Conquer Club

Nice to have some conformation from within the administration that they recognize they have no capability to wage war in Asia and will never consider doing so:

Contrary to Trump’s threat of fire and fury, Bannon said: “There’s no military solution [to North Korea’s nuclear threats], forget it. Until somebody solves the part of the equation that shows me that ten million people in Seoul don’t die in the first 30 minutes from conventional weapons, I don’t know what you’re talking about, there’s no military solution here, they got us.”

mookiemcgee wrote:http://prospect.org/article/steve-bannon-unrepentant

“The Democrats,” he said, “the longer they talk about identity politics, I got ’em. I want them to talk about racism every day. If the left is focused on race and identity, and we go with economic nationalism, we can crush the Democrats.”

On this, he's spot on. As long as the left continues to obsess about identity politics (which to the average Joe on the street is a pretty trivial issue) they will continue to lose to rightists who put their primary focus on dollars-and-cents. A winning strategy for the left involves putting PC on the back burner and getting back to economics.

For me, as a born-again liberal, the most important issue in America is why head office parasites are allowed to pay themselves "performance bonuses" when they drive a company into bankruptcy. A close second is why has nobody been hanged or at least sent to jail for the colossally fraudulent financial system which led to the 2008 crisis and will lead to more crises in the future. A close third is why wages are in decline while corporate profits soar into the stratosphere.

I don't live in the U.S., so your political debates don't directly concern me, but indirectly I worry that with its continued obsession on PC issues, the left is going to lose the next election, and the next, and the next, until the working man is reduced to effective slavery. The average Teamster is racist as all hell. He doesn't really care about the Nazi assholes marching down the street; he may even be secretly on their side. On economic issues, he's a natural Democrat, but by ignoring economic issues and ceaselessly hyperventilating about social stuff, you've lost his vote.

Don't get me wrong. I'm sympathetic to concerns about racial and gender equality. But they need to take their proper place on a side plate, and the left has got to get back to a focus on the working man's paycheque and where his dinner is coming from.

Dukasaur wrote:the most important issue in America is why head office parasites are allowed to pay themselves "performance bonuses" when they drive a company into bankruptcy.

Stupid bankers!!!!!?!??!?!?!??!?!??!!!/1/1?!?!!!