No Remorse: Reflections on Radical "Purism"

http://www.counterpunch.org/2018/08/29/no-remorse-reflections-on-radical-purism/
Date Written:  2018-08-29
Publisher:  Counterpunch
Year Published:  2018
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX23012

Street justifies his critical commentary on the disappointing presidency of Barrack Obama and the standard neoliberal manipulation of campaign populism and identity politics in service to big-money. He also takes a cynical look at the DMC, another party of corporations, as well as Bernie Sanders and what a Sanders Presidency might have looked like.

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I did not relish exposing Obama for the horrible fake-progressive fraud he was (something seriously Chicago-based lefties like myself had an early heads-up on). Having moved from Chicago to a liberally Obama-mad campus town (Iowa City, Iowa) at the time of Obama's presidential ascendancy (I had a new front-row seat for the Obama phenomenon - the endless Iowa Caucus campaign), I occasionally felt twinges of "too radical" Grinchy guilt and met no small resistance as I confronted bamboozled locals with the real historical facts on how their supposedly "antiwar" darling "progressive" Obama was actually a white-pleasing, Wall Street-friendly corporatist and imperialist.