I was alerted by this brave diary on DailyKos that the DASTARDLY Obama administration is going to get rid of FDR's holy TPS reports and, I hesitate to even type this, the cover sheets. In his rush to destroy the New Deal, neoliberal DLC pro-capitalist Obama is threatening the bedrock of the progressive movement, the core values of the Democratic Party - something we can even call the staple that holds the New Deal coalition together. "Streamline red tape" is what they call it - but we know what's really going on.
As Robert Reich and Robert Kuttner, the two most perceptive critics, dismissed by the Obama loyalists as "the two Bobs", have pointed out "streamline" in itself accepts the GOP framing. True progressives understand that there is a kind of "swing line" directed at swing voters that can never hold the pages of a coherent analysis together. To use some deeper analysis, drawing on the works of David Harvey and Nikolai Bourbaki, the transformation of the communist assembly line worker, the "red swing line" into the reactionary trope of "streamline" is at the heart of the neoliberal project.
First they came for the multiple forms used at the SBA, and I didn't say anything, then they came for the extra paperwork at immigration in airports, and still I didn't say anything - and then ---
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Of course, the apologists will try to cut off discussion, kick apart our means of communications and apply their usual thuggish tactics to suppress the news. Thanks goodness, we can still use DailyKos to communicate.