Jon Stewart torched the DNC and Democratic leadership as "lost" after learning from a candidate with a massive lead that he's heard zilch from the party.
They’re controlled in the sense that they represent class interests that are opposed to those of their nominal constituency. By paying some lip service to vaguely progressive policies, they capture roughly half of the voters in a system built to exclude any real working-class political representation.
What do you mean? They are accountable to their class collaborators. They benefit from all sorts of “campaign contributions”, corrupt dealings, lobbying and investments. For sure some of them have the additional guarantee of epstein-variety blackmail.
I’m not clear on what you mean here. The system is a kind of an embodiment of malice towards the poor. I’m not saying that all these politicians are consciously malicious, I’m saying that they don’t work for us.
They’re controlled in the sense that they represent class interests that are opposed to those of their nominal constituency. By paying some lip service to vaguely progressive policies, they capture roughly half of the voters in a system built to exclude any real working-class political representation.
Controller by nothing and accountable to no one is a weird definition of controlled.
What do you mean? They are accountable to their class collaborators. They benefit from all sorts of “campaign contributions”, corrupt dealings, lobbying and investments. For sure some of them have the additional guarantee of epstein-variety blackmail.
Systemic problems require no malice.
I’m not clear on what you mean here. The system is a kind of an embodiment of malice towards the poor. I’m not saying that all these politicians are consciously malicious, I’m saying that they don’t work for us.