Sunday, November 24, 2019

Nature's Frosting



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    1. You must be so glad to have rain!

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    2. Our rainy season is about November through March, so this is about on schedule. Nice, though.

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  2. Nathan Robinson: Progressives, trust your gut: Elizabeth Warren is not one of us [Click] Hmmmmmmm…… Quite a list of observations. I had noticed more than one of the items. It goes to show the value of an extended primary campaign. But I will not be relying on my microbiome to make such decisions, thank you very much.

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    1. She's a brilliant woman on financial matters, but I've never been able to trust her. Maybe because she jumped on board with Hillary. And Hillary had already chosen Tim Kane as her VP and he is corporate up one side and own the other.

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    2. Despite Addy Barkin's endorsement of Warren, and it is a fine article, my chips are still on Bernie. If by some wild chance either Bernie or Warren gets the nomination, I'd vote for either one, though I truly believe Bernie is the better choice. That's it, though. If they nominate anyone else, Howie Hawkins is getting my vote. I may even change my party registration. We'll have to see how thoroughly disgusted the DNC makes me.

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    3. We're on the same page, or close enough, Cat. Having read those two columns has given me a push. Despite having just reallocated my donations, I am of a mind to do it again, in Bernie's favor. I think I will sleep on it, though. I had noticed when Warren said she wasn't going to push for Medicare For All until her third year in office, which translates as she wouldn't actually push for it.

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  3. Oops! Left a comment on the last thread.

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  4. In the article Alan linked to last thread, Addy mentions FDR's acceptance of Jim Crow. That's not entirely fair. Recall that FDR insisted that because the Pentagon was being built with federal funds, although it was sited in Virginia, segregation did not apply. Thus, for instance, it has always had only one set of restrooms. Sweeping change is not always possible.

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  5. The power of Southern Democratic senators in those days was tremendous. Even without it being stated explicitly, he had a choice: a racist New Deal, or none at all. Very simple.

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    1. The assumption was that Democrats couldn't win without the Solid South. The 1948 election shook that assumption, but that was later.

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  6. Among other headlines at politicawire.com, we have:
    U.S. Firms Pull Back on Investment
    Split Decision from Congress Will Leave Decision to Voters

    And there is this item, lifted wholesale:

    Sanders’s Supporters Could Keep Him In Race for Months
    November 24, 2019 By Taegan Goddard

    “Bernie Sanders’s most adamant backers expect that he will be the Democratic nominee for president, but if it ends up looking like someone else may take that title, they want Mr. Sanders to put up a fight,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

    “Mr. Sanders’s campaign has made it clear that to win the nomination, he would have to pull off an ambitious expansion of the electorate. His campaign says it is banking on turning out a coalition of young, working-class and minority voters.”

    “But polls show the Vermont independent’s base is more loyal than that of any other 2020 Democrat, and in interviews over the last four months, Mr. Sanders’s supporters told The Wall Street Journal that they wouldn’t support any other candidate as long as he is running.“


    Gee, Sanders’ supporters might hang in there for MONTHS? Better pass the smelling salts. Are we to understand that supporters of Joe and others might give up in a matter of weeks?

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    1. Sanders supporters have already hung on for YEARS! LOL!

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    2. Goddard is still thinking that somebody is somehow going to win a majority of the delegates. Not going to happen. It's going to be a brokered convention and Bernie is going to be in the midst of it.

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    3. Any hope that the DNC has woken up?

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    4. I remain of the opinion that the New Democrats are still not aware that times have changed and they have lost their mandate. For keeps. But they are being replaced, albeit slowly.

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