So many of you have asked that I repost “How to Talk to Your Uncle Bob over the Holidays” video, given what’s occurred. The point is civility, on both sides.
Voters 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.
h/t: truthdig
As the aftermath of the election of Donald Trump is being sorted out, a common theme keeps cropping up from all sides-”Democrats failed to understand white, working class, fly-over America.” Trump supports are saying this. Progressive pundits are saying this. Talking heads across all forms of the media are saying this. Even some Democratic leaders are saying this. It doesn’t matter how many people say it, it is complete bullshit. It is an intellectual/linguistic sleight of hand meant to throw attention away from the real problem. The real problem isn’t east coast elites don’t understand or care about rural America. The real problem is rural America doesn’t understand the causes of their own situations and fears and they have shown no interest in finding out. They don’t want to know why they feel the way they do or why they are struggling because the don’t want to admit it is in large part because of choices they’ve made and horrible things they’ve allowed themselves to believe.
I grew up in rural, Christian, white America. You’d be hard-pressed to find an area in the country that has a higher percentage of Christians or whites. I spent most of the first twenty-four years of my life deeply embedded in this culture. I religiously (*pun intended) their Christian services. I worked off and on, on their rural farms. I dated their calico skirted daughters. I camped, hunted, and fished with their sons. I listened to their political rants at the local diner and truck stop. I winced at their racist/bigoted jokes and epitaphs that were said more out of ignorance than animosity. I have also watched the town I grew up in go from a robust economy with well-kept homes and infrastructure turn into a struggling economy with shuttered businesses, dilapidated homes, and a broken down infrastructure over the past thirty years. The problem isn’t that I don’t understand these people. The problem is they don’t understand themselves, the reasons for their anger/frustrations, and don’t seem to care to know why.
Time Magazine published an absurd article comparing Bernie Sanders to Ralph Nader that was full of idiotic comparisons.
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.
Against all odds, Donald Trump has won the election and will be our new President. That. Is. Horrifying. What does this mean for our country?
Barack Obama’s final months include adding to his legacy a record of turning his back on Native Americans protesting the Dakota Access pipeline.
Will the mainstream media challenge President Donald Trump, don’t count on it. Malcolm Fleschner breaks down how important the press is to our democracy and why we need them to stand up against the establishment now more than ever.
TYT Politics Reporter Jordan Chariton (https://twitter.com/JordanChariton) did a Facebook Live report, ripping into the corporatist Democrats who want to go about business as usual after an embarrassing loss to Donald Trump and the Republicans.
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