@movie buff

Then the look on the white guys face -- "Wait. What did she just say?". hahahhaha

When she was running for DNC chair, Sally Boynton Brown said her job was to train people on--and I quote--"how to shut their mouths if they are white."

Although I notice that Ms. Boynton, who is white, hasn't volunteered to shut her own mouth, or refused donations from wealthy white liberals (money being speech, after all.) It's just those other white people she thinks should shut their mouths. You know, the ones who aren't writing her checks.

@movie buff
reason kos has decided the only good white voter is a dead white voter. "The party is moving browner, and we must find ways to make brown people feel welcomed under the big Dem tent. You white people just need to keep your mouths shut. You're just in the way."

When she was running for DNC chair, Sally Boynton Brown said her job was to train people on--and I quote--"how to shut their mouths if they are white."

Although I notice that Ms. Boynton, who is white, hasn't volunteered to shut her own mouth, or refused donations from wealthy white liberals (money being speech, after all.) It's just those other white people she thinks should shut their mouths. You know, the ones who aren't writing her checks.

@MrJayTee

Destroy. This. Party.

[video:https://youtu.be/-NzFJxX8yoY width:500 height:350]

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@UntimelyRippd To their thinking the only thing that matters is to keep the money rolling in so they can use it to bamboozle the electorate. What the Dems say during the campaign is just marketing hype as far as they're concerned. They truly believe that and so do the GOP politicians.

in the past, dems have attempted to win a certain bloc of voters by promising to do things that will improve the lives of those voters.

however, when elected democrats have generally failed to address the problems those voters face: unaffordable education and healthcare, disappearing jobs, etc.

the same voters have noticed this reality, and have concluded that it doesn't actually matter whether they vote, because even when the person they vote for wins, the voters find themselves shafted.

therefore, rather than addressing the voters' concerns, the democratic party should stop even pretending to have respect or interest for the voters' material interests, and should instead just use emotion-based propaganda to turn out their illusory "base".

have i got that right?

i mean ... wouldn't it be easier to just, you know -- address the voters concerns and problems when you have power? wouldn't they probably vote for you again, if you were to do that?

@UntimelyRippd
Around 1995, I asked a Democratic state representative why Democrats don't deal with the problems of employees who are being cheated by their employers, as well as related issues. He gave me a dismissive response (I remember this clearly): Dems would, "Win every time!" It was just like the response children get when they ask their parents (as all children do ask), "Why don't we get rich if it's so fucking important?"

I still don't understand that simpering response. The best and most successful political idea ever conceived in this country was the New Deal, which focused on the eternal battle between employers and employees. Modern liberals seem to think they are too sophisticated to do something as crude as helping the cheated with the most basic necessity of living in a moneyocracy -- i.e., money.

in the past, dems have attempted to win a certain bloc of voters by promising to do things that will improve the lives of those voters.

however, when elected democrats have generally failed to address the problems those voters face: unaffordable education and healthcare, disappearing jobs, etc.

the same voters have noticed this reality, and have concluded that it doesn't actually matter whether they vote, because even when the person they vote for wins, the voters find themselves shafted.

therefore, rather than addressing the voters' concerns, the democratic party should stop even pretending to have respect or interest for the voters' material interests, and should instead just use emotion-based propaganda to turn out their illusory "base".

have i got that right?

i mean ... wouldn't it be easier to just, you know -- address the voters concerns and problems when you have power? wouldn't they probably vote for you again, if you were to do that?

@artisan

are trying to "unify" a Democratic Party that is in many ways, structurally and financially beholden to the interests of the one percent -- albeit perhaps the more socially liberal elements of it. Hillary Clinton's campaign provided ample and unappologetic evidence of this linkage. The interests of big pharma, Wall Street, corporate globalists and the like, clearly do not often coincide with the interests of a potentially re-invigorated Democratic base. I think that's the main problem the Party's organizers are facing, but seem unwilling to recognize.

If Bernie Sanders' vision of the Party is fundamentally incompatible with say, Clinton's and Schumer's and Pelosi's vision, then trying to cobble the two contradictory messages together into a single narrative is going to be difficult, or impossible. At the moment, the only cohesive narrative the Dems have, is a negative one -- the fact that nearly everyone to the left of Hitler is opposed to Trump. How effective this negative factor will be in terms of getting Dems elected, remains to be seen.

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@orlbucfan The Florida Democratic party has been either corrupt or a joke for decades. They still do not care about what the voters want or need. This latest iteration is not only a joke but is also very arrogant toward people of color and toward poor people. They really do NOT care.

This is exactly why I have come to despise the Democratic party. They are hypocrisy in action.

