Keith Ellison is a member of the DNC Platform Drafting Committee. He is one of Bernie's picks. So it may not be a surprise that he is showing interest in what real people have to say.
I posted information on his request on another blog for which I am a guest author (OK, a regular guest author). Here is the link:
Desert Rose wrote a wonderful first essay here: http://caucus99percent.com/content/first-essay-here-leaving-dem-party
She brought forth a great idea. That we all leave the Dem Party on the same day. I'm all for it. I think we need to make it a big event. First off, we need to choose the day and then we need to decide what to call it and publicize the event.
Okay, I have been thinking about this idea for the past few weeks- it is not a knee jerk or emotional reaction to last night results.
Thursday June 8, 1916
From the International Socialist Review: Magón Brothers Jailed
Elections in our system are a very clever distraction from the "man behind the curtain" (actually a bad meme because it implies individual human acts replace systems forces). This has been demonstrated once more. Even Bernie was forced to play their game. He appears to have lost but illusions like that are based on lack of understanding.
Yuppers.
Sorry for the white privilege misogynist triggering crap. (Hey, Chauncey and the donkey you rode in on!) It's how I feel. So sorry that is not allowed any more . But up till now when she speaks/yells all i hear is my wife (who I love more than life itself) yelling at me for f'g something, and that's after 36 years of marriage. Yeah gets my vote.
I see that Bernie is meeting with Obama and that he is being pressured by the Dem Big Wigs to drop out. How about replacing DWS with Bernie? I would take that as a better indication of political reform than any meaningless platform planks.
Frankly, I don't expect any genuine systemic reform from the Big Wigs and have already registered Green.
God Bless the Grass
Words and music by Malvina Reynolds; copyright 1964 Schroder Music Company, renewed 1992.
She wrote it after reading Mark Lane’s comments about the John F. Kennedy assassination.
God bless the grass that grows thru the crack.
They roll the concrete over it to try and keep it back.
The concrete gets tired of what it has to do,
It breaks and it buckles and the grass grows thru,
And God bless the grass.
If not today, then when? If not us, then who?
