“Nominating Tom Vilsack, a secretary of agriculture in the Obama administration, to run the department again would enrage Black farmers and threaten Democratic hopes of winning two Senate runoffs in Georgia, the N.A.A.C.P. head, Derrick Johnson, told Mr. Biden.Mr. Biden promptly ignored the warning. Within hours, his decision to nominate Mr. Vilsack to lead the Agriculture Department had leaked, angering the very activists he had just met with.”
Political and cultural commentary based on a world view shaped by the works of Plato, Aristotle, Confucius, Averroes, Maimonides, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Sartre and Bertrand Russell "What is the use of studying philosophy if all that it does for you is to enable you to talk with some plausibility about some abstruse questions of logic, etc., and if it does not improve your thinking about the important questions of everyday life, if it does not make you more conscientious."-Wittgenstein
Sunday, December 13, 2020
Biden's Faux Progressivism
A method to Biden’s madness? Biden has been a conservative corporate shill and Establishment supporter of the Military Industrial Complex his entire political career. The wolf has been forced to dress up in progressive sheep clothing in order to get elected. If he faces a Democratic controlled Congress his basically status quo ante hand will be forced and some truly progressive initiatives will sent his way. His ruling class backers could not be more pleased with the Senate remaining in Republican hands by a Democratic defeat in Georgia. Biden will then have an excuse to retreat from his faux progressivism on the grounds of being hamstrung in Congress. The Democratic left will be served with pauper’s broth for next four years while the only genuine left in the country, the socialist, and especially Marxist, left will have the task of radicalizing the American people to prevent a Trump, or worse, Republican resurgence.
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