Criticism matters if only to correct the record - and that's just what Glen Ford achieves for the most part as Michael Eric Dyson, the new Obama apparatchik at MSNBC, makes an ass of himself on this morning's Democracy Now! (The debate starts at about the 16:30 mark.)
I used to think the difference between the GOP and the Democrats was like the difference between Coke and Pepsi. And there was a difference: one tasted better and was, at least we we were told, less filling. It was pretty much a difference without a distinction between two corrupt, failed, oligarchical parties. The evil of two lessers, in other words. More recently, I had to come to think of the difference between the two parties as kind of like the difference between two corporate-militarist-plutocratic Orwellian factions with different branding strategies: one cast somewhere in between a Benetton advertisement and the dust-covered box set of Will & Grace in your closet - and the other, far more politically incorrect, juvenile, and downright depraved in its antics. Now I think the difference is probably more akin to that existing between a calmer, more rational, and deceptively more "inclusive" Republican party, aka Ford's "more effective evil," which has not just moved to the right of both Nixon and Reagan but every once and a while poses and parades itself as a "Democratic Party" to muster appeal from
* UPDATE 9/9/12*
Watch Glen Ford address the issue again with Paul Jay on The Real News.
2 comments:
The Teachers' Union strike in Chicago proves it. Obama's base is more likely to stand against Romney than they are to stand against Obama and Rahm’s attempts to change, reduce, privatize the great social safety nets of the Democratic Party of yesteryears. This so sickening.
There really is no guarantee that teachers will earn a decent wage, outside of the teachers’ own power to bargain collectively. And Rahm is working against any of that happening...
It sure does. And what timing.
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