is advising Corbyn these days. I can't remember where I read it but i'll look around and link to it. There is democratic global push back to the 'oligarchical collectivists'. Populism does sometimes manifest itself in fascistic nationalism but in the case of for instance the rise of Ukip did not stick. Instead Labour's left had a resurgence and rejected the centrist corporate Blairties. A big internecine political brouhaha ensued within the Labour party and the Labour voters themselves. I agree with Yanis. There is also the fact that despite scary predictions about Greece the RW Golden Dawn lost to Syriza. Then of course Greece and Syriza got hammered by the EU austerity Goldman Sachs rulers of the world. The global corporate owned media calls Bernie, Syriza, Corbyn, any populist movement anywhere that gains traction with people 'radical', dangerous, idealistic, rotten Dr, commie rat's, who will end Axelrod's inevitable 'world as we find it'. Ironic that Milband disastrous campaign hired Axelrod and nobody bothered to vote Labour. Real democracy, equality and all that jazz really is an idea whose time has come.

Waving the latest scariest fascistic boogieman or woman in every bodies face may scare the comfortable people into voting for the designated oligarchical candidate but these rat bastards have gone too far and have no intention of backing off. Fear of the RW is hard to maintain when they tell you that kissing Kissinger or wearing Goldman Sachs Golden Handcuffs is your only choice and if you don't we'll all go over massive cliffs of fiscal destruction and that 'terrist's are gonna kill yer family'. I mean come on we've been hearing this insanity for decades and voting just gets you the same damn RW governance austerity and endless bloody war with a fake friendly progressive face. Hillary doesn't even bother with the friendly face. Bernie may lose then again he may win as this is not like other elections but if he loses it just shows people how rigged and owned our electoral system, our entire system, is.

Thanks for the video. Go Bernie and go people everywhere. Humanism is an enduring idea that is always timely. Enough is Enough!

but even here, although the voting rate was higher than the national rate in 2014, the turnout was about ten percent lower than usual. How much it would increase turnout isn't clear, depending on the states/regions, but it certainly is easier than going to a voting booth.

Time to dust off the history books

The old Whig party had become much degenerated from its original purity and tone; and, at the first clang of the bugle of the pretentious disorganizer, the mass of its adherents broke the ranks for new banners. —Robert McKinley Ormsby, "A History Of The Whig Party," 1860.

CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE—The Republican Party was born of panic. It was a child of the regular economic panics that afflicted the American economy. It was a child of the blind panic produced by the general perception that the country was reeling toward destruction. It was a child of the panic afflicting the Whigs, who had been for decades the other party in a two-party system, but which disintegrated almost overnight in the aftermath of the presidential election of 1852, left in smithereens by the acceleration with which the country was hurtling toward disunion. The Republican Party was born of panic, and the Whig Party died of panic. And, somewhere in what admittedly must be a very boring corner of Valhalla, the old Whigs must be chortling at the panic now afflicting the Republican Party, which has fallen for the most pretentious disorganizer of them all. What goes around comes around, even if it takes 156 years to do so. Somebody pour old Zach Taylor another flagon of mead.
On Tuesday night, Donald J. Trump is odds-on to win at least seven of the 11 contested Republican presidential primaries. If he does so, he is better than odds-on to be the Republican presidential nominee. The facts are as stark as the slopes of Lookout Mountain in the early morning light. It is a consummation devoutly to be wished, especially by those of us who see the Republicans as having been cruising for this particular bruising ever since it so greedily ate the monkeybrains in the 1980s. But, from the people who make their living at being Republicans, we are seeing the kind of existential panic that you only see once or twice in a century. It's Watership Down, with Super PACs and Mitch McConnell.

From local republicans. While it is an unpopular thing among most Democrats I like to talk to republicans. For a very long time now I have noticed everyone of them agrees with my opinion on what's wrong with the country lately though I have noticed a shift as have started to agree on the root cause. It isn't going to be long until we agree on how to solve it. Interesting times anyone?

