In case of emergency, pull pin and throw.
Posted on 01/15/2017 3:40:35 PM PST by Lorianne
The last year has taught us, with Brexit, the US elections, growing anti-EU sentiment on the continent of Europe, that ignoring national interests, which are more and more often expressed in terms of national culture and identity, is not possible anymore. Will this translate through into the reconstruction of economic protectionism? Professor Steve Keen, from the University of Kingston, an economist and an author answers this question. Are identity and culture the new important subjects in politics? Professor Keen gives an explanatory answer. To him, a progressive form of identity and gender politics and socialist politics have been bedfellows for the past 40 years.
One of the clearest examples is in France, he says, where you have Hollande; a socialist leader imposing austerity whilst talking about progressive attitudes to identity politics. Progressive identity politics has been tainted with the brush of austerity politics imposed by the European Union.
The socialists have been sunk by it, with a resurgent Marine Le Pen benefiting from the support of middle aged white farmers, and white workers in America supporting Trump. It was a massive mistake, Professor Keen says, for the ‘left’ to align itself with neoliberal economics and failed economic policies which are now falling apart. The centre left, Professor Keen continues, which has been the mainstream socialist thought for some time are basically saying that we have to get into power, and then make capitalism work better.
This is a complete travesty, because success was only brought about by leveraging unsuccessful economies. They ended up deregulating the financial sector, and the next thing they know, economies come crashing down. There is identification of failed social policy with the failed neoliberal policy. The main sufferers have been what is used to be called the industrial workers, they are now saying that if you can’t protect us, we are going across to the people who might be able to. They might be ugly but they might allow us to throw a political hand grenade into the system to wake up those Americans who have been neglected ideologically by the left and also because they have actually lost their jobs to benefit people in China, as Trump has been arguing.
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I am hoping Trump turns out to be a bit more than a hand grenade.
I’m kinda hoping against hope for “Nuke it from orbit.”
In case of emergency, pull pin and throw.
Yup and it sure feels good to FINALLY be able to do something.
Trump is Hand Grenade Thrown by American Working Class Against the System>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Sputnik has that slightly wrong.
Trump is Plasma Fusion Device Thrown by American Working Class Against the System
Fringe lunatic, mentally disturbed liberal losers telling Trump what he can and can’t do, what he should or shouldn’t do, and what polices he should or shshouldn’t have is tiresome and sickly pathetic.
The peasants are revolting!
Obama and the liberal losers deplores Pres Trump’s Muslim policy.
Viktor Orbán’s speech to the Hungarian “Border Hunter” patrol contained this gem: “The principle of human rights never prescribes national suicide...”
But “diversity” forced Americans to put up w/ this Royal Idiot’s half-baked ideas about governance.....or be labeled racist.
Obama has now offered us up as fodder to brownish trouble-makers invading our country for the purpose of killing us.
like all hand grenades though, you have to make sure it lands on the enemy and doesn’t blow up yourself and your buddies
Would you feel better if they were white "trouble-makers invading our country for the purpose of killing us"?
Why focus on skin color, which is irrelevant?
You betcherass! They stink on ice!
Fringe lunatic, mentally disturbed liberal losers telling Trump what he can and can’t do, what he should or shouldn’t do, and what polices he should or shouldn’t have is tiresome and sickly pathetic.
It won’t be getting any better for them.
Just like Chuck Norris’ grenade that killed 50 then went off, just wait till Trump goes off on the idiot mean street media’s misplaced loyalty
Isn’t that a quote from that pig Michael Moore?
Trump is a nationalist, elected by a population tired of being economically sacrificed in the interests of the NWO. If it takes a nationalist to defeat the globalists and their plans for subsuming our country into their global hell, I’m all for it.
8 men own as much as 50% of the world
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