieg. These
easy victims are presented as “electable” in full knowledge that they will fail
against Trump.
8b- Trump meanwhile has done most everything the Democratic Donor Class wants:
He has cut taxes on the wealthy, cut social spending for the population at
large, backed Quantitative Easing to inflate the stock and bond markets,
and pursued Cold War 2.0. Best of all, his abrasive style has enabled Democrats
to blame the Republicans for the giveaway to the rich, as if they would have
followed a different policy.
The Democratic Party’s role is to
protect Republicans from attack from the left, steadily following the
Republican march rightward. Claiming that this is at least in the direction of
being “centrist,” the Democrats present themselves as the lesser evil (which is
still evil, of course), simply as pragmatic in not letting hopes for “the
perfect” (meaning moderate social democracy) block the spirit of compromise
with what is attainable, “getting things done” by cooperating across the aisle
and winning Republican support. That is what Joe Biden promises.
9- Starve
out the DNC
Now is the time to start thinking about what to do if and
when the DNC presents voters with neoliberal Hillary 2.0, preferring to lose
with Biden or his clones than to win with Bernie.
I think
the only effective response will be to boycott the Democratic Party – not only its presidential candidates, but
its Blue Dog candidates and incumbents.
10- Third Party Option:
On Previous election: The
courts affirmed that the Democratic Party’s candidate for president is legally
chosen by the DNC alone, and may or may not be the candidate elected by voters
in the primaries. To cap matters, the superdelegates serve as a safety valve
against any candidate unwilling to go whole-hog neoliberal. A legal tangle of
state and national U.S. election laws effectively blocks third parties from
meaningful representation in Congress. Registered Independents such as Sanders
are constrained to caucus with and serve on committees of one of the two
parties.
That makes
it difficult for any third party to play more than the role of a spoiler in
elections. When the Democratic
Party runs its right-wing Blue Dog candidates, a third-party protest will throw
the Senate or Congressional election to the Republican – until the DNC finally
just walks away.
It would not help much to take over the Democratic Party as long as its rules cede control to Wall
Street donors. For the party to be reconstituted, the coterie that has
imposed Rubinomics, Hillary’s neocon military empire, and is threatening to
balance the budget by cutting Social Security needs to be isolated.
The most obvious start is to run
real progressive candidates against incumbents, like AOC in Queens. If
the DNC bans consultants from working with them, they should be attacked in the
primary and then either stay home or vote for a third party in the fall
election to defeat the incumbent rather than participate in the fake choices of
just which neoliberal may be the least worst.
Democrat leaders
will denounce the Third Party, claiming that voters would have supported
Democratic otherwise, much as they blamed Ralph Nader in 2000.
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Michael Hudson in favor of Trum? The only way to make the Democrat
Party democratic is to clean house, to boycott its Blue Dog candidates even
though this throws elections to the Republicans until the DNC is emptied out.
Only at that point can its rules be replaced with ones committing the party to
follow the choice of voters and the majority non-Democratic (even non-voting)
bloc instead of big donors and super-delegates.
This
tactic may lead to Republican sweeps in the next few elections. That is the price that the Democrats
have forced to be paid for their neoliberal intransigence that has made Donald
Trump theirpresident as much as that of Republican voters.
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There is not middle class nor centrismo in Politics:
There
is no such thing as centrist stability in a polarizing economy said MH
There is no “middle
class” policy in an indebted economy polarizing at an accelerating pace as
financial rentierslord it over an indebted majority. That is why
wage earners have lost their identity with the Democratic Party’s loyalty to
Wall Street. Although Democratic politicians presents themselves as the
only alternative to Republican corporate lobbyists, the DNC is a smoke-filled
room of donors, packaged in identity politics – every identity except that of
indebted wage earners. It is merely a diversion to focus on personalities [that
claim to represent middle classes]
Joe Biden’s promise
of a moderate centrist policy is like Warren Harding’s slogan of a “return to
normalcy” a century ago, in 1920.
.. Today’s U.S. economy – like
that of Europe – has no middle ground. Attempts at a “moderate” party are
merely a euphemism for backing the financial and real estate sector, the oil
industry and the military-industrial complex.
… Voters
are rejecting neoliberalism everywhere, but the DNC and foreign formerly
left-wing party bureaucracies are holding onto it. They have become zombie
party hacks.
