{"id":40219,"date":"2016-06-13T11:30:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T15:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=40219"},"modified":"2016-06-13T12:17:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T16:17:46","slug":"will-the-post-bernie-left-finally-come-out-against-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=40219","title":{"rendered":"Will The Post-Bernie Left Finally Come Out Against War?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Santa Rosa, CA<br \/>\nJune 12, 2016<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>A major event is planned for this coming weekend in Chicago where leading leftists<br \/>\nwill gather to strategize following the failure of Bernie Sanders to become the Democratic<br \/>\nParty&#8217;s nominee for President. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/nnu-all-star-lineup-gathers-for-chicago-peoples-summit-june-17-19-300282820.html\">http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/nnu-all-star-lineup-gathers-for-chicago-peoples-summit-june-17-19-300282820.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is one of several major developments designed to build on the enormous momentum and\u00a0success of the Sanders campaign. <a href=\"http:\/\/inthesetimes.com\/features\/political-revolution-after-bernie-sanders.html\">http:\/\/inthesetimes.com\/features\/political-revolution-after-bernie-sanders.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fascinating to this observer is the failure of the Left to address the institutionalization of a<br \/>\npermanent war economy that supports America&#8217;s role as world policeman for the Globalists.<\/p>\n<p>As Robert Parry indicates in his essay, the Democrats are now the aggressive war party:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article44843.htm\">http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article44843.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With Hawk Hillary as their nominee, fully backed by the Kagan clan and the Neocons, it is\u00a0Donald Trump who sounds (at least some of the time) like the less pro-war candidate who\u00a0is willing to constrain NATO and criticize Bill Kristol:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article44848.htm\">http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article44848.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With Obama seemingly intent on starting a war with Russia and\/or China, Sanders and his<br \/>\nsupporters on the Left have remained strangely silent regarding this most perilous development.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article44852.htm\">http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article44852.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Has public opinion been so manipulated that those who follow in the footsteps of Eugene Debs,\u00a0Martin Luther King, George McGovern and other anti-war liberals forgotten their roots or been\u00a0somehow brain-washed into backing perpetual war for perpetual peace?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article44850.htm\">http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article44850.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sanders went after Hillary for her Wall Street ties and funding by the banksters but rarely if\u00a0ever mentioned the strong connection between them and our endless wars based on lies.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2016\/06\/11\/hitler-was-financed-by-the-federal-reserve-and-the-bank-of-england\/\">http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2016\/06\/11\/hitler-was-financed-by-the-federal-reserve-and-the-bank-of-england\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That struck some of us as passing strange, especially to the extent that a powerful anti-war<br \/>\nmessage might have gone a long way towards enticing those millions of disaffected voters<br \/>\non the right who share an equal disdain with their working class brothers on the left for more\u00a0wars&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..and particularly ones started by false flag attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Had Sanders been more assertive on this key issue, perhaps Mr. Trump might not have done\u00a0so well with Independents who appreciated him attacking George Bush for Iraq and 9\/11!<\/p>\n<p>It will remain for others to figure out Sanders timidity on these issues and his limited focus<br \/>\nagainst Mrs. Clinton to social justice and fairness. Giving her a pass on the e-mail scandal<br \/>\nthat went to the heart of her war-making in Libya, Iraq and elsewhere; her criminal scheme\u00a0to use the State Department to support and profit from the Clinton Foundation; and her\u00a0systematic disregard for the truth in all areas of her public life was beyond careless on his part.<\/p>\n<p>The Left must find a way to move past these mistakes when it meets to plan for the post-Sanders\u00a0era. I am ecstatic to see the name of Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard on the roster of speakers\u00a0who will address the Chicago gathering.<\/p>\n<p>Gabbard is one of the few Democrats who has shown the courage to come out against their<br \/>\nown party&#8217;s leader and challenge a sitting President in public regarding his war-making ways:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=24757\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=24757<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So I and many others will be watching in the days and weeks ahead to see if those who are<br \/>\nabout to inherit the mantle of leadership from their defeated hero can build on his successes\u00a0and expand their potential base to create a true political revolution in 21st Century America.<\/p>\n<p>That revolution has to be one that will achieve economic justice for all based on true wealth\u00a0creation rather than one based on crony capitalism and the theft of other nation&#8217;s resources\u00a0through wars of aggression.<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=32281\"> https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=32281<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}