Two Wings of the Same Bird of Prey

[georgephillip]

How would you characterize the "difference" between Republican and Democrat?

"Two Wings of the Same Bird of Prey”

"Left radicals often claim that the two parties are completely identical, the exact same – that there are no real differences between them. I never quite say that.

"I prefer to follow the 20th century U.S. socialist Upton Sinclair in calling the Democrats and Republicans 'two wings of the same bird of prey.'

"Yes, they’re both state-capitalist.

"Yes, they’re both nationalistic, militaristic and imperial.

"But the ruling class could not effectively sell the major party duopoly if there were no differences whatsoever between them. They have different histories, different regional bases, different racial and ethnic and gender and religious constituency profiles, different positions on various social and identity issues, and so on.

"They also have somewhat different investor class profiles (in terms of which structural, regional, and cultural blocs of big capital they represent) even if finance capital (itself not without internal divisions) is the leading force in both parties in the neoliberal era."

Have they outlived their usefulness to 90% of US voters?

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[deltex1]

Maybe that's why Trump has so much trouble with both wings of the bird.

 

[georgephillip]

Maybe that's why Trump has so much trouble with both wings of the bird.

Trump appears to be breaking the Republican wing into a least two pieces?

 

[Dale Smith]

How would you characterize the "difference" between Republican and Democrat?

"Two Wings of the Same Bird of Prey”

"Left radicals often claim that the two parties are completely identical, the exact same – that there are no real differences between them. I never quite say that.

"I prefer to follow the 20th century U.S. socialist Upton Sinclair in calling the Democrats and Republicans 'two wings of the same bird of prey.'

"Yes, they’re both state-capitalist.

"Yes, they’re both nationalistic, militaristic and imperial.

"But the ruling class could not effectively sell the major party duopoly if there were no differences whatsoever between them. They have different histories, different regional bases, different racial and ethnic and gender and religious constituency profiles, different positions on various social and identity issues, and so on.

"They also have somewhat different investor class profiles (in terms of which structural, regional, and cultural blocs of big capital they represent) even if finance capital (itself not without internal divisions) is the leading force in both parties in the neoliberal era."

Have they outlived their usefulness to 90% of US voters?

The Official Web Site of Paul L. Street | Articles

Two wings attached to the same body that drops the same shit on us.....

 

[georgephillip]

How would you characterize the "difference" between Republican and Democrat?

"Two Wings of the Same Bird of Prey”

"Left radicals often claim that the two parties are completely identical, the exact same – that there are no real differences between them. I never quite say that.

"I prefer to follow the 20th century U.S. socialist Upton Sinclair in calling the Democrats and Republicans 'two wings of the same bird of prey.'

"Yes, they’re both state-capitalist.

"Yes, they’re both nationalistic, militaristic and imperial.

"But the ruling class could not effectively sell the major party duopoly if there were no differences whatsoever between them. They have different histories, different regional bases, different racial and ethnic and gender and religious constituency profiles, different positions on various social and identity issues, and so on.

"They also have somewhat different investor class profiles (in terms of which structural, regional, and cultural blocs of big capital they represent) even if finance capital (itself not without internal divisions) is the leading force in both parties in the neoliberal era."

Have they outlived their usefulness to 90% of US voters?

The Official Web Site of Paul L. Street | Articles

Two wings attached to the same body that drops the same shit on us.....

Bipartisan shit, at that...

"Mark Leibovich is the New York Times Magazine’s chief national correspondent and a self-described elite Washington insider. Three years ago, he published the widely read book This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral Plus Plenty of Valet Parking in America’s Gilded Capital. By his candid and bestselling account from the belly of the beast, Washington D.C. is a richly bipartisan and monumentally narcissistic “gold rush,” a “crucible of easy wealth” (p. 8) wherein political officeholders, lobbyists, consultants, public relations specialists, media personalities, socialites, and top staff of the two dominant parties are part of the same incestuous and “permanent” ruling “class of insiders.” The nation’s capital “becomes a determinedly bipartisan team when there is money to be made” (p.142) – an “inbred company town where party differences are easily subsumed by membership in The Club” (p. 104), Leibovich wrote. “Getting rich,” Leibovich reported, “has become the great bipartisan ideal: ‘No Democrats and Republicans in Washington anymore,’ goes the maxim, ‘only millionaires.’ The ultimate Green party. You still hear the term ‘public service’ thrown around, but often with irony and full knowledge that self-service is now the real insider play” (p. 9)"
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Ross Perot took nearly 20% of the popular vote in '92, inflicting the Clinton Crime family on the US and setting up a quarter-century of neoliberal rule.

Maybe Greens and Libertarians can match Perot's numbers in 2016 and begin dismantling The Club?