WAPO:
Thomas Perez elected the first Latino leader of Democratic Party
Way to spin, WAPO!!!
“Latino leader” is supposed to equal “LIBERAL LEADER!!!’ to all the squares in the audience…that is, 99.99% of the media-reading, only-headline-ingesting sheeple.
Sheese, Mabel!!!
Maybe now we’ve got a chance to fight that awful Trump character!!!
After all…Perez is Latino!!!
Riiiiiight…
Not so fast, sheepleheads!!!
This is a victory for the Pelosi/Schumer PermaGov/centrist axis of the Democratic Party, and a serious loss for the Sanders/Warren wing.
I’m telling you…if the Civil War were to be fought right now, the north would lose and it would lose badly.
Tiime to wake up, Dem folks.
If you do not absolutely revolutionize the party…and soon…so that it reaches many, many more voters south of the Manson-Nixon line…of all races…the RatPub coup de grace is headed your way in about two years. Getting rid of Trump won’t stop it; only a reasoned appeal to the economic realities that are facing the people in the red states will do the trick. Trump will just be replaced by someone…smoother…if he is impeached. Same messages, better tone of voice.
Another centrist DNC won’t do it, either. People north and south of that line will take one look at these two ugly, superannuated faces and head for either the hills or their local Republican ballot box.
It doesn’t exactly take a rocket scientist to know that their bread it buttered on the other side of the fence.
On the other side of everybody’s fence except their own.
Pelosi comes from a racist, mobbed-up Baltimore political dynasty and Schumer is the Senator from the great states of AIPAC and Wall Street.
Great.
Just what Joe Cowboy, Jane Farmer and Mr. and Mrs. Worker want to hear.
It’s do or die time, folks.
Be as bold as Trump…only honest…and you can still win.
Don’t?
Play it safe?
We all in deep shit.
Bet on it.
Watch
Where is the new party coming from?
And when, fer Chrissake!!!
Because this old one ain’t worth shit!!!
AG
If the Dem elites don’t change soon, this will be my epitaph: “Born an FDR Democrat, but the Party left her.” Just sad.
I feel your pain.
I really do.
My grandfather… the man whose name I honor by using it here…radicalized me when I was in grammar school. Well…”radicalized” is a relative word. He was a staunch FDR Dem. He lived through the Great Depression and was a Democrat by heredity…the son of a NYC Irish immigrant mayor.. He was not a “radical,” he was simply a mainstream Democrat during the McCarthy years, and he was madder than hell about what was happening.
The thing is, FDR’s democratic socialism…and that’s what it really was, even if that label was not used…is now radical when compared to what comes from the machinations of the DNC. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are really mainstream, FDR Democrats…maybe not even as “radical” as was FDR when you get right down to it. The U.S. was falling apart after the Great Crash, and FDR’s WPA plus many other socialist actions and programs helped the country to lift itself by its own bootstraps out of the Big Money-caused Depression pit into which it had fallen.
Now?
Phfffft…
The Dems are all talk, no walk.
All front men and frontwomen, no action.
All compromise behind its big talk.
And it has lost the working class as a result.
Trump’s win is as simple as that. The working classes of this country…and by that I mean the people who get out of bed each day and either go to work or stay home and raise children, people of all economic levels and all races…are not very politically involved or sophisticated. They basically want to be left alone to live their lives in relative peace. That means they want to make a living wage; they want to be able to provide for themselves and their children on all important levels…health, shelter, food and education being the most important of those levels…and they want to be able to continue to live after they are no longer able to perform hard work on a daily level.
That’s about it. That’s all most of them really want.
And neither party has been able to provide them with those basic needs, because both parties are now owned lock, stock and barrel by corporate interests whose only real “morality” is the morality of the bottom line. They are essentially artificial intelligences themselves, these interests. If the quarterly books do not show a good profit, they are basically programmed to do whatever is within their power to rectify that bottom line problem, and soon, because if they don’t the corporate entity will fire them and get someone who can do that. End of story.
These interests need to be controlled, but instead they are now the controllers. They own the whole political process…including the media that publicizes it…and as a result the U.S. has been bottom-lined right into a near crisis state. The infrastructure is in almost total disrepair…hell, I can’t even trust the subways of NYC to get me to work anymore. The most important subway in NYC as far as I am concerned (the west side IRT line’s #1 local train ) is closed for repairs this entire weekend!!! I have lived here all of my adult life and I have never seen this happen.
The public school systems are a mess; the whole charter school thing is just a monetized ripoff even if there are a few good schools within it; the healthcare system ranks below many third world countries on any number of levels; the food supply is full of poisons of all kinds; we cannot really trust our drinking water and inflation is eating almost every dollar we make before we can manage to spend it on necessities.
How did Trump win?
He demonized the mainstream parties and their media, that’s how. It was a cinch to do that, because they suck!!!
And…despite ample evidence that he is a total huckster…enough working people bought his line to get him elected.
Duh!!!
They felt like they had no other choice.
And they didn’t.
The DNC made damned sure that they didn’t by effective backroom hustling against Bernie Sanders. Of course…they were just doing their own job. And what is that job. exactly? It is to continue to make sure that the bottom-liners come out on top no matter which party wins.
The “choice” of of Perez for DNC chairman simply proves that nothing has changed. The bipartisan RatDemlican party and their allied media will work very hard to get rid of Trump because he threatens their plutocractic owners, and then they will cooperate in the business-as-usual hustle that follows his fall.
It is increasingly clear that only a third party will be able to stop this game. But where will it come from? Who will volunteer to be the crystal that starts its formation?
Damned if I know.
Sanders?
Warren?
Maybe.
Somebody else?
Who?
Let us pray.
ASG
Now a standalone post.
The End Of the Road For Caring Dems? Maybe.
Please post your comments there.
Thank you…
ASG