4 thoughts on “‘The Coup D’Etat Is Over And They Won’”
“Well, the barriers can’t be overcome now because the liberal class betrayed the working class. It should have walked out with the passage of NAFTA, but it didn’t, and it continued to support.”
Yeah, and so we turned to our bibles and our (warm) guns for support instead.
I get the idea that I’m still really, really fucking pissed about that. There’s been what – 20 years since NAFTA? The “creative class” bullshit rankles a bit too. I should have voted for McCain. I’m not good enough for people who know how to spell and stuff.
I’ll go read the rest of the interview. Maybe there won’t be too many big words.
K– that stuck out for me as well.
And I can remember trying to justify Clinton’s support of NAFTA to friends, saying things such as he “had to” gain support from business in order to be able to do good things for the rest of us.
Oh my, it took me so long to see just how bad the Dems have become. Obama has completely ripped the mask of caring and compassion off the Dems….
The rest of Hedges’ comment on Nafta:
(To Alias) Well, the barriers can’t be overcome now because the liberal class betrayed the working class. It should have walked out with the passage of NAFTA, but it didn’t, and it continued to support. We have a working class but not one that can earn wages with pensions. The largest, most catastrophic mistake that the liberals made was to embrace capitalism when they should have embraced the workers. The fact that they continued to speak in a hypocritical language where they claimed to care about the working class when they betrayed them made them not only impotent but also a ridicule.
Honestly, I don’t see huge differences between politicians anymore. While I have no doubt Hillary Clinton would have been a better president (mostly because she doesn’t roll over for the right wing and gives at least a nominal shit about the working class), I also know that she’s a product of the same corrupt system that produced the rest of them. They stay inside the bounds of that electric fence.
The SYSTEM is inherently corrupt, and I don’t believe putting in more liberal Democrats is going to fix that. Sure, they may get a few symbolic wins, but no real change. The corporations are in charge and we all know it.
“Well, the barriers can’t be overcome now because the liberal class betrayed the working class. It should have walked out with the passage of NAFTA, but it didn’t, and it continued to support.”
Yeah, and so we turned to our bibles and our (warm) guns for support instead.
I get the idea that I’m still really, really fucking pissed about that. There’s been what – 20 years since NAFTA? The “creative class” bullshit rankles a bit too. I should have voted for McCain. I’m not good enough for people who know how to spell and stuff.
I’ll go read the rest of the interview. Maybe there won’t be too many big words.
K– that stuck out for me as well.
And I can remember trying to justify Clinton’s support of NAFTA to friends, saying things such as he “had to” gain support from business in order to be able to do good things for the rest of us.
Oh my, it took me so long to see just how bad the Dems have become. Obama has completely ripped the mask of caring and compassion off the Dems….
The rest of Hedges’ comment on Nafta:
(To Alias) Well, the barriers can’t be overcome now because the liberal class betrayed the working class. It should have walked out with the passage of NAFTA, but it didn’t, and it continued to support. We have a working class but not one that can earn wages with pensions. The largest, most catastrophic mistake that the liberals made was to embrace capitalism when they should have embraced the workers. The fact that they continued to speak in a hypocritical language where they claimed to care about the working class when they betrayed them made them not only impotent but also a ridicule.
Honestly, I don’t see huge differences between politicians anymore. While I have no doubt Hillary Clinton would have been a better president (mostly because she doesn’t roll over for the right wing and gives at least a nominal shit about the working class), I also know that she’s a product of the same corrupt system that produced the rest of them. They stay inside the bounds of that electric fence.
The SYSTEM is inherently corrupt, and I don’t believe putting in more liberal Democrats is going to fix that. Sure, they may get a few symbolic wins, but no real change. The corporations are in charge and we all know it.