O tala faasolopito o Amerika ua tumu i lapataiga o faʻalavelave faʻafuaseʻi e leʻi faʻalogoina: Pearl Harbor, 9/11, ma talu ai nei le faʻafitauli o le tau, Covid-19, ma le 1/6.
O lea la ua oo mai se isi lapataiga, o se “Faamatalaga o le Atunu’u” (Iuni 1, 2021) mai le silia ma le 100 pulega i faiga faatemokalasi o loo ta’u mai ia i tatou o le taua a le Republicans i faiga-palota-o lo latou mumusu e talia taunuuga o le 2020 ma a latou gaioiga mataʻutia i tulaga uma o malo e taofia faiga palota-“fesili pe o le a tumau pea le Iunaite Setete o se faatemokalasi.” O le ta'usalaina e le au atamamai lenei “faalataina o lo tatou tofi faatemokalasi taua”.
Talemokalasi i Amerika is i le auvai o le faatafunaga, ma le fia'ai malosi, papalagi sili, pito taumatau Republicans ua naunau e ave i tatou i luga o le auvai, lafoai ese masani faatemokalasi uma tatou te faapelepele i ai. Ia i latou, o mea moni o le fili lea o le upumoni ma o le tauvaga o manatu e le taua. O le manumalo o mea uma e taua, e pei lava ona laugaina e Donald Trump i taimi uma.
O le fouvale lea, mama ma faigofie. O loʻo faʻaalia ai se faʻataʻitaʻiga o le pule faʻapitoa o loʻo tatou vaʻaia i aso nei i Aikupito, Turkey, Rusia, Belarus, Saina, Pasila, ma Hanikeri: o le faʻamaoni i le taʻitaʻi e faʻamuamua i lo le faʻamaoni i tulafono faʻavae a le atunuu ma faʻalapotopotoga. O le taimi lava e mauaa loloto ai lena mamanu, e le mafai ona i ai se tulafono o le tulafono, pule faʻavae, poʻo se itu faʻafeagai talafeagai. E mafai ona lafoa'i i'uga palota le lelei, e pei ona matauina e le Fa'amatalaga o le Atunu'u:
I palota i le lumanaʻi, o nei tulafono faʻapolokiki le pulega ma le faʻamaoniaina o faiga palota e mafai ona mafai ai e nisi o le setete poʻo le au faipule palota ona faia le mea na latou le faia i le 2020: toe faʻafoʻi le iʻuga o se palota saoloto ma saʻo. E le gata i lea, o nei tulafono e mafai ona faʻamalosia le faʻalauteleina o tulafono laiti, e solia ai le faʻavae faʻa-temokalasi faʻavae ma le umi e faʻapea o pati e maua le tele o palota e tatau ona manumalo i palota.
O le filemu e tutuli. O fea le alaga lauiloa mai le 81 miliona tagata na palota e aveese le Trump? O afea o le a manaʻomia ai e le au faisaoloto ma le alualu i luma le faʻaaloalo o le leo o tagata ma faʻateʻaina le au fouvale? O le peresetene o se tagata onosaʻi, ae o seoli o le a malolo aʻo leʻi tuʻuina atu e le Republicans se inisi i la latou galuega faʻatemokalasi. I le igoa o le saogalemu o le atunuu, Biden e tatau ona galue malosi e laveai le faatemokalasi. E tatau ona ia toso ese uma taofi e vaai ua pasia le tulafono o aia tatau-o le Tulafono mo Tagata ma le Tulafono o Aia Tatau a John Lewis. A leai, e pei ona finau malosi le tusitala o le au tusitala o Max Boot i le Washington Post (Iuni 1), e mafai ona leiloa lo tatou temokalasi i le taimi lava o le 2022 palota. "Senate Democrats," na ia faaiuina ai, "e tatau ona filifili i le va o le faasaoina o le filibuster ma le faasaoina o le faatemokalasi. E le mafai ona latou faia mea uma e lua.”
Ia tatou manatua foi o loo mata'ituina e le lalolagi le lu'itau a le itu taumatau i ta'ita'iga faatemokarasi. O aʻafiaga o le toilalo o le a matua tele lava, faʻamalosia malo itu taumatau ma (pei o Farani) faʻataʻitaʻi itu taumatau, faʻavaivaia malosi faʻa-temokalasi i soʻo se mea, ma faʻaleagaina ai le faʻamaoni ma faatosinaga a le US i fafo i mataupu e eseese e pei o suiga o le tau, femalagaiga. , ma e moni lava aia tatau a tagata ma sa'olotoga fa'ale-tagata. Sei o tatou manatua upu lauiloa a le FDR:
O le nofoaga tonu a Amerika i le lalolagi e faalagolago tele i le tulaga atoatoa o aia tatau [tagata soifua] sa faatinoina i le faatinoga mo o tatou tagatanuu. Aua sei vagana ua i ai le saogalemu iinei i le aiga e le mafai ona i ai se filemu tumau i le lalolagi.
E uiga ese i na taimi uma o le lapataiga mataʻutia o le le mafai ona vave tali atu, pe ona o faʻailoga o faʻalavelave faʻafuaseʻi na le malamalama, pe faʻafefeteina, pe manatu faʻatauvaʻa.
E le mafai ona tatou faia se mea sese i lenei taimi; o siteki e matua maualuga lava.
