Posted on 11/22/2018 5:44:21 AM PST by Libloather
Last week, as a freshman class filtered through the halls of Congress for orientation, Fox News sounded the alarm about four of the elected members and the “radical new Democratic ideas” they’d come to advance: free health care, free college, the abolishment of ICE and an infrastructure project designed to address impending climate catastrophe that they’re calling the “Green New Deal.”
Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and New York’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are emblematic of a midterm election in which more women, more people of color and more progressives were elected than ever before. All four also happen to be Justice Democrats, a group that’s quickly gained currency under the leadership of a handful of determined alumni from Bernie Sanders’ 2016 campaign.
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“We need new leaders, period,” Saikat Chakrabarti, Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff and one of the chief architects behind Justice Democrats’ success, said on a phone call with reporters this past weekend. “We gotta primary folks.” Entrenched leadership in Washington has recoiled in horror at the group’s blunt declaration, but it should have surprised no one. This is exactly what many progressives have been saying for the last two years — and it’s the reason Ocasio-Cortez is in Congress at all.
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That, to use the term very loosely, people such as that could be elected to Congress tells you how low we have sank.
Justice and democrats should not be used in the same sentence unless justice is being metted out to democrats.
5.56mm
Exactly right. Just look at those names and tell me this country isn’t being conquered. This cannot continue without a huge correction. There is going to be a correction, but not the way anyone will like. Misery for all is coming.
“Social Justice Warrior” has become a joke. So they appear to be trying to cut it to “Justice Democrats” to make it seem more high minded and less radical nutty.
No.
The House can stir the crap but that is all
Communism: A History by Richard Pipes
Sounds like these ‘Justice’ people are trying to ‘upgrade’ us back to the 7th century when people were mostly uneducated and had nothing to do but try to survive - which gave way to some horrendous outcomes and takeovers by ‘leaders’ speaking soothing and problem free solutions before being taken in as slaves.
First stop on this trip is socialism.
“Justice Democrats.
In this context “justice” is a term of art meaning infinite blood feud mentality. “
S/B Just Us!
“Without freedom AND GUNS and the right to one’s individual identity and self-determination, we are all slaves.”
I agree entirely with the premise of your statement. To ensure your rights, you have to have the ability to successfully fight to preserve them.
So now it’s “Justice Democrats”?
I guess they must have discovered that calling themselves “socialist democrats” wasn’t flying.
“Justice democrats”. ROTFLMAO! In other words, freeloading, commie bottomfeeders. Scum.
Now, now, I stepped in some justice democrat the other day and with some effort I was able to scrape it off the bottom of my shoe and rub the rest off in the dirt before tracking it in the house and stinking the place up.
I guess we both know what a JD (Justice Dem) is. ;)
Justice Democrats candidates won a grand total of zero competitive races, they reelected the incumbents that joined them and a few of their candidates took open seats, all heavily rat districts.
The nomination of their candidate in NE-2 cost the democrats the seat.
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