Hillary Clinton won the election by 2 million votes, but Donald Trump won the
Presidency in the Electoral College.
What’s that you say about democracy ?
During the last year the according to the Southern Poverty
Law Center the militant, fascist, militarist, racist terrorist group Storm
Front has grown to over 300,000 members.
( one of several such groups).
These and parallel developments may require that we
reconsider and adjust our basic political strategy as developed in the
strategy document. We need a serious new
analysis because the terrain of our struggle and our activity has shifted
significantly.
Examples.
Some 2 -11 million immigrant workers in the US now face
terrorism and possible deportation. Over
2 million U.S. citizen children face the possibility that their parents will be
deported and they will be placed in foster care.
I had a piece on the Democratic Left blog on the possible
consequences of a victory by Trump and Trumpism. http://www.dsausa.org/trump_s_racially_divisive_politics_must_be_exposed_and_opposed_dl
David Bacon has a new piece on the current situation. http://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com/2016/11/immigrant-communities-brace-for-trump.html?
If you prefer video, here is a good piece Hate Rising. http://antiracismdsa.blogspot.com/2016/11/hate-rising-with-jorge-ramos.html
This video is also up on YouTube.
The labor movement faces its most difficult assault since
the passage of the Taft-Hartley act which changed the nature of organized labor
in the U.S.
Labor will be shaken
to its core. Harold Meyerson has a good
piece on this on the DSA blog, Talking Union.
https://talkingunion.wordpress.com/2016/11/24/trump-and-the-crisis-of-labor/
The Trump administration’s chief military advisor advocates
siding with Asad and Putin in Syria, and usually recommends U.S. military
interventions in troubled areas.
This militarist approach could well set us back to the
decades of U.S. intervention from 2000-
2010. The U.S. anti war movement , or what remains of it, will have their backs
to the wall.
The ecological justice movement now faces a regime that take
us back to the 1970’s on ignoring climate change. – while the environmental
crisis grows. As Nomi Klein said, “This
Changes Everything”.
