How soon will the Left eat their own?

Hey. I’m always here to offer advice to the Left, to make their road smoother, to point them in the direction of fellow travelers they should cancel for deficiencies of “wokeness.”

Let’s start with the issue of GMOs, poisonous Roundup, and Monsanto (now swallowed up by Bayer).

Joe Biden is going to appoint Mr. Monsanto, Tom Vilsack, as his Secretary of Agriculture. Tommy boy held that post under Obama.

The Organic Consumers Association writes [1] (see also [2], [3], [4]): “If, like us, you dream of an organic, regenerative food system led by independent family farmers, then news that Joe Biden has asked Tom Vilsack to return to his Obama Era post as Secretary of Agriculture should be a real cause for concern.”

“…when you look behind the curtains to see what Vilsack was really doing at USDA from 2009 through 2017, it’s not pretty.”

“He pushed through a corporate agribusiness agenda that began with his approval of more new genetically modified crops than any other Secretary, culminated in his shepherding of a bill to kill GMO labels through Congress, and included his racist firing of African American land trust hero Shirley Sherrod and his distortion of data to conceal decades of discrimination against black farmers. Between 2006 and 2016, the USDA [US Dept. of Agriculture] was six times more likely to foreclose on a black farmer than a white farmer.”

“But, Biden doesn’t care about any of this. Vilsack is Biden’s buddy and that’s all that matters to him. As the American Prospect reports, Vilsack has had ‘a decades-long relationship with Joe Biden, going back to when he endorsed him for president while mayor of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, in 1988’.”

“Vilsack has remained very loyal to Biden. In the last year, he gave Biden more than $8,000 in campaign contributions (excluding money from his wife or to Democratic Party committees).”

“This support didn’t just get him a job in the cabinet, he wrote Biden’s campaign platform on agriculture issues, stuffing it full of false solutions like corn ethanol and methane digesters run on factory farm dairy waste.”

“We need a USDA Secretary of Agriculture who will be a hero, steering our food and farming system toward a brighter, regenerative future—not a Secretary who will continue to be a pawn for the same corporate interests that are causing, and profiting from, the mess we are in.”

Let’s go further. Here’s a piece I wrote during the Obama years—you know, when we were all living in paradise—about the president’s GMO program.

Keep in mind that Biden’s new secretary of agriculture, Tom Vilsack, was on board every step of the way, with Obama. Vilsack was enabler, expert, political operative, cheerleader—

Obama? A warrior against corporations on behalf of the people? It’s long past the time for ripping that false mask away.

During his 2008 campaign for president, Barack Obama transmitted signals that he understood the GMO/Roundup issue. Several key anti-GMO activists were impressed. They thought Obama, once in the White House, would listen to their concerns and act on them.

These activists weren’t just reading tea leaves. On the campaign trail, Obama said: “Let folks know when their food is genetically modified, because Americans have a right to know what they’re buying.”

Making the distinction between GMO and non-GMO was certainly an indication that Obama, unlike the FDA and USDA, saw there was an important line to draw in the sand.

Beyond that, Obama was promising a new era of transparency in government. He was adamant in assuring that, if elected, his administration wouldn’t do business “the old way.” He would be “responsive to people’s needs.”

After the election, people who had been working to label GMO food and warn the public of its huge dangers were shocked to the core. They saw Obama had been pulling a bait and switch.

After the 2008 election, Obama filled key posts with Monsanto people, in federal agencies that wield tremendous force in food issues, the USDA and the FDA:

At the USDA, as the director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Roger Beachy, former director of the Monsanto Danforth Center.

As deputy commissioner of the FDA, the new food-safety-issues czar, the infamous Michael Taylor, former vice-president for public policy for Monsanto. Taylor had been instrumental in getting approval for Monsanto’s genetically engineered bovine growth hormone.

As commissioner of the USDA, Iowa governor, Tom Vilsack. Vilsack had set up a national group, the Governors’ Biotechnology Partnership, and had been given a Governor of the Year Award by the Biotechnology Industry Organization, whose members include Monsanto.

As the new Agriculture Trade Representative, who would push GMOs for export, Islam Siddiqui, a former Monsanto lobbyist.

As the new counsel for the USDA, Ramona Romero, who had been corporate counsel for another biotech giant, DuPont.

