An interview with Chris Hedges from last year, still relevant in the wake of Tuesday.....

[marmar]

HEDGES: Because the traditional liberal elite divorced itself from the issue of justice to embrace for the last few decades issues such as gender equality, multiculturalism, identity politics, all of which I support. But while they busied themselves with these activities, the working class was being destroyed through NAFTA and the outsourcing of jobs, the stagnation, in essence reduction of the minimum wage.

The Democratic Party used to watch out for the interests of labor and even for the poor. But that all changed under Bill Clinton. Although Clinton, like Obama, continues to speak in that feel-your-pain language of traditional liberalism, they've completely betrayed the very people that they purport to represent and defend.

.....(snip).....

HEDGES: Well, and meanwhile the working class was being decimated, so that now our working class is largely enveloped within the service sector, where, you know, couples will have two or three different jobs with no kind of benefits, no kind of (incompr.) Walmart nation. There is no force within either of the established political parties that are willing to stand up and defend the interests, even on the issue of minimum wage. That's only going to, again, come by stepping outside the formal mechanisms of power and beginning to build movements, as we saw with the Chicago teachers strike. I mean, let's remember that the Chicago teachers strike was fighting against a Democratic mayor, not just any mayor, but one of the pillars of the Democratic establishment, Rahm Emanuel, that they had to essentially remove the traditional leadership. And that's really going to be the future, that we're going to be fighting--we're fighting both parties. We're not fighting one party. ................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10468

[leftstreet]

1. DURec

[NYC_SKP]

2. Nailed it! It's not just Republicans. It's the entire corrupt fucking establishment, including....

Clintons, who sold us out entirely.

"It's the economy stupid" my ass.

At what price to the middle class was he willing to show economic improvement?

Hillary, too, with her seat on the board of Walmart, and supporting offshore interests more than our own.

I'm sick of it.