That Brown person is tied in with DWS. What exactly is identity politics? Something stupid like a cult of personality? The Floridumb DP has been a disaster for decades. Sad but very true. How do you think actual indicted crooks like Scott get elected and reelected? I keep hoping that citizens like me will make a difference. I'm a natural optimist, but I have my doubts now. Rec'd!!

@orlbucfan is anothers single issue, special interest voter

That Brown person is tied in with DWS. What exactly is identity politics? Something stupid like a cult of personality? The Floridumb DP has been a disaster for decades. Sad but very true. How do you think actual indicted crooks like Scott get elected and reelected? I keep hoping that citizens like me will make a difference. I'm a natural optimist, but I have my doubts now. Rec'd!!

@The Aspie Corner
They're fucking retards !!! Just ask Rahm.

That's why the Democratic Party currently doesn't give a flying fuck about the issues. If FDR and Harry Truman were alive today I doubt they'd survive a primary.

@MsGrin inspiring interview. For your convenience (and anybody else), I have obtained a transcript of her Jimmy Dore show appearance:

https://caucus99percent.com/comment/266545#comment-266545

Heard her in Dec & was unimpressed.

@LoneStarMike You ain't seen "emotions," lady.

Florida Democratic Party President: Poor people don’t care about “issues” and vote based on “emotions”

Excerpt:

I’d never count on principle when it comes to fundraising from the FDP, so the FPL comment while disturbing isn’t surprising. After all this past session, Speaker Richard Corcoran was needed to kill an FPL driven measure to charge Floridians for fracking out of state – the proposal had the backing of several leaders in Senate Democratic Caucus. The new party President (essentially the Executive Director) seems to have already been brought up to speed about the importance FPL alignment for many Democrats in the legislature as well as 2016 US Senate nominee Patrick Murphy.

But the continued maligning of poor voters (presumably poor white voters) as “emotional beings,” and that do not vote based on “issues,” is more of the same condescending and elitist talk from the Democrats. When I was growing up you could count on Republicans to say such insulting and patronizing things, while the Democrats would be the ones to stand tall for working people But not anymore.

The Democrats elitism and obsession with identity could kill the party’s chances for revival

Excerpt:

Florida Democratic Party President Sally Boynton Brown’s now infamous remarks on Thursday in Broward County that were first reported by the Miami New Times continued a pattern of Democratic leaders demonstrating contempt, elitism and a malicious anger toward white working class voters. For many in the party, working class white voters deserve their fate because they supported Donald Trump for President. For some like Boynton Brown, beating up on white voters is a passage to advancement in the Democratic Party’s echo chamber

What was thought to be a potential period of soul-searching after the 2016 election instead turned into a period where corporatist Democrats who have turned the party’s agenda and organizing mechanisms into an obsession with demographics, an acceptance of corporate influence and a rejection of progressive economic policies doubled-down to maintain control of the party. Part of the way they maintain control and win internal battles is to play the identity card and to malign white voters.

@eyo
prepared to have regret saying."

As in "comfortable shoes'?

The millionaires, they know not what they do, I hope. Because the alternative is unthinkable to me, they are the clinical depression creators. Whacked.

Of course CA has all the best words, it took a while but they finally came around to uttering them. Meet the next governor: Bernie Sanders backers say Democrats are ‘in absolute crisis and denial’

Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, the frontrunner to replace Brown in next year’s race, has long positioned himself to capture the wave. Before scooping ice cream for delegates and helping host a concert with Common and DJ Jazzy Jeff, Newsom previewed a combination of new policy proposals and recycled approaches from his time as San Francisco mayor.

Newsom wants to push for free community college and an expansion of early childhood education coupled with college-savings accounts.

He wants full-service community schools that would stay open every day and a health care system that would cover everyone.
,,,

Because millionaires know best of course. Or this guy:

Yet amid the calls for a new direction are signs of deepening dissent over who can claim the mantle. Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, another Democratic gubernatorial candidate, referred to his long record in office and criticized the use of platitudes.

“There are some who have never been in the trenches, in the fight for social and economic justice,” Villaraigosa, a former Assembly speaker who once pushed to expand Medi-Cal for poor children and give uninsured children health coverage.

“These ‘Davos Democrats’ fly over the homes of Californians left behind – have never been in their living rooms,” he said, referencing an economic meeting of world politicians, business leaders and celebrities in the Swiss Alps to paint them as out of touch.
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But he is not one of those Davos Democrats right? Just another multi-millionaire who wants to do "good". Well go on then.

"Trust me once they've work-shopped from this speaking matrix, there's no telling what she'll they'll be incredibly prepared to have regret saying.

Thanks to all people fighting the good fight against the killer duopoly. It is a sickness in our society. "That's the system."

peace