October 1, 2011

Cornel West Martin Bashir Spar About Obama [9-21-2011]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MpQAzHYQ9U

By Adaoma

In this piece, Cornel West advocates a Progressive Opponent to Obama from the Democratic Party for the upcoming primary. Progressive and Democratic Party are oxymoronic terms.

Senator Bernie Sanders (VT-Independent) has a viable suggestion of strengthening Unions and fighting to maintain and restore collective bargaining.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=k_oRiLPSAzk

Given the actions of the Democratic Party in recent years, the advocate of working class interests is most likely to come from the working class, not enablers of capitalist interests by way of the Democratic Party. In recent years, the Democratic Party and all of their identity politics caucuses, have funded wars, bailed out banks, and proposed trillion dollar cuts in vital programs for poor and working people in this country. The recent actions of Democratic the Party has enabled record profits of billions of dollars as wages decrease.

While the Democratic Party and the Republican argue over taxes for the nation's wealthiest, a bipartisan "lockstep" agreement on slashing funds to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security is being promoted as a jobs bill and infrastructure improvement project. Workers will not be fooled by this red herring.

Continued unemployment threatens workers' survival, but ultimately and most importantly, poverty threatens workers material survival.

Homeless,(which has not been mentioned by the present Administration ), child poverty (at 22%,,more than Denmark 4%, Germany and France 10%), the denial of health care as a right has not been addressed nor strategically resolved by the Democratic Party.

The Republican Party is culpable of the same political abandonment because like the Democratic Party, their interests are profits, not poverty.

From 2000-2007 the top 10% has a 100% growth income. Bernie Sanders called it pathological!

Wages have plummeted. Auto industries, once known for the most powerful unions and the standard of manufacturing, have begun to hire again, but have cut wages by 50% from workers 0f 10-20 years ago. Where automakers once began at $28.00 and hour, new workers are entering in at $14.00 an hour.

Cornel West's criticism of President Obama can well be extended to the entire Democratic Party.

The signature of this administration is "bipartisanship"...against the working class....not for it.

Perhaps the praxis, actions and deeds of us all will be a rude awakening and the dawning of a party, a new party that will serve worker's interests.

Adaoma

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