Today I’m going to take a stab at a topic I’ve been avoiding. It’s a topic that provides (I hope) the context within which my political choices make sense.
Let’s talk about climate change.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― Upton Sinclair
People that talk about "pragmatism" and "electability" should check their privilege.
Not white privilege. I'm talking about the vastly more important and influential privilege of money.
Exhibit A: Bill Maher
21 minutes long
To spare those the agony of listening to political bafflegab, in have bravely volunteered myself to listen for you. The uncompressed version of the conversations are in the video.
First of all, this is a fight that Pelosi wanted.
Sure, I know most of you have completely given up on the Dems.
Nevertheless, it's still a good thing by anyone's measure to see the Democratic establishment forced to have to publicly fight it's own base's demands for reform.
Forget the polls. Forget what the voters want.
The real question is who the ruling elite want our political figurehead to be.
There are several ways to measure this.
...and a similar headline--regarding today's Times article--over at CommonDreams.org, on Tuesday: "As Sanders 2020 Campaign Gains Steam, Corporate Democrats Reportedly 'Growing Increasingly Nervous'," are basically telegraphing to the public that the writing's on the wall, as far as the Democratic Party's status quo's 2020 Presidential Primary campaign strategy is concerned.
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Hawaii Congresswoman and Iraq War Veteran Tulsi Gabbard is getting very, very close now to qualifying for inclusion into the 2020 Democratic Primary Debates.
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Recently, Teodrose Fikre wrote a very interesting and insightful article about former President Barack Obama, titled, The First Bank President. Even without seeing Obama's picture at the top of the article, I knew that it was about Barack Obama.
