Trump is Obama’s Legacy: Will this Break up the Democratic Party?

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...The Democratic Party has lost its ability to pose as the party of labor and the middle class. Firmly controlled by Wall Street and California billionaires, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) strategy of identity politics encourages any identity except that of wage earners. The candidates backed by the Donor Class have been Blue Dogs pledged to promote Wall Street and neocons urging a New Cold War with Russia.

They preferred to lose with Hillary than to win behind Bernie Sanders. So Trump’s electoral victory is their legacy as well as Obama’s. Instead of Trump’s victory dispelling that strategy, the Democrats are doubling down. It is as if identity politics is all they have.

....Identity politics used to be about three major categories: workers and unionization, anti-war protests and civil rights marches against racist Jim Crow laws. These were the three objectives of the many nationwide demonstrations. That ended when these movements got co-opted into the Democratic Party. Their reappearance in Bernie Sanders’ campaign in fact threatens to tear the Democratic coalition apart. As soon as the primaries were over (duly stacked against Sanders), his followers were made to feel unwelcome. Hillary sought Republican support by denouncing Sanders as being as radical as Putin’s Republican leadership.

In contrast to Sanders’ attempt to convince diverse groups that they had a common denominator in needing jobs with decent pay – and, to achieve that, in opposing Wall Street’s replacing the government as central planner – the Democrats depict every identity constituency as being victimized by every other, setting themselves at each other’s heels. Clinton strategist John Podesta, for instance, encouraged Blacks to accuse Sanders supporters of distracting attention from racism. Pushing a common economic interest between whites, Blacks, Hispanics and LGBTQ always has been the neoliberals’ nightmare. No wonder they tried so hard to stop Bernie Sanders, and are maneuvering to keep his supporters from gaining influence in their party.
Trump is Obama’s Legacy: Will this Break up the Democratic Party?


Now, we are getting somewhere. Read the entire article.
 
Always so thoughtful, Seawytch. You didn't read a fucking thing.
 
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The entire duopoly is nothing more than a corporatist safe space.
Fuck them all.
I totally agree with this OP. I don't like how it makes Sanders out to be a good guy that has his shit together(two faced lying bastard)though.
 
Always so thoughtful, Seawytch. You didn't read a fucking thing.

There's nothing there to read. The Democratic Party isn't the problem. The problem lies in gerrymandering, lying, and Representatives who are elected in "safe districts". Obama is leading a campaign to re-draw districts based on geography, not politics, as the Founders intended. Good luck with holding the House when the vote is fair.
 
Always so thoughtful, Seawytch. You didn't read a fucking thing.

There's nothing there to read. The Democratic Party isn't the problem. The problem lies in gerrymandering, lying, and Representatives who are elected in "safe districts". Obama is leading a campaign to re-draw districts based on geography, not politics, as the Founders intended. Good luck with holding the House when the vote is fair.[/QUOTE/]

As the Representatives of Maryland gerrymander their safe districts based on politics, not geography.
 
Always so thoughtful, Seawytch. You didn't read a fucking thing.

There's nothing there to read. The Democratic Party isn't the problem. The problem lies in gerrymandering, lying, and Representatives who are elected in "safe districts". Obama is leading a campaign to re-draw districts based on geography, not politics, as the Founders intended. Good luck with holding the House when the vote is fair.[/QUOTE/]

As the Representatives of Maryland gerrymander their safe districts based on politics, not geography.

Gerrymandering is to 2000's politics what Jim Crow Laws were to post-Civil War politics - a vehicle by which poor people's votes are minimized. It's just as dishonest as many of the voter ID laws which Republicans have taken up passing in recent years - most of which target the elderly, the poor rural voters, to minimize the impact of urban and poor voters across the US.

This isn't just in opposition to Republican gerrymandering, it's in opposition gerrymandering by either party, but the bald fact is that Republicans lost the Congressional popular vote in 2012, but took back the House, and retained it ever since, largely on the backs of highly gerrymandered districts in every Republican held state in the Union.

