Michael Brenner: American Dissent on Ukraine Is Dying in Darkness
"Wait a minute, you're getting this war wrong." "We have been betrayed by our ruling elites."
"Wait a minute, you're getting this war wrong." "We have been betrayed by our ruling elites."
Destruction of the working class, the welfare system, public media, militarized police, prison system, oppression of black and brown people, deindustrialization
The decline and fall of the American Empire?
"The message of the Biden administration to progressives and left-wing populists is very clear – 'Drop dead.'"
"Despite losing, Donald Trump has solidified support from an angry, disposed working class that cuts across racial lines."
"If there is one group that deserves our deepest contempt it is the liberal elites, those who posture as the moral arbiters of society while abandoning every value they purportedly hold the moment they become inconvenient."
[Trump] is pushing the country toward genuine fascism: wholesale disregard of the law, the rule of big military, the rule of big money, Wall Street, and Silicon Valley. He is crushing workers, marginalizing women, scapegoating Mexicans, and Muslims, and Jews, and Black, brown, and indigenous people."
"The American tax payer, through the Federal Reserve, now for the first time have become owners in oil company debt."
"They have destroyed our capitalist democracy and replaced it with a mafia state."
A fixed election system, mainstream corporate media, and more.