Thanks Anne :smile:
Successful alliances require some level of shared interest or at least shared concern. For example. the alliance between social liberals and the economic left in the '70's rested on the establishment being understood as both socially and economically ...
It seems likely that you and Bill are talking about different conceptions of "the centre". In a social democracy, the centre presents a point of negotiation between claims springing from left and right. Post Thatcher/Reagan, the centre , as represented by ...
I feel I must respond to this proposition, since I am someone who has quibbled over the issuing of long bans. And I want to make a suggestion. Firstly, that the period for which an individual moderators ban holds be lengthened to a week, or however long it...
This weekend I keep going back to this piece on Paul Keating's latest utterances in the SMH. https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/paul-keating-praises-donald-trump-as-surprisingly-good-at-foreign-policy-20180309-p4z3mh.html What gets me is not just what...
Points 1) and 2) simply show where political power lies within this system, and we have seen how quickly those who do not conform to their relegated roles get punished - Cunliffe and Metiria here, Rudd in Australia, while Corbyn and Sanders have managed to...
Thanks for your succinct and lucid explanation of MMT. The question that hovers for me, as a layperson with regard to these matters, is how much is fundamentally economic and how much political? Being more fiscally tight than your neighbours may signal ...
I agree that the government should step up where the free-market fails to provide work, but there is a lot of pressure against them in this regard - fear of inflation, of borrowing, of raising taxes, etc.
We tend to accept the idea that technological change means unemployment with a shrug, as if it is something inevitable. But under the current settings, a technological change that got in the way of capital collecting its tribute would be met with fierce ...
I agree with your nit-picking remarks, and only note that certain aspects of post war social democracy, like full employment, helped to disguise the early steps back toward laissez faire settings.
Neoliberal capitalists have proved deft at making use of subtle shifts within a social democratic framework, that have made a big difference to how things have gone, like a series of small leaks in a boat. When full employment was still the broader social ...
Testing, using my "not logged in" one. No, it hasn't changed.
Good point Carolyn_Nth. And while I know that anecdote does not add up to evidence, just yesterday I spoke to an older working class woman, not financially well off, who was enthusiastically singing Judith’s praises. “I hope she gets the leadership,” she ...
Will do.
After saying that, I have followed the full instruction, so we can both see the result. I see it hasn't gone into spam, so it seems that I can now either choose the alternative address OR log in.
Thanks Weka. I have an alternative email connection that have accidentally used in the distant past. Would that do, or would it be better to fulfill the whole instruction, so you can see what results?
Thanks Weka. I am OK with having to log in - it is a very small step and just a matter of remembering to do it. But if there is a way of getting round it, it would be nice to know what it is.
Thanks greywarshark :smile:
I wonder if CV needs to log in for his comments to go through. I know that is the case for me - I have not been banned but I have become an infrequent commentator.
I notice that the NZH article that Puckish Rogue has linked, about state houses "worth" millions, carries the same snooty tone, and includes such dog whistles as a certain house's being worth ... 61 times more than the $49,588 a primary school teacher ...
It is possible to see reasons for the current concentration on Russian involvement without necessarily or wholly agreeing with them. You are offering a practical reason - the only way he can be removed from office is through clear evidence that he colluded...
To begin with, we don't vote in US elections, so our opposition-to/support-for Trump has more to do with shoring up our own positions than altering what happens in the US. Outside of the US Trump gets very little enthusiastic support from either left or ...
Well said mosa. R.I.P Jim Anderton, and thank you.
I agree with you about the need for a bottom-up groundswell, as is happening in the UK, the US and with DiEM in Europe. I think the most significant fault-line lies between political representation and management, and bottom-up movements are needed to push...
This is what I take to be Ad's central message: – governs by instinct not briefing therefore rules Washington/ trashed rhetoric and dominant jargon/ is brave… and many other lessons the left need to learn…From the master. Trump has barged his way through ...
A cocktail of peach schnapps and white bubbly, with a splash of pomegranate juice. I can't remember what it is called, but it is nice, festive and very pretty.
As you can see, my position is a nuanced one, but probably not, because I would still have an issue with the codification, which would invite the search for ways past it, if someone doesn't want Granny but does want her house. I also worry about people ...
I am not, on principle, in favour of euthanasia, though I am aware that mine is but one position among many, that there is often a fine line between passively allowing someone to die and speeding up the process, and that situations do arise upon which one ...
Nothing in the few months since this bill was last introduced has altered the ...very complicated, very divisive, and extremely contentiousnature of the issue, and you have to wonder why it is being repeatedly thrust upon us. While I appreciate the careful...
I don't know what went wrong there - the first version of this comment was not meant to go up. I must have accidentally hit the 'submit' button.
He wants the government to introduce a work-for-the-dole type scheme where people would receive the minimum wage That sentence suggests to me that he may hope to offer people only the number of hours that would be covered by the dole if it were translated ...
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