#progressive left

[labseraph]

What Noam Chomsky’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein says about progressive politics

What Noam Chomsky’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein says about progressive politics

The Left icon overlooked sexual violence, much like India’s literary and cultural progressives have embraced a man whose rape conviction was

"If you treat sexual assault allegations against a man as irrelevant to your political assessment of his intellect, his art, and his ideas, you are the opposite of progressive. The norms have progressed and you had better catch up or be left behind."

[cayomuchacha]

sorry but the whole “push harris left when shes elected” thing is not. Working. especially because um. A democrat is the president. So what exactly do you want from us dissenting vote-witholders except complete obeisance to status quo continuation…. Like am i not allowed to ask for the overton window on polices to shift leftwards until AFTER you lock in my vote in november???? please don’t take me for a fool, i LITERALLY just did this with biden 4 years ago. And he remains ironclad supporting a genocidal terror regime, AND has UN ambassador vote NO on UN recognition of Palestinian statehood, AND has continually relisted Cuba on the terrorist list…while opening commerce with cuban entrepeneurs. Cognitive dissonance is a consistent messaging from democrats and that’s no good. Either stand up for the rights of all peoples, or stand up for your gross imperial legacy. Red white and blue with the blood of innumerable innocent lives. DO SOMETHING OR YOU WONT GET MY VOTE. ITS SIMPLE. IM NOT VOTING FOR HARRIS UNTIL DEMOCRATS FORCE THEIR LEADERS TO SUPPORT SUBSTANTIAL POLICY SHIFTS TO THE LEFT. i’ll vote blue down the line tho before you berate me. But i will not vote for a president who doesn’t signal and VERBALIZE intent for real policy changes. It’s simple. I’m begging you to do something to get democrats to earn our votes.

[ex-foster]

Why do liberals hate foster kids?

As a former foster kid, I just gotta ask.

[eretzyisrael]

The Day the Angry Left Stayed Home

There was an oddly pleasant atmosphere to Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to a joint session of Congress this afternoon, thanks to the dozens of

by Seth Mandel

Those who boycotted missed a history lesson—Bibi chuckled at the thought that there were still educated folks who don’t know that the people of Israel are native to the land of Israel. And the members of Congress smiled back. That was the general tenor of the address and its reception; without the boycotters and their obnoxious “disrupters,” no one in the room felt pressured to pretend they were angrier or dumber than they were. It had the feel of a large family dinner from which a few teenagers rudely stomped off but everyone was happier with them gone anyway.

There was no news in the speech. There was gratitude for America and reasons given for that gratitude to be mutual—for example, the fact that Netanyahu said the Israeli soldiers in the gallery were the West’s boots on the ground in a common fight, obviating any need for Americans to send their own soldiers after the terrorists who stole their sons and daughters from them.

Nor was there anybody in the chamber who seemed particularly bothered by the talk of victory.

That seemed to be another lesson: The anger of the progressive left is contagious. Its rage plays satisfyingly to the inner totalitarian and the lazy academic alike. It is lowest-common-denominator politics. Take away the members of Congress whose every move and every word is geared toward their social-media “brand,” and you’re left with a recognizably normal and decent bunch of folks.

Amid all this, there was something genuinely pathetic about Tlaib and her very sad sign. Everyone was where they wanted to be today except her. The pro-Western lawmakers were in the chamber to receive the ecstatically pro-American prime minister of a crucial ally. The Squadniks and those who fear them were in their own comfort zone—far from the American flags and the “citadel of democracy,” as Bibi put it. The protesters were in their usual spot, soaking in the mists of misplaced rage. Only poor Rashida Tlaib sat there in abject misery listening to people say nice things about America.

No one who boycotted the speech had a good reason for doing so, but I suppose they would have looked even sillier booing hostages and pouting at moral clarity. And anyway, Rashida Tlaib can tell them what they missed.

[never-was-has-been]

The Republican activists pumping money into Left-wing candidates

PACs linked to Donald Trump’s party have been funding the campaigns of Jill Stein and Cornel West in attempts to hurt Democrats

Sooner or later, I knew since Jill Stein and Ralph Nader inserted themselves into elections, there would be Republican-favoring Billionaires funding their campaigns so that they could draw some progressive democrats away from any democratic candidate. This sucks because it's obvious that "3rd party" voters--even during this election campaign--are still adamant that "we" need to get MORE Progressive Left candidates on ballots to raise up a Progressive party that can compete with the DNC & DCCC. I mean, there are Lefties that actually believe this nonsense will work..!! "But it will take time to grow the party's strength!"....they say! Important point: There will be a dictator in the White House (not Trump necessarily) before any "3rd party" can spend $Billions on campaigns to elect Progressives... Do they not see the futility of fighting against Billionaires??? It'll NEVER happen...at least before I pass away and I'm 75yrs old now and have been Progressive LEFT since 1969!!

[wwowowwowoww]

“Peace Not Possible”

Josh Shapiro: “Palestinians […] are too battle-minded to establish a peaceful homeland[.] Israel must now act as peacemaker, babysitter, and police[.]”

[jerseydeanne]

By covering up corruption of the Biden family, Dems have created a total mess.

By covering up corruption of the Biden family, Dems have created a total mess.

Joel Pollak @joelpollak · 1h The odds that @KamalaHarris takes the oath of office on January 20 just went up. You can’t have a president whose son faces a grand jury for selling access to his father. Taxes are the tip of the iceberg. Media may try to bury their complicity in censorship by moving on to Kamala ——————— They never planned it for Kamala. Joe was supposed to take office. The media was…

View On WordPress

[workersolidarity]

An excellent breakdown of Socialist politics without getting hung up on all the various Socialist terminology. If you're interested in Socialist, Progressive, or other Left Wing politics, understanding your goals is important for achieving them.

Socialism is such a loaded term that it's almost useless at this point. But understanding the goals you're working toward is far more important. This video nails it.

Proff. Richard Wolff breaks down the three most common goals people have in mind when they say Socialism and makes it much easier to understand for people new to the Left. So I thought this would be good to share with so many young people joining the ranks of American Left in calling for a transformation in the economy and government.

I hope someone out there finds this video helpful. I would've killed to have Richard Wolff's videos at my disposal when I was forming my politics. Instead I had to do endless amounts of research, reading books, magazines, newspapers, manifestos and wikipedia pages for years and years. I wouldn't wish all that wading through political garbage on anyone, lol.

Hope someone finds this helpful