{"id":2954,"date":"2020-03-27T14:14:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T18:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2954"},"modified":"2020-03-27T14:16:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T18:16:29","slug":"at-last-the-left-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2954","title":{"rendered":"At Last! The Left Rises!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/leftrises\/leftrises.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 5px 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/leftrises\/leftrises650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"1180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>It seems that everywhere you look around the world these days, the Left is gathering strength and taking the streets,<\/strong> often organizing and acting outside the constraints of standard-issue electoral politics. The issues they address are international, issues that the People can unite around worldwide: neoliberalism, austerity, fascism, militarism.<\/p>\n<p>Everywhere except in the United States, that is. Here in the Evil Empire, what passes for even a merely &#8220;progressive&#8221; Left is turned inward, all about the &#8220;election&#8221;, all about &#8220;beating Trump&#8221;, pouring all of its available energy into getting one guy elected President. Said &#8220;sociailst&#8221; hero will, of course, once again \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=1979\" target=\"_blank\">as in 2016<\/a> \u2014 cave at the Convention and endorse whatever vile-ass, useless centrist the Democrats want to serve up, and leave the Left with nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I didn&#8217;t graduate PoliSci \u2014 I was just some hippie arts major \u2014 but it would seem to me their time and energy would be better spent breaking out of the prison of American electoral &#8220;democracy&#8221; and organizing and acting around the global issues and building international solidarity instead of pissing it all away on a process known to be compromised by capitalism, and rigged against the People.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9&#215;17 inch medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/leftrises\/leftrises.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 956kb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that everywhere you look around the world these days, the Left is gathering strength and taking the streets, often organizing and acting outside the constraints of standard-issue electoral politics. The issues they address are international, issues that the People can unite around worldwide: neoliberalism, austerity, fascism, militarism. Everywhere except in the United States, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[958,1037,7,44,132],"tags":[1012,1042,955,953,667,181],"class_list":["post-2954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-election","category-coronavirus","category-elections","category-globalization","category-party-animals","tag-bolivia","tag-chile","tag-france","tag-gilets-jaunes","tag-sanders","tag-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2954"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2958,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions\/2958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}