We have a Democratic Party unwilling to take the fight to the Supreme Court. To sit and ponder all the goodies one wants from the Democratic Party is silly and naive without addressing what the constitutional law will be. The right wing has taken the long view and is succeeding very well. We need a realistic, well conceived approach that involves the courts as well as the congress. This is not the case with people like howie.
David Carroll was on "background briefing" Ian master's podcast, yesterday. He talked about how ridiculous it was we got this story that democrats did ok and better than expected in midterms, while one can now see the exact results of that election play out in the house.
I live in ny-17, the ground zero of democratic failure. I have a letter from mondaire jones who previously held the seat, thanking me for supporting his Supreme Court reform bill that he prepared with senator markey. Pelosi "just said no" and that was the end, while biden had put forward a study group that in the end did nothing. Having gone to Biden's law school, and having met him 3 times, and given that he was chair of judiciary committee for years really just made me think ... why the heck would joe need 30 people to tell him what to do - he knows what to do better than anyone! This is absolutely the most critical topic.
Gotta be honest, howie lost credibility with me when he assured us all that sean p. maloney would win in my district. Now we have the ny republucan campaign chair in that seat - a blatant and severe disaster that isn't being recognized as much as it should.
Well, I do understand the sentiments of some who believe that the best approach is to try to "take over" the Democratic Party. But I would assert many people are very naïve about today's Democratic Party, and what the real ramifications of a 2 party system are going to continue to be. I think at this point it is just as worthy of consideration to try to find a way forward with a third-party that can bridge the gap between the working class, rural whites in the gop and those working class members of the Democratic Party who would want to join together and take the fight to the elites.
Aside from the things that followers of the show might be well aware of I did experience what happened when we had an open primary for the seat in New York 17 that Mondaire Jones won several years ago. The Democratic Party really avoided putting out any publicity. It put out almost no notices at all about the fact that there was going to be a primary. There was no information about the candidates at all other than one program on ny1 which most people don't even get here, and the Democratic Party tried very hard to push forward private-equity backed and CIA-veteran candidates like Elaine farkas who was then being dressed up and put on tv. I had a chance to meet her and she refused to even take a position on the Amazon "hq2" deal for queens, in which taxpayers would have funded billions for palantir and Amazon to upgrade ice's systems to better track and deport undocumented immigrants.
In Terms of the strategy that people are pursuing I do think that we should focus more on the state level. It was heroes like Michael genaris, at the STATE Level, who were instrumental in queens in stopping the Amazon H2 Q deal - this is state level politics which presumably doesn't sell big in media. One seemingly has to get the times union newspaper out of Albany to even have access to basic coverage about what goes on in New York State politics, the ground zero of Democratic Party failure.
We have a Democratic Party unwilling to take the fight to the Supreme Court. To sit and ponder all the goodies one wants from the Democratic Party is silly and naive without addressing what the constitutional law will be. The right wing has taken the long view and is succeeding very well. We need a realistic, well conceived approach that involves the courts as well as the congress. This is not the case with people like howie.
David Carroll was on "background briefing" Ian master's podcast, yesterday. He talked about how ridiculous it was we got this story that democrats did ok and better than expected in midterms, while one can now see the exact results of that election play out in the house.
I live in ny-17, the ground zero of democratic failure. I have a letter from mondaire jones who previously held the seat, thanking me for supporting his Supreme Court reform bill that he prepared with senator markey. Pelosi "just said no" and that was the end, while biden had put forward a study group that in the end did nothing. Having gone to Biden's law school, and having met him 3 times, and given that he was chair of judiciary committee for years really just made me think ... why the heck would joe need 30 people to tell him what to do - he knows what to do better than anyone! This is absolutely the most critical topic.
Gotta be honest, howie lost credibility with me when he assured us all that sean p. maloney would win in my district. Now we have the ny republucan campaign chair in that seat - a blatant and severe disaster that isn't being recognized as much as it should.
Well, I do understand the sentiments of some who believe that the best approach is to try to "take over" the Democratic Party. But I would assert many people are very naïve about today's Democratic Party, and what the real ramifications of a 2 party system are going to continue to be. I think at this point it is just as worthy of consideration to try to find a way forward with a third-party that can bridge the gap between the working class, rural whites in the gop and those working class members of the Democratic Party who would want to join together and take the fight to the elites.
Aside from the things that followers of the show might be well aware of I did experience what happened when we had an open primary for the seat in New York 17 that Mondaire Jones won several years ago. The Democratic Party really avoided putting out any publicity. It put out almost no notices at all about the fact that there was going to be a primary. There was no information about the candidates at all other than one program on ny1 which most people don't even get here, and the Democratic Party tried very hard to push forward private-equity backed and CIA-veteran candidates like Elaine farkas who was then being dressed up and put on tv. I had a chance to meet her and she refused to even take a position on the Amazon "hq2" deal for queens, in which taxpayers would have funded billions for palantir and Amazon to upgrade ice's systems to better track and deport undocumented immigrants.
In Terms of the strategy that people are pursuing I do think that we should focus more on the state level. It was heroes like Michael genaris, at the STATE Level, who were instrumental in queens in stopping the Amazon H2 Q deal - this is state level politics which presumably doesn't sell big in media. One seemingly has to get the times union newspaper out of Albany to even have access to basic coverage about what goes on in New York State politics, the ground zero of Democratic Party failure.
It's Evelyn (rather than Elaine) Farkas I referred to.
Nationalize RR, municipal broadband, end privatization of the commons.
left out:
national popular vote
DC statehood
fuck the capitalists
Left out.
Campaign finance reform. Public financing of elections, absolute transparency, no private money in elections. End the corruption.