The whole episode is another rehash of a recurring theme of the last year: Establishment Dems aren’t offended by Trump’s policies, they’re offended by his crudeness and lack of decorum.
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https://twitter.com/speediest_sloth/status/951675889863061505
https://www.alternet.org/labor/florida-prisoners-are-preparing-strike-against-unpaid-labor
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Isn’t it odd how, whenever someone comes up with a metric that might serve as a proxy for “this would be a good country to live in,” the “socialist” Scandinavian countries are almost always at the top of that list?
I just can’t figure out how they do it.
I know! Let’s lower taxes on the rich and cut social services! That’ll fix things!
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Exactly the kind of “fixing things” I was talking about; thank you!
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Well, to be frank, they’d probably like to do another kind of fixing on the people, too…
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At first, the State Department under Wilson opened diplomacy with an offer of military assistance to Haiti, with the provision that it would relinquish control of its customs houses. When subsequent Haitian governments balked at the offers, the Wilson administration used Sam’s murder as pretext for marine invasion and occupation, under the humanitarian guise of peacekeeping. In a letter to Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan, Wilson offered that America “cannot consent to stand by and permit revolutionary conditions constantly to exist there.”
The American marines would go on to massacre thousands of resistance fighters, crush democratic opposition and assist in gutting what little economic self-determination that Haitians had until that point. Its financial reserves having already been moved to the U.S. in 1914, the Haitian Congress, stacked with pro-American lackeys, offered little resistance to the coming tide. American goods flowed into the island, only to be sold by Syrians, Lebanese and Italians who swept in to take control of the commercial economy.
While other nations and peoples enriched themselves through Haiti’s lands and resources, Haitians themselves were excluded from the fruits of their own nation and forced into varying states of crushing poverty throughout the country’s existence.
This, for the last hundred and more years, has been the story of the West’s relationship with the first and only nation established via slave revolt.
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Should be cued to 9:40, talking about the Grenfell fire.
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