Yes, Of Course We Won’t Not Be Able to Absolutely Not Lower Prices
And so it begins. The Trump double-speak on policies and promises. After railing against the Biden administration for inflation and promising to lower prices on everything from groceries to automobiles, Trump is already going back on his word. There’s a wonderfully appropriate meme circulating that says something to this effect: The next four years will be the saddest, most excruciating period of “I told you so” ever.
From the article:
“Trump’s lack of confidence is a drastic shift from his attitude on the issue during the campaign. According to documentation from HuffPost, Trump claimed at numerous points over the past year that he would absolutely make grocery prices lower, wrongly faulting the Biden administration for raising them in the first place (despite evidence that corporate greed played a major role in inflationary prices).”
Truthout: Trump Now Says He Can’t Promise He’ll Be Able to Lower Grocery Prices
Gaza Is Just a Kill Zone Now
It feels like we’re already forgetting or are just resigned to the annihilation of the Palestinian people. News outlets like Drop Site continue to make these stories front and center, but you can sense hopelessness on the world stage that any resolution to this onslaught will ever come.
From the article:
“Now, thousands are just sleeping in the streets, out in the open, without even the most basic form of shelter. They clear pebbles from patches of sandy road to bed for the night. Some hole up inside the charred shells of destroyed cars, others under shredded tarps or inside broken storefronts. There are no blankets or bedding, no toilets, no water. Nothing. Those who are in shelters are cramped inside 50 to a room, shivering from the cold. Disease is everywhere.”
Drop Site: In Northern Gaza, Buildings Weakened by Airstrikes Are Collapsing on Families Seeking Shelter from Cold and Rain
A Cogent Reflection on Progressives Lost in the Desert
There aren’t any answers in this piece, but it lays out some of the most important questions around organizing, mass movements and progressive allyship with the Democratic Party.
From the article:
“No mass organizations emerged out of the most significant movement against racism and inequality in the United States in two generations, despite the widespread sympathy and solidarity with the movement. Today, the Left feels small, marginalized, fractured and disorganized as enormous problems confront the communities we are attached to. The absence of focused organizing on building grassroots organizations with clear on-ramps and entry points for ordinary people has resulted in a political culture that views politics passively as donating money and occasionally showing up to an event or protest to register political discontent and express solidarity.”
In These Times: Why Didn’t the Progressive Movement Challenge Kamala Harris?
