McResistance leaders scramble to reassure the oligarchs
The McResistance may oppose Donald Trump, but they love that big capitalist donor money.
Maxine Waters made it clear today where her loyalties lie.
"The Democratic Party is not a socialist party," California Rep. Maxine Waters said in an interview with John Harwood at CNBC's Capital Exchange event Wednesday.Asked about left-wing politicians who identify as democratic socialists, including 2016 presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Waters said: "I just don't think our party should be identified because we have a few people who seem to be to the left of the left."
Maxine Waters' problem with Trump appears to be limited to his racism.
W.E.B. DuBois, who had a few opinions about racism as well, considered racism and capitalism to have a partnership.
Another McResistance leader, Elizabeth Warren, also reassured the oligarchs this week.
I am a capitalist. Come on. I believe in markets. What I don't believe in is theft, what I don't believe in is cheating. That's where the difference is. I love what markets can do, I love what functioning economies can do. They are what make us rich, they are what create opportunity.
Yep, the liberals in the Democratic Party have no intention of changing the status quo or endangering the power of the ruling elites.
Or, as a Republican strategist put it: “The Democrats have the endless capacity to select the wrong candidate, to select the wrong message—that’s not praise of Trump, it’s just that the Democrats are horrifically terrible at politics.”
To be fair, the Democrats are handicapped in a way the Republicans aren't.
They must fight both the Republicans AND their own base, on behalf of their corporate masters.
This two front war causes the Democrats problems when it comes to creating a coherent message.
Late last week, as I walked into a hotel basement ballroom where Third Way was convening some of the country’s leading center-left officials in Columbus, Ohio, a strategist in attendance peered up from the Hilton pastries and texted me, wryly: “Welcome to the Wall St Wing of the Democratic Party.”
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Third Way had spent the last two years conducting research and testing messages, and now — emerging from hours of strategy and policy sessions, polling-data slideshows, and Silicon Valley–style discussion about how best to influence the party’s disruptors — they were here to make clear to the insurgent progressive left that the center now intends to stand up and fight back, and that it has Sanders in its sights just as squarely as Donald Trump.
To be fair, they hate progressives just a little bit more than Trump.
The spin has already started.
For instance, the other day fivethirtyeight.com had an article titled: What The Rise Of Kamala Harris Tells Us About The Democratic Party.
Nowhere is this article by a polling group were actual polls mentioned, which would have shown that neoliberal Kamala Harris is getting just a couple percent of the vote.
That's the problem. Public opinion is not lining up with the interests of the ruling elite.
The Democrats have their work cut out.
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Racism, Russia, and Repetition.
About all the Democrats have left.
They try to expand racism to cover quite possibly everything, trying to assure that every single little groups will simply be treated as human if they win...
They continue to scream about a two year ago election as if screaming about it can change the outcome. I'm sorry, after Gore lost weren't we told to sit down and shut the fuck up? Hell that time we had a case.
And repetition, because Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia...
So, hell with it, their popularity? It's summed up by this song.
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I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Next time they go after Maxine Waters,
I volunteer to hold her down while the right wing hits her. #NotADime'sWorthOfDifference
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Her fellow members of the right wing would never
go after her for playing the "socialism" card.
I never agreed with the "not a dime's worth of difference" bit, though. I find most Democrats, both lay and professional to be less forthright than most Republicans about who and what they are, about what they really want and why they really want it (Democrats since Al From and the Clintons brought us the Third Way/New Democrat gospels, anyway)
The Third Way Summit
Clintonism is so yesterday.
A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma
I’ll help. Crazy old woman calls for
chaos and she got it. Now she’s playing the victim. She’s typical of the Clintonite/DNC ‘Left’.
EDIT: Clintomite/Clintonite
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
The Democratic Party is not a soshalizt party
but if you want enough votes to win, you better become one. America doesn't need two Republican parties. Arguably, it doesn't need even one.
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." -- Albert Bartlett
"A species that is hurtling toward extinction has no business promoting slow incremental change." -- Caitlin Johnstone
Republicans think they've got something
rasmussen poll
Rasmussen is a right-wing poll. Republicans think this label still has some power.
Merriam-Webster and Rasmussen are morons then, because that definition doesn't fit with several versions of socialism.
Here's a better definition:
And here:
Well it was going to happen. With AOC sooner than later.
With AOC winning primary, the democratic establishment will have to act sooner than later to smash all this talk about socialism, health care for all, tuition, min. wage, and in particular, a retreat from the war machine.
However, I am not sure this "we are capitalist" declarations by people like Warren or Waters is going to be effective on working classes, or even many in the middle classes who for example were laid off, etc. Capitalism is the system that fck'ed them vs. what? Hey isn't this system of capitalist health care which is robbing them blind for even those who can afford it? It looks to me like "we are capitalists" is a re-affirmation of the system that people see as screwing them over.
Isn't capitalism, tempered by government and private programs
of the kind often called socialist, what Democrats used to brag about and what Democratic Socialists are still about?
How can Waters have co-sponsored Conyers HR 676 repeatedly and nonetheless claim to be purely capitalist? How can Warren, who with Sanders, has been selling Medicare for All as though she invented it, claim to be purely capitalist and all about markets? Then again, if you know that what will likely get passed, if anything, will only be some tinkering with Obamacare and you can blame Republicans for killing Medicare for All.....
My contempt for these people grows and grows. Much as I try, I can't seem to help it.
We should hold them in contempt.
They deserve it.
Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur
My own conscience/standards fight me on that one.
I do not believe that I can articulate why, but it does.
MFA isn't like the real Medicare
DiFi talked about it about 6 months ago and she said that "people have the right to have universal health coverage not universal health care. Even if the democrats did offer actual MFA it still keeps insurance companies in business. What we want is single payer with no more insurance companies deciding whether people get the treatment their doctors order.
Of course people will ask how can we afford it? If there is plenty of money for never ending war then there is money for single payer. And many other things that other countries offer their citizens.
It's okay that democrats are admitting that they are centrists. A lot of the former democratic voters are proudly admitting that they are centrists.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
I don't know if Difi and Sanders are on the same page as to
Medicare for All, but I think Sanders would take anything he could get and hope for the best in the future, ala Dennis Kucinich with Obamacare (remember him?).
If they're woke enough
to see it.
Of which I've seen little evidence. Still...
maybe by 2020. If we're still around.
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Anyone who has researched Warren even if only to the
extent of reading her wiki, knows, among other things, that she is a former Republican who based both her Republican status and her switch to Democrat on which party she at the time thought was better for "financial markets." And that she continued to vote Republican on occasion, after she had theoretically become a Democrat.
As much as she may pretend to have succeeded to the mantle of Ted Kennedy, unlike Ted (but like Hillary), Warren has not gotten a single substantive bill she authored passed into law. Despite his eventual embrace of New Democrats, Ted deserved the title of "Lion of the Senate;" she does not.
The alleged "liberal firebrand" makes speeches for the C-Span cameras and for fans of Democrats who attend Democratic rallies. However, denizens of Wall Street are used to Democratic politicians' having a public position on fat cats that is different from their private position. Bankers, investment bankers and their ilk know to make distinctions between those who rail against them and those who actually get laws passed that help the majority of Americans. Bills that Warren writes, like her speeches, are likely to go over well with Massachusetts voters, but otherwise go nowhere and change nothing.
Macbeth, upon learning of his once ambitious wife's demise, from Shakespeare's MacBeth, Act 5, Scene 5.
OT but hahahahaha Fox News op ed on Empty Suit
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/07/25/jason-riley-barack-obama-has-d...
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.