Ben Jealous wins Maryland Democratic primary race for governor [Click] "His victory…. demonstrated the growing influence of the progressive wing of the Maryland Democratic Party. His win was part of a wave of victories against establishment candidates in state government."
"The Democratic Party, which helped build our system of inverted totalitarianism, is once again held up by many on the left as the savior. Yet the party steadfastly refuses to address the social inequality that led to the election of Trump and the insurgency by Bernie Sanders. It is deaf, dumb and blind to the very real economic suffering that plagues over half the country. It will not fight to pay workers a living wage. It will not defy the pharmaceutical and insurance industries to provide Medicare for all. It will not curb the voracious appetite of the military that is disemboweling the country and promoting the prosecution of futile and costly foreign wars. It will not restore our lost civil liberties, including the right to privacy, freedom from government surveillance, and due process. It will not get corporate and dark money out of politics. It will not demilitarize our police and reform a prison system that has 25 percent of the world’s prisoners although the United States has only 5 percent of the world’s population. It plays to the margins, especially in election seasons, refusing to address substantive political and social problems and instead focusing on narrow cultural issues like gay rights, abortion and gun control in our peculiar species of anti-politics."
Oh, that footstool does bring back memories, listener.
ReplyDeleteAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who defeated Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.) in a stunning primary upset Tuesday, is a 28-year-old former Bernie Sanders organizer — and she just won her first political campaign. [Click]
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s stunning defeat of the 10-term New York incumbent — until Tuesday a kingmaker in New York City politics who sat atop one of the city’s last political machines — is rocking the Democratic establishment from New York to Washington. [Click]
Ben Jealous wins Maryland Democratic primary race for governor [Click] "His victory…. demonstrated the growing influence of the progressive wing of the Maryland Democratic Party. His win was part of a wave of victories against establishment candidates in state government."
---Alan
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/05/21/coming-collapse?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork
ReplyDelete"The Democratic Party, which helped build our system of inverted totalitarianism, is once again held up by many on the left as the savior. Yet the party steadfastly refuses to address the social inequality that led to the election of Trump and the insurgency by Bernie Sanders. It is deaf, dumb and blind to the very real economic suffering that plagues over half the country. It will not fight to pay workers a living wage. It will not defy the pharmaceutical and insurance industries to provide Medicare for all. It will not curb the voracious appetite of the military that is disemboweling the country and promoting the prosecution of futile and costly foreign wars. It will not restore our lost civil liberties, including the right to privacy, freedom from government surveillance, and due process. It will not get corporate and dark money out of politics. It will not demilitarize our police and reform a prison system that has 25 percent of the world’s prisoners although the United States has only 5 percent of the world’s population. It plays to the margins, especially in election seasons, refusing to address substantive political and social problems and instead focusing on narrow cultural issues like gay rights, abortion and gun control in our peculiar species of anti-politics."
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/06/in-hindsight-obama-shouldnt-have-appointed-merrick-garland.html
ReplyDeleteRepublican-leadership backed immigration bill goes down in flames
ReplyDeletehttps://www.cnn.com/2018/06/27/politics/house-immigration-bill-vote/index.html
Justice Kennedy to retire at the end of July...!
ReplyDelete5 names on the short list
https://www.weeklystandard.com/fred-barnes/kennedy-retires-five-names-on-the-supreme-court-shortlist