<nettime> Ocular facts and additional echoes

[Louis Rawlins via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>]

I'm into exploring alternative forms of communication, so I'll just leave a
playlist that began with the conversation on this mailing list. Gods help
us for the formatting – I'm using bold!


*Warning Sign (2009)*Local Natives


*N.W.O. (1992)*Ministry


*Sweet Leaf (1971)*Black Sabbath


*For F**k's Sake (1994)*Nailbomb


*Holiday in Cambodia (1980)*Dead Kennedys


*Waterfalls (1994)*TLC


*Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos (2002, 2021 Remaster)*Sepultura


*Vote With a Bullet (1991)*Corrosion of Conformity


*Changes (1974)*Cymande


*Breezeman (1974)*Cymande


*Madame George (1968, 1999 Remaster)*Van Morrison


*Freedom Train (feat. U-Roy) (1972, 2009 Re-release)*The Heptones


*Love Train (1972)*The O'Jays



Be well,  Louis

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> Why do the centrist parties fail?
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> In my view, the salient fact about the current electoral sequence in the US
> is that the Republican base ditched its traditional orthodoxy in the years
> 2011-2016. They rose up with the Tea Party, they found a charismatic leader
> and they transformed their political representatives to oppose the
> neoliberal globalism of Reagan, the Bushes, Clinton and Obama. For sure,
> they were manipulated to the hilt by big-money interests. What they
> ultimately  got for their great transformation was a flight into multiple
> violent fantasies with unpredictable real consequences. Nonetheless, the
> Republican base did effect a radical change of course, and that change is
> bringing them victory today.
>
> The Democratic base has had no such success. Despite a string of major
> social movements since 2011, we have been coopted by party leaders whose
> only course correction has been to adopt a shifting mix of elite-college
> identity politics and Trumpian rhetoric on borders and China. The single
> left-of-center politician who actually laid out the challenges of the
> twenty-first century, and made proposals to overcome them, was Bernie
> Sanders. His campaigns were sabotaged by party elites, his ideas were used
> to get the votes of unionists and progressives, then those ideas were
> dumped in favor of yet more neoliberal globalism, this time with weapons.
> No one was allowed to generate popular enthusiasm for anything beyond Joe
> Biden, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi. The Democratic party is now so
> terrified of any significant change that it proposes a senile old Cold
> Warrior who is visibly unfit for the job as the only possible candidate for
> president. Mainstream Democratic voters can't imagine anything else. They
> remain captive of the fear that this isn't the 1990s anymore.
>
> If Biden has a teleprompter, he will stand up (on a good day) and tell
> viewers that he's making microscopic executive adjustments to the punitive
> remains of the US welfare state, while saving democracy from Trump at home
> and Hamas/Russia/China abroad. What he can't say is the obvious: By
> propping up the failing twentieth-century world order, he is supporting the
> national-capitalist drive toward war and devastating climate change. We're
> supposed to vote for him (or Macron, or Scholz) because they're better than
> the fascists. The reality is that they have created the fascist backlash
> with the very policies they now want us to defend.
>
> Underlying the failure of centrist parties such as the US Democrats, the
> French Renaissance party or the German SDP, is another, far more troubling
> question: Is there any political response to neoliberal globalism that does
> not lead to racist/nationalist delirium?
>
> Until someone tries, we will never know the answer. Until we demand that
> someone try, we will never even know the question.
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> The problem with sticking your head in the sand is that the desert wind
> ultimately blows it away.
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