With the recent Supreme Court decision came down on the side of voters' rights, and which allows voters to petition the Courts for a re-drafting of voting districts along geographic lines and not political ones, so even a Republican Supreme Court isn't ready to strip voters of their right to a fair election.

Barrack Obama and Eric Holder - two men who are highly capable community organizers, are mounting a campaign to ensure that every District in every state is re-drawn along geographic lines. Once Obama finishes with his vacation, the work will begin. They've already leased the office space and hired the staff.

Unlike the Liar-in-Chief in the White House, Obama does know how government works, and how the system has been rigged. And he's about to "unrig" it in favour of the voters, and undo this most unConstitutional assault on voters' rights that began when Obama was elected. It was done to minimize the effect of the urban voters and to ensure that white Republicans would continue to control the government.
 
Always so thoughtful, Seawytch. You didn't read a fucking thing.

There's nothing there to read. The Democratic Party isn't the problem. The problem lies in gerrymandering, lying, and Representatives who are elected in "safe districts". Obama is leading a campaign to re-draw districts based on geography, not politics, as the Founders intended. Good luck with holding the House when the vote is fair.[/QUOTE/]

As the Representatives of Maryland gerrymander their safe districts based on politics, not geography.

Gerrymandering is to 2000's politics what Jim Crow Laws were to post-Civil War politics - a vehicle by which poor people's votes are minimized. It's just as dishonest as many of the voter ID laws which Republicans have taken up passing in recent years - most of which target the elderly, the poor rural voters, to minimize the impact of urban and poor voters across the US.

This isn't just in opposition to Republican gerrymandering, it's in opposition gerrymandering by either party, but the bald fact is that Republicans lost the Congressional popular vote in 2012, but took back the House, and retained it ever since, largely on the backs of highly gerrymandered districts in every Republican held state in the Union.

With the recent Supreme Court decision came down on the side of voters' rights, and which allows voters to petition the Courts for a re-drafting of voting districts along geographic lines and not political ones, so even a Republican Supreme Court isn't ready to strip voters of their right to a fair election.

Barrack Obama and Eric Holder - two men who are highly capable community organizers, are mounting a campaign to ensure that every District in every state is re-drawn along geographic lines. Once Obama finishes with his vacation, the work will begin. They've already leased the office space and hired the staff.

Unlike the Liar-in-Chief in the White House, Obama does know how government works, and how the system has been rigged. And he's about to "unrig" it in favour of the voters, and undo this most unConstitutional assault on voters' rights that began when Obama was elected. It was done to minimize the effect of the urban voters and to ensure that white Republicans would continue to control the government.
Remind us again how they were able to create the districts in the first place. The only way they could was by winning the states' legislative branches, and they did that by mobilizing at the local level. IOW, by winning in the previously drawn districts.
 
Always so thoughtful, Seawytch. You didn't read a fucking thing.

There's nothing there to read. The Democratic Party isn't the problem. The problem lies in gerrymandering, lying, and Representatives who are elected in "safe districts". Obama is leading a campaign to re-draw districts based on geography, not politics, as the Founders intended. Good luck with holding the House when the vote is fair.[/QUOTE/]

As the Representatives of Maryland gerrymander their safe districts based on politics, not geography.

Gerrymandering is to 2000's politics what Jim Crow Laws were to post-Civil War politics - a vehicle by which poor people's votes are minimized. It's just as dishonest as many of the voter ID laws which Republicans have taken up passing in recent years - most of which target the elderly, the poor rural voters, to minimize the impact of urban and poor voters across the US.

This isn't just in opposition to Republican gerrymandering, it's in opposition gerrymandering by either party, but the bald fact is that Republicans lost the Congressional popular vote in 2012, but took back the House, and retained it ever since, largely on the backs of highly gerrymandered districts in every Republican held state in the Union.

With the recent Supreme Court decision came down on the side of voters' rights, and which allows voters to petition the Courts for a re-drafting of voting districts along geographic lines and not political ones, so even a Republican Supreme Court isn't ready to strip voters of their right to a fair election.

