PROGRESSIVE POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Tear It Down: Why Every Person at the DNC Should Be Fired” / Common Dreams / Cenk Uygur ☮

dnc-houseVoters couldn’t have been clearer in this election—they can’t stand the establishment.

There is a common stereotype that Democrats are by their nature weak and feckless. There was nothing weak about FDR. There was nothing weak about the New Deal or his audacious plan to pack the court. Ralph Nader wasn’t weak when he got Nixon to establish the EPA and OSHA. There was a time when liberals roared like lions.

So, what happened in the meanwhile that turned them into the perpetual losers they are today? Money in politics.

Now, a lot of people know that the Republican Party has been corrupted by their donors and that’s why they defend such outlandish positions as money being speech and corporations having inalienable human rights. But not a lot of people recognize what the money funded on the Democratic side—a political party meant to lose, built to lose.

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h/t: truthdig

PROGRESSIVE POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Establishment Dems Hope You’re as Dumb as They Are” / The Jimmy Dore Show / Jimmy Dore ☮

Establishment democrats in politics and the media have taken to the Internet to point fingers at everyone except the horrible candidate they insisted be the democratic nominee.