As Jimmy Dore says, and any independent thinking person would agree, they'd rather lose with a corporate Dem than win with a progressive. Coming in second in the two horse duopoly race still pays handsomely.
The whole purpose of the Dem party is to be the gatekeeper for what is permissible on the left.
As Jimmy Dore says, and any independent thinking person would agree, they'd rather lose with a corporate Dem than win with a progressive. Coming in second in the two horse duopoly race still pays handsomely.
The whole purpose of the Dem party is to be the gatekeeper for what is permissible on the left.
On every single policy issue of major significance, the elite have been wrong, and heroically so.
Free trade, WS deregulation, WS bailouts, the growing and worthless surveillance state, policy towards Russia after the USSR fell, granting PNTR for The People's Republic of China and the comically inept, pointless and remarkably expensive wars of the last 20 years, which saw us let Bin Laden get away while having only 37 troops at Tora Bora, this for the man we were told was responsible for 3000 American being killed on 9-11, but saw no expense spared while fighting people who had nothing to do with it: Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen and the Taliban while eventually putting the cherry on top of this cluster fuck by arming AQ affiliates in Syria and bombing the Houthis in Yemen who were fighting AQ there, all topped off by a withdrawal from Afghanistan that matched but did not exceed the incompetence and folly of our 20 years fighting there.
I was sure that as a combat veteran in Vietnam, I had been part of the dumbest thing this country has ever done in foreign affairs, but these last 20 years proved me wrong.
I love it, "the elite," the "deep state," "the left." Its really not that complicated. We vote for crappy leaders because we are tribal and don't vote on issues.
People never have a chance to vote on issues, unless you have "Initiative Petition". Then the ballots are 2 feet long.
California has Initiative Petition and prints their ballots in 14 languages because the people there pay interpreters to pass the their Citizenship exam and why their kids are flunking out of high school and college.
It certainly helped their fortune, not ours. Plus the fact we kept reelecting these people, swapping the (D) for the (R) as though that would make some difference.
As Jimmy Dore says, and any independent thinking person would agree, they'd rather lose with a corporate Dem than win with a progressive. Coming in second in the two horse duopoly race still pays handsomely.
The whole purpose of the Dem party is to be the gatekeeper for what is permissible on the left.
People inside the Beltway have incredible myopia and believe that myopia is brilliance.
On every single policy issue of major significance, the elite have been wrong, and heroically so.
Free trade, WS deregulation, WS bailouts, the growing and worthless surveillance state, policy towards Russia after the USSR fell, granting PNTR for The People's Republic of China and the comically inept, pointless and remarkably expensive wars of the last 20 years, which saw us let Bin Laden get away while having only 37 troops at Tora Bora, this for the man we were told was responsible for 3000 American being killed on 9-11, but saw no expense spared while fighting people who had nothing to do with it: Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen and the Taliban while eventually putting the cherry on top of this cluster fuck by arming AQ affiliates in Syria and bombing the Houthis in Yemen who were fighting AQ there, all topped off by a withdrawal from Afghanistan that matched but did not exceed the incompetence and folly of our 20 years fighting there.
I was sure that as a combat veteran in Vietnam, I had been part of the dumbest thing this country has ever done in foreign affairs, but these last 20 years proved me wrong.
And no one was ever or will be held accountable.
Why stop there. They are also wrong on "racism" "police violence" "public education" "regulation of small business"
I love it, "the elite," the "deep state," "the left." Its really not that complicated. We vote for crappy leaders because we are tribal and don't vote on issues.
We don't even vote for simple competence, and we haven't for quite a while.
People never have a chance to vote on issues, unless you have "Initiative Petition". Then the ballots are 2 feet long.
California has Initiative Petition and prints their ballots in 14 languages because the people there pay interpreters to pass the their Citizenship exam and why their kids are flunking out of high school and college.
There are no serious issues any candidate talks about. Sanders was a rare exception - until he capitulated.
"Da one puh-cent!"
Well said. And why I supported Trump.
Ah, but you rail against these "errors" because they were bad for the country. The REAL criteria for them is: "Did that help our fortune or not?"
It certainly helped their fortune, not ours. Plus the fact we kept reelecting these people, swapping the (D) for the (R) as though that would make some difference.
Amen.