Netroots Nation - Voting Ends at Midnight Tonight - Take a Look.

The following is part of an email I received from BoldProgressives today.

We've got an opportunity to highlight some important issues that the entire progressive community needs to be thinking about at the upcoming Netroots Nation Conference on July 14 - 17 in St. Louis.

For the first time ever, 10 panels that receive the most votes will automatically be part of the conference. Can you help us ensure that these exciting panels that we submitted get approved? Voting ends at midnight tonight -- so don't wait!

The Next Class of "Warren Wing" Candidates: Zephyr Teachout (NY-19), Joseline Peña-Melnyk (MD-4), and Pramila Jayapal (WA-7) are part of the new class of "Elizabeth Warren wing" congressional candidates who are fighting for debt-free college, expanding Social Security benefits, breaking up Too Big To Fail banks, a $15 minimum wage, fair trade, the movement for Black Lives, and other bold progressive issues. Hear their incredible stories, their backgrounds as organizers, what prompted their congressional campaigns, and how the progressive community can support these rising "Warren wing" stars. Vote here!

Making progressive issues presidential: How debt-free college became central to the election: Could debt-free college be to 2016 what healthcare reform was to 2008? This panel will explore the history of student debt activism and discuss how debt-free college became a hugely popular issue in 2016 -- including the critical role PCCC members played in making this a top tier issue. We'll also discuss how to build bridges between lawmakers and the grassroots so that we enter 2017 with a fresh election mandate and an inside-outside legislative strategy to pass debt-free college into law. Vote here!

Your votes will help showcase the work we've done together this year and inspire the progressive community.

This is also an important topic people should learn about:

How the Next President Can Bust Up Big Corporations: Across America, hundreds of once-competitive markets for goods and services are now controlled by a few firms. This feeds economic inequality. Antitrust law is a top power the next president can use. On the campaign trail, candidates have talked about breaking up Too Big To Fail banks and that's the tip of the iceberg. Top experts will lay out a blueprint for the next president to use antitrust law as a game changer in the economic lives of millions. Vote here!

If you don't already have a Netroots account, click here to create an account. It's easy: Just name and email address.

And here is the link to vote for panels.

Click the drop-down arrow to see 100 entries.

The following panel I'm advocating against. A member of the panel advocated for Hillary's "health care insurance plan" and not Bernie's. And when you starting reading an explanation of the panel, I find it highly insulting. It is called "Getting to Zero Percent Uninsured: Small Steps and Large Goals."

And the mission begins:

The ACA has cut the uninsurance rate almost in half, but it's still left a bit more than 10% of the adult population uninsured, and a larger chunk underinsured. Where do we go from here? How can we make quality healthcare affordable to all without busting federal & state budgets?

A larger "chunk" underinsured. So tens of millions of people underinsured are now called "chunks."

And we're "worried" about busting federal and state budgets? No thank you. That republican can go back where they came from.

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detroitmechworks's picture

Every panel feels so... calculated. Just enough to qualify as "Progressive" but not so radical as to scare away the donors.

Sorry, bad day for this. My Disillusionment/cynicism is seriously winning today.

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I do not pretend I know what I do not know.

working on it.

I'd suggest you read my ending... one panel that I'm advocating against.

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detroitmechworks's picture

And agree it's a crappy panel. But overall, my impression still holds. It's milquetoast at best, and actively counter progressive at worst. NN is showing exactly how effective it is by not embracing the change that we are seeing in the electorate...

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jiordan's picture

from my email a few months back. I find them, for the most part, neither bold, nor progressive, just another of those entities designed to make us rabble-rousers feel like we have a home in the party. They talk a good game, of course, but The Warren Wing. Really?

Elizabeth Warren grabs the enthusiasm of the disenfranchised so they latch on to her name to herd us back into line...I'm just so tired of that whole game.

*sigh* I guess my rotten week is still affecting my mood.

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jiordan's picture

came back earlier and it was still pink, so I knew it was unpublished so you could edit.

I agree, the healthcare part is insulting. I don't understand why anyone thinks the classic "no we can't" is the right message for healthcare. Is there anyone who doesn't know how badly our for-profit health system screws everybody except the uber-rich? This whole messing around the edges thing just pisses me off, because I can tell from the wording they aren't really trying to help anyone. They just want to look like they are.

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Don't vote for this panel and here is why.

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that I couldn't publish right away, I had to schedule it for an hour later. That's why I was confused whey there were comments in the diary when I wasn't allowed to publish for an hour, plus I hadn't finished it yet.

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Not only does BoldProgressives turn me off, so does the whole netroots nation gathering.
I am sick of compromises, and will not vote for a lesser of two evils candidate, so more and more, I am disengaging from the Democratic Party that has virtually nothing in it's platform that I think helps form a more perfect union.

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Martha Pearce-Smith's picture

a Markos creation?

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he abandoned it.

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