Barrack Obama and Eric Holder - two men who are highly capable community organizers, are mounting a campaign to ensure that every District in every state is re-drawn along geographic lines. Once Obama finishes with his vacation, the work will begin. They've already leased the office space and hired the staff.

Unlike the Liar-in-Chief in the White House, Obama does know how government works, and how the system has been rigged. And he's about to "unrig" it in favour of the voters, and undo this most unConstitutional assault on voters' rights that began when Obama was elected. It was done to minimize the effect of the urban voters and to ensure that white Republicans would continue to control the government.
Remind us again how they were able to create the districts in the first place. The only way they could was by winning the states' legislative branches, and they did that by mobilizing at the local level. IOW, by winning in the previously drawn districts.

There has always been an ebb and flow in partisan politics. The pendulum swings back and forth. It keeps the country balanced. What Republicans are doing with gerrymandering is ensuring that even with a pendulum swing to the left, the right will retain power. Republicans are doing this to ensure that the shifting racial demographics will have no effect on the elite white power structure.
 
Always so thoughtful, Seawytch. You didn't read a fucking thing.

There's nothing there to read. The Democratic Party isn't the problem. The problem lies in gerrymandering, lying, and Representatives who are elected in "safe districts". Obama is leading a campaign to re-draw districts based on geography, not politics, as the Founders intended. Good luck with holding the House when the vote is fair.[/QUOTE/]

As the Representatives of Maryland gerrymander their safe districts based on politics, not geography.

Gerrymandering is to 2000's politics what Jim Crow Laws were to post-Civil War politics - a vehicle by which poor people's votes are minimized. It's just as dishonest as many of the voter ID laws which Republicans have taken up passing in recent years - most of which target the elderly, the poor rural voters, to minimize the impact of urban and poor voters across the US.

This isn't just in opposition to Republican gerrymandering, it's in opposition gerrymandering by either party, but the bald fact is that Republicans lost the Congressional popular vote in 2012, but took back the House, and retained it ever since, largely on the backs of highly gerrymandered districts in every Republican held state in the Union.

With the recent Supreme Court decision came down on the side of voters' rights, and which allows voters to petition the Courts for a re-drafting of voting districts along geographic lines and not political ones, so even a Republican Supreme Court isn't ready to strip voters of their right to a fair election.

Barrack Obama and Eric Holder - two men who are highly capable community organizers, are mounting a campaign to ensure that every District in every state is re-drawn along geographic lines. Once Obama finishes with his vacation, the work will begin. They've already leased the office space and hired the staff.

Unlike the Liar-in-Chief in the White House, Obama does know how government works, and how the system has been rigged. And he's about to "unrig" it in favour of the voters, and undo this most unConstitutional assault on voters' rights that began when Obama was elected. It was done to minimize the effect of the urban voters and to ensure that white Republicans would continue to control the government.
Remind us again how they were able to create the districts in the first place. The only way they could was by winning the states' legislative branches, and they did that by mobilizing at the local level. IOW, by winning in the previously drawn districts.

There has always been an ebb and flow in partisan politics. The pendulum swings back and forth. It keeps the country balanced. What Republicans are doing with gerrymandering is ensuring that even with a pendulum swing to the left, the right will retain power. Republicans are doing this to ensure that the shifting racial demographics will have no effect on the elite white power structure.
Playing the race card? Really?

The truth is, both sides have tried to gerrymander their way to perpetual power. Why do you think the democrats held the House for 40 years until Newt beat them? You can't be so naive as to think that Republicans invented gerrymandering 10 years ago.
 
Always so thoughtful, Seawytch. You didn't read a fucking thing.

There's nothing there to read. The Democratic Party isn't the problem. The problem lies in gerrymandering, lying, and Representatives who are elected in "safe districts". Obama is leading a campaign to re-draw districts based on geography, not politics, as the Founders intended. Good luck with holding the House when the vote is fair.

No? No problem with a neoliberal agenda?


The Democrats can't run on zip. That's unfortunate.
 

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