I agree those two vids make sense.
Obama was a total establishment deep state stooge, hardly an independent thinker/doer. The man was a showpiece, controlled by the same deep state Clinton Bush deeply embedded interests.
I agree he was a showpiece along with Hillary Clinton, meant to show that America could now have Blacks and Women at the top-most position in the country whatever be the base thinking of those people. Remember Hillary's laughingly said "We came, we saw, he died" in 2011 ?
Trump republicans are different.
and they want to get rid of this "evil" man
Well, I never hated Trump though many others did. But he too is not the wisest of leaders ( though he was correct in your second vid ). For example, under his command America is pulling out of Afghanistan but the Taliban will be part of the coming governments there. Why couldn't America listen to Afghan progressives like the SPA (
Solidarity Party of Afghanistan ) and get them into the coming government ? Because the SPA is a leftist group.
So Trump may be better than the Bushes and Obomba but he too has something lacking.
what government on earth will give it's subjects the right to keep and bear arms
Switzerland, the Libyan Jamahiriya.
As the most successful country (so far), they have a duty to maintain a global military presence.
I don't understand this duty. Please explain.
All their wars in the middle east have been aided by other muslim countries in the region.
Well, though this is perhaps off-topic one has to think why these particular participant Muslim-majority countries didn't themselves get invaded by USA ( and NATO ).
In the current American context, senator Sanders, congresswoman AOC and squad etc.. this:
https://www.dsausa.org/
Hmm, seems interesting.
I liked this they say :
Capitalism pits us against each other
Very correct.
And this :
and workplaces are fundamentally authoritarian unless workers can self-organize and build collective power. This is why people build unions, and why employers undermine them. It is also why the capitalists as a class constantly promote narratives about unions that frame them as unnecessary, undemocratic, or ineffective. We know better, and we’re building worker power in every region of the country.
reminds me of the time when some years ago I tried to build an employee union. Also, you will find it funny that the American company IBM has a union in America but IBM-India does not. We need to think why. Many middle-class white-collar Indian youth do not take social responsibility.
Where did I say anything of the sort ?
We ARE much better off as a country than we were 70 years ago just post Independence from the Raj. This is objective reality.
Part of the development is because the world itself has moved and part is because of the steps that Nehru, Ambedkar and comrades had taken.
Yet things like oppression against Dalits, women, peasants, Muslims, intellectuals remain.
No, we're a democracy. BJP fascism fears are overblown and not reality but that is to be expected from the left and other opposition such as Islamists.
What suddenly flipped in 2014 when we elected Modi ? Nothing.
Why would the Ghandy dynasty rule over us for 50+ years if most of the country were "irrational prejudiced people" ?
I will give an example of the change. Nowadays there are web series' in India with foul language. That is tolerated. But there are certain films that simply cannot be made. Can Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro with its final drama scene be made now ? Can a film portraying the Naxals in fairly critiquing light be made ?
Another example. What about inter-caste and inter-religion marriages ? Can these be done now without the right-wingers raising hue and cry ?
What about the open rallies in Jammu by BJP supporters in favor of the Kathua rape / torture culprit ? BJP raised hue and cry about the Palghar lynching but didn't raise voice in favor of Rohith Vemula.
In media trolls and warmongers like Arnab Goswami are being felicitated while good journalists are being harassed, arrested and their offices shutdown.
Lynchers are fearless.
All these things are now done openly, without fear of legal retribution.
It is a true democracy. Next question.
I will continue with the same question.
India has so many political parties with so many conflicting political, social and economic views. Many quite regressive.
Every five years there is the general election where the next central government is selected. People cast votes and the candidate of the party with the highest number ( majority ) of votes forms the government. Simple question, what about those people whose candidate and party did not win because his party got minority votes ? What if some of these latter citizens had good ideas for the country ? They have to wait for five more years to try to get their choice of party into government. Even then there might be chance that their candidate might not win and the one who wins could be through demagogy.
Now extend this unscientific system to the 28 states in India. What we have is chaos. 73 years of it.
Which is why we still have socio-economic ills in India like hunger deaths, suicides, homelessness, honor killing etc. All this in year 2020. Certain people had said that India would become a "superpower" by 2012 and then 2020. And here we are in 2020 having a migrant laborer woman dying of hunger at a railway station.
Have India's people ( your "democracy" maintainers ) made the right choices for 73 years ?
Contrast this with say the system that Libya had until 2011. Direct democracy tempered and guided by socialism. No hunger, no homelessness. Their political arrangement was called The Third Universal Theory aka Jamahiriya which you can read
here. The Aam Aadmi Party ( AAP ) and Swaraj Abhiyan group in India have a somewhat similar system called Swaraj. The Libyan political system had no parties and no five-yearly government elections. The people ruled directly.
