“ In their evisceration of liberals and establishment Democrats, we get the usual left-wing criticisms of the Barack Obama and Bill Clinton presidencies: The $800 billion stimulus had too many tax cuts, the Affordable Care Act is little more than a Heritage Foundation scheme, the crime bill sparked a wave of mass incarceration. Even if all of that were true...[]”
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Also earlier in the article he literally unironically says that America spreads democracy. All you have to do is show the slightest opposition to Capitalism, and these smooth-brain ghouls come out of the woodwork SO fast
'The Korean war was anti-imperialist' is not a take I've heard before. At least the article did somehow convince me that the Chapo hosts are to the left of Bernie
I like how their best example of bipartisan legislation under Obama is a half measure that still leaves large disparities in sentencing between crack and powder cocaine. What a rube.
So the crime bill is good because of the Violence Against Women act, as if that couldn’t have been passed separately. Neolib logic: if you attach something good to something bad it makes the bad thing good! Better things aren’t possible on their own, you need the bad things too. Learn how the real world works sweaty. Fuck these ghouls.
Well , true.
Technically, it very well may be the stupidest book ever written about socialism, but is also cool and good. Nice Eli Valley pictures too!
