Posted on 05/09/2020 8:16:05 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Nina Turner, former co-chair for the presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., wants progressives “go crazy” and turn up the heat on the Democratic Party and maybe mimic how the Tea Party previously defied Republicans.
“What I would love to see the progressive movement do — from the progressive members of the House of Representatives and progressive members who may be in the Senate — is to go crazy,” she said during an interview published on Thursday.
Turner told Jordan Chariton, CEO of the liberal outlet Status Coup, that Democrats might want to “take a page out of the Tea Party’s book … and hold the Democratic Party hostage until they do something on behalf of the American people.” […]
“Well, we know that COVID-19 has blown the roof off of all of the rhetoric and the lies, and the illusion — that health care tied to one’s job does not work. [Thirty-three] million people unemployed and climbing on top of the almost 90 million people who are already underinsured and uninsured. And guess what? They don’t have health care,” she said. …
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He may have been one in the 19th century, as he did support the Gold Democrat John McAuley Palmer for President in 1896. But between there and the next 15 years, he was pretty clearly a devout Socialist by the time he was Governor of New Jersey in 1911 and President in 1913.
Popcorn. More popcorn. Go to toilet for half hour. Fail to give a sh!t what Dems do to fellow Dems. More popcorn. Watch steady trickle of moderate Dems to Republican, Independent and Libertarian, steady trickle of bathsh!t crazy Dems to Socialist, Green and CPA. More popcorn.
<>Yet the whole interest of socialism for those whose thinking extends beyond the covers of books and the paragraphs of periodicals lies in what it will mean in practice. It is a question of practical politics, or else it is only a thesis for engaging discourse.<>
Practical politics —> power. It was what Wilson was all about.
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