Reply To: Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and the Labour Theory of Value
Trump, Fox News and other right-wingers are determined to describe Democratic Party as left and far left.
If the past is anything to go by, designating it as such will make “centrists” and “moderates” shift to the right to avoid the appellation and the overall effect will make the Democratic Party more right-wing. We already witness it in the general reluctance to defend Ilyan Omar and AOC from the media smears, in case the mud sticks to the Democratic Party.
I find it particular ironic that Fox News host questioned if Omar is a real American when the TV channel’s owner, Australian Rupert Murdoch, took out US citizenship in 1985 just to circumvent the law that restricts foreigners from controlling the media and he only re-located his HQ from Australia to America in 2004 to attract more Wall St cash. And it is said that his former marriage with Wendi Deng floundered because of a supposed link to Chinese intelligence (as well as her alleged affair with Tony Blair.)
Murdoch must be the archetypical “globalist” that the right-wing fear-monger about, yet it is Soros who gets the attention.