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u/Sonny_Crockett123 · 4 pointsr/Palestine

Read Listen Liberal by Thomas Frank for the full history. The abbreviated version is that the professional, managerial class sympathetic to corporate interests took over the party about 50 years ago and decided to ignore and even antagonize the party's traditional labor base, assuming (rightly) they would have nowhere else to go and could be placated by being threatened to keep voting Democrat or things would be worse under Republicans. Bill and Hillary are the culmination of this transformation of the party

u/cdub384 · 2 pointsr/SandersForPresident

Bill was the master deregulator. Sure, while they are in office it might seem fine on the surface. Thomas Frank briefly goes over it a bit here if you are interested: https://www.amazon.com/Listen-Liberal-Happened-Party-People-ebook/dp/B012N992EK Kept seeing this in amazon and bought it recently.

u/robbiedo · 1 pointr/Portland

Rather than respond to individuals in this thread, a reasoned argument is Thomas Frank "Listen Liberal."

u/Velaseri · 1 pointr/conspiracy

Dude, the book is a collection of data featuring the CIA's funding Hussein's rise into power in the first place! The opinion of the writer isn't the point, it's the collected data. But missing the point seems to be your forte.


"JFK was not alive when Saddam Hussein was in power in Iraq." Um yes, that's the fucking point you blithering idiot liberal. He HELPED Hussein gain power BEFORE he had it. How are you this incapable? The US supported (president after president) Hussein, all the way up until the point he wanted to nationalise resources, and ONLY then did the US recognise his "crimes against humanity".


Liberals are excellent at flitting about, chanting platitudes and telling minorities to wait for a better time to protest - when push comes to shove they side with the reactionaries. Liberal internationalists may very well oppose the war (when it suits), but they still blindly support a system which inevitably exploits.

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A.N.S.W.E.R were the largest anti-war group after Iraq, liberals wouldn't help or join them because they were leftist and "too radical". The majority of anti-Vietnam protestors were LEFTISTS, not liberals.


If you had even read any article from your google search; "The movement against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War began small - among peace activists and leftist intellectuals on college campuses - but gained national prominence in 1965, after the United States began bombing North Vietnam in earnest."


"Though the vast majority of the American population still supported the administration policy in Vietnam, a small but outspoken leftist minority was making its voice heard by the end of 1965".


"The anti-war movement began mostly on college campuses, as members of the leftist organization Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)" You liberals don't get to do nothing, and then claim the actions of leftists. Sorry. Not happening anymore.


https://depts.washington.edu/moves/antiwar_intro.shtml The majority of anti-Vietnam (New Left) protestors wanted to be rid of the democratic and republican parties, while the liberals (you) blindly followed/follow the democrats no matter what they do; just like the reactionaries blindly follow the republicans.

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https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/postwarera/1960s-america/a/the-student-movement-and-the-antiwar-movement

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"71% of US citizens supported the decision to use military force, while just 22% said it was the wrong decision". The majority of liberals are NOT anti-war. https://www.thedailybeast.com/michael-moore-on-the-iraq-war-the-liberals-backed-it where are you guys on your anti-war stance whenever someone questions dem leaders warmongering? Opps that's right; too busy asking if everyone is Russian.


http://crookedtimber.org/2013/03/25/why-did-liberals-suppor-the-iraq-war/ Liberals have been nothing but a thorn in the side of leftists, nothing. They not only never challenge the status quo, there is always a better time for the revolution. There is always a better way to act, a better way to be "angry" and a better way for minorities to get "justice" - protest is only "good" for a liberal as long as it's all within the confines of the system. Because we wouldn't want to rock the boat, would we? How do you feel about the black panthers, were they "too radical" should they have tried to be more "demure"? That's all I've heard from the liberal mouthpiece.

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Ask any neoliberal what they think of the "conflict in the middle east" and actually listen. Complicity in western intervention is a liberal past time. https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitLiberalsSay/


https://themarxistminx.wordpress.com/2014/08/24/marxs-critique-of-liberalism/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLqKXrlD1TU&pbjreload=10 Liberals in a fucking nutshell.

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“weak-minded, market-friendly centrist, wonky, technocratic and condescending to the working class … pious about diversity but ready to abandon any belief at the slightest drop in poll numbers”.

https://chomsky.info/20161214/ You don't even seem to understand what a fucking liberal is. Do you even know what economic liberalism entails? You seem to think liberals are social reformers when liberals have done nothing but sit on their arses, wait for leftists to actually do something, then claim they were there all along; how is neoliberalism anything but right wing? How is market theory that advocates free trade and the pursuit of material self-interest "revolutionary"? Fuck off liberal. And stop, claiming the work of leftists.


https://www.amazon.com.au/Listen-Liberal-Happened-Party-People-ebook/dp/B012N992EK