After all the breast-beating by the mainstream press about the Democrats losing seats in the House of Representatives, you would think the Republicans had nothing to fear.
But the fact is, the most leftist members of Congress, The Squad as they are called, each won reelection to their congressional seats, and it would appear the Squad may be expanded by as many as ten members of Congress.
Mainstream media tell Democrats they have to move to their right to win, but most of the seats lost by Democrats in Tuesday’s election were held by moderate to conservative members.
When candidates run clearly offering to represent the working class, they often win. Unfortunately, the mainstream media neglect to inform the masses of this, warning as they do that candidates for office must be more, and more, and more conservative if they have a remote chance of winning.
The goal of the establishment is to have a business-friendly Congress enacting laws to reduce taxes on the wealthy and corporations, and give them access to the treasury, damning the public interest.
One of the problems in the path of the establishment is the expanding “Squad,” keeping an eye on our corrupt Congress and getting elected with small donations, even as most of Congress is funded by oceans of dark money.
Jack Balkwill has been published from the little read Rectangle, magazine of the English Honor Society, to the (then) millions of readers USA Today and many progressive publications/web sites such as Z Magazine, In These Times, Counterpunch, This Can’t Be Happening, Intrepid Report, and Dissident Voice. He is author of “An Attack on the National Security State,” about peace activists in prison.
