...and K.O. is back with another commentary, this time on HRC and her “deplorables” remark…
…and Lewis Black provides analysis of this utterly interminable election as only he can here (Note: We still have to go out and get it done for HRC and a Dems in general, but in the case of the Dem presidential nominee, I wish she could find a way to generate some buzz about domestic issues and thus, some enthusiasm – I know the media isn’t helping a bit, but we can’t use that as an excuse)…
…and you’d better pack a lunch for this one, but I think it’s worth it (this is the stuff that matters as opposed to the political sideshow); Chris Hedges speaks with economist Mark Blyth, and the two of them discuss the utterly ruinous policy of austerity and its effects in this country, the U.K. and Europe – there’s a lot of digest here and some of it I don’t agree with, for example the analysis of Brexit in the U.K., which, as far as I’m concerned, has the fingerprints of David Cameron and his Tories all over it – I don’t think it was some kind of popular uprising that caught the elites off-guard…Hedges and Blyth, though, do a great job IMHO on linking austerity to the rise of extremist political movements, both here and abroad; yes, I know HRC is a centrist Democrat and I’m more than a little concerned about her capturing the “base” with a populist economic message, which she’d better find a way to do, but for God’s sake we need to support her instead of you-know-who…the thought that Trump could capture some kind of economic momentum somehow, even though his every utterance on that like everything else would be a lie, scares the hell out of me…
Update 9/16/16: Fair enough - more like this.
…and to me, if there’s one word that sums up this election, it’s the title of this song.
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