Neoliberal centrism is dead. Long live the populist left!
3 Senate Blue Dogs May Have Lost, But 38 Democratic Socialist-Endorsed Candidates Won
One story that flew under most media outlets’ radar after Tuesday night was the stunning victory of candidates endorsed by Democratic Socialists of America.
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Grab ‘em by the midterms. This is not the temperament of someone fit for political office.
GOP Lawmaker Rips Mic From Democratic Candidate’s Hands During Debate
When he was done talking, Rep. Duane Quam just tossed the mic in front of her.
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“Insurgent candidates’ climate plans, then — involving large-scale government investment and economy-wide transformations — aren’t just populist and politically salient in the sense that they’re promising jobs and a higher standard of living. They’re also more firmly in line with the science than the market fixes Bloomberg imagines.”
Young Leftist Candidates Are Breathing New Radicalism Into Stale Climate Politics
Insurgent candidates are running on bold stances, but there’s been less focus when it comes to preventing the potential end of human civilization.
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Shaming people who didn’t vote for horrible candidates is victim blaming.
Maybe if HILLARY had spent a single day campaigning in Wisconsin, she’d be president.
Maybe if HILLARY and her campaign didn’t “elevate Donald Trump as a serious candidate” because they thought it would be an easy win for them, we’d have a sane president.
Maybe if HILLARY spent more time in working class Pennsylvania instead of posh Philadelphia cocktail fundraisers, she’d be president.
Maybe if the DNC embraced young progressive voters instead of shunning them and rigging the primaries, we wouldn’t have Trump as president.
Stop blaming voters and start blaming the failed leaders!
Her answers are fiercely unapologetic. When MSNBC brings up Democratic Socialism, she brings up authoritarian capitalism.
Ocasio-Cortez: Incumbent candidates are not ‘entitled’ to their seats
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who just defeated Rep. Joe Crowley (D-NY), joins MTP Daily to discuss her primary victory and whether she’ll endorse Nancy Pelosi as speaker.
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HEY NEW YORK: GO VOTE!!! It’s primary day, which candidates are chosen matter! And a special plug for my Bronx and Queens friends to vote for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is a candidate you can be truly excited about. But she needs you to vote today or she doesn’t advance. There’s also that little race between Cuomo and Cynthia Nixon for New York. You know what to do. Do it to it, my friends!
Answering work related texts on your day off doesn’t mean you have good work ethic, it means you have no life
In a recent New York Times interview, Barstool Sports CEO Erika Nardini said she texts candidates at odd hours to gauge responsiveness.
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A candidate who seemingly does not exist, Rodney Stooksbury, got more votes than Jon Osoff. Osoff and the DCCC spent $30 million on the GA 6 district race. Stooksbury spent $0, didn’t campaign, and doesn’t exist. He got more votes than Osoff….
“Nancy Pelosi, who has publicly refused to acknowledge that there are any systemic problems with the way Democrats do things, should have resigned long ago. The party has been hemorrhaging seats in Congress and state legislatures for years, losing power in state after state, with no plan for getting it back. Anyone anywhere near the top of the party who refuses to acknowledge how dire things are needs to be forced out immediately.”
Ghost Candidates Are Not Acceptable | Current Affairs
As far as I know, Rodney Stooksbury is an actual living human being. I have even spoken with someone who has spoken with someone who
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This is why we have Trump
“My friend made it out like Warren was initially interested in joining the race, but that decision-makers within the Democratic Party were flagging off any and every potential challenger to Clinton. At the point, Warren was 66 years old. To say “it’s not her time” is wild. She’ll be 70 when the next primary rolls around.”
KING: The next Dem primary must be a robust cast of candidates
I sincerely believe Hillary Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump began long before her head-to-head matchup with him.
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What if big corporations could just get together and rewrite the Constitution? Sounds like a disaster for the vast majority of the population, right? That’s why I was so shocked when I read a post by former Labor Secretary Robert Reich about the American Legislative Exchange Council. The former Labor Secretary, currently the Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley, is a highly knowledgeable source with friends on both sides of the aisle. Here’s what he says about ALEC:
“A group called the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC — at the direction of billionaire GOP donors Charles and David Koch and their corporate cohorts — is pushing to convene a constitutional convention, permitted under Article V of the Constitution. At their convention, they’d attempt to rewrite the Constitution to reduce the power of the people and enhance the power of big corporations.”
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He goes on to explain that only 34 states are needed to convene a constitutional convention, and that resolutions have already been passed in 28 states. What he didn’t mention is that any proposed amendments must be “ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof,” raising the actual requirement to 38. This gives us a little breathing room, but it’s still a terrible situation to be in and hardly anybody even knows about it. So, who is ALEC, and what do they do?
The American Legislative Exchange Council was formed in 1973 as the Conservative Caucus of State Legislators for the purposes of battling the Environmental Protection Agency as well as wage and price controls. ALEC is also said to have been behind the famous Powell Memorandum, which helped kick-start the business activism of the 1970’s with their attacks on taxes, regulations, and unions. How does ALEC accomplish its goals? Michael Kraft and Sheldon Kamieniecki of MIT Press summed it up in Business and environmental policy: corporate interests in the American political system:
“ALEC provides direct assistance to state legislators and firms eager to minimize any state government engagement in environmental protection. ALEC’s membership base includes nearly one-third of all sitting state legislators and most of its resources are derived from corporations and trade associations. It offers regular conferences and training sessions but is perhaps best known for drafting model bills that can easily be adopted by an individual state and introduced into a legislature.”
Around 200 of ALEC’s model bills are passed each year, while the rest of us can’t even get a town hall. This group needs to be exposed by anybody and everybody who cares about the Constitution, the environment, worker’s rights, income inequality, or voter suppression. Contact your senators and representatives to let them know how you feel about ALEC.
“Around 200 of ALEC’s model bills are passed each year, while the rest of us can’t even get a town hall. This group needs to be exposed by anybody and everybody who cares about the Constitution, the environment, worker’s rights, income inequality, or voter suppression.”
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