Klein: Best is yet to come for liberals

Posted by | June 14, 2016 18:30 | Filed under: Good News Politics

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Naomi Klein says progressives have won the battle of ideas.

It’s not just that Sanders has won 20-plus contests, all while never disavowing his democratic socialism. It’s also that, to keep Sanders from hijacking the nomination, Clinton has been forced to pivot sharply to the left and disavow her own history as a market-friendly centrist. Even Donald Trump threw out the economic playbook entrenched since Reagan—coming out against corporate-friendly trade deals, vowing to protect what’s left of the social safety net, and railing against the influence of money in politics.

Taken together, the evidence is clear: The left just won. Forget the nomination—I mean the argument. Clinton, and the 40-year ideological campaign she represents, has lost the battle of ideas. The spell of neoliberalism has been broken, crushed under the weight of lived experience and a mountain of data.

What for decades was unsayable is now being said out loud—free college tuition, double the minimum wage, 100 percent renewable energy. And the crowds are cheering. With so much encouragement, who knows what’s next? Reparations for slavery and colonialism? A guaranteed annual income? Democratic worker co-ops as the centerpiece of a green jobs program? Why not? The intellectual fencing that has constrained the left’s imagination for so long is lying twisted on the ground.

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13 responses to Klein: Best is yet to come for liberals

  1. mea_mark June 14th, 2016 at 18:39

    The people are moving left, the conversation is moving to the left, can we now elect leaders that truly represent the left, or is the system broken and in the hands of the oligarchy?

    • Larry Schmitt June 14th, 2016 at 18:47

      In order: No, yes, and yes.

      • Suzanne McFly June 14th, 2016 at 19:09

        No, the answers are yes, yes, and yes Debbie Downer.

        • Larry Schmitt June 14th, 2016 at 19:11

          I’ll believe the first one when I see it.

          • Suzanne McFly June 14th, 2016 at 19:19

            Have faith my friend.

  2. Gina Bousquet June 14th, 2016 at 19:29

    It was sweet to read that…

  3. KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker June 14th, 2016 at 19:43

    Good news and fingers crossed, but I’m not holding my breath because a lot has to change.

  4. Obewon June 14th, 2016 at 20:48

    Berniecheck? Look at February’s 2016 BHO FY-17 budget as begun 10/1/2016 includes:
    A) —2 years free college tuition for all Americans maintaining a C average.
    B) $15/Hr minimum wage proposed, but is now the law covering 60% of Americans.
    December 2015, BHO signed into law five more years of renewable energy tax credits approaching 100% renewable energy.

  5. William June 14th, 2016 at 21:57

    Many Americans are not even aware of what the liberal agenda is. Most of the media coverage is dedicated to a raving lunatic.

  6. Warman1138 June 15th, 2016 at 01:07

    To the GOP……..ha ha.

  7. DogsRgoodpeople June 15th, 2016 at 01:10

    hell yeah

  8. robert June 15th, 2016 at 03:14

    In other words, Hillary probably wouldn’t be leading in the polls if it wasn’t for Bernie Sanders

  9. oldfart June 15th, 2016 at 10:21

    What we have “won” is the attention of the status quo only.
    The powers that be, have the money and are firmly entrenched within the system.
    Dislodging and replacing them will require planning, timing and lots of loud enlightned
    (and registered) voices…a worthy goal if ever I saw one.

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