JULY 5TH 2019
I had hoped that the DNC and DCCC would learn from the 2016 catastrophe. Not only have they NOT learned anything, they are now running the same “fear based” message ("We must defeat Donald Trump”) without offering any agenda of meaningful change for the millions of young and working class people who have been left behind in the current economy.
They also seem oblivious to the fact that most voters, particularly young voters, have NO party affiliation because they see both parties in much the same way as Gore Vidal (in his quote below). This video underscores what’s wrong, and why the “old guard” just needs to join the cause (specifically by embracing and promoting the Green New Deal) or get out of the way.
They are already trying to manipulate, confuse and split the “progressive” vote with a flood of primary candidates. They are hoping that neither Sanders or Warren have enough votes on the first ballot of the convention to get the nomination. Then the “Super Delegates” (read “Super butt kissers”) will kick in on the second ballot, nominate Joe Biden and we will lose the election AGAIN to Trump.
Pelosi and Feinstein are the poster women for all that is wrong with the DNC. They both patronize young people, dismiss any new ideas that are not their own. Feinstein actually had the gall to tell a group from the Sunrise Movement that she knew how to do her job and if they disagreed, they should run against her.
The “happy face” version was on CBS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb4ddeF91-I
The full meeting is on "Now This" News, a better outlet to know what’s really going on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EfHOAZg3xc . Notice that all they asked her to do was sign on as a supporter. She won’t even do that, too afraid of alienating her Republican colleagues, who she clearly is more invested in pleasing.
I don’t send either the DNC or DCCC a penny of money. My contributions go to JusticeDemocrats.com, or individual candidates. If a candidate is taking corporate money (like “Mayor Pete”) then he doesn’t need mine.
While the bought off by the Fossil Fuel, Wall Street, and Private Healthcare Republicans are destroying the world, the equally bought off old guard Democrats are quietly cashing in too, instead of fighting for the people they say they represent.
In the meantime, Climate Change is now a Climate Crisis, the middle of the country is inundated with too much water (over half the food that should be growing now is not because the fields are too wet to plant).
Extreme heat now defines the east coast and most of Eurasia (140 F in most of India this last week).
Hondurans who are trying to come here are “climate refugees” because after 4 years of drought, they can’t grow enough food and are being thrown off the land (they don’t own) much like the “Oakies” of the Dust Bowl era here in the 1930’s.
The time is NOW, we don’t have any more time to play with these issues.
Regards, Ed
"There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt—until recently... and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand.
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Gore Vidal was one of the most prominent "public intellectuals" of the 20th century.
