mbs: They did foreground full employment, but went about it in what I think is a clumsy way -- re: the constitutional amendment. Plus now is not the greatest time to push the matter without some explanation, which was not forthcoming.
Now we're foregrounding health care, which I think is good. Problem is, as you know, there is no real political strategy to push it, unless it's being kept under wraps. Is there an actual description of a plan, who is covered and how; is there a plan for promoting it, such as a petition, pressure on Congress, electoral campaign, etc.??
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For some of us, like me, there are few political issues more
important than access to abortion without legal or economic
impediment. And for some of us, like me, this whole prioritizing of
the economic over the social is either coy or cowardly. Which is why
I quoted that bit from Butler the other day about producing division
in the name of unity - "Indeed, one way of producing this division
becomes clear when we ask, which movements, and for what reasons, get
relegated to the sphere of the merely cultural, and how that very
division between the material and the cultural becomes tactically
invoked for the purposes of marginalizing certain forms of political
activism?"
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I don't see abortion as "merely cultural" or merely anthing. Access is not a binary matter. It can be imperfect, more and less so.
Division is in the eye of the beholder. To the Confederates,
Lincoln divided the nation by rejecting states' rights.
>From what I can see, JB is as apt to draw lines as
anyone else.
mbs