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In reply to the discussion: Democrats have nothing to gain be telling Bernie and his supporters to go to hell [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)It was actually weirdly flattering to see my words become a found poem...structurally, it worked.
I just didn't get whatever point you thought you were making by doing that.
I understand that the country won't instantly do what I(and it's not just me, it's a huge number of other people)want. But what's the point of giving up on larger change?
There's not a hell of a lot we can do to end racism within the existing economic model-we can hold it back slightly from time to time, but a fully capitalist economy of the sort we have at the moment can't allow racism to be ended, on a grassroots OR institutional level. The status quo NEEDS racism to stay dominant.
We won't have socialism any time soon. We may NEVER have it. But if we give up on even creating an egalitarian mixed economy(as our party has done since the late Seventies, when President Carter, good man though he is, made the disastrous choice to put the rich man's desire of low inflation above the people's need for full employment and freedom from want) we are giving up on making much of anything better.
The transition from Obama to Trump, in which the gains of eight years have been all but wiped out, bear me out on this.
It's a losing strategy to settle for making the existing order less nasty. All that approach ever allows us to do is to make small temporary advances, all of which end up being revoked as soon as someone from the other side gets in.
I say that as a person who is active in antiracist work in my own community.