First time here, Rxan, and the initial thing I always do is find out more about people's credentials. What is your background as an 'investigative journalist,' please? (Critical Thinking 101.) I just can't find it, but then I avoid social media.
Thank you for letting us comment. You make a lot of good points, many which have been made already by others, about the "Big Tent" party. The fact that everyone who is trying to flee overfed and abusive capitalism is forced to go to the one *other* party, is a problem. We eventually must have more parties -- parties that can serve as transactional buffers and instruments of nudging the mainstream into positive change. Like the rest of the developed world?
I do believe that there's a generational shift happening that is trying to find its way. Problem is, every damn time we try a label on, it's immediately demonized by the right's machine (Thanks, Rup, you bastard).
The young look at Europe and mistake "democratic socialism" for "socialism." The former is simply capitalism with a lot of popular input and extremely strong guardrails. That's how it should be, and we can design a political system tailored to *our* needs, as opposed to small EU nations.
Capitalism has been a horse out of the corral for a very long time. Some of our countermanding system has performed to saddle it; much has neglected the duty of harnessing capitalism or even exulted in and benefited from the wildness. That's destructive as hell. It just takes longer. In the event it's reparable, it usually takes extreme measures, as in FDR's personal income tax on the wealthy. The ricochet is harsh and enemies are made.
You are 100% correct in that Dems need branding. The problem is, it always gets pulled toward the Center, and that is somewhat stagnant at this point. And "socialism" is too scary to use in almost all campaigns. It's used carelessly to express a legitimate need that can't be ignored any longer.
We must solve this, and the DNC and DCCC don't help. Where is the damn "autopsy"? Where is our discussion of our problems? It must be center stage and look like solutions or else it weakens us profoundly. We can't let the right continue to demonize us. It's poison on a weakened media.
Your continued discussion of the "where do we go from here?" thing is welcomed. One cautionary: please do not cite the Manhattan Institute, led by Betsy DeVos, and birthed by a former head of our CIA? That is a thinktank that has its own agenda.
Thank you for the time you took to talk about this problem!
DJT is a bomb-throwing self-aggrandizing idiot. Until the chaos threatens folks making $150,000.00 a year, they will continue to support dear leader. PERIOD!!! The Civil Rights Movement had a great strategy that worked. Lawyers, judges, and politicians buried whatever the Civil Rights movement accomplished. Make it make sense!!!
First time here, Rxan, and the initial thing I always do is find out more about people's credentials. What is your background as an 'investigative journalist,' please? (Critical Thinking 101.) I just can't find it, but then I avoid social media.
Thank you for letting us comment. You make a lot of good points, many which have been made already by others, about the "Big Tent" party. The fact that everyone who is trying to flee overfed and abusive capitalism is forced to go to the one *other* party, is a problem. We eventually must have more parties -- parties that can serve as transactional buffers and instruments of nudging the mainstream into positive change. Like the rest of the developed world?
I do believe that there's a generational shift happening that is trying to find its way. Problem is, every damn time we try a label on, it's immediately demonized by the right's machine (Thanks, Rup, you bastard).
The young look at Europe and mistake "democratic socialism" for "socialism." The former is simply capitalism with a lot of popular input and extremely strong guardrails. That's how it should be, and we can design a political system tailored to *our* needs, as opposed to small EU nations.
Capitalism has been a horse out of the corral for a very long time. Some of our countermanding system has performed to saddle it; much has neglected the duty of harnessing capitalism or even exulted in and benefited from the wildness. That's destructive as hell. It just takes longer. In the event it's reparable, it usually takes extreme measures, as in FDR's personal income tax on the wealthy. The ricochet is harsh and enemies are made.
You are 100% correct in that Dems need branding. The problem is, it always gets pulled toward the Center, and that is somewhat stagnant at this point. And "socialism" is too scary to use in almost all campaigns. It's used carelessly to express a legitimate need that can't be ignored any longer.
We must solve this, and the DNC and DCCC don't help. Where is the damn "autopsy"? Where is our discussion of our problems? It must be center stage and look like solutions or else it weakens us profoundly. We can't let the right continue to demonize us. It's poison on a weakened media.
Your continued discussion of the "where do we go from here?" thing is welcomed. One cautionary: please do not cite the Manhattan Institute, led by Betsy DeVos, and birthed by a former head of our CIA? That is a thinktank that has its own agenda.
Thank you for the time you took to talk about this problem!
DJT is a bomb-throwing self-aggrandizing idiot. Until the chaos threatens folks making $150,000.00 a year, they will continue to support dear leader. PERIOD!!! The Civil Rights Movement had a great strategy that worked. Lawyers, judges, and politicians buried whatever the Civil Rights movement accomplished. Make it make sense!!!