• What happened to the Squad? | Opinion | Chicago Reader
    https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/squad-medicare-for-all/Content?oid=89328235

    What passes for the left in the Democratic Party has mastered the art of performative resistance. They tweet out antiestablishment rhetoric. But behind closed doors, they play for Team Blue, which means they play for Team UnitedHealthcare, Team Humana, and Team Raytheon.

    The collapse of the Squad shows that change will not come from inside the Democratic Party. The two corporate parties that control Washington, D.C., are rotten to the core. It is a fool’s errand to think that we can make the Democrats fight for working people while the party’s major donors are telling them to keep the status quo. It’s time for progressives to walk away from the Democratic Party and support a third party that is free of corporate influence. v

    • Ce qui est vraiment intéressant c’est la méthode employée par les corporate democrats qui ont fait obtempérer la nouvelle gauche au sein du parti. Il s’agit de routines utilisées quotidiennement dans nos parlements.

      As I wrote in a previous column, because of the Democrats’ slim majority in the House, just a handful of progressives had the power to demand a vote on M4A, if they chose to exercise that power on behalf of working people. AOC and her colleagues did not force a vote on M4A. Instead, they stood with Pelosi and the donors in keeping the bill off the floor of the House.

      The Squad did finally coordinate their votes last month. But it was not to help working people. Rather, three out of six Squad members, including AOC, agreed to vote “present” to assure passage of a bill to increase funding for the Capitol police. All six members of the Squad told activist groups that they opposed the bill. AOC and the other abstainers spent a year chanting and tweeting that the police should be defunded. But then behind closed doors, they coordinated their votes so the bill could pass by a one-vote margin.

      Even worse, the Squad have run interference for President Biden, discouraging their millions of followers on social media from demanding that he keep his campaign promises. Biden has already abandoned every promise he made to working people, including a $15 minimum wage, a public option to compete with the for-profit insurance industry, forgiveness of student loan debt, lowering of the Medicare eligibility age, and a promise to negotiate drug prices. Yet AOC asserted that Biden has exceeded her expectations while Representative Pramila Jayapal gave Biden an “A” grade for his performance thus far.

      What passes for the left in the Democratic Party has mastered the art of performative resistance. They tweet out antiestablishment rhetoric. But behind closed doors, they play for Team Blue, which means they play for Team UnitedHealthcare, Team Humana, and Team Raytheon.

      Au fond il s’agit d’une forme de corruption des individus qui gangrène les structures démocratiques de l’état bourgeois. Il semble que seulement quelques individus exceptionnels soient assez forts et indépendants pour résister à la pression intense et constante de se plier aux mots d’ordre des chefs de fraction .

      En Allemagne c’est job de ces inquisiteurs dans les groupes parlementaires de garantir que

      change will not come from inside the ... Party

      Les initiatives et petits partis politiques qui ont précédé le parti vert allemand en étaient conscients quand ils se sont réunis pour créer un nouveau parti écologiste et pacifiste appellé Die Grünen . Leurs élus étaient censés ne constituer que la jambe libre ( Spielbein ) d’un mouvement dont la partie citoyenne devait constituer la jambe d’appui ( Standbein ). On imposait le principe de rotation et de l’interdiction des postes payés aux élus ( Unvereinbarkeit von Amt und Mandat ).

      Au fil des années pourtant les politiciennes et politiciens professionnels au sein du parti ont fait sauter ces barrages contre la corruption qui limitaient leur pouvoir politique et leur pouvoir d’achat individuel. Aujourd’hui les verts allemands ne sont rien d’autre qu’un parti politique typique dont la raison d’être est de nourrir ses élus et fonctionnaires à travers des deals avec le véritable pouvoir, à savoir les groupes industriels et capitalistes les plus importants.

      C’est grave.

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