This past Saturday marked the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump having become the 45th president of the United States. It was official [Friday,] January 20, 2017 at 12:00 p.m. ET.
After Election 2016, and with Trump in office, plenty of progressives figured it would be necessary to fight Donald Trump for bad policies and leadership.
I cannot say I disagree with them. However, I disagree with trying to tell people what or where their focus should be. For example, I disagreed with Benjamin Dixon, and later videos from him, saying that people who are too focused on the corrupt, corporate, establishment Democrats—while not balancing that with going after Trump—were not making the right choice. I don’t think that is a clear understanding.
Why don’t I tend to post topic threads about Donald Trump? (Especially ones critical and/or opposed to Trump?) Well…
What Election 2016 told us—that is, the primaries before the general election—is that the No. 1 enemy of progressives are not conservatives and the Republican Party. The No. 1 enemy of progressives—and I mean actual progressives—are the corporate Democratic Party Establishment. That is why I don’t spend time lashing out at the Republicans or Trump. The Democratic Party—those in control of how it operates as a whole—cannot be trusted. It is the Democratic, not the Republican, Party which had a rigged 2016 presidential primary. Once that becomes so obvious and that it becomes too obvious…all this lashing out that I could otherwise be doing against Trump and the Republican Party would be pointless.
Kshama Sawant, shown in the first video below, had it correct: That the Democratic Party Establishment, in 2016, found it more urgent not so much to defeat Donald Trump but to defeat the agenda of the working people. If that isn’t telling the truth to all people who normally prefer the Democrats over the Republicans—and give them clarity of being able to recognize their political enemies—than those particular people who assure themselves it is best to automatically prefer the Democrats over the Republicans are not interested in the truth. They want their illusions. (In 2010, Ralph Nader described President Barack Obama as a “con man.” Link: Nader—Obama is a ‘con man’ . I now apply the word con artists to this corrupt, corporate Democratic Party Establishment.)
I also leave another video from The Jimmy Dore Show which is funny but should not be spoiled with a detailed explanation. (Let’s just say that it helps to also explain why I never supported with any of my votes the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.) Enjoy that, too, if you will.
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