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In reply to the discussion: WHOA! NYR is no RW rag! THIS IS A MUST READ! "The Clinton System" [View all]RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)39. Here's another good one from the same source.
http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2015/12/23/bernie-sanders-quiet-revolt/
"Sanders is unusual because he brings together three kinds of radicalism, each with very different roots. First is Sanderss commitment to bringing the progressive ideas of Scandinavian social democracy to the United States, including free and universal health care, free higher education at state colleges and universities, mandatory maternity and sick leave benefits, and higher taxes on higher incomes. In American political history you have to go back to Lyndon Johnsons Great Society or even to the early New Deal to find anything comparable."
"The second strand of Sanderss radicalism is his excoriating account of contemporary American capitalism, and with this he neither looks nor sounds like a consensus-minded Scandinavian social democrat. Here Sanders is willing to name and denounce the new economic royalistswhat he calls collectively the billionaire classin a way that Hillary Clinton, who has relied heavily on their financial backing, has not."
"the third and perhaps least understood strand of Sanderss radicalism comes into play: his ability to organize a previously unrecognized constituencyone that embraces the shrinking middle class, both white- and blue-collar, the working and non-working poor, as well as young, first-time voters with large student-loan debts. One thing that comes over strongly in interviews of those attending Sanders rallies is their sense that they are no longer alone, that theyre joining with thousands who are in much the same predicament as they are, and that together they can change things for the better.
Sanderss success in bringing these people together comes from his grounding, as a student at the University of Chicago in the early 1960s, in the grass-roots politics of Saul Alinsky (19091972), the founder of modern American community organizing. Alinskys crucial insight was that people at the bottom of the system could fight for local political and economic power by forming alliances with sympathetic community groups sharing many of their interests. From the late 1930s through the 1960s, Alinsky focused on the black ghettoes and white working-class districts of Chicago, Rochester, Buffalo, Oakland, and many other cities."
This is an excellent one!
"Sanders is unusual because he brings together three kinds of radicalism, each with very different roots. First is Sanderss commitment to bringing the progressive ideas of Scandinavian social democracy to the United States, including free and universal health care, free higher education at state colleges and universities, mandatory maternity and sick leave benefits, and higher taxes on higher incomes. In American political history you have to go back to Lyndon Johnsons Great Society or even to the early New Deal to find anything comparable."
"The second strand of Sanderss radicalism is his excoriating account of contemporary American capitalism, and with this he neither looks nor sounds like a consensus-minded Scandinavian social democrat. Here Sanders is willing to name and denounce the new economic royalistswhat he calls collectively the billionaire classin a way that Hillary Clinton, who has relied heavily on their financial backing, has not."
"the third and perhaps least understood strand of Sanderss radicalism comes into play: his ability to organize a previously unrecognized constituencyone that embraces the shrinking middle class, both white- and blue-collar, the working and non-working poor, as well as young, first-time voters with large student-loan debts. One thing that comes over strongly in interviews of those attending Sanders rallies is their sense that they are no longer alone, that theyre joining with thousands who are in much the same predicament as they are, and that together they can change things for the better.
Sanderss success in bringing these people together comes from his grounding, as a student at the University of Chicago in the early 1960s, in the grass-roots politics of Saul Alinsky (19091972), the founder of modern American community organizing. Alinskys crucial insight was that people at the bottom of the system could fight for local political and economic power by forming alliances with sympathetic community groups sharing many of their interests. From the late 1930s through the 1960s, Alinsky focused on the black ghettoes and white working-class districts of Chicago, Rochester, Buffalo, Oakland, and many other cities."
This is an excellent one!
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WHOA! NYR is no RW rag! THIS IS A MUST READ! "The Clinton System" [View all]
snagglepuss
Mar 2016
OP
The one that bugs me the most was BC being paid $600,000 to make a speech for Dutch insurer Achmea
Baobab
Mar 2016
#144
And this Government employee gets fired for accepting a 20 dollar tip...
Avalon Sparks
Mar 2016
#151
Another juicy nugget. Foreign govt $$$ to Clinton Foundation while Clinton was SecState, quid pro?
peacebird
Mar 2016
#53
I think your statement only serves to reinforce the point you're responding to. nt
DisgustipatedinCA
Mar 2016
#87
The Facts On Hillary Are Readily Available... The Problem Is The Lemmings...
CorporatistNation
Mar 2016
#146
We need to stand behind Sanders now. MSM is out to make him step out..Enough
bkkyosemite
Mar 2016
#3
the real problem is neoliberalism and a cover up of its real goal, which is reversing the good.
Baobab
Mar 2016
#145
Hillary was paying Sidney Blumenthal something like $120,000 from the Foundation
snagglepuss
Mar 2016
#125
Simon Head nails it when he calls this a "system" because it is so massive and complex.
snagglepuss
Mar 2016
#169
Do you mean an article about the Foundation? I think it's scandalous that the NYT
snagglepuss
Mar 2016
#171
She doubled arms sales to dodgy countries as SOS following donations to the Clinton Foundation.
AtomicKitten
Mar 2016
#6
If she's elected, good times for Hill, Bill, Barack, Donald and all their 1% er friends.
nc4bo
Mar 2016
#9
Clearly just another RW hit piece, hence the lack of any commentary by Clinton's supporters.
vintx
Mar 2016
#12
Case in point: One of the day's more high-minded threads is sinking like a stone
RufusTFirefly
Mar 2016
#70
All the Clinton foundation based attacks on Hillary have a similar structure
stevenleser
Mar 2016
#129
It is bigger which is why NYT tucked it away in NYR. There is no reason this is in NYR
snagglepuss
Mar 2016
#114
Agreed - How Could Any Democrat - In Good Conscience - Vote For Such An Unethical Candidate
cantbeserious
Mar 2016
#81
According to google searches no one has covered this brilliant, damning piece of
snagglepuss
Mar 2016
#85
The Corporatist Clinton Corruption Exposed For All The World To See - Yet The DNC Looks Askance
cantbeserious
Mar 2016
#79
Their followers don't care what they've done or will do. There new motto is "The Ends Justify The
rhett o rick
Mar 2016
#89
A handful of those on DU may not care but many other Clinton supporters assume all
snagglepuss
Mar 2016
#94
Such a nice man, the Kazahk prez. How could anyone refuse. It would be an insult.
snagglepuss
Mar 2016
#101
For some reason this piece written almost 2 months ago has got no attention. Everyone needs
snagglepuss
Mar 2016
#97
Tough to read this stuff. But people just don't want to hear it, or even entertain believing it.
EndElectoral
Mar 2016
#113
Interesting observation. I've always wanted to know the darker side of practically everything,
snagglepuss
Mar 2016
#124
One of the most disturbing articles I've ever read about politics and corruption
Impedimentus
Mar 2016
#119
This should have been on the NYT's front page but instead it got hidden in NYR Daily.
snagglepuss
Mar 2016
#135
I don't understand how any Clinton supporter can read this and not reconsider their position.
Impedimentus
Mar 2016
#141
There seems to be nothing else to Hillary Rodham Clinton, but this amoral shit.
delrem
Mar 2016
#150