Hollow Resistance: The New Victorians

Paul Street says it all in the title of his 2020 autopsy of the American Duopoly

From a FB friend who’s always spot-on in his observations. The Dems, being the scoundrels they are (even worse than the pachyderms these days), will call you a racist for criticizing Obama over his drone warfare or bailing out the banks, a sexist for calling Pelosi to account for insider trading, an anti-Semite if you oppose child murder in Gaza… All from a party that stands for income inequality, censorship, genocide, anti-worker legislation, no health care, no livable minimum wage, forever war, graft, global neoliberal finance capitalism, and Empire, at all costs. And they are vile: virtue signalling while they sit around Martha’s vineyard blowing smoke up each others assholes with their eco-friendly, humanely raised chickens and gourmet peanut butter and jelly finger sandwiches, their lives a glowing example of how to rape the planet while projecting an aire of snide smugness and superiority. The New Victorians. They’re now worse than the Republicans ever were. At least under McCarthyism, the enemy didn’t go out of its way to tell you what righteous oppressors they were.

And yes, I highly recommend the work of Paul Street:
https://www.counterpunch.org/author/paul-street/D

“: Barack Obama is a Wall Street thug, who:

- signed the authorized uses of military force (AUMF) orders to bomb, attack or assist the decimation of Libya, Yemen, Pakistan, Somalia and Syria, and the military industrial coup of Honduras,

- allowed Wall Street to preselect his cabinet appointments,

- as senator VOTED for a Mexican Wall,

- as senator voted to bail out the big banks, but not the victims, including people of color, of the big banks,

- approved a billion dollars to put the private prison industry into the ICE detention business,

- deported more people, including Dreamers, than any other president,

- prosecuted more whistleblowers than any other president, dusting off a law from 1917, the Espionage Act, to do so,

- did absolutely nothing to prevent fracking, including approving pipelines, post Standing Rock protests,

- suspended habeas corpus,

- drone bombed innocent civilians, including U.S. citizens,

and

- described himself as an '80s (Reagan) Republican.

Any endorsements by Wall Street thug Barack Obama is a guide on who not to vote for.”

Thanks, and Semper Fi, comrade!