Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: The real question in the primary. Can Biden get 51% of the delegates? [View all]delisen
(6,042 posts)intellectual caliber of the messenger. His thinking is facile; superficial.
I even tried to find some information on the messenger's socialism in practice-but found nothing. Do you know him; does he in some way practice socialism-even experimentally?
There is a huge difference between being a socialist and studying socialism, or lecturing on socialism, or writing about socialism.
He has a new book telling other people they should be socialists. (At least he admits socialism is hard to define).
Possibly he is practicing socialism with the revenue from his book?
I meet regularly with a group of people who have almost no income and are without homes. Their sharing of scarce resources with each other as well as their ethical decision-making would put many self-styled socialists to shame.
To opine and make pronouncements about the 2016 election and Clinton as a candidate without even mentioning the fact that our government kept the electorate in the dark about Russian involvement is shallow at best.
(Let's remember that Trump best a very heavy field of primary election Republicans-most or all of whom were considered more likely to win the primary). So the "bad candidate" Clinton meme is tiresome.
I don't see truths in his writing, I see opinion and few facts.
Robinson has a political point of view to which he seems to be wedded, and he is not analyzing; he is, at best, propagandizing or entertaining.
Frankly I think if he followed a thinker and activist like Greta Thunberg around for a year, he might be able to write something worth reading.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided