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Zorra

(27,670 posts)
Sat Jun 14, 2014, 11:49 AM Jun 2014

The Rise of Chicago's 99% Against Rahm Emanuel, "Mayor 1%"

It's a shame that the Third Way/Republican policies of privatization and snowballing polarization of wealth are forcing more and more working people to make desperate choices due to the hopeless conditions that so many hard working people have been forced to live in.

This post is related to a post in GD where a DUer felt compelled to have to make the decision to call the police on a single working mom, working at the very difficult, very low wage/no benefit job of a home health aide, who did not have any options for affordable child care. No American should ever be forced into these desperate circumstances, and no American should ever be compelled to make the heart crushing decision to call the police on a hard working single mom, forced into desperate straits, because she cannot afford child care for her children.

Please, folks, please, vote to nominate progressive/liberal Democratic candidates, so we don't get stuck with any more neo-liberal Third Way legislators like Rahm Emanuel, who are rapidly reversing so many of the gains for the 99% that the Democratic party has made over many decades, beginning with the New Deal.

The Rise of Chicago's 99% Against Rahm Emanuel, "Mayor 1%"

Will Rahm Emanuel's effort to establish a privatized neoliberal outpost in Chicago succeed? Not if the ongoing uprising brushfires turn from kindling wood into a contemporary Chicago fire of political resistance. Kari Lydersen, author of "Mayor 1%," tells Truthout Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is representative of the neoliberal wing of the Democratic party, and he's getting significant pushback in his efforts to expand privatization and limit protests.
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Kari Lydersen: Yes I would say he represents the ascent of the neoliberal wing of the Democratic Party . . . but the way that the nickname "Mayor 1%" is used in Chicago and the way I see it, it is also more than that. It's clear that Emanuel's political philosophy and his approach to solving Chicago's problems centers around shifting public resources to the private sector. This isn't necessarily all bad, though it is problematic, especially in terms of the impact on public sector jobs, public education and public services for the most needy. Even more disturbingly, I see "Mayor 1%" as referring to the feeling among many people - especially low-income African Americans - that the city is being reshaped in a way that doesn't include them; that the symbolic and literal structures that make up their neighborhoods and daily lives are being dismantled as the city's resources are being shifted to cater to the "1%" or at least a much smaller percent of the current populace.



Rahm Emanuel jumps on the Hillary Clinton bandwagon

Ready for Hillary is building a list of Clinton supporters, which now totals more than two million, to lay the grassroots groundwork for her should she choose to run for president. During the 2008 Democratic primaries, Emanuel, then a congressman, stayed neutral, torn between his long allegiance to the Clintons and his friendship with Obama, a fellow Chicagoan.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/05/09/rahm-emanuel-jumps-on-the-hillary-clinton-bandwagon/


Crush the Third Way before it crushes you.
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The Rise of Chicago's 99% Against Rahm Emanuel, "Mayor 1%" (Original Post) Zorra Jun 2014 OP
If Hillary Had ANY Talent at Leadership Demeter Jun 2014 #1
oh, Demeter...you're just a "hater". nt antigop Jun 2014 #4
I'm ready for Ichingcarpenter Jun 2014 #5
Candidate for this year's "You Call This NEWS?" Award rocktivity Jun 2014 #2
That's my dickhead of a mayor alright. nt Guy Whitey Corngood Jun 2014 #3
Someone had better come along IDemo Jun 2014 #6
This is where unity would be wise, he is a white male conservative Dragonfli Jun 2014 #7
Gee. I thought he had a ''D'' after his name? Octafish Jun 2014 #8
well, what's that saying about how you are known by the company you keep? nt antigop Jun 2014 #9
'What would Goldman think?' Octafish Jun 2014 #10
EXACTLY. nt antigop Jun 2014 #11
+1 a whole fucking bunch. Enthusiast Jun 2014 #12
 

Demeter

(85,373 posts)
1. If Hillary Had ANY Talent at Leadership
Sat Jun 14, 2014, 12:12 PM
Jun 2014

she would show Rahm the door, slam it in his face, put bars across it, nail it shut, pile furniture in front of it....

so I'm watching, and counting...1..2..3..4...

rocktivity

(44,555 posts)
2. Candidate for this year's "You Call This NEWS?" Award
Sat Jun 14, 2014, 12:28 PM
Jun 2014

He's a DLC one percenter -- who knew? And he'll jump on ANY bandwagon...


rocktivity

IDemo

(16,926 posts)
6. Someone had better come along
Sat Jun 14, 2014, 01:39 PM
Jun 2014

to defend Mayor DLC just in case he winds up being a part of Hillary's campaign, administration, or, gulp, VP candidate!

Dragonfli

(10,622 posts)
7. This is where unity would be wise, he is a white male conservative
Sat Jun 14, 2014, 02:48 PM
Jun 2014

(it is true that many would not consider him old, yet his policies are those that are favored by the demographic that is held up statistically as an enemy of poc, so perhaps he is worth fighting)

Someone said on this board (wisely) that if the shoe doesn't fit, don't wear it; well, the shoe does not fit the lefty hippy guys that fought for civil liberties in their younger days, but that glass slipper most assuredly was cobbled for this pos (old or not).


I see "Mayor 1%" as referring to the feeling among many people - especially low-income African Americans - that the city is being reshaped in a way that doesn't include them; that the symbolic and literal structures that make up their neighborhoods and daily lives are being dismantled as the city's resources are being shifted to cater to the "1%" or at least a much smaller percent of the current populace.


The coalition of all colors and genders interested in equal rights and equal financial opportunities for the 99, should see replacing this guy with an ally would be replacing the enemy with a friend. He is a man of extreme privilege that exists entirely to feed the privileged.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
8. Gee. I thought he had a ''D'' after his name?
Sat Jun 14, 2014, 03:04 PM
Jun 2014

Oh, right. Rahm's the guy who had this to say:



"Fucking Retards": Why Didn't Rahm Emanuel Apologize to Liberals?

Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that during a private conversation in August 2009, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said that liberal critics of conservative and moderate Democrats were "fucking retards." Cute. According to ABC News, however, Emanuel has offered an apology to the "disabled community" for his remarks. Although he has acknowledged making the statement, Emanuel has not apologized to liberals.

Emanuel and other close advisers of President Obama have frequently criticized liberals. After the White House instructed Senate Democrats to capitulate to Senator Joe Lieberman's request that they drop the public health plan option, many liberals denounced the move and demanded that Democrats in turn reject the Senate bill. In response, White House senior staff separately referred to liberals as "irrational" and "insane." By describing liberals as "fucking retards," Emanuel is simply towing the White House line in an effort to isolate politically and to show contempt for progressives.

SOURCE w links: http://dissentingjustice.blogspot.com/2010/02/fucking-retards-why-didnt-rahm-emanuel.html



Call me "Liberal" or "fucking retarded," I don't care which. I do stand with people who care about ALL the people.
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