Paul Jay
of the Real
News spoke with the famous actor Gabriel Byrne in
an interesting interview about politics and other issues.
Byrne
describes the disappointment of the people when Blair and Obama were
elected, as they were expecting a real progressive turn in politics.
As Byrne says characteristically, Tony Blair "destroyed the
idealism of politics for so many people,":
There
was an interesting parallel between British politics and American
politics. When Margaret Thatcher was finally voted out of office,
Tony Blair arrived, and Tony Blair arrived like a rock star. He was
mobbed in the streets, people were saying, "At last, Thatcherism
is over. Conservatism is finished, we now have the savior."
What
Tony Blair subsequently did, was he betrayed all the ideals of the
traditional labor party, he became Thatcher with a different colored
tie on him. He destroyed the idealism of politics for so many people,
and a similar thing happened here when Obama was elected, in that
everybody was saying, "Oh my god, this was our savior. This is
the man who is no longer George Bush."
What
Byrne describes is actually the full adoption of neoliberalism by the
Democrats in the US and the Labour Party in the UK.
People
thought that they were about to escape Thatcherism and Reaganism, but
this was actually the time where both the US and the UK were
completely taken over by the neoliberal doctrine under which the
establishment political parties became one big party under the
control of the plutocracy.
Clinton,
Blair and Obama continued the agenda of their conservative
predecessors, which included devastating wars around the globe, as
well as deregulations in favor of the banks and the big companies,
Wall Street bailouts, further destruction of the social state against
the majority of the people.
This was
the full adoption of Thatcher's 'There is no Altrnative', which
helped inequality reach unprecedented levels. People felt betrayed by
the parties that are supposed to be on their side. But nothing was
left from FDR's heritage.
So now,
the Democrats have the audacity to blame everyone but themselves for
the fact that the US ended up with one of the worst presidents in its
history. They blame the Russians, Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein,
progressive voters, alternative media, WikiLeaks, Whistleblowers.
Full arrogance, zero self-criticism, total denial.
The Dems
appear to be so much blinded by the corporate money that they are
unable to look in the past and trace the roots of today's situation.
How the US ended up with someone like Trump? That's easy. People got
so fed up with the neoliberal establishment that they desperately
turned to the first nominee that would promise to fight it. Even if
he was just an alternative for the establishment itself ...
Nailed it..not that the Dems care. They know exactly what they're doing.
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