Democrats beware: the Republicans will soon be the party of the working class | US elections 2020 | The Guardian


Louis Proyect
 

This is a fucking joke. In his Thursday night rant, Trump said, "Democrats are the party of the big donors. The big media, the big tech, it seems, and Republicans have become the party of the American worker, and that’s what’s happened." It's true that the Democrats have shown little interest in promoting policies that benefit the worker but Trump's promises to bring back American factory jobs is a lie. The problem is that reformist left policies are being squelched at every turn, first with Sanders getting shafted and now with centrist Democrats arguing that the squad lost them seats in the House. The need for a broad-based left-wing party is rotten-ripe but it is being thwarted because it might "steal" votes from whatever mediocrity the DP runs in the next presidential election. Marx's words remain current:

"Even where there is no prospect of achieving their election the workers must put up their own candidates to preserve their independence, to gauge their own strength and to bring their revolutionary position and party standpoint to public attention. They must not be led astray by the empty phrases of the democrats, who will maintain that the workers’ candidates will split the democratic party and offer the forces of reaction the chance of victory. All such talk means, in the final analysis, that the proletariat is to be swindled."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/06/democrats-republicans-working-class-party-election

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