Posted on 01/31/2017 8:44:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
If the last week has shown us anything, it’s that Donald Trump has power, but he doesn’t have much of a mandate yet.
We need to keep it that way – and be wary of the bad political leadership and strategy that can help him build one. November’s election is a powerful reminder that the Clinton establishment’s mix of socially inclusive rhetoric and neoliberal economics is a weak response to xenophobic populism.
An anti-Trump resistance movement must be broad, but it must direct its anger and energy not just at the enemy in the White House, but the failed leadership that let him get there. The Tea Party movement couldn’t have emerged with Bob Dole and George W Bush among their leaders. We can’t build our anti-Trump resistance, settled with generations of unpopular Democratic party leaders either.
The alternative must come from below – and certainly protests like the Women’s March are inspiring starts. Millions marched, many of whom had never attended a political protest before. It was hopefully a sign of things to come. Yet it is crucial that we know what this broad movement is for, as well as what it is against.
For years, myself and others posed a divide in the Democratic party that seemingly existed only notionally: a gap between social democratic demands at the base of the party and technocratic neoliberalism at the top of it. The Sanders campaign made that divide more real and tangible – it stirred a rabid opposition to Clintonism within millions of people, many of them politicized for the first time, and more importantly presented an alternative politics....
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
That's is far as I could get. ROTFL.
We can only pray they depose their current worthless lot in favor of even more radical zealots.
If they pick Keith Ellison as the DNC chair you can count on even more wacko leftists in leadership roles.
“a gap between social democratic demands at the base of the party and technocratic neoliberalism at the top of it”
I just LOVE meaningless, buzzwordy polit-babble like the above because it just SO resonates with the average voter, especially the average former Dem voter.
I read to the bottom and found this:
Since you’re here…
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Enjoy:
“Get Free”: Rev. Sekou and the Holy Ghost to Perform at the First Unitarian Society of Ithaca
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3519065/posts
That is too good. Thank you for pointing that out! I love it.
That stopped me also-—and you beat me to it.:-)
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Pleas to give up this idiocy will fall on deaf ears, however. When the Dems can give up on the violence and the hatred for their country they might salvage something legitimate. Under their current leadership that doesn't look to happen anytime soon.
Bhaskar Sunkara
Born June 20, 1989 (age 27)
White Plains, New York, United States
Nationality American
Alma mater George Washington University
Occupation Publisher, writer, editor
Can you imagine Harry Truman being around the Democrats of today?
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Memo To Bhaskar Sunkara:
Click the Pic
Bhaskar Sunkara should be locked in a rubber room ASAP!
I think most Democrats of Truman's generation would take one look at today's crop of Dems and burst into tears.
My parents were both kids during WWII, and were swayed to the Democrat party by FDR, even though they came from staunch Republian homes. Sadly, they're still voting that way today (go figure).
so......which one is the technocratic neoliberalist? the author is confusing
I don't even he knows what that means. It just sounds hip, and oh so intelligent!
Calling the Womens March “inspirational” shows the level of delusion in these people.
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