SIDELINE ARGUING OR EXERTING POWER?
Much of the progressive media focus relentlessly on Obama’s flaws which are all too real (eg., backtracking on support for single-payer health care, ambiguity on policies that foster outsourcing of jobs, etc.)
It’s almost as if progressives are delighted in finally having a relatively liberal head coach that they can argue with, after 16 long years of the triangulator Bill Clinton and then Wall Street’s pet poodle George W. Bush.
Amma keɓance kanmu ga gardama a gefe-yayin da ainihin aikin ke faruwa a Majalisa da titunan Amurka - yana la'antar masu ci gaba da rashin dacewa.
Yes, we must continue to hold Obama accountable for appointing the likes of Lawrence Summers and Timothy Geithener and refusing to contemplate nationalizing the banks.
But Blue Dog Democrats and the ultra-conservative Republicans are slowing down Obama’s progress toward goals which progressives share with him, like a strong stimulus bill focused on creating high-paying jobs in America.
So it is vital that we not allow ourselves to be preoccupied with sideline disputes with Obama while the Blue Dogs and obstructionist Republicans are systematically pursuing their corporate agenda on the real field of play.
To the extent that FDR’s New Deal failed to achieve all of its objectives, much can be attributed to the inability of FDR and his allies to isolate and eliminate the reactionary "Dixicrats" who protected both corporate interests and Southern apartheid. We should not make the same mistake with the Blue Dogs.
Don haka zan danna mai zuwa:
1)HOUNDING DA BLUE KARE & GOP
Idan muna son Obama ya kasance mai ci gaba, muna bukatar mu mai da hankali sosai ga kuzarinmu kan matsawa masu sayar da Blue Dogs da ueber-reactionary Republican. Wannan yana nufin kafofin watsa labarai suna aiki don fallasa mubaya'arsu na kamfani, da kuma fashe, zanga-zangar 'yan bindiga a gundumominsu da ofisoshin gida daga marasa aikin yi da sauran ƙungiyoyi.
2)ZAFIN TSIRA MAI KYAU
As during the 1930’s, the importance of "street heat"–independent protests that threatened to fracture the Democratic coalition, such as blocking foreclosures, factory takeovers, protests at Merrill Lynch and the Bank of America and other TARP recipients–cannot be over-estimated. (I highly recommend Cloward and Piven’s Poor People’s Movements on this point)
Yet we hear very little about efforts by the Left to organize such activities, with the exception of the Republic Windows and Doors takeover in Chicago. President Obama–as well as the Blue Dogs and GOP troglodytes–must be made to feel the widesapred "Where’s OUR bailout?" sentiment roiling among ordinary Americans.
ZNetwork ana samun kuɗi ta hanyar karimcin masu karatun sa.
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