@thanatokephaloides Anarchy! Anarchy!

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What would you like to see on this new manifesto?

"Today, we reject, refute, rebuke, and eschew the entirety of the politics set forth by the likes of "New Democrats", "Third Way", "The Democratic Leadership Council", etc. As part of this realignment to the domestic policies of the great 20th Century Democratic Presidents Roosevelt, Kennedy, and Johnson, we are expelling every and all members of the Party's leadership who represent the so-called "New Democrats" from all positions of power within the Party, and recommending to all the same that they return to the Republican Party whence they came like the Nixonians that they are."

"The Party hereby states, deposes, and declares its commitment to a full restoration of stable, decent employment opportunities for all and every high school graduate in this country. We openly support strong, ubiquitous unions and union representation for every American worker. We demand immediate repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act while leaving the National Labor Relations Act in place."

"We demand that all levels of education in the Nation be free and available as the inherent right of every one in the Nation, as it is in all other civilized lands. The current system of student loan peonage must be abolished immediately."

"We categorically reject all identity politics schemes of whatsoever sort or kind as inherently divisive and counter-productive to the good of Nation and our Party alike, and instead demand full civil, political, and economic equality and justice for everyone in the Nation. We demand that any entity, group, corporation, or WEBSITE which has ever advocated divisive identity politics schemes as the nature of the Party to cease and desist all claim to membership in, alignment to, or friendship with the Party, forthwith, immediately, and publicly."

"We demand the immediate and permanent change in the foreign policy of the United States of America to a minimum-interventionist basis. We demand that our Nation's policy be changed so that by word and action alike, we are and remain out of the regime change business, leaving that to the Peoples of the Nations involved only."

"We demand a reduction in the size, scope, and COST of our military to reflect its new role in defending this nation and its reliable voluntary allies alone. We demand removal of our forces from everywhere the common People of those places do not want us, such as but not limited to Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, the Phillipines, Cuba, etc. In addition, we demand cessation of all military alliances with nations which do not share our commitments to our national publicly held values, such as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, etc. We demand that we close our exorbitantly expensive network of military bases around the Planet."

"We demand restoration of full, complete, and harmonious diplomatic and trade relations with the Republic of Cuba at once, without preconditions. We demand immediate repeal of the unconstitutional Helms-Burton Act."

We demand the establishment of the same kind of National Health Service as exists in all other civilized nations, and the establishment of health care as a right. We demand the abolition of the current fee-for-service and health insurance systems."

"We demand an immediate, World War II-level effort to move the entirety of our Nation's energy system from fossil fuels and nuclear fission power to strictly non-polluting and renewable sources. In addition, we demand a minimum fifty trillion dollar program of reconstruction of all critical infrastructure in the Nation to include restorations of damaged natural environments such as forest burn scars. These will restore a badly needed state of affairs in this country, and one necessary for the restoration of equality of economic opportunity: a nationwide labor shortage in all skill categories, i.e., less than zero "U6" unemployment nationwide."

..... How's that for a start?

Don't hold your breath waiting to see it, though. Today's not-so-democratic "Democrats" would read my ideas and commence screaming "Anarchist! Communist! Terrorist!"

(well, two out of three isn't bad. I'm not a terrorist, but as for the others, click the link!)

@Ellen North
This writer has a great sense of humor.
He starts off with saying that the democrat's commitment to neoliberal economics, their addictions to wars and their hostility toward the working class which used to vote for them. He then talks about Osfoff's campaign and

Democrats in the Dead Zone

The latest political zombie offered up as a vessel to freight the electoral asperations of the Democrats was a pious former congressional staffer called Jon Ossoff, whose name sounds like one of those creepy Svengali-like characters from a Tod Browning horror film of the 1930s. But the candidate wasn’t as scary as all that. In fact, Ossoff scared no one, which was both his campaign theme and his problem. One of his problems, anyway. Ossoff presented himself as an anodyne candidate, a nowhere man, a quiescent emissary for a return to civility in politics. He was the white Rodney King, who plaintively asked why we couldn’t all just get along. Of course, who really wants civility in politics, when you’re working two jobs, can’t pay the power bill, have a kid with asthma and just had your Ford Focus repossessed.

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He pledged his loyalty to Israel, decried nasty dictators from Putin to Assad and vowed to eradicate the scourge of Islamic terrorism from the face of the earth

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You need to read this whole article. I will leave you with this quote

But these are precisely the kinds of districts that the Clinton Democrats (who have yet to melt into a steaming pile of ectoplasm like most vanquished zombies) see as fertile terrain.

#1

Too bad that the corporate Dems regard such things as Party platforms and Constitutions as non-binding pieces of paper. Pushing them to lie in pretending that they might potentially consider not draining the American people and country to enrich the pathologically greedy few quite as rapidly as they have been doesn't cut it.

A psychopath cannot change his/Her spots, although they certainly all should lose their spots in policy-making in a major change. At the least.

@snoopydawg

Repubs want 'heart', Dems want 'brains' - so both wings of the corporate Party mindlessly continue to rip whatever they/their funders want out of voters - who want 'courage'.

#3
Schumer: new Democratic 'agenda' will 'resonate with the middle class'

Within a month, the Democratic party will present a “strong, bold, sharp-edged and common-sense economic agenda” to underpin its efforts against Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer said on Sunday.

Trump wants 'heart' as Republicans seek to deliver Senate healthcare bill

“Here’s the No1 lesson from Georgia 6,” the New York senator said on ABC’s This Week, referring to the sixth congressional district in which Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff this week lost the most expensive special election in history.

Oh good lord! He's going to talk to Bernie and Manchin.

Anyone remember how often he votes with the republicans? Yeah chuckles, working with Manchin is a great idea.

Schumer said: “I’m talking to Bernie Sanders, I’m talking to [moderate West Virginia senator] Joe Manchin. This is going to be really something that Democrats can be proud of and I’m excited about it.”

@lotlizard Yeah, that boxcar ultimately led to Stalingrad, and worse.

Couldn't they have left him in Switzerland? Maybe gotten him interested in fishing, or card games or something?

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out of exile back to Russia in a sealed railway car.

It worked — in the short term. “Lenin” (Trump) led a “revolution” that took “Russia” (the normal, run-of-the-mill Republican candidates and party hacks) out of the “war.”

Ultimately, of course, in both cases the clever little ploy backfired — big-time.