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WikiLeaks, The Media and #Dem Voters: Motives In The #DNCLeak Scandal | #DemExit on Blog#42
With proof of what was long suspected to be a concerted effort by the DNC Continue reading WikiLeaks, The Media and #Dem Voters: Motives In The #DNCLeak Scandal | #DemExit on Blog#42
#DNCinPhilly: Hillary Clinton, Progressives, and The Frog and the Scorpion Fable | #Dems on Blog#42
The old fable about the scorpion and the frog is about broken trust. Continue reading #DNCinPhilly: Hillary Clinton, Progressives, and The Frog and the Scorpion Fable | #Dems on Blog#42
#DNCLeak Shenanigans: From Debbie Wasserman-Schultz to #HillaryClinton and… Russia In Between? | Blog#42
As explosive emails were leaked and the DNC’s inappropriate behavior exposed, Continue reading #DNCLeak Shenanigans: From Debbie Wasserman-Schultz to #HillaryClinton and… Russia In Between? | Blog#42
Those Party Platform Hearings The #DNC Is Holding? A Snow Job! | Blog#42
Those Party Platform Hearings The #DNC Is Holding? A Complete Snow Job!
Continue reading Those Party Platform Hearings The #DNC Is Holding? A Snow Job! | Blog#42
What’s Wrong With the DNC? Debbie Wasserman Schultz | #MoneyInPolitics on Blog#42
Debbie Wasserman Schultz embodies precisely what is wrong Continue reading What’s Wrong With the DNC? Debbie Wasserman Schultz | #MoneyInPolitics on Blog#42
The legal, albeit icky underbelly of DNC, candidate money & deals | #MoneyInPolitics on Blog#42
In August of 2015, Hillary Clinton’s campaign cut a deal with the DNC Continue reading The legal, albeit icky underbelly of DNC, candidate money & deals | #MoneyInPolitics on Blog#42
Election 2014: Lessons for progressives
It was my hope, a week after the election, that I would hear and read meaningful analyses on the cause, consequences and long-term outlook for Democrats after their losses this midterm election. Very little of what I read this week was “filling,” until I came across William Greider’s “How the Democratic Party Lost Its Soul” in The Nation. Greider concludes:
The tattered authenticity of the party matters more now because both the country and the world face dangers and disorders that demand a fundamental reordering of the global economic system. This requires bold action, at a time when neither party is confronting the threatening situation. The Republicans are a wholly owned subsidiary of the business-finance machine; the Democrats are rented.
Dem Politics: Post-mortem is the new rehab
Former Governor Howard Dean was on Meet The Press today. With the exception of the very last sentence in this clip, I am in full agreement with everything he said.
Tuesday’s defeat was bound to be the catalyst for the kinds of events that happen after, well, all defeats. The victor gloats. Usually, the defeated retreat for a bit to reflect on their loss and how to move on. Continue reading Dem Politics: Post-mortem is the new rehab