So, Rocky Anderson has taken to attacking me, again; what a fraud
that guy has turned out to be but what can one expect from a former
Democratic Party politician who helped his friends enrich themselves
from lucrative real estate dealings in Salt Lake City when he was Mayor.
Rocky Anderson says he can't work with someone like me (his code
language for pernicious red-baiting)--- but he could work with Mitt
Romney.
The dissension between me and the former Salt Lake City
Mayor stems from my drafting what the position of the Justice Party
should have been regarding full employment.
Rocky Anderson
insists that it is good enough that he supports the Humphrey-Hawkins
Full Employment Act which has nothing to do with full employment and
everything to do with glossing over the fact that the Democrats want to
be able to talk about "Jobs, Jobs, Jobs" at election time to trick
workers out of their votes but then these same Democrats refuse to make
themselves legislatively responsible for attaining and then maintaining
full employment by putting millions to work solving the pressing
problems of the people and fulfilling social needs through universal
social programs like a National Public Health Care System, National
Public Child Care System, re-establishment of WPA and CCC, etc.
And most of all, Rocky Anderson, just like the Democrats he only
partially left, wants to be able to vaguely talk about peace without
talking about the need to end militarism and imperialist interventions
and wars while advocating beating swords into plowshares in order to pay
for these universal social programs which would put tens of millions of
people to work on real living wage jobs.
Just as Rocky Anderson,
just like a Libertarian, doesn't believe government should be made
legislatively responsible for attaining and maintaining full employment,
he doesn't believe government should use its levers of power to put an
end to this horrendous "Cost-of-Living Crisis" every single working
class family is caught up in.
As Rocky Anderson himself admits,
he is a follower of the advice offered to Democrats by their leading
party hack, George Lakoff, who has written that in order to win votes
issues must be "properly framed" but left without any specifics for
alleviating and ending any problems because to suggest specific
solutions to problems will lead to a rupture of Democratic Party
unity--- read loss of support from Wall Street.
Wall Street profits from wars.
Wall Street profits from for-profit schemes like Obamacare and for-profit child care.
Wall Street reaps huge profits from this "Cost-of-Living Crisis" which
sees prices on everything from food to fuel to college tuition to health
care and child care spiraling out of control--- we pay; they profit.
These fake and phony "progressives" like Rocky Anderson are no better
than the Democrats they claim they have come to resent but want to be
every bit as corrupt and undemocratic as the Democrats and even though
they claim to loathe the Republicans, when big money deals involving
real estate are involved, Rocky Anderson can work with the likes of a
Mitt Romney--- and when it comes to the rights and livelihoods of
workers, Rocky Anderson demonstrated during his tenure as Mayor of Salt
Lake City he could be every bit as callous and cold-hearted towards the
rights and livelihoods of workers as Donald Trump as he glossed over his
animosity towards the working class with the kind of self-serving
language Hillary Clinton uses even though as she claims to support labor
she doesn't mention she was the architect of a Wal-mart policy which
included firing pregnant women and nursing mothers from their poverty
waged jobs.
How much more of this kind of self-serving/Wall
Street serving politics will people in this country put up with whether
it comes from Obama, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders or Rocky
Anderson... who, in addition to having no problem working with Mitt
Romney, has no problem working with the head of a Wall Street investment
firm, Jonathan Ruga, and even the most crass Libertarians, one of whom
openly supports genocide against the Palestinian people and another who
had a link to David Duke's website at the time Rocky Anderson recruited
him to be on the National Steering Committee of the Justice Party.
Some people want to re-organize the Justice Party but it seems to be a
daunting task as long as an opportunist like Rocky Anderson is tolerated
in trying to dictate what the Justice Party should stand for.
We
simply won't be able to free ourselves from this two-party trap as long
as we allow the likes of a Rocky Anderson to dominate the discussion...
after all, Rocky Anderson is a big fan of Bernie Sanders and no doubt
will go along with Bernie Sanders' decision to support Hillary Clinton
as we get closer to Election Day even though at this time he says he
won't. But what's new? We heard this line before only to have these phony "progressives" capitulate.