I just don't see any future in our 2 party system. The Dem and GOP establishments are so corrupt from the oligarchs money that changing them would be next to impossible. What choices do we have? We truly vote out of fear and have been for decades. I don't think we have the time to wait a generation or two to get rid of these corrupt bastards.

I am not a US citizen - I just live here. My politics began with the Values party in New Zealand which challenged an entrenched two party system very similar to what we have now in the US, except things here are far more unstable than things then. The fact is the Values party never won a single elected office, but it changed everything. It used the danger of a party split to force the Labor Party to adopt a number of sensible positions. It was extremely grassroots - I was a student at the time, and a branch coordinator (a pretty meaningless position, actually, and I was very clueless, but I got a ring side seat). What we did was publish a manifesto - a printed booklet of who we were, and a number of policy positions we wanted to have happen. They were neither left nor right, just sensible. Today they would include things like improved gun regulations, improved police regulations, improved carbon emission controls, reducing military expenditures, acting on regulations on finance industry etc etc. What happened was every single position became law because the party took the position they did not care about gaining power, they cared about getting these policies in place. And if that meant they must get in power, so be it. And they showed up with candidates pushing this very publicly available agenda, and the public liked the agenda. So the existing parties stole their thunder by enacting all of it, bit by bit.

I love Bernie as I see him working a variation on this lever on power. He has an agenda. He does not need to get elected, but if that is what it takes so be it. His positions are very sensible, well laid out, and obviously popular. And the kicker is he is working outside the corruption. He has already cracked the system, all that is needed is to keep funding what he has started, keep funding candidates that will push these popular and desperately needed policies. The corporations created ALEC to write laws for the corporate benefit. There is no reason a grass roots group cannot do the same thing.

The party affiliation is less important than the position papers and the funding to anyone who will push them. The real issue is the funding. Candidates need to eat, staff are needed to research and write good laws. Supposedly that is what we pay Congress for, but the corruption of the Kochs and ALEC etc has killed it. Public confidence has tanked. And that is where Bernie has demonstrated how to fix this thing. The more the public learns about Bernie the more they like him.

I also think Hillary could be moved by a group like this. She is already trying to take over Bernies agenda. Good! But what she lacks is public trust. She is not actually the leader. Bernie and these positions are the leader, even if he never gets into a position of power, simply because they address the issues of the people and they are popular.

And best of all this stuff does not pause for elections. Yes, elections matter. But the machinery can be pressuring anyone in power all the damn time. It is how the Tea Party has created Ted Cruz et al. And Trump is really just a right wing Bernie - someone who is working outside the corruption of Congress.

I am not sure building up the Green Party would do much good. It is not so much about putting people in power and then having them legislate as writing the legislation and then funding anyone who happens to be in power and who will present it. And making sure the public is aware of these recommended bits of legislation.

I could see Elizabeth Warren in a starring role here. She is right where she needs to be, right now. She doesn't need to be president. She needs to be presenting kick ass legislation.

We'll have a 4 year window to recon & seize the high ground early.

The DNC doesn't pay that much attention at the lower levels - we could seize the party apparatus before they realize what we are up to. That is how the crazies took over the Republican parties from the country club republicans - they did the scut work and showed up to every single meeting.

Has succeeded in putting down the largest two oil ports at Longview. The port commission withdrew from negotiations with the two oil companies possibly because the pitchforks from the 3000+ community members that came out against it were looking mighty sharp.

Grays Harbor will fall too. Suprisingly enough another of our dark red counties has managed to rise up to protect their environment. Considering they are one of the timber towns with a 13.5% unemployment rate it is amazing. Now the fight over Vancouver it has been brutal but I suspect that old fossil running things is the problem. Eric Le Brand elected with 65% of the vote is a Bernie guy. He was elected because he opposed the oil terminal.