You are the only voice that I think is correct. We need a new party on the left that admits our existing systems are broken. (However, the new regime will be burning them all down, so that point may be moot.) A new left-wing party, a new left-wing media machine that tells the ACTUAL truth inside its own echo chamber. Way left, like Bernie and AOC left (which is not even that left compared to EU). A party that can claim the edges of both sides, because they are the ones that admit the system is broken. Sadly, the parts that are broken may not be the ones that get burnt down, e.g. the utterly rotten health insurance system.
Oh, gee, like a sinking battery-powered boat surrounded by flesh-and-blood sharks, is all this. Listened with one ear to a half-hour our formerly usual news show (MSNBC) on the TV last night, and it was relevant in the manner that Soap Opera Digest brought us all up to speed on whether Luke and Laura would finally get it together on General Hospital. The morning show was conducting a beating-up of the 'wokeness' of the Dems, in exactly the manner you've described herein. The oligarchy is clearly planning on shredding the economy for poor people here, PDQ, and rather than pull us together (like when 'we' all agreed to live with rationing coupon books for the greater good), it will further tear us apart, as there's no resiliency to be seen anywhere. Our self-interested avarice will sink us even faster. Metaphorically, it's a lot easier to throw a brick through a greenhouse than to build one and nurture the seedlings. We're stuck with the brick-throwers now.
I continue to think that simply endeavoring to live far more simply is a path of resistance. I don't want their version of 'success'.
I feel betrayed, but I also feel foolish. I saw the embrace of moderate Republicans and couldn't figure out why they wanted to look conservative? That was such a huge error in the campaign. And billionaire, Oprah Winfrey, should not have spoken at the DNC. All the celebrity crap bothered me, too. You're right we need a new left-wing party.
We need to learn the art of the demagogue. The ballooning wealth gap is the root of all our economic discontent, and it is absolutely the intended result of 40 years of deliberate Republican policy.
A skillful demagogue on our side of the wealth divide who could brush aside the culture wars and nail these “malefactors of great wealth” to their “cross of gold” is exactly the man (yes, in this case a man) we desperately need.
I see so many parallels to this here in Australia. A ‘left’ party that has shifted to the right. A media landscape run by the Murdoch empire. And an electorate who is struggling to make ends meet and are becoming increasingly despondent of their politicians.
I couldn't read all this. I have a world to save. And I agree with every word you ever write so I figured I could just skip the rest to get on to a response.
Who is this Democratic Party? I mean that. There is so much pissed offedness, for the intelligent treasons you give, at "it," but we're Democrats, so who is "the Democratic Party?"???
Is that a good question to start with? So we know who to grab to shake sense into? Who to talk to? Not you.
You are the only voice that I think is correct. We need a new party on the left that admits our existing systems are broken. (However, the new regime will be burning them all down, so that point may be moot.) A new left-wing party, a new left-wing media machine that tells the ACTUAL truth inside its own echo chamber. Way left, like Bernie and AOC left (which is not even that left compared to EU). A party that can claim the edges of both sides, because they are the ones that admit the system is broken. Sadly, the parts that are broken may not be the ones that get burnt down, e.g. the utterly rotten health insurance system.
"compared to EU" -- what is EU? Europe?
European Union
Oh, gee, like a sinking battery-powered boat surrounded by flesh-and-blood sharks, is all this. Listened with one ear to a half-hour our formerly usual news show (MSNBC) on the TV last night, and it was relevant in the manner that Soap Opera Digest brought us all up to speed on whether Luke and Laura would finally get it together on General Hospital. The morning show was conducting a beating-up of the 'wokeness' of the Dems, in exactly the manner you've described herein. The oligarchy is clearly planning on shredding the economy for poor people here, PDQ, and rather than pull us together (like when 'we' all agreed to live with rationing coupon books for the greater good), it will further tear us apart, as there's no resiliency to be seen anywhere. Our self-interested avarice will sink us even faster. Metaphorically, it's a lot easier to throw a brick through a greenhouse than to build one and nurture the seedlings. We're stuck with the brick-throwers now.
I continue to think that simply endeavoring to live far more simply is a path of resistance. I don't want their version of 'success'.
Well written, sir, and in very short order, too.
I feel betrayed, but I also feel foolish. I saw the embrace of moderate Republicans and couldn't figure out why they wanted to look conservative? That was such a huge error in the campaign. And billionaire, Oprah Winfrey, should not have spoken at the DNC. All the celebrity crap bothered me, too. You're right we need a new left-wing party.
When given the choice between a Republican and Republican-lite, people will vote for the Republican.
We need to learn the art of the demagogue. The ballooning wealth gap is the root of all our economic discontent, and it is absolutely the intended result of 40 years of deliberate Republican policy.
A skillful demagogue on our side of the wealth divide who could brush aside the culture wars and nail these “malefactors of great wealth” to their “cross of gold” is exactly the man (yes, in this case a man) we desperately need.
I see so many parallels to this here in Australia. A ‘left’ party that has shifted to the right. A media landscape run by the Murdoch empire. And an electorate who is struggling to make ends meet and are becoming increasingly despondent of their politicians.
I couldn't read all this. I have a world to save. And I agree with every word you ever write so I figured I could just skip the rest to get on to a response.
Who is this Democratic Party? I mean that. There is so much pissed offedness, for the intelligent treasons you give, at "it," but we're Democrats, so who is "the Democratic Party?"???
Is that a good question to start with? So we know who to grab to shake sense into? Who to talk to? Not you.
This Democratic Party is nice white liberals, in other words the ‘White moderates’ about whom Dr Martin Luther King warned us
How and where are progressives taking it from here? Bloodshed is coming to America, so what do we have time to learn before it arrives?
Good question. Perhaps first read up on the tactics of the French resistance in WWII and the Spanish Civil War.
Thank you Jared -- standing by . . .