20-11-2016, 10:42 AM
Cliff Varnell Wrote:Magda Hassan Wrote:[quote=Cliff Varnell]....
There is the corporate wing of the Democratic Party.
There is the corporate wing of the Republican Party.
Basically indistinguishable.
But the Democratic base is nothing like the Republican base.
Base Democrats stand up to the corporate wing on many occasions -- the Republican base never stands up to the corporatists in their own party, these GODavid, when you refer to "the elite" -- which elite?
Bullshit. The Dem 'base' are as stuck in their own mythology as the Republican base are in theirs. /QUOTE]
A slander on Bernie and his people.
Who the fuck do you think I'm referring to?
Bernie and the rest us didn't stand up?
Unfortunately for Bernie, it looks like he was compromised, hence his recommending Clinton to his supporters and generally going quite thereafter.
You need to check out the Podesta DNC emails for this. It's not clear what sort of hold or influence they had over him - blackmail or something else - but they certainly boasted of about it anyway.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14