Whose Fight?

One year after millions marched across the United States and internationally to oppose the new Trump administration and its fascistic policies, the Democratic Party organized, in the name of the second Women’s March, demonstrations designed to divert mass opposition to Trump behind the election of its own right-wing candidates in the 2018 midterm elections.

Compared to last year’s march, which to some extent reflected broader anti-Trump sentiment and opposition to his right-wing agenda of war and xenophobia, this year’s marches were focused almost exclusively on electoral politics and the #MeToo campaign, which is using allegations of sexual misconduct to attack democratic rights. “Me Too” and the related “Time’s Up” slogan dominated signs and speeches.

All the major issues confronting the working class—attacks on immigrant rights, the threat of nuclear war, layoffs and stagnating wages, police violence—were either downplayed or ignored entirely. The democratic issues highlighted, including the right to an abortion and the rights of LGBT Americans, were separated as much as possible from the broader attacks on democratic rights, aided and abetted by the Democrats as much as the Republicans. Every effort was made to portray the Democratic Party as an ally in the fight for these rights--WSWS


As I attempted to argue in my previous post re: the Women's March.


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