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"I am blind and my dog is dead" (Sam Gross, genius humorist and cartoonist)
Americans who find themselves financially with their backs against the wall or, worse, flat out prostrate, must focus their attention and anger on the proper, deserving targets: the Democratic party's national “leadership” which began forty years ago to seriously first betray and then simply abandon them. It's time to stop blaming Trump—if one does so—for being a not-quite-garden-variety rich Republican conservative who panders to certain of the wealthy elite's interests but certainly doesn't pander to all of them. Indeed, Trump shows a certain affinity for popular political desires where his Democratic party establishment “opposition” shows none at all.
Our immediate enemy isn't Trump or his supporters—many of whom are suffering the decline of American prosperity with us. Our immediate enemies are the people like Nancy Pelosi, Diane Feinstein, Charles Schumer and Steny Hoyer. We're going to go on suffering and losing until we find the sense and the gumption to get politically rid of these people once and for all.
Every House and Senate Democrat ought to be put on notice that, unless he or she openly and unambiguously calls for the replacement of the party's Congressional leadership, these members should expect to face a primary challenge for their seats in 2018*. And organizing that effort ought to begin now. This is a fight and it is properly our fight. Important influential members of the Democratic party—those, for example, who were allied with the aims and ambitions of Paul Wellstone when he was alive, if there remain any, ought to be demanding the forced replacemen, not the resignations of, Pelosi, Schumer, et al. By caucus votes in the House and Senate. Those votes should be on the record and that record should be used to indicate which of the Democratic party House and Senate membership we need to challenge and see defeated in races in 2018.
That Pelosi could actually meet her Congressional membership's grumbling about its leadership with what amounts to the utterly lame plea that “one doesn't change horses in the middle of the stream” is a scandalous disgrace when it ought to be obvious now that the “horse” on which we've been trying to ford the stream is lying dead under water. Or, by another metaphor, it's time to stop fashioning bludgeons and handing them to our political adversaries to be used against us. Only fools would do that. And poltically, Americans have been fools for much, much too long. It's long past time to start fighting back. And remember: the establishment mass-media will do everything it can to thwart any such effort to fight back—the foulest methods possible will be included.
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* in the case of senators, that being those Democratic party senators whose terms are up at the end of 2018, of course. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,_2018
Americans who find themselves financially with their backs against the wall or, worse, flat out prostrate, must focus their attention and anger on the proper, deserving targets: the Democratic party's national “leadership” which began forty years ago to seriously first betray and then simply abandon them. It's time to stop blaming Trump—if one does so—for being a not-quite-garden-variety rich Republican conservative who panders to certain of the wealthy elite's interests but certainly doesn't pander to all of them. Indeed, Trump shows a certain affinity for popular political desires where his Democratic party establishment “opposition” shows none at all.
Our immediate enemy isn't Trump or his supporters—many of whom are suffering the decline of American prosperity with us. Our immediate enemies are the people like Nancy Pelosi, Diane Feinstein, Charles Schumer and Steny Hoyer. We're going to go on suffering and losing until we find the sense and the gumption to get politically rid of these people once and for all.
Every House and Senate Democrat ought to be put on notice that, unless he or she openly and unambiguously calls for the replacement of the party's Congressional leadership, these members should expect to face a primary challenge for their seats in 2018*. And organizing that effort ought to begin now. This is a fight and it is properly our fight. Important influential members of the Democratic party—those, for example, who were allied with the aims and ambitions of Paul Wellstone when he was alive, if there remain any, ought to be demanding the forced replacemen, not the resignations of, Pelosi, Schumer, et al. By caucus votes in the House and Senate. Those votes should be on the record and that record should be used to indicate which of the Democratic party House and Senate membership we need to challenge and see defeated in races in 2018.
That Pelosi could actually meet her Congressional membership's grumbling about its leadership with what amounts to the utterly lame plea that “one doesn't change horses in the middle of the stream” is a scandalous disgrace when it ought to be obvious now that the “horse” on which we've been trying to ford the stream is lying dead under water. Or, by another metaphor, it's time to stop fashioning bludgeons and handing them to our political adversaries to be used against us. Only fools would do that. And poltically, Americans have been fools for much, much too long. It's long past time to start fighting back. And remember: the establishment mass-media will do everything it can to thwart any such effort to fight back—the foulest methods possible will be included.
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* in the case of senators, that being those Democratic party senators whose terms are up at the end of 2018, of course. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,_2018
