A few comments on top of The Michael Brooks show episode: "TMBS - 40 - Justice Or Apartheid ft. Alison Hartson & Bhaskar Sunkara"
Lula has created a problem for himself similar to the one Bernie Sanders is walking into. Their mistake is in wanting to rush things. Sure, there is urgency, but things must take a naturally urgent course, and that means not using money to gain power by unscrupulous means, and that means working damn hard to gain political office through grass roots donation and support to free one's party/colleagues from the fetters of beholdance to big money donors and lobbyists. If folks like Bernie, Lula, Corbyn et al, are not prepared to take the longer slower harder road, they are creating self-defeating traps for themselves. Lula da Silva clearly decided to rush it and make compromises and play realpolitik. He is learning that did not pay off. This should be a big lesson for Bernie, because I see a similar attack against him in 2020. He should have taken Jill Stein's offer to form a powerful left alliance. That was what the moment in history demanded, and like Obama and the financial crises, he was myopic, egotistical, and missed the boat. I mean, it is laughable now that we learn the reason Sanders supported Hillary was because he was afraid of Trump winning (publicly admitted by Nick Brana), that was such a huge miscalculation by Sanders and showed his instincts are not great even if his heart is in the right place. So I highly distrust his strategists will get it right in 2020. If you play the neoliberal game, the establishment elite will win every time, and usually with the worst candidate (a la Tinnyhands.) As long as they control the judiciary, the media, most of the tech and finance sector levers, and oversight committee's, they will take any small imaginary weakness and f**k you every time you threaten them. So the lesson for Bernie and Corbyn is that they just cannot afford to even allow for small cracks and imagined weaknesses. They have to be utterly beyond reproach and in total command of facts, and never resort to using mere opinions. It is a lot like how Blacks and women in America historically have had to be (and continue to need to be) better than whites resp. men, in classrooms and tests in order to win parity of honour and recognition and job openings.
