Drama within the DSA:
I know nothing of this beyond what’s in that thread; no idea what the underlying truth of the matter is. Could be as Ben presents it, could be as Stephens’ accusers present it, could be a bit of both.
OTOH…
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Kavanaugh is going to be confirmed. They don’t have the guts or the numbers to stop him.
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Roe vs Wade is dead and gone.
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This is not as big a deal as it seems.
This is not because reproductive liberty is no big deal; it is. Violating the right to choose is catastrophic.
It’s because, similarly to the defence of voting rights for working people, this is a fight that the Democrats abandoned and lost years ago. Thanks to TRAP laws, abortion is already functionally banned for many working class women. Red state women have no access to abortion unless they can afford to travel and take significant time off work.
So the fall of Roe vs Wade does not mark the beginning of the loss of reproductive freedom. It marks the point at which the oppression of the working poor finally reaches the level of middle-class white women.
Nina herself would agree with that, BTW. Her thing is analysis and prediction rather than strategy; Cassandra rather than Spartacus.
I tend to post Nina stuff when she says things that (a) I agree with, (b) are being ignored by the mainstream, and © are things where (b) frustrates me. Mostly I’m just blowing off steam.
As for what to do to fix things, it’s the same as it’s always been: revolution. The democratic process of the USA is too badly corrupted for a purely electoral response to be a viable option.
The Berniecrats haven’t caught onto that yet, but they will eventually. About half of the DSA are already there, although the other half are still clinging to electoralism.
“On leave”.
As to how to get there…organise, organise, organise. And street level is much more important than federal; it ain’t about what’s happening on cable news, it’s about what’s happening in DSA and BLM local organisations.
The Berniecrats might do some good by getting a few mayors and governors on side, but Congress is probably a lost cause. The power to be harnessed is in the people, not the institutions.
This might be a significant endorsement:
https://twitter.com/carmenyulincruz/status/1038468664356466688?s=21
Mayor Bottoms has also opened up the city budget for public scrutiny, in part because the investigation into Kaseem Reed’s administration is still on going.
“Propaganda is about context and emphasis”
I get that y’all are sick of Nina, but she does a good job in this thread of summarising the mechanisms of this:
As to how to respond to media bias…again, educate and organise. Locally. The solution to cable news bullshit is to talk to people.
Quibble: they aren’t becoming the CIA’s party, they already were. As are the GOP.
Empire is bipartisan.
Interesting thread…
