[lbo-talk] The Empire's Freedom

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Thu Nov 3 13:29:23 PST 2005


Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:


>As you know, I am far from being in the
>fuck-the-Democrats-let's-start-a-revolution camp, and I always understood
>the necessity of a compromise in politics. But the current meltdown of the
>Democratic Party goes well beyond that - it appears that "bipartisanship"
>shows more unity than the monied interests themselves, which suggests that
>something else than the length of the paymaster's leash is at work. I
>cannot quite figure out what it is - but the phenomenon is certainly not
>limited to the US - you see similar tendencies in EU and Latin America.
>
Well, from where I stand, it just looks like plain old class warfare, with the ruling class feels increasingly that it has no need to make any compromises with anyone.

Joanna



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