Of late, some of us have focused upon word usage; e.g., https://caucus99percent.com/content/liberals-must-not-say-liberal-left-p... (me) and https://caucus99percent.com/content/language-progressive-movement (gjohnsit).
Republicans are good at opposing things, but they absolutely suck at everything else.
That is becoming painfully obvious with the Obamacare repeal.
The news media are often slow on adopting correct terminology for phenomena with which they have insufficient experience.
Case in point:
Male fish are turning into females thanks to chemicals from birth control pills and makeup being flushed down drains, according to a new study.
There is a level of being out-of-touch that is frustrating.
There is a level of being out-of-touch that is infuriating.
And then there is a level of being out-of-touch that is embarrassing.
The Democratic Party has now reached that new low.
The Corporatocracy have perceived a need, the Democratic Party needs to be more centrist and billionaire friendly, apparently they are jealous of Republican billionaires having all the fun in Washington DC these days. Hillary Clinton would be their ideal candidate and like Trump only super wealthy people would be allowed in the administration, poor folks are such losers.
A whole lot of us have been pondering this question. In one way or another, a substantial number of articles here have been devoted to trying to answer this question.
Thom Hartmann weighs in over at Alternet:
Have corporate/billionaire control of our republic reached such a point that it’s no longer reversible? Have we passed the tipping point where democracy dies?
Why did Hillary lose the 2016 election? Misogyny? Jill Stein? Russia?
Or was it that voters in crucial swing states got weary of sending their children off to pointless wars?
A new study says the latter.
