{"id":3275,"date":"2016-11-12T09:43:12","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T09:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evaggelatos.com\/?p=3275"},"modified":"2016-11-12T09:48:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-12T09:48:14","slug":"it-was-the-democrats-embrace-of-neoliberalism-that-won-it-for-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evaggelatos.com\/?p=3275","title":{"rendered":"It was the Democrats’ embrace of neoliberalism that won it for Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Naomi

Naomi Klein superb writer, author of a great book” Shock and Owe”<\/p><\/div>\n

People have lost their sense of security, status and even identity. This result is the scream of an America desperate for radical change.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Our comment:Therefore Donald Tramp was elected as an act of vindication.<\/span><\/p>\n

They will blame James Comey<\/a> and the FBI. They will blame voter suppression<\/a> and racism. They will blame Bernie or bust<\/a> and misogyny. They will blame third parties and independent candidates. They will blame the corporate media for giving him the platform, social media for being a bullhorn, and WikiLeaks for airing the laundry.<\/span><\/p>\n

But this leaves out the force most responsible for creating the nightmare in which we now find ourselves wide awake: neoliberalism<\/strong>. That worldview \u2013 fully embodied by Hillary Clinton<\/a> and her machine \u2013 is no match for Trump-style extremism. The decision to run one against the other is what sealed our fate. If we learn nothing else, can we please learn from that mistake?<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is what we need to understand: a hell of a lot of people are in pain. Under neoliberal policies of deregulation, privatisation, austerity and corporate trade, their living standards have declined precipitously. They have lost jobs. They have lost pensions. They have lost much of the safety net that used to make these losses less frightening. They see a future for their kids even worse than their precarious present.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

At the same time, they have witnessed the rise of the Davos class, a hyper-connected network of banking and tech billionaires, elected leaders who are awfully cosy with those interests, and Hollywood celebrities<\/strong> who make the whole thing seem unbearably glamorous. Success is a party to which they were not invited, and they know in their hearts that this rising wealth and power is somehow directly connected to their growing debts and powerlessness.<\/span><\/p>\n

For the people who saw security and status as their birthright \u2013 and that means white men most of all \u2013 these losses are unbearable.<\/span><\/p>\n

Donald Trump<\/a> speaks directly to that pain. The Brexit campaign spoke to that pain. So do all of the rising far-right parties in Europe. They answer it with nostalgic nationalism and anger at remote economic bureaucracies \u2013 whether Washington, the North American free trade agreement the World Trade Organisation or the EU.<\/strong> And of course, they answer it by bashing immigrants and people of colour, vilifying Muslims, and degrading women. Elite neoliberalism has nothing to offer that pain, because neoliberalism unleashed the Davos class. People such as Hillary and Bill Clinton are the toast of the Davos party. In truth, they threw the party.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Davos of the wealthy class against medium anglosaxonic class<\/p><\/div>\n

Trump\u2019s message was: \u201cAll is hell.\u201d Clinton answered: \u201cAll is well.\u201d But it\u2019s not well \u2013 far from it.Our comment: She meant: Out of globalization youre life people is gonna be a Hell!<\/span><\/strong>
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Neo-fascist responses to rampant insecurity and inequality are not going to go away. But what we know from the 1930s is that what it takes to do battle with fascism is a real left. A good chunk of Trump\u2019s support could be peeled away if there were a genuine redistributive agenda on the table. An agenda to take on the billionaire class with more than rhetoric, and use the money for a green new deal. Such a plan could create a tidal wave of well-paying unionised jobs, bring badly needed resources and opportunities to communities of colour, and insist that polluters should pay for workers to be retrained and fully included in this future.<\/span><\/p>\n

It could fashion policies that fight institutionalised racism, economic inequality and climate change at the same time. It could take on bad trade deals and police violence<\/strong>, and honour indigenous people as the original protectors of the land, water and air.<\/span><\/p>\n

People have a right to be angry, and a powerful, intersectional left agenda can direct that anger where it belongs, while fighting for holistic solutions<\/strong> that will bring a frayed society together.<\/span><\/p>\n

Such a coalition is possible. In Canada, we have begun to cobble it together under the banner of a people\u2019s agenda called The Leap Manifesto<\/a>, endorsed by more than 220 organisations from Greenpeace Canada to Black Lives Matter Toronto, and some of our largest trade unions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bernie Sanders\u2019 amazing campaign went a long way towards building this sort of coalition, and demonstrated that the appetite for democratic socialism is out there. But early on, there was a failure in the campaign to connect with older black and Latino voters who are the demographic most abused by our current economic model. That failure prevented the campaign from reaching its full potential. Those mistakes can be corrected and a bold, transformative coalition is there to be built on.<\/span><\/p>\n

That is the task ahead. The Democratic party needs to be either decisively wrested from pro-corporate neoliberals, or it needs to be abandoned.<\/strong> From Elizabeth Warren<\/a> to Nina Turner, to the Occupy alumni who took the Bernie campaign supernova, there is a stronger field of coalition-inspiring progressive leaders out there than at any point in my lifetime. We are \u201cleaderful\u201d, as many in the Movement for Black Lives say.<\/span><\/p>\n

So let\u2019s get out of shock as fast as we can and build the kind of radical movement that has a genuine answer to the hate and fear represented by the Trumps of this world. Let\u2019s set aside whatever is keeping us apart and start right now.<\/span><\/p>\n

By Naomi Klein<\/span><\/p>\n

Our comment: She ends up that only a radical change of the political agenda and against neoliberalism can unite the american citizens again and the need of a transformative coalition has to be built on as in Greece, only the unification of greek nation will save it from the impending Hell.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

People have lost their sense of security, status and even identity. This result is the scream of an America desperate for radical change. Our comment:Therefore Donald Tramp was elected as an act of vindication. They will blame James Comey and the FBI. They will blame voter suppression and racism. They will blame Bernie or bust … <\/p>\n

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