labour in the UK probably won't see power for 10-15 years, similarly the Democratic Party is dead in the water. Thank God conservatism is going to be at the forefront of my adulthood for the remainder of my life. Am happy.
labour in the UK probably won't see power for 10-15 years, similarly the Democratic Party is dead in the water. Thank God conservatism is going to be at the forefront of my adulthood for the remainder of my life. Am happy.
Clinton was in favor of TPP and NAFTA, and the Iraq war.
Unforgiveable, each on its own.
The only way the democratic party will be anything but a weak ass side to the GOP will be if they go back to policies ala FDR, and excise the entire clinton wing of the party. I mean excise, as in throw them all out, all of the lobbyists, all of the corporate interests. They all need to go as a prerequisite of talking about unity.
I don't really understand the people that think Perez is insufficiently left-wing. If Perez is insufficiently left-wing for your tastes, it says a lot more about your tastes than it does about Perez. By any reasonable reckoning, his bona fides on things like labor, poverty, and race are about as strongly left leaning as anyone.
And she came out against all three, but that doesn't count because she didn't really mean it, right?
You mean massive spending on white citizens to the purposeful exclusion of non-whites, and using the national security apparatus to target a particular minority group under the rubric that they represent a collective threat to the continued existence of the United States?The only way the democratic party will be anything but a weak ass side to the GOP will be if they go back to policies ala FDR
I have bad news for you, because there was a candidate like that who ran in 2016....
America is way too far right for an actual left party to do anything. Just look at how they treat centrist third way democrats like Obama and Clinton. The right won't even compromise with the middle ground. The middle ground is supposed to be where compromises happen ffs.
No way an actual left candidate is going to win a national election. They can win regional elections like in CA, NY, or MA, but they aren't going to win on a national stage.
Our country is just way crazy right wing to support someone like Bernie.
Yeah. The candidate who campaigned on tackling the greatest causes of income inequality - gender pay equity, lack of parental leave and child care, and college debt - never said anything about income inequality. If only she was from the more liberal wing of the Democratic Party, like (former Clinton aid and campaign manager) Bill de Blasio or (former Clinton Labor Secretary and friend from their college days) Robert Reich.
Here it comes... the "Nixon was a liberal" canard.If you go back to the early 70s, Nixon, who was a republican and theoretically conservative...
Here's the two things you need to know about Nixon and domestic policy. The first is that Nixon didn't care about domestic policy. The second is that liberal Democrats and liberal Republicans held a filibuster proof majority in the Senate. That's how the EPA got passed. That's how EITC got passed (under Ford, not Nixon). That's how the minimum wage was increased. That health plan that Nixon proposed? Not to the liking of the liberal majority, so it failed.proposed a national health plan and negative taxes for poor people, and also raised the minimum wage significantly. He would be considered a fairly far left democrat right now if he supported those policies today.
I mean the economic populism of FDR, not the other stuff.
But yes, that she came out against all of them means nothing. You support any of these at any point, career over, game over, don't try to go into politics again.
Nobody who supported any of these can be allowed into office anymore.
You mean his goal of allowing large industries to write their own rules a la the National Industrial Recovery Act, or his compromise with the base to sign the Wagner Act once NIRA was found to be unconstitutional (and likely wouldn't have been reauthorized anyway)?
And the "other stuff" was part and parcel of FDR's politics. You can no sooner divorce his unwillingness to buck the bigots in his own party from his "populism" as you could divorce Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs from his rationale for turning Vietnam into a charnel house.
"The only way for the Democrats to win a commanding majority of the electorate is to disqualify a majority of the electorate from running for office as a Democrat."But yes, that she came out against all of them means nothing. You support any of these at any point, career over, game over, don't try to go into politics again.
Nobody who supported any of these can be allowed into office anymore.
They are mutually reinforcing, owing to the fact that the gap is most persistent among low-income workers and there are far more low-income fields that have a selection bias toward female employees (which is also driven by the lack of affordable child care and universal parental leave).
"She didn't mean it."Hillary only came out with her college plan because she was losing ground to Bernie's (far more liberal) plan. It was like a 19 point plan that would somehow make colleges affordable but cost the government almost nothing. It was absurd but mostly designed to say, "See! We have a plan too!" in order to muddy the waters in debates with Sanders.
Instead of regurgitating the bullshit you've been fed, why don't you explain how Perez is the bad choice? He's basically the same as Ellison.
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Most people either support TPP or have no idea what it is.
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This is an ignorant screed of lies.
Hillary had the most left-wing platform ever of any major party in US political history.
Given the policies on tightening Wall Street regulation, taxing the rich, and debt-free public college, your claim that there wasn't a focus on economic inequality is also a lie.
Blather on transgender bathrooms? Nope, the only people obsessed with transgender bathrooms are the GOP and Trump, obsessed with taking them away.
He seems like a more moderate Democrat than some of the candidates they had. If they are going to have much of a chance in 2020, they need to get off the radical left agenda. Time will tell how successful he will be.
I dunno, Skroe. I think if Clinton had picked Sanders for VP, she could have concentrated on turning out votes in Democratic strongholds, while Sanders went barnstorming through the Rust Belt and Midwest. His message of "workers first" would I think have a certain appeal there. He's shown an ability and willingness to speak to people with whom he has significant differences. I mean, for God's sake, he gave a speech at Liberty University.
A Democratic Socialist, who supports full abortion rights went to the beating heart of far right religious lunacy. That's some stones right there.
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