caitlin writes in this change isn't what we're promised or expect and where it will probably lead;
Another reason why the so-called “centrists” pose such a grave threat to our world is because their platform of slow, moderate, incremental change is actually worse than no change at all.
President
Obama was elected on the platform of hope and change. He promised big,
sweeping changes, and, at the end of eight years, had continued and
expanded all the most depraved foreign and domestic policies of his
predecessor while killing the push for universal healthcare and creating
a climate initiative which was the equivalent of a band-aid on a
sucking chest wound. He now defends his near-complete lack of progress
by claiming that compromising with the plutocrats and achieving a small
amount of change is better than not compromising and achieving no
change at all.
We see this trend continuing under the current Democratic leadership, with the House Speaker continually working to passive aggressively undermine
the center-left progressive wing of her party while simultaneously
calling for party unity. We see it also in the current administration,
which, despite all the fuss about Trump’s destroying “norms” and
challenging the establishment, has actually managed to preserve and
bolster status quo power structures in every way that matters.
Whenever
I write about the fact that Trump has not met any of his foreign policy
promises and has in fact just been advancing the longstanding policies
of the neoconservatives in his cabinet, I always get a bunch of MAGA
people in the comments telling me I’ve got to be patient with their
president, because big changes take time. For all the rhetoric about
Trump’s base, from both pro-Trump and anti-Trump media, depicting it as
some special deviation from the norm, this demand for patience and slow,
incremental change is indistinguishable from the lines Hillary Clinton
supporters were regurgitating at Bernie Sanders supporters back in 2016.
In
both the Obama and the Trump administrations, voters ordered a box of
hope and change, received a package labeled “slow, incremental change”,
then opened it up and found no meaningful change whatsoever...........https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/07/15/why-incremental-change-is-worse-than-no-change-at-all/
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