A Short-Lived Trump Campaign Staffer Is Now At The Head Of The Far Right’s Jan. 6 Counternarrative ~~ Sarah Mimms

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sarahmimms/matt-braynard-jan-6-counternarrative

~~ posted for dmorista ~~

Voter Suppression

 "The Empire Strikes Back (Part One): The Largest Voter Suppression Campaign in US History Is Underway"

By Harvey Wasserman, Reader Supported News, 08 February 21

At, < https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/67708-rsn-the-empire-strikes-back-part-one-the-largest-voter-suppression-campaign-in-us-history-is-underway >

"Election Officials Under Attack", Brennan Center for Justice, June 16, 2021

At < https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/policy-solutions/election-officials-under-attack >

"Voting Laws Roundup: January 2021", Brennan Center for Justice, January 26, 2021

After historic turnout and increased mail voting in 2020, state lawmakers across the country are pulling in opposite directions by introducing restrictive and expansive voting legislation.

at, < https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/voting-laws-roundup-january-2021 >

~~ posted for dmorista with introduction by dmorista ~~

How Complacency, Complicity of Black Leadership Led to Supreme Court Evisceration of the Voting Rights Act. ~~ Bruce Dixon

 https://www.globalresearch.ca/how-complacency-complicity-of-black-misleadership-class-led-to-supreme-court-evisceration-of-the-voting-rights-act/5340655

~~ posted for dmorista with introduction by dmorista ~~

India Walton Is a Sign of What the Socialist Movement Could Become ~~ GABRIEL WINANT

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/07/india-walton-buffalo-mayor-rust-belt-health-postindustrial-workers-socialist-black-vote-race-class

~~ recommended by a guest contributor ~~

Chile’s Neoliberal Nightmare, New Constitution, and Daniel Jadue ~~ W. T. WHITNEY

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/05/07/chiles-neoliberal-nightmare-new-constitution-and-daniel-jadue/

~~recommended by a guest contributor ~~

WHY DO THE MEDIA HATE DANIEL ORTEGA? By Gerry Condon,

https://popularresistance.org/why-do-the-media-hate-daniel-ortega/

~~ posted for dmorista ~~

The Coup That is Taking Place in Peru Posted ~~ José Carlos Llerena Robles – Vijay Prashad

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/06/15/the-coup-that-is-taking-place-in-peru/

~~ posted for dreamjoehill2 ~~

Georgia’s New Voting Law Is Rife With Hidden Horrors ~~ Greg Palast

https://truthout.org/articles/georgias-new-voting-law-is-rife-with-hidden-horrors/

~~posted for collectivist ~~

Trench Warfare - Notes on the 2020 Election ~~ Mike Davis

https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii126/articles/mike-davis-trench-warfare 

This article was recommended by dmorista  

We assume that times of great social upheaval and human peril produce equally dramatic political reactions: uprisings, counter-revolutions, new deals and civil wars. The one and only thing that most Americans agree about is that we are living in such a time, the greatest national crisis since 1932 or even 1860. Against a background of plague, impeachment, racist violence and unemployment, one party espouses a vision of autocratized government and a return to the happy days of a white Republic. The other offers a sentimental journey back to the multicultural centrism of the Obama years. (Biden’s promise of a ‘new new deal’ was for gullible progressives’ ears only.) Both parties are backward looking, solipsistic and unanchored in economic reality, but the first echoes the darkest side of modern history. The vote, held on a day when more than 100,000 Americans tested positive for covid-19, was supposed to deliver a definitive verdict on Donald Trump. Indeed the President’s increasingly frenetic attempts to delegitimize the election seemed to signal his apprehension of a Democratic landslide. In the event a projected 160 million ballots were mailed in or cast in person, representing the highest turnout rate in 120 years. A stunning judgement was expected.

Georgians Are Starving — And Their Millionaire Senators Refuse to Force a Vote on Aid. ~~ DAVID SIROTA ANDREW PEREZ

 https://jacobinmag.com/2020/12/georgia-kelly-loeffler-david-perdue-covid-relief-bill

Republican Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue could actually force a Senate vote on $2,000 checks for almost two thirds of Georgia households. After all, their state is in the middle of a calamity. Instead, they are issuing belated, meek platitudes.

