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British Labour Elects Corbyn
The British Labour party just found back to light. Against resistance and condemnation from the Blairite Labour establishment, as well as the Grauniard and other pseudo-left media, the party members elected Jeremy Corbyn as their new leader. Corbyn received more votes than any Labour leader, including Blair, before him.
The veteran left winger got almost 60% of more than 400,000 votes cast, trouncing his rivals Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall.
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Mr Corbyn was a 200-1 outsider when the three month contest began.
This victory is biggest party mandate for any political leader in Britain's political history.
In social economic policies Corbyn is a moderate left, neither a socialist nor a communist. In foreign policies he prefers (unlike Bernie Sanders) non-intervention instead of imperialistic and militant behavior. A genuine old flavor European social-democrat. We could certainly need more of those to kick out the neoliberal centrists that captured and domesticated the original social-democratic parties over the last decades.
It is amusing to observe the genuine horror Corbyn's election creates within the doom mongering Blairite establishment as well as with the Conservatives. We can also expect the U.S. establishment in both parties to follow this line:
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon, giving the Conservative Party's reaction, said: "Labour are now a serious risk to our nation's security, our economy's security and your family's security.
"The RED MENACE is coming!!!"
Congrats to Labour in Britain. May other European social-democratic parties follow your example.
All this stuff about Bernie, I’ve already said my peace. Bernie won’t upset AIPAC, not in a million years. He’s no peacenik (he likes drones) and I’ve heard no solution for the pointless economic drain of the military industrial complex. His soundbite that the Saudis need to “pull their weight” in the Middle East, ignoring the gruesome effects of what they’ve already done, is as laughable as pushing the Devil to take a more active role in Hell.
That said, those failings, and they’re fucking really bad, pale in comparison to the rest. The only thing you can say about him is that, amongst all the rotten apples, he has the least rot … and with that being the best I can say of him, well, I can’t say it. Obama, at least, was an honest con. He really fooled most people, said all the right things about war, Guantanamo, Iraq, even talked about union rights in Colombia. Bernie is, at least, telling you what you’re going to get, problem being nothing he says on the Empire makes sense. And you can’t have the Empire without this inequality. So to talk about one but not the other… its impossible IMHO. Unless he expects to exploit the rest of the world so hard that the economy comes back, like Germany seems to want to do with the EU. But who could want that? Who could think that is a long term solution? The rest of the world has had it with that.
He is at the very least more rational than the rest, less prone to the Clintonian, brown-nosing outbursts hoping to prove to warmongers that he is as rabid as the worst of them. No, I haven’t heard Fred Kagan give him props, nor have I seen any photos of him hanging with Rupert Murdoch, smiles on their disgusting faces. What’s been squeezed out of him in interviews, which is always very little, he’s never talked for peace but he doesn’t spew venom. I don’t think Bernie will ever call Putin “Hitler”. That’s something. He appears sane, which is a rarity in a politician these days. But it isn’t enough for me to go “Go Bernie!” on my friends or even on the internet.
That said, the real threat in all of this, and one that should not be ignored, is the prospect of President Biden, a beltway lizard so slippery and poisonous he defies description. A man who was deeply involved in the pre-PATRIOT ACT “Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995” six years before 9/11.
The man who might lead us to World War 3 out of his bizarre hatred for Russia, who has supported the toppling of the government of Ukraine and the Georgian attack on Russian peacekeepers, while at the same time he makes imperial policy personal by extending the corrupt tentacles of nepotism across the globe by placing his son at the head of fracking ventures in the Ukraine. That’s very scary.
The man who was ready (and is certainly still ready) to split Iraq along its ethnic seams, leaving the heart of the Middle East with at least a century of conflict that would make India-Pakistan look like Sunday School.
The man known as “The Senator from MasterCard” for his close ties to the credit card industry, a man who could care less wether people pushed into penury by medical bills or for whatever reason are ever able to emerge out from under it, having supported the odious bankruptcy bill. Not to mention his fervent support for the bailout nightmare, and this “new normal” of economic stagnation by giving all to the banks…
This man should never, ever, ever be President. I’ll take Bernie or Hillary any day over this snake.
Posted by: guest77 | Sep 14 2015 0:54 utc | 72
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