http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Unity_Party_of_Germany
Just Call themselves Communists and be done with it.
Posted on 12/29/2014 8:39:28 AM PST by PROCON
Progressives have no power in a corporate, focus-grouped, Wall Street-leaning party. But we are the change we need
The Democrats’ conduct since the midterm debacle is as sad and sorry as the campaign that caused it. The party’s leaders are a big problem. A bigger one is the closed system of high-dollar fundraising, reductionist polling and vapid messaging in which it is seemingly trapped. Some say a more populist Democratic Party will soon emerge. It won’t happen as long as these leaders and this system are in place.
Nancy Pelosi says it wasn’t a wave election. She’s right. It was the Johnstown Flood; as catastrophic and just as preventable. One year after the shutdown Republicans scored their biggest Senate win since 1980 and their biggest House win since 1928. Turnout was the lowest since 1942, when millions of GIs had the excellent excuse of being overseas fighting for their country.
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This started out as a good piece on the reason for the 'Rats midterm defeat.
But, there they go again; government creates "stuff".
The main difference between Progressives and Conservatives.
And what’s Salon trading at these days? Anything higher than penny junk?
Another thing that kept turnout low in 1942 was that Democrats in Mississippi and other parts of the South would not let black people vote.
I can't believe Salon readers agree so strongly with this article.
Shocked, I tell ya.
" We are the ones we have been waiting for."
It should be mandatory that all commie 'RATs infesting this country wear clown suits and clown makeup at all times.
The Left alliance of Marxists and Fascists continues inside the governing philosophy of “progressives”, which is, “we just need permanent government organs to regulate and decide things, away from the political tug and pull of democracy”.
You’re correct. The article starts with a decent exposition of Democrats problems and leadership issues. But it fails to ask the question of how a “big government” party can ever avoid the corruption and crony-capitalism of big government.
Some of the comments from Democrats in the article are quite common-sense. Rail against Wall Street, but then take them as your top advisors? Talk constantly about racial division, but then invite Al Sharpton to the White House 60 times?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Unity_Party_of_Germany
Just Call themselves Communists and be done with it.
180 degrees out of phase ... as usual
Pretty much sums up the reason why commies always end up lining people up against a wall.
“And what’s Salon trading at these days? Anything higher than penny junk?”
Racist trading cards.
This is bizarre. Progressives have gotten everything they want, with a Marxist President, the Senate, and John Bonehead leading the GOPe. When Americans are beginning to wake up and reject the Marxist agenda, they somehow need to change the Democrats.
What slays me is that white people, who progressives slander as "privileged" i.e. racist, continue to vote for these screwballs and fraudsters. Why?
Dem elites hate white people. They probably hate most of their constituency. But they make a point of smearing white people, especially white males. And white people continue to vote for them. Unbelievable.
“The main difference between Progressives and Conservatives. [that Government creates stuff]”
Unfortunately, that’s not even close to the main difference.
I wish it were.
You’re right. It’s never enough with these people, and when things go South like they always do under Marxism, the right people weren’t in charge or sinister forces are at work.
They’re actually more fascist than communist. Most wealthy libs do not want to destroy the system that allows them to live the life of luxury. They just want other people to pay for their screwy dreams.
In the Beginning there was Government
The Middle Class was without form and void
Bill Curry, in Salon, hoodathunkit?
I like the prospective of Progressives having no power. They do not wear it well when they do have it.
Every lesson that can be drawn from the daily lives in which we are all immersed, they take away exactly the wrong conclusion. Strong government is the antithesis of the growth of this chimerical and mysterious “middle class” of which the Progressives speak. There is a very real “middle class”, made up of entrepreneurs, producers and distributors of the goods and services which are available to all for the mere business of making honest and fair exchanges in the marketplace. But this apparently unfettered expression of capitalistic practice is anathema to the Progressive mindset. The entrepreneurs and producers must be replaced with government-hired service people, paper shufflers who provide not one whit of “value-added” content to the exchanges, and are accorded a wage scale which may or may not reflect actual value contributed to the greater benefit of society as a whole.
Wow. Bill Curry is writing stuff now? He was a miserable excuse for a gov candidate in CT. If I recall he came in a distant third behind Weicker and Rowland, even risking the Dems’ major party standing in what is now a VERY blue state.
Of course, Malloy is the 2000s version of Curry, and the Republicans are somewhere to the left of Ella Grasso these days.
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