Labour courting big business
*When a British politician discusses “tough choices”, [person] invariably
[reveals] whose side [perse is] really on. A tough choice tends to involve
emptying the pockets of those with little, or slashing a service
ordinary citizens depend on.*
In any country, the plutocratist politicians are the ones that do
this. Labour's string of "tough choices" shows it has become a
plutocratist party. The Tories, formerly the reasonable-sounding
plutocratist party, has become the incompetent nutso party, and
Starmer has moved Labour into the Tories' old spot. Now Labour is
competing
with the Tories
for breaking promises to correct horrible problems. The most recent
Labour pledge to be dropped is the wealth tax.
In the US, plutocratist politicians since Reagan have allowed
dooH niboR
to transfer ever more of the working people's previous share of national income to the rich.
Progressive proposals to return some of that to the
non-rich always provoke squeals of exaggerated pain from the rich,
claiming that that would be unfair and intolerable. The politicians
who heed them do so because they are plutocratist. Clinton, the first
plutocratist Democratic president since a century ago, continued on that
path, and so did Dubya and Obama.
Biden has made efforts to help the non-rich.
I expected another Obama but I was favorably surprised. He would have done more but
plutocratists in Congress (including some Democrats)
blocked him.
*Biden says
white supremacy has no place in US
after Florida killings.* That shows some moral leadership.
Nonetheless, he is no Bernie Sanders.
However, one difference between political parties in the US and
political parties in Britain is that a US party does not have veto
power over candidates for federal office. The voters choose them.
That is why we see increasing numbers of progressive Democrats elected
to Congress. We can, by supporting them, convert the Democratic Party
step by step into a progressive party again.
Britons can't do that any more in the Labour Party. Starmer's strict
measures to exclude non-plutocratists
from
running as Labour candidates
block that completely, so there is no hope down the Labour path any more.
Compare today's Labour leadership with the leaders that
set up the National Health Service
and made it work. What a shame.