O le manatu e faapea o fefa'ataua'iga fa'alua po'o folafolaga e galulue fa'atasi o le a fa'asaoina ai le fa'atemokalasi e fa'atauva'a, o se fa'a'ole'ole fa'ailoa mai e ta'ita'i Republican ma tagata mulimuli e matua le fa'atuatuaina. O Peresitene Biden, mo le lelei o lana au peresitene ma mo le manuia o le faatemokalasi a Amerika ma le tulaga o Amerika i le lalolagi, e tatau ona lafoai i latou.
Mel Gurtov, faʻatasi ma Filemu, o Polofesa Emeritus o Political Science i le Iunivesite o le Setete o Portland ma blogs i I le Manatu Lelei.
O le ZNetwork o loʻo faʻatupeina naʻo le agalelei o ana tagata faitau.
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Na'o nisi fa'ata'ita'iga o le toilalo o le Itu agavale i le silia ma le 220 tausaga. DiEM25 tau mo le faatemokalasi i Europa. Temokalasi i le US o loʻo i lalo. E i ai se tala a Sheldon Wolin e uiga i ai e le o iai lava, e pei ona ou mautinoa o isi.
Ae o le 2021 nei ma o tagata, Agagavale, poʻo vaega, o loʻo popole e uiga i le faʻasaoina o mea e leʻi i ai iina? Tulaga faanoanoa. E le'i mafai fo'i ona fa'asaoina se ituaiga o faux democracy mai le osofa'iga?
Talu mai Robert Owen, Proudhon, Chartists, Marx, Bakunin, Kropotkin, le Anarchist Age mai le 1880 i le Spanish Rev, le Wobblies ma lona faʻaumatia i le 20th seneturi, o le Union movement, traditionalists, pragmatists, ma Leftists, o loʻo vaʻavaʻai i lona faʻaumatia. . O le post WW2 "tausaga auro", tuʻu le agavale e momoe ese mai gaioiga laiti ma vaega, i le salafa o le lalolagi, o le vaitaimi o McCarthy, o le fouvalega agavale agavale ma le itu taumatau, e oo atu i le onosefulu ma se vaega fou o tagata faʻapolokiki poto ma faʻamalosi. i le faʻalavelaveina e le tuputupu aʻe o se pisinisi musika na faʻavaivaia ai nai lo le faʻamalosia (o le faʻasesega o le "tusiata" o loʻo i luga o latou itu), i le fitusefulu tausaga ina ua toe faʻafouina le Big Daddy White Geezer Hegemonic Power Grid, ina ua maeʻa le taua, popole e uiga i o le faatemokalasi moni o le mauaina o le vae (Powell Memo, Trilateral Commision) e alu atu i le soona fai ma fa'aleaga mea uma mo le isi limasefulu tausaga.
Ma o lea ua tatou i ai nei, ua matua fefefe lava i le "fascists" e faoa mea e le'i maua e tagata. E le gata i lea, faatasi ai ma le 4 tausaga e maua ai se Global Green New Deal ma fa'agaoioia e fa'asaoina le ola fa'atulagaina i luga o le paneta.
And the Left is doing what? DSA? Socialism…what the frigg is that? Social democracy? Who knows? From each to each? What’s that mean? Grass roots organising as if it hasn’t nailed that by now? Progressive International? DiEM25? BLM? Real utopia.org? Next System Project? CommonsTransition? Rojava?Zapatistas? Cancel Culture? Anarcho-Primmies? Marxist Dialectical bullshit? Anarchists bitching over principles pretending it has theory too? Trying to resurrect the Union movement? Berating itself (who exactly) for not being able to talk to the working classes after 220 yrs? Berating itself for not being able to agree on vision and connected strategy. What? Is it talking to itself? Is there actually a Left at all? One actually in unity with some kind of “let’s actually try and save the planet from dying” mindset because all the other mindsets haven’t worked? What, we the public must continue to self-educate when each generation merely says the same thing over and over? Where anarchist talk of theory that isn’t much more than the idea of self-managed workplaces and people getting along? Where Marxists merely put dialectic in front of every other word as they bow to their God, and pretend they’re onto something? Where people constantly dam capitalism and demand eco-socialism without giving the slightest hint of what it is? And when someone does try to explain it or clarify it, they get ignored because it’s a blueprint, or it’s nothing much more than what Owen and Proudhon wanted with a little planning and markets, vague notions? Where the public have absolutely no clue of any of this? Truly, they have no clue any of these orgs or ideas exist, nor what they mean or whether they are any good! Truly, they don’t. The Left thinks many do, but many actually don’t? Where Rojava and the Chiapas are praised yet go now further than their own regional areas and again, hardly anyone knows about them anyway…like Mondragon even. What? Who’s Mondragon?
Ma o le Itu agavale, poʻo ni vaega o loʻo popole nei i le faatemokalasi o loʻo alu i lalo i totonu o le Setete? E moni? I le 2021? E pei o, tagata….
E itiiti ifo i le 5 tausaga tagata....Global Green Fe'au Fou Nei.
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Democracy in the US has always been tenuous and largely limited to the elites with some exceptions. We, of course, were not taught to understand this in school–at any level–but we must learn this eventually through our own auto-didactism, self-teaching and persistence.