Good rant. But it doesn't answer the question in the headline. I like the analysis that Trump didn't win because the working class, or at least its progressive wing, did not move rightward. Instead it moved 'couchward.' So who will get them off the couch? My favorites are Thom Hartmann, AOC, Rachel Maddow, Shawn Fein, Bernie Sanders and Heather McGhee.
'Warmonger?' That's an odd term to apply to someone who rarely speaks on the matter, save to deplore the violence and to hope that a diplomatic answer can be found. .But yes, we can and should criticize her silence. Generally, she is seen as a Hillary liberal. I read her book 'Blowout,' which is quite good against militarism and oil, Russian and U.S. But her 'Prequal: An American Fight Against Fascism' is superbly powerful and brings new things to the surface. Look it over. It's also in 'Ultra,' her podcast.
Not at all. But I think her exposures of Nazi-paid Members of Congress deep into the 1940s, about 15 of them, mostly GOPers but not all, may get some Dems to take their blinders off about the fascist danger on the home front. People are complicated. We've worked closely with the Sisters of St Joseph here throughout the Iraq war. Now on Gaza, only a handful of the younger ones are with us. The older ones, in their 80s, can't get beyond the Zionist myths of Israel's defending Jews vs Nazis into the future. That's no excuse for Rachel. My guess is a majority here in Beaver County want an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. But there's also an overlapping majority sympathetic to Israel. We have to sort through these contradictions, and we do. But going after them with the warmonger sledgehanner doesn't work all that well.
Good rant. But it doesn't answer the question in the headline. I like the analysis that Trump didn't win because the working class, or at least its progressive wing, did not move rightward. Instead it moved 'couchward.' So who will get them off the couch? My favorites are Thom Hartmann, AOC, Rachel Maddow, Shawn Fein, Bernie Sanders and Heather McGhee.
Just responding to your list of faves.
Do you think Hartmann, who supports more arms shipments to Israel will get young progressive activists off the couch?
Thom Hartmann aims his fire at AIPAC in a way that can fire up the base. https://hartmannreport.com/p/will-democracy-survive-the-tsunami-cbf?utm_source=publication-search
I see Maddow has got them off the couch. She’s being protested everywhere she speaks and called a warmonger. https://www.newsweek.com/rachel-maddow-heckled-israel-gaza-warmonger-1835768
'Warmonger?' That's an odd term to apply to someone who rarely speaks on the matter, save to deplore the violence and to hope that a diplomatic answer can be found. .But yes, we can and should criticize her silence. Generally, she is seen as a Hillary liberal. I read her book 'Blowout,' which is quite good against militarism and oil, Russian and U.S. But her 'Prequal: An American Fight Against Fascism' is superbly powerful and brings new things to the surface. Look it over. It's also in 'Ultra,' her podcast.
So you think that a “Hillary liberal” who is silent (Hillary sure isn’t) on the genocide in Gaza, will get them “off the couch?”
Not at all. But I think her exposures of Nazi-paid Members of Congress deep into the 1940s, about 15 of them, mostly GOPers but not all, may get some Dems to take their blinders off about the fascist danger on the home front. People are complicated. We've worked closely with the Sisters of St Joseph here throughout the Iraq war. Now on Gaza, only a handful of the younger ones are with us. The older ones, in their 80s, can't get beyond the Zionist myths of Israel's defending Jews vs Nazis into the future. That's no excuse for Rachel. My guess is a majority here in Beaver County want an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. But there's also an overlapping majority sympathetic to Israel. We have to sort through these contradictions, and we do. But going after them with the warmonger sledgehanner doesn't work all that well.
That question is not for me to answer. There are still lots of stand-up rebels like Ann Telnaes.