Why is there no real political Left in the United States?

What is necessary for a major democratic-socialist movement to arise here?

Political Movement Is Born Of Personal Fulfillment
31 May 2013
http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/05/political-movement-is-born-of-personal-fulfillment/

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Note added on June 1, 2013:
Out of curiosity, I made a list of my previous articles that explored some aspect of organizing a social-democratic movement in the U.S. Despite the steadily deteriorating social and economic conditions for most people in this country, I doubt an American Spring will occur in my lifetime.

Here is my baker’s dozen of articles on “organization,” from 2004 to 2013:

Political Movement Is Born Of Personal Fulfillment
31 May 2013
http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/05/political-movement-is-born-of-personal-fulfillment/

Can US Socialists Organize? (No)
13 July 2012
https://manuelgarciajr.com/2012/07/13/can-us-socialists-organize-no/

Why Don’t Americans Rise Up?
7 May 2012
http://www.swans.com/library/art18/mgarci47.html

What Next for OWS, Politics?
5 December 2011
http://www.swans.com/library/art17/mgarci34.html

From Social Contract To Occupy Wall Street
7 November 2011
http://www.swans.com/library/art17/mgarci32.html

The People Cry Out Against the New Great Depression,
Three Articles on the Protests Against a Failed Economy:
4 October 2011
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/the-people-cry-out-against-the-new-great-depression/
(sendoff — Occupy Everywhere: Movements & Goals — Creating Jobs by Renewing Glass-Steagall — Reform Wall Street in Four Strokes)

American Decline
21 January 2011
http://www.counterpunch.org/garcia01212011.html

Renew The Social Contract
18 November 2008
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/11/renew-the-social-contract/

Time For A General Strike?
30 September 2008
http://www.counterpunch.org/garcia09302008.html

Homes of the Crash-Test Dummies
25 October 2007
http://www.counterpunch.org/garcia10252007.html

The Roots of Corruption (Election 2006)
9 November 2006
http://www.counterpunch.org/garcia11092006.html

Newtonian America
29 November 2004
http://www.swans.com/library/art10/mgarci26.html

Outline For Revolution
16 August 2004
http://www.swans.com/library/art10/mgarci20.html

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