Glen Ford pointed out that if the Democrats were a real, mass based party, they would never have considered Joe Biden as their nominee because he had no support among the people that energize parties: the youth. He still lacks that support because that is what the duopoly oligarchs want, a voting base which they can ignore. "But the Democrats and the Republicans are not mass political parties. They are not run the people who vote for them. They are controlled by their corporate funders, who make sure that rich peopleās interests are protected at every money-soaked stage of the electoral game."
Originally published in Black Agenda Report.
When the Democratic Party ends its charade of a primary process and spits out the person most closely aligned with neo-liberal policies, the gas lighting begins.
Both candidates are jockeying for who can best gaslight the U.S. public into remaining loyal to one side of the two-party corporate duopoly or the other.
Cheri Honkala tells Ann Garrison that the Biden campaign headquarters threw up a rent-a-fence when they heard the Poor Peopleās Army was coming.
A big BOOMā 27,000 tons of ammonium nitrateā¦ chemical compound for agricultural Fertilizerā¦ āstoredā 6 years at the port of Beirut 220 dead 5,000 injured
The Big Business-backed Harris earned a reputation as a friend of the police and an agent of racially disparate mass incarceration.