As the new head of the USAID, Rajiv Shah, who had previously worked in key positions for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a major funder of GMO agriculture research.

We should also remember that Obama’s secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, once worked for the Rose law firm. That firm was counsel to Monsanto.

Obama nominated Elena Kagan to the US Supreme Court. Kagan, as federal solicitor general, had previously argued for Monsanto in the Monsanto v. Geertson seed case before the Supreme Court.

The deck was stacked. Obama hadn’t simply made honest mistakes. Obama hadn’t just failed to exercise proper oversight in selecting appointees. He wasn’t just experiencing a failure of short-term memory. He was staking out territory on behalf of Monsanto and other GMO corporate giants.

And now let us look at what key Obama appointees have wrought for their true bosses. Let’s see what GMO crops have walked through the open door of the Obama presidency.

This is an extraordinary parade. It, in fact, makes Barack Obama the most GMO-dedicated politician in America.

You don’t attain that position through errors or oversights. Obama was, all along, a stealth operative on behalf of Monsanto, biotech, GMOs, and corporate control of the future of agriculture.

From this perspective, Michelle Obama’s campaign for gardens and clean, organic, nutritious food is nothing more than a diversion, a cover story floated to obscure what her husband has actually been doing.

Nor is it coincidental that two of the Obama’s biggest supporters, Bill Gates and George Soros, purchased 900,000 and 500,000 shares of Monsanto, respectively, in 2010.

We are talking about a president who presented himself, and was believed by many to be, an extraordinary departure from politics as usual.

Not only was that a wrong assessment, Obama was lying all along. He was, and he still is, Monsanto’s man in Washington.

To those people who fight for GMO labeling and the outlawing of GMO crops, and against the decimation of the food supply and the destruction of human health, but still believe Obama is a beacon in bleak times:

Well, well. Tom Vilsack is back. Biden is about to betray the Left on a key issue.

Ok, how about this history. The modern Left has been active in US politics since the turn of the 20th century.

Since that time, we have seen an inexorable growth in collectivist (some might call them “socialist”) programs. The federal government has also become more powerful, assuming authority over more and more issues that states used to be able to resolve.

While Republicans (and in fewer cases, Conservatives) have won elections, the trend towards centralization and eventually global centralization has continued unabated. With Trumps loss, we will now resume that march with “The Great Reset”.

Leftist infighting has not destroyed this seemingly irresistable process.

Those things you mentioned are true, but the overall movement lived on (and in most cases became the status quo under new leadership).

The modern Left in the US has never suffered such a purge. In fact, the meadership of the modern Left does a much better job of NOT despising their own base.

Stalin was every bit the devoted Communist that Trotsky was.

Rohm was not eaten by the political Left, he was devoured by the political Right, one that favored private ownership of business and a national identity as opposed to an propertyless, international one.

I’m not following you on Mao.

Nazis were a leftist party.. centralized, all-powerful state = National Socialist German Workers Party..

Gleichschaltung. was the term that the Nazis used to describe the consolidation of control over all aspects of society..

Forms of Government Explained.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJEuZrvNYg0

Yuri Bezmenov explained the Four Stages..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX3EZCVj2XA

Stalin killed many leftists like Trotsky - like one drug cartel boss killing competing drug cartel members . Think the Bloods versus the Crips, etc.

Mao was also a leftist dictator.

Today the battle is less about Capitalism versus Socialism. Most people want some mixed economy involving elements of market and planned economics. To repeat...I’m NOT saying that the arguments about capitalism and socialism are irrelevant, clearly they are not.

But what we must understand is that BOTH Capitalism and Communism/Socialism are self-justifying economic theories that leave no need for consideration of nations. In other words, either one -in theory- can work just fine under a global government.

Say what you will about the Nazis being socialists (and they certainly were), but they were not inherently globalist in their outlook. Hitler may have had dreams of conquering the world, but the typical, run-of-the mill Nazi only thought in terms of national identity (which assumed the existence of other, national identities.

So, what’s my point? The very fact that Nazis recognized the primacy of nations OVER the ultimate hegemony of a world-wide economic-political order puts them to the Right of modern globalists. Ultimately, any globalist economic system is going to be socialist or some kind of crony corporatist version of “Capitalism”. Either one of those are fine with the vast majority of Leftists as long as “tribal”, “racists” nations go the way of the dinosaurs.

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