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The pandemic spurs MPs to call for more UBI trials
“We must trial innovative approaches which create an income floor for everyone, allowing our families and communities to thrive. The pandemic has shown that we urgently need to strengthen our social security system. The creation of a universal basic income (UBI) – a regular and unconditional cash payment to every individual in the UK – could be the solution,”
And there are those who were deprived of formal education and who had to learn for themselves, LT, in the university of life and the school of hard knocks.
“If a worker wants to take part in the self-emancipation of his class, the basic requirement is that he should cease allowing others to teach him and should set about teaching himself.” – <b>Joseph Dietzgen</b>
I am not at all naive but indeed there are those who call wolf, just as Malcolm X said, to scare people into the clutches of the fox. Not perhaps yourself but many of the commentators on the Biden-friendly media outlets.
Anyways, we will find out within the week or so who turns out to be correct. I will be courteous and civil enough to admit my error if your prediction proves to be true and a coup is attempted. I hope you will be equally gracious if it turns out that you are wrong and the unrest is restricted to some extremist right-wingers refusing to acknowledge defeat because cry-baby Trump will say he was robbed, that the system was fraudulent and perhaps some of his supporters will be in denial also.
However, his base is a minority and it will be what the majority decides what is legitimate which will prevail.
If Trump wins by the electoral college vote as he did last time without the popular vote, the Democrats will grin and bear it for the next four years as they did for the last four years.
However one important change may well be that the both the House of Representatives and the Senate will have Democratic Party majorities. As pointed out to me when i suggest on a forum a President Sanders opposed in Congress could exercise power through presidential executive orders, he cannot rule through them. They have limitations. Trump is also aware of this as i previously said his own generous stimulus plan for the pandemic is stymied by the Republicans, not the Democratic Party.
There was no claim that Stalin was a socialist. And our criticism of the Bolsheviks goes beyond Stalin to include Lenin and Trotsky
“How far did you get in school again?”
You, do you realise just how elitist and arrogant that ad hominem attack is, don’t you? Scarcely worthy of anyone who considers himself a socialist.
“Lock them up, all of them” is a false alarm?
And we had the same slogan in 2016 and Hillary is still not locked up.
“Mass rallies are a false alarm?”
And we have BLM mass rallies
“Leader cult is a false alarm?”
The key campaign strategy for the Democrats is Biden as America’s patriarch.
“Lost golden age syndrome is a false alarm?”
America’s Manifest Destiny is decades old and still held to be true by most Americans and both parties.
“media is the enemy” is a false alarm? Outlawing speech critical of the leader is a false alarm? ”
Just where is this clamp down on free speech and a free media?
CNN? MSNBC? If anything they are giving a free pass to Biden in their coverage such as the Hunter Biden business dealings and did you not notice how they ignored Sanders last year.
“Deportation is a false alarm?”
And who was called ‘deporter in chief’? Obama deported more people than Clinton and Bush combined.
I could continue rebutting each of your claims, but the above is suffice to reveal that it is yourself who is being naive, believing that Trump is an exception and that Biden is on the side of the angels…who promoted the Crime Bill that led to the incarceration of hundreds of thousands? Who supported foreign wars that led to the deaths of millions and failed states, who has said that if M4A comes before him he will veto it?
Come on, LT, let us have some perspective and stop with all the ahistorical hypocrisy.
Tulsi Gabbard, a Hindu, was accused of seeking the American Hindu support by praising Modi and receiving BJP funding from his supporters in the US.
And Kamala Harris is now using her partial Indian heritage to garner votes.
Where do we start?
With Marx’s belief that Lord Palmerston was the Tsar’s agent?
The Zinoviev letter?
The Nazi sympathisers in pre-war Britain such as King Edward
All the CIA Cold War publishing fronts that our late comrade Peter Newell documented
https://marxthecoldwarandthespooks.blogspot.com/
Or now these social media campaigns by Russia being uncovered and exposed?
As for ourselves, the WSM is unashamed to state that what concerns the working class in other countries, also concerns ourselves.
Your point about all countries interfere with other nations is a valid one, Matt, but let us not forget that it did lead to Trump being impeached so it does have grave consequences.
My point was that a Corbyn government while it lasted would have been a little more sympathetic to the Palestinians and BDS and that was a reason why the Israeli government tried to exert influence over the Labour party and undermine Corbyn to help to ensure there would be no Corbyn government.
The video demonstrated it conclusively. If any other government’s embassy official had interfered with British politics such as the Israeli official, it would be a diplomatic incident. I also recall that Robin Cook was moved from Foreign Secretary by Blair for upsetting the Israeli government, or so the story goes.
Is highlighting such Jewish members of the Labour Party who were party to this conspiracy anti-semitic? Or is it as i would suggest being anti-Israeli government. Indeed, it was an example of divided loyalties of a few Jewish Labour members being secretly financed to put forward the interests of a foreign country by weakening their own party leader’s position and standing.
When i gave up cigarettes i also had to give up drinking for a short time as it weakened will power but also gave up smoking dope since a previous time i tried to give up, i was rolling joints not for the hash hit but for the nicotine.
And for those who trust the bookies more than the pollsters and political pundits
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/10/30/trump-v-biden-the-bookmakers-1-billion-election
Joe Biden is the favourite with Ladbrokes, Coral and William Hill
“I am not a Chomsky fan but I think they are being unfair by interviewing him. He is no longer his old self and is talking nonsenses. It sort of sad.”
He is i believe 91 soon to be 92 on December 7 but aren’t you being just a tad ageist, ALB.
Strategic voting for Noam is nothing new even if he is now prone to hyperbole.
Having now read the accusations within the report, i also would be suspended from the Labour Party if i was a member since i was equally unimpressed by its examples of some examples of anti-Israeli statements being regarded as anti-semitism.
eg
‘A huge sigh of relief echoes around Facebook’ (comment accompanying a
shared BBC News story with the headline ‘Israeli spacecraft crashes on
Moon’, 12 April 2019).I’m sure it was no part of the remit but accusations that certain Jewish members were carrying out the policy of Israel are fully confirmed by the “The Lobby” and fully justify suspicions concerning motives.
Another very useful article combatting the lesser evil illusion
ELECTION 2020: Democracy Calls Us to Fight ‘Lesser of Two Evils’ Argument
