"Believing that one day we will get a single-payer healthcare system, a
living minimum wage, and free higher education even though people who
like the idea of such programs are unwilling to vote for candidates who
support them is not simply unrealistic – its fantastical! It’s a kind of
supernaturalism, like the belief in Santa Claus. Clinton won’t support
such things, no mainstream Democratic political candidate will support
them, but we’ll get them one day anyway? How? Via the agency of the Good
Healthcare Fairy? Santa Living Minimum Wage? The Free Higher Education
Bunny?"
--M. G. Piety
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/22/on-political-realism/print/
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we should be wary that a faux “movement” may be manufactured on the backs of real movements that have sought to upend that political and ...
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Americans “must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.”...
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