The Faux Progressives or The Roosevelt Institute Betrayal

The Roosevelt Institute took $200,000 from Pete Peterson, the arch enemy of non rich America. Their explanation is not worth discussing; it amounts to claiming that the Soviet Union provided excellent free education on all levels. (It's true, but they were a terribly oppressive regime.)

The Roosevelt guys just don't see the problem. Their work is mostly progressive and solid. Mike Konczal writes great reports with which the left typically agrees. He is good at what he is doing. Yet, he is not an expert on progressive tactics, methods and approaches. Actually, it seems that the whole bunch believes that progress will come from excellent reports and plans.

The element of fight, struggle, sticktoitness, dedication, confrontation, brain to brain combat and really needed class warfare is way outside the grasp of the Institute individuals. It is not an academic exercise; it is a real life struggle for the well being of the working people. It is a fight to get back the soul of the country from the rich terrorists that have kidnapped it.

Writing reports is nice, but useless. We need fighters. The Roosevelt Institute is a bunch of slackers. They don't understand that you don't cooperate with those who are about to cut your throat. Their thinking is yet another facet of the moronic postpartisanship that sold us all down the drain. They fail to realize that the deficit flag is a distraction intended to prevent us from seeing that the oligarchy is the real problem in the country.

Cooperating with oligarch is antiprogressive, it supports the nonstop pillaging the Petersons inflict on the non rich.

The upset with Roosevelt is old news. An out of hand affluent and spoiled middle class has contorted the whole Democratic Party, from right to almost the last left, into an established group seeking friendly relationship with the rich, their approval and, if possible, some of their exquisite crumbs. They elected Obama who is an average exemplar of the affluent and spoiled and attacked vehemently the candidates that reminded them of the badly behaved, according to them, people from Hope Arkansas. The candidate that reminded them of their origins, i.e. poor hardworking blue collar Americans, was attacked as a whore, a witch and other choice adjectives reserved to those that threaten them.

Petersen was watching and smiling; he didn't get his crooked billions by working hard; he got them by using the middle class and its needs to support him. Screaming bloody murder now is doing so after attending the funeral way back. Roosevelt has crossed the line way before it was created.