Posted by sigismund on November 19, 2017, at 15:38:26
In reply to Re: Politics meets mental health, posted by beckett2 on November 19, 2017, at 13:47:16
>My husband is more optimistic.
I'm not. Obama had it all in his hands and blew it because he was (shall we say) selected by Wall St. I am thinking of FDR in 1936..........
"For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our sleeves rolled up.
We had to struggle with the old enemies of peacebusiness and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.
They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.
Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for meand I welcome their hatred."
But with Trump the mask is off and it could go either way. If the Democrats can face reality it might be OK. But they show no signs of it. This is the Gramsci period.
The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.
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