Democratic Party being Transformed Because of Bernie Sanders
Submitted by Big Al on Sat, 10/21/2017 - 9:35amThis is good news for the United States of America:
This is good news for the United States of America:
Progressives all over the country are mobilized.
They've beaten establishment candidates in Birmingham, Alabama and Jackson, Mississippi, and may soon do the same in Atlanta, Georgia and Albuquerque, New Mexico.
I was reading this Politico article when I realized that this sounded very familiar.
The People's Convergence had their um, convergence, last weekend. A couple reports follow, one from the Green Party, one from the World Socialist website.
(Link to People's Convergence website - http://convergence2017.org/)
I missed this until it came up on my Facebook feed:
Fork In The National Road: A New Progressive Supermajority Party Is Forming
The lawsuit against the DNC has been dismissed. The court didn't rule on any of the substantive grounds, simply decreeing that the plaintiffs lacked standing. If you want to join the rabble-rousers, visit Tim Black's Facebook page.
Two high risk strategies
1] The Russia!! Gamble
I've said all I am going to say about that one
One definition of a politician is someone who sees which way the wind is blowing and goes in that direction. OTOH, it is possible to sail against the wind. Methods for doing this are called tacking or beating. However, even these methods one cannot sail directly into the wind. (BTW, the whole essay is one big nautical analogy. You have been warned.)
The mouthpiece of the Democratic Party establishment, the Washington Post, is back to slandering "Bernie Bros".
CNN's Jeff Zeleny had some choice words for the current state of the Democratic Party.