Going to the center never works
Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 09/12/2018 - 12:55pmFormer President Jimmy Carter had a warning for Democrats yesterday.
Former President Jimmy Carter had a warning for Democrats yesterday.
The progressive insurgency has scored some big victories this year, but if you think the Dems have learned anything, I have a bridge for sale.
Yesterday, in the (Must Read if You Hope to be Informed in the US) Evening Blues, our news curator, joe shikspack, directed us with a simple link to an attempted interview with Chris Hedges, which was posted at Naked Capitalism.
Parts of the interview, by John Siman, are a study in "sentence fragment syndrome" as a sign that a finger in the dike is all that is standing between you and a deluge of uncanny clarity pouring forth from one of the foremost towering minds in American culture today — Chris Hedges.
Now is a good time to take a step back and look at the big picture.
Is the effort to reform the calcified and corrupt Democratic Party working?
Short answer: the results are mixed.
The corrupt Democratic Party establishment is starting to get concerned because the base of the party is beginning to demand actual results. So the reactionary forces that have controlled the party for decades are mobilizing.
Back in 2016, right after the election, former Sen. Joe Lieberman gave what he probably considered a dire warning.
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The Democrats are that one homely kid that gets picked last for dodgeball.
The Democrats are so unpopular that TheOnion articles look like NY Times headlines.
-- read Chris Wright's recent essay on Counterpunch, The Stupefying Mediocrity of Barack Obama. Here I will give this piece a go-over, pointing out its highly amusing word choices. It's not as if Wright is wrong, or as if his politics were suspect, or anything like that.