MAX AT UNFTR has an excellent obliteration of the "New Democrats" the successor to the "Democratic Leadership Council" and why they have been a disaster for those below affluence - the large majority - and, so Democrats going back to the early Clinton years. And he puts it in terms of the ten most right-wing Democrats in congress and as candidates who are launching a platform of platitudes and dangerous promises that, I believe along with Max, is a plan to gut the entire social safety net. He begins by telling the sad truth that there are no socialists in Congress or anywhere else in the government, not Bernie Sanders, not AOC, he gives the genuine definition of socialism, the workers owning the means of production, not the most common use of the term as distorted by Marxism, Fabianism and other pseudo-socialisms.
I have made what I think is necessary clear, the revival of Christian Socialism, only what I really want is a broad, religiously based socialist movement that includes Christianity but also religious Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, etc. I don't think any secular socialism is ever going to be achieved, one based on the pseudo-social-sciences, including economics, will never gain broad support of have the moral commitment to stick to the basic requirements of equality, justice, economic justice and, I'll say it out loud, LOVE. And I don't mean the one and only thing you are allowed to use word that for in politics, "love of country." Which always turns into a mawkish and phony and hateful kind of pseudo-emotion. What economics and politics and the law should be based in is nothing less than Love of People and other Living Beings. And secularists who read this are already throwing up in their mouths or jeering.
We've tried everything else, it ain't working.
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