Larry Summers and the Secret "End-Game" Memo (collapse of the world economy)

[dreamnightwind]

153. It's a serious question that we would do well to dig into

What are supporters of this thinking? How do they rationalize it? If it was about whether to grudgingly vote for a corporate Democrat in the general election, I could understand it. But to support these policies, or candidates who can't wait to implement these policies, in a Democratic primary, such as our own site admin is doing, boggles the mind.

An actual inquiry into whether they're aware that is what they are supporting, whether they (the supporters on this site) support these neolib policies, and why, would do us all some good.

I think some supporters of these candidates are ignorant (this is correctable, your posts and those of others are helpful in this regard), some are aware of it but supporting the good cop so the bad cop doesn't win (the folly of this is that they are supporting the game rather than supporting an end to that game), some are doing well in this system with comfortable corporate jobs and don't want to rock the boat (a position I have a difficult time respecting), and some are actually ideologically aligned with the corporatists.

The brand of the Democratic Party is badly tarnished by associating with the likes of Summers, Geithner, Rubin, and Dimon. Those outside the party look at that and see a party owned by some of the same forrces that own the Republican party, with a lot of empty words for the electorate and a lot of policies for the 1%.