Originally published at http://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/12/11/tom-vilsack-reason-urban-and-rural-progressives-must-unite-fight-corporate
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Donât fight it, just ease into it.
Thatâs the whole point of voting LOTE.
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This will continue as long as you have Republicans or Democrats in charge.
Things will not change until this government collapses⌠which is well underwayâŚ
Gosh, just as the Twin Towers collapsed from within, so will this Government. One mourning, you will awaken, and it will have happened⌠If Biden is sworn in, he will serve as only a Band-Aid for what is unfoldingâŚrapidly⌠I am no fan of Trump nor Pelosi-Biden DemocratsâŚ
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The Democratic Centrist Caucus has taken up where the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) left off, to make sure that Wall Street continues to be well represented.
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One of these days, I hope CommonDreams can implement a comment system that is organized on topics and not tagged on each article. But since it doesnât, can I ask @BillinDubuque and @KC2669 if either are still interested in this topic to reply here to comments from ~https://commons.commondreams.org/t/biden-provokes-frustration-by-sidestepping-rep-fudge-for-usda-treating-hud-as-consolation-prize/84976
I read this article and there are concerns. He will be confirmed obviously as Republican support is now greased with Grassley. I admit Iâm more likely to hear about when people like this turn into disasters vs. when they are better than expected (since that isnât news - though maybe it should be), so Iâm trying to be optimistic. I wonât put Vilsack in the same camp as some of Bidenâs other appointments yet, but he is not inspiring.
Of course Vilsack will be confirmed, as he is a win-win for the Multi-NaZional Korporations that control both wings of the duopoly:
⢠He will continue to advance Big Agâs kontrol over the worldâs food supply.
⢠He will discourage rural and Black voters from supporting the DimWit-Rats.
The latter is especially important because even just nominating him affects the current Senate races in Georgia and as I pointed out in a different thread yesterday, if McConnell is no longer in charge of the Senate then the DimWit-Rats will no longer be able to pass legislation in the House that is not in the best interests of their korporate masters who control the DNC, and thus theyâll no longer be able to pretend that the majority of DimWit-Rats have the backs of hard-working main-street and main-stream Americans. If McConnell is no longer there to block legislation and take the blame, then the DimWit-Rats will have to own up to their own failure to defend the middle class from korporate greed.
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More good cop/bad cop distraction. My two cents, Tom Vilsack will make economic growth more important than equally important issues.
Discussion groups become the effect of this division or contrast between two things that are or are represented as being opposed or entirely different
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Re. Tom Vilsack: Right after Obamaâs election, I took the for-me unusual step of writing the President-elect a letter, in which I said, âif you really advocate for CHANGE and want to give us HOPE, you must surround yourself with agents of change ⌠people who hold the same vision.â The indirect response to my plea was obvious a few days later, when he made his cabinet appointments. âWe Fooled You Again!â
It was the nomination of Vilsack as Ag Secây that had particularly pushed me to that despair. A longtime ally of industrial /corporate agri-biz, Vilsack was emblematic of corporate influence over policy, and made clear that NOTHING was effectively going to change.
Now again, Biden has chosen the same asshole. The author of this article may hold out hope for some transformation, but cats donât change their spots and corporatists NEVER buck their patrons.
So we can expect yet more concentration of control of the food-production system, continued environmental degradation and disruption of rural communities as smaller, family operators are replaced or else made serfs under the controls of the largest corporate consolidators like ADM, Syngenta, IBP, Bayer, etc.
I personally think he is as bad as any, and his history, his funders and his predilections donât give me any reason to believe he might change. In short, he is exactly illustrative of what I expected from Biden.
âEconomic growthâ is an euphemism that implies benefit without any context. As measured by GDP, for instance, it fails to account for (often externalized) costs.
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I would add here, that we have reached the environmental/ecological limits to economic growth. What we need is someone that understands remediation.
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âIf progressives ever want to gain more votes in rural America, they must rid the Democratic Party of the Corporate Agribusiness stranglehold over everything rural and strike fear into any politician who attempts to pander to those interests.â
Amen!
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And a perfect illustration of why, after falling for OâBummerâs rhetorical bullshit in 2008, I wrote in âBernie & 'Bethâ in 2012, 2016 and 2020, and will NOT support a âLOTEâ candidate in 2024 in the unlikely event that Iâm still around.
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âincreasing concern about the direction of Joe Bidenâs cabinet choices from many Democratsâ
This is the idiotâs wing of the progressive sub-party? How can anyone who doesnât like these appointments be even a tiny bit surprised by them? Theyâre the only kind of appointments that Biden was ever going to make. Concern canât be increasing; follow-through on certainty doesnât allow for it.
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