Identifying the Real Resistance to Rule By The Rich

Reprinted from whowhatwhy.org

President Joe Biden poses for a selfie with Reps. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), and Jim Clyburn (D-SC) in Philadelphia
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I'd like to put three things before you and let you consider what they mean.

The first is something I wrote, presciently I think, in 2017, after the Trump election had advanced beyond shock, and before the liberal response was cemented in. The piece, "The Resistance, the #Resistance and Harvey Weinstein," said in part:

All this has led me to wonder what the goal of this professional #Resistance really is. The Restoration of Democracy to America? Or the Restoration of Mainstream Democrats -- the anti-Sanders, anti-progressive, "you can't have that" crowd -- to power again?

If just the latter, the nation may sink more slowly beneath the neoliberal waves than it would under solid Republican rule. But progressives will still have an enemy armed, enabled and in the field against them. "

The real Resistance, of course, occurred in 2016, in that year's electoral revolt against the money-bought in both parties, and it failed in both parties. Mainstream Democrats successfully fended off the actual populist in their race, Bernie Sanders, whom they hate even to this day. Mainstream Republicans successfully elected their "populist," the fake swamp-drainer Donald Trump, and his voters are getting nothing they wanted in terms of relief from the relentless greed and austerity they rebelled against.

The nation, meanwhile, is left with a still-unsatisfied populist anger, waiting like an abscess to erupt. What form that will take in 2018 and 2020 is anyone's guess. Failed revolutions, like bad meals, often come back stronger.

It closes:

Is the anti-Trump #Resistance, the professional broadcast version with its behind-the-scenes security state actors, simply setting us up for a Restoration of those -- a Pence, a Biden -- who "weep tears of admiration for their own virtue" as they tank or attempt to co-opt the next Bernie Sanders, or re-destroy the last one? And if they do, will America weep tears of thanks, or something else?

To answer the first question above, look no further than the selection -- by "liberal" Nancy Pelosi -- of progressive-hating Democrat Hakeem Jeffries as the next leader of the Party in the House.

To answer the second, read on.

Next, this editorial from Krystal Ball, on the rail disaster in East Palestine, OH, and more importantly, on the particular way both parties are complicit in it. She starts with a common theme from many liberals, that Trump voters deserve what they get.

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