Says Caitlin Johnstone: “that’s what being a ‘progressive’ Democrat means in 2023: backing the imperial war machine to the hilt … while calling for sustainably powered aircraft carriers and more small businesses in the military-industrial complex. A Ukrainian flag on an electric car.
This is the Democratic Party’s true face. This is the Democrats telling you who they really are. Their whole function is to divert all meaningful political movement away from inconvenient areas like demilitarization and economic justice and toward convenient areas like whether there should be solar panels on Abrams tanks.”