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MH against
Elizabeth Warren too:
Sanders rightly
blames Wall Street and the One Percent for the economy’s financial mess. Warren
strikes a resonant chord in seeing the need to alleviate the debt burden saying
in effect, “It’s the debt, stupid.” But she also seems
prepared to go along opportunistically with the rest of the Democratic Party’s
platform.[1] [NO NOTE 1]… Even so, the
DNC seems quite willing to throw the election to Trump as its major funders and
super-delegates back Biden, Harris and Buttigieg.
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No One democrat deserve to be voted
When Bernie says he will take on Wall Street, people believe
him. When Elizabeth Warren says that, voters worry about just how far she may
compromise. When Biden or Harris say that, most voters realize that they are
simply grabbing slogans that play well in focus groups, they are selling their personalities without policy content.
Most potential
voters have no party in the United States, but are forced into a choice between
Republican and Democratic neoliberals. The polls euphemize most voters
as “undecideds,” as if they have not decided to avoid both parties and try to
scrape by as best they can with the bad choices put before them: Republican
corporate lobbyists, or Democratic Wall Street lobbyists, both parties supporting military spending and representing
the One Percent who form their donor base.
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Summimg up by MH:
Most
Democratic voters have decided not to back Biden or Harris. They realize their interests were betrayed
first by Clintonomics and its deregulation of Wall Street and stripping away of
social spending, and then by Obama protecting his Wall Street donors from “the
mob with pitchforks,” namely, those who voted for his empty promise of hope and
change. That is how the DNC views its
constituency – to be manipulated and its attention diverted onto the Fantasy
Island episode aired on Thursday on ABC.
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NOW MY CRITIQUE TO MICHAEL HUDSON &
what alternatives we have.
Hugo Adan
Let’s start with the
last one: alternatives
1. What if AOC from Queens and
the anti-war Tulsi Gabbard decided to run the ‘SOCIALIST PARTY’ with BERNIE
SANDERS as candidate to the Presdt.
Our Nation need a third choice to continue fighting Agst the neoliberal power run by Trump. The 3rd
choice was expected in 2916 and now is the right time to open its path (se hace
camino al andar, dice un refran popular).
More than ever is clear that both parties DEMs & REPs belongs to billonaires &
is synonymous of fraud (buying elections).
Our Nacion won’t vote them, they
belong to the informal party of NOT VOTERS , and they conform the
majority of the electorate in the US . NOW THEY WILL
HAVE THE CHANCE TO SAY NO TO DEMS & AND NO TO REPS Instead of opting for abstention.
The future belongs to them and they can win with SANDERS, AOC & GABBARD. Las banderas rojas tomaran las calles esta vez y así se le dirá al mundo
que el SOCIALISM vencerá en el US.
IF we don’t win this time, the fight
will continue. The chances of Trump to create gobernability are remote
1- (low legitimacy-less than
20% of total electorate;
2- high conflictivity &
violence because Econ crush, trade-war & genocidal wars abroad);
3-Lower Govt efficacy than
today due to less internal cohesion and lack of confidence).
So, the 2nd Gvt of Trump will be easy to dismantle
with State-regional REFERENDUMS. IF they don’t allow to Socialists register
their party for coming elections, a drastic BOICOT
will be the response. WE HAVE TO ORGANIZE
OUR COMMANDOS ASAP.
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2- The second alternative is the
alliance of Elizabeth Warren with Kamala Harris, they are not socialists
but they will try to implement a transition economy out of voracity of big corp
as FDR did it in similar economic circumstances. FDR did no call socialism to
his system, but he put cup or limits to neoliberalism. What FDR did was cut the domain of ‘PRIVATE GREED’ that only benefit big bankers
& big Corp who now get QEs & bailout, plus State expending in
manufacturing guns & war to sell it off –putting at risk the genocide of
the whole humanity with WW3- This is what
we called “neoliberal capitalism”, just the opposite to socialism.
A transitional system or mixing capitalism
with socialism is what FDR got and is what we can get with E Warren & K
Harris. The main objective of this system is the focus on ‘PUBLIC-NEED’ that is the only way to reconstruct America. The best
public health and best public education for all is the main priority of Warren-Harris and of
course the protection of equal right for all minorities, starting with rights
of women.
With them we can get the balance between
the interest of capital & labor as FDR did it and that is not yet socialism.
It happen in Yugoslavia with Tito and in Peru with Velasco . Neither predator capitalism
nor communist Stalin dictatorship, said both of them. Unfortunately they were
killed by the dirty hands of US mercenaries. Now we have these mixed economies
in several European countries & we can have it here too.
For socialists, that is our aim today: CAPITAL AND LABOR
COORDINATION, this is the type of real transition we all socialist aspire. And I hope Warren-Harris
will get it.
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