To steal someone else's line, "What Democrats are to the actual left is the same as what Nickelback is to Rock n’ Roll, nothing but a bland facsimile of something genuine with the primary purpose of selling something."

I've gone to great lengths to explain how the McResistance is in reality an astroturf'd movement.

I've also listed the various ways that most Democratic leadership has bent over backwards to work with Republicans and against the Actual Left.

Whether it was giving the Pentagon more money than it asked for, helping Trump with spying on the American public, or deregulating Wall Street, and giveaways to predatory payday lenders.

This week the McResistance collapsed over the government shutdown. While the news was all about DACA, perhaps the most important part of the collapse involved the MIC.



The top Democrats in Congress have transformed DACA, the effort to protect 800,000 childhood immigrants from deportation, into a gargantuan funding measure for the Pentagon. This past weekend, Senate Democratic leader Charles Schumer offered to fully fund Donald Trump’s border wall and boost defense spending “far above” what the White House requested, in a deal to end the government shutdown. The military budget signed into law in December was already $30 billion higher than the White House asked for, and $80 billion bigger than the previous year’s war spending—an increase as large as Russia’s entire defense budget.

I should point out that this recent massive increase in the military budget is separate from last summer's giveaway.



It is Democratic congressional leadership—not Donald Trump and his mad generals—that has been the driving force in this year’s military spending insanity. Back in July, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi pressured her party to back a defense authorization $57.4 billion bigger than the Pentagon requested. Only a minority of Democratic House members supported the measure, but a majority of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) followed Pelosi’s lead—including all five of the newest members of the Black Caucus, elected in 2016. By inflating the war budget even beyond the Pentagon’s demands, these Pelosi-Schumer-CBC Democrats ensured that what remains of the social safety net will be slashed into oblivion by bipartisan forces of austerity in future Congresses.

The majority of the Black Caucus voting for this just goes to show the lie behind the worship of ethnic and gender diversity, while ignoring the much more important diversity of ideas.



Democrats apply identity politics as a distraction, in lieu of systematic solutions to class-based discrimination. Democrats demand more women directors in Hollywood, more African-Americans admitted to Ivy League schools, transgendered soldiers in the military so they can join the slaughter of brown people in other countries.