gjohnsit published a nice essay today about the future of the Democratic Party. Briefly discussed is the #Walkaway movement--is it real? Is it Botwork? Is it overly optimistic propaganda from the Repugnants? Yes. All of the above.
There was once a fun little blog with free range thinking, flinging opinions every which way. One day this big, bad shadow hovered over the commenters and essayists. Thunderous words, judgements and almost hateful replies have occasionally erupted against nonconformist opinions. Those singular minds who shared the joys and fears of their times became worried. It became unreasonable to go against the current flow of ideas, at the risk of shame and humiliation.
Okay. What happens to the news-sated political junkies on Friday when the typical hide-it-in-plain- sight news dump occurs? It stays buried. Unless some intrepid soul digs deep into the slime, er news to find juicy morsels. I prefer my morsels closer to the surface but, hey, you get it where you find it.
John Adams must have shaken his head as he watched delegates to the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention filing into the West Room of the Statehouse on July 15, 1776. Across the hall in the East Room, Adams and his colleagues in the Continental Congress had recently voted to declare the thirteen colonies independence from Great Britain. Now the newly independent states would each have to create new "republican" constitutions. A month before, Adams had worried that the new constitutions would be influenced by a "spirit of leveling, as well as that of innovation." In the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776, perhaps the most radically democratic in the world at the time, Adams worst fears would be realized.
It's important to get outside of your own personal bubble sometimes and see what the other side thinks.
No, not what corporate Democrats think, but what the right-wing thinks.
TheHill: Democrats can kiss swing voters goodbye with progressive ballot
Video and the accompanying article are from RT June 29: ‘Prosecute Blair govt officials at ICC after torture report – ex-diplomat Craig Murray’
July 2 is the 183rd day of the year, there are 182 days left
Tis Pungenday, Confusion 37, 3184 YOLD
It is the middle of the year, with 182 days preceding it and 182 days succeeding it.
Since Washington doesn't do diplomacy anymore, we only have two tools left: a) sanctions, and b) military force.
It appears that sanctions will soon be a tool of the past, which means that our violent foreign policy will become even more violent.
Take for example, Nord Stream 2.
It finally happened. Mexico will have a leftist ruling party for the first time in memory.