Social Democracy- An Unworthy Goal ~~ Kacey SW

https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/kacey-sw-social-democracy-an-unworthy-goal

SOCIAL DEMOCRACY IS NOT DESIRABLE

LEE CAMP: We Can’t Vote ‘Em Out

https://consortiumnews.com/2020/11/30/lee-camp-we-cant-vote-em-out/

The criminal absurdity of American politics - 

It doesn’t matter when you read this, the assholes will still be in power. I know that because here in America we can’t vote out the assholes. We can trouble them, scare them, annoy them, and sometimes even pressure them into doing some small thing that’s mildly progressive. 

But we can’t vote out the assholes.

US history proves it: change comes from struggle, not elections ~~ Eleanor Morley

https://redflag.org.au/node/7429

Pinning hopes on the outcome of elections has weakened social movements. When the oppressed take matters into their own hands, things change.

Why Capitalism Was Destined to Come Out on Top in the 2020 Election ~~ RICHARD D. WOLFF

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/11/06/why-capitalism-was-destined-to-come-out-on-top-in-the-2020-election/

No matter who “won” the U.S. election, what will not change is the capitalist organization of the country’s economy.

The great majority of enterprises will continue to be owned and operated by a small minority of Americans. They will continue to use their positions atop the capitalist system to expand their wealth, “economize their labor costs,” and thereby deepen the United States’ inequalities of wealth and income.

The United States is not a Democracy. ~~. Ben Hiller

https://mronline.org/2020/11/04/119166/

~~ posted for Collectivist ~~

The United States boasts one of the most farcical democratic systems to have been invented. The country’s constitution is an eighteenth-century relic penned by merchants and slave owners, amendments to which can be blocked by as few as 13 states representing less than 4 percent of the population. Its Supreme Court, conservative by nature and stacked with tenured-for-life justices, provides an institutional anti-majoritarian check on the popular will.

Debs Attacks “the Monstrous System” of Capitalism ~~ E. Debs

In recognition of election day

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5725/

The world’s workers have always been and still are the world’s slaves. They have borne all the burdens of the race and built all the monuments along the track of civilization; they have produced all the world’s wealth and supported all the world’s governments. They have conquered all things but their own freedom. They are still the subject class in every nation on earth and the chief function of every government is to keep them at the mercy of their masters.

Trump-Biden 2: Dueling Billionaire-Backed Liars ~~ Jeff Mackler

https://socialistaction.org/2020/11/01/trump-biden-2-dueling-billionaire-backed-liars/

If I were a high school debate referee I’d score Joe Biden the winner big time in the October 22 final debate with the nation’s moron accidental president Donald Trump. But it wasn’t a high school debate wherein each side is assigned in advance to take opposing sides of a question. In Trump-Biden 2 both debaters took the stage to defend the same side, that is, the corporate capitalist elite who really run the country regardless of which candidate gets to live in the White House.

Elections: What’s the economy got to do with it? And what we can do about it ~~ Gary Wilson

https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2020/10/29/elections-whats-the-economy-got-to-do-with-it-and-what-we-can-do-about-it/

~~ Posted for Collectivist ~~

Oct. 28 — In the final days of campaigning before the 2020 elections, every form of media is saturated with advertising for the Democratic and Republican candidates in local, state and national elections.

The focus is mainly on the presidential campaigns. The far-right Trump campaign is openly racist and white supremacist, with Trump’s call-out to the neofascist Proud Boys to “stand by.” The campaign’s slogan is, in the words of the New York Post endorsement of Trump, “Make America Great Again, Again.”

The Coup Already Underway ~~Paul Street

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/16/the-coup-already-underway/

This might be a good time for Americans to stop masochistically worshipping at the feet of their nation’s authoritarian Constitution. A proto-fascistic genocidal racist maniac and anti-science eco-exterminist determined to kill two million more Americans with COVID-19 sits in the White House thanks in no small part due to the absurdly venerated 1788 United States Constitution.

“Harm Reduction Voting” vs. Independent Working-Class Politics ~~ George Martin Fell Brown

https://www.socialistalternative.org/2020/08/27/harm-reduction-voting-vs-independent-working-class-politics/

~~posted for Collectivist

Millions have spent the past four years horrified by the experience of the increasingly authoritarian Trump administration, that deliberately stokes racist division. But many are nonetheless disappointed that his main opponent, Joe Biden, is  a corporate tool who was an architect of mass incarceration and whose campaign message boils down to “I’m not Trump.”