We know Senator Durbin is a weak leader who will take no further action on bringing Alito up on charges. I don't believe any one of the "old-guard" Dem leadership has the guts to challenge their Republican, i.e. fascist, colleagues. Although I agree with your position that Thomas and Alito must "resign or face impeachment" I don't believ…
We know Senator Durbin is a weak leader who will take no further action on bringing Alito up on charges. I don't believe any one of the "old-guard" Dem leadership has the guts to challenge their Republican, i.e. fascist, colleagues. Although I agree with your position that Thomas and Alito must "resign or face impeachment" I don't believe either scenario will happen. The only way we, the people, can save our democracy from falling into the abyss created by the traitors on the SC is to VOTE every Republican-fascist out of office in November. Bless former speaker Pelosi for having the guts to act swiftly and with purpose on January 6th. She, and she alone, saved our democracy.
Thom, I wish you had included the man I will always believe is responsible for the 🟠💩 win in 2016 in exposing how Republicans rigged election results through the years. James Comey knew exactly what he was doing when, a week before the election, announced another "review" of Clinton's emails. Earlier, he found nothing of concern in reviewing her emails. Yet, with so many undecided voters, voters who were leaning towards a vote for Clinton on the line, he pulled the "but her emails" line, dooming her election as the first woman president of the U.S.
But lets not forget, despite Comey, Hilary Clinton DID win the election, if the one person:one vote ratio would have been honored. Wasn't the count 70,000+ for Clinton? The Electoral college has got to go!
Alas, that is true, But let's not forget the times, women were still considered property of men, the founders did not trust the demos. Thomas Jefferson attended a business meeting of a Baptist church in Pittsylvania Co, VA and came away with a sour taste in his mouth for Democratic rule.
The Constitution did not make us a democracy,i took three amendments, the 15, 17th , and 19th.
Democracy is only 105 years old, the 19th amendment was passed in 1919
Well, yes. I've read a book or two in the past seventy-five years or so. I was referring only to the compromises made to get the Constitution ratified. The dear woman was complaining about the Electoral College. The other compromise was two Senators appionted, at first, by the states. Remember, black people were considered only 3/5ths of a white man for census perposes. I would suggest following Heather Cox Richarson, if you do not already.
I get Heathers newsletters. To be truthful, there is very little I learn from her, mainly because I am a historical and political junkee, but on occasion she drops a pearl. I am also 85 and been enmeshed in history and books for going on 8 decades.
You had a ten year or so head start on me. Heather's history chats were the whlole enchilada. She dug out events and documents that rarely were known when I was in school. She doen't have time, yhe past few years, but says she intends to get back to the chats when we know the nation will survive. Her news letters aren't history, just the context of the issues of the day, which are very helpful.
I, like yourself, am a history and political junkie. I learned how to read, at three years old, in 1951 when my uncle, who lived with us at the time, gave me Walt Kelly's "I Go Pogo". His first book, and a take off on I Like Ike, obviously. As a truant in elementary school, I could always be found in the library, reading my way from one end of the history section to the other. I aced all my high school history clsses without having to even read the text. Majored in history in college untill the draft was on my tail and I spent the next five years in a legal letter writing battle with my draft board, keeping units in easy classes to maintain the deferment. I survived.
Your story sounds quite a bit like mine, although I can't say I started reading at three, but at age 8 I checked out of the public library Homer's Odyssey, and at age 12 I read the bible.
I hated high school it was boring and repetitive and I spent my time looking out the window, eventually played truant, attended 90 days in three years, and age 17 I was given a choice between Daniel Boone (a school for juvenile delinquents) or to quit (I had tested second highest IQ in a school of thousands, but had the worst academic record, and caused many a guidance counselor to get fired, and the principal, evidently was under pressure, so I quit and after 2 months moved to Louisiana to live with my grandparents.
However I just didn't , waste my time in truancy, but went to the public library and read books under the supervision of the librarian, who understood, she guided my education and gave me an oral quiz. I read over 150 Classics, an also a lot of books about the War, which had come to an end only 18 years previously.
Didn't finish HS in Louisiana either, joined the service two months shy of 18, passed the HS and an AA GED, within a year. Bootstrap commissioning program attended university, 3.74 GPA, later a Masters with 3.47 GPA.
Thanks Eadie. The benefit of self learning is that your head is not full of the pablum they push in public and private schools., thus you are capable of arriving at your own opinions versus acquiring them from authorities, or pushed into your ego an id as beliefs.
There are a plethora of intelligence types. IMO, you have what is called fluid intelligence." It has a genetic component that is the ability to solve problems through non-verbal abstract reasoning. It is also linked to learning and memory" says nejm. On the other hand, there is something called crystallized intelligence that depends on prior knowledge and the ability to learn. You appear to have both. Whether you have emotional intelligence, I cannot comment on, however, it is a good predictor of academic achievement. It is second only to general intelligence." It consists of discovering, recognizing, and managing emotions and feelings."
I certainly do have emotional intelligence. My ability to read the room, and to read other people have enabled what would have otherwise been a skinny, under developed little kid from the projects to not only survive but to prosper in an otherwise hostile world.
I had joined the service as a high school dropout, was promoted ahead of schedule through the enlisted ranks, was a drill sergeant, though a blue eyed skinny .130 lb, 5'10, my troops saw a burly brown eyed hulk of 6' weighing 180 to 200 lbs.
The mind makes amazing adjustments to ones frame of reference to justify one's behavior.
From there I made my way into a Special Ops career, with all of that macho PT stuff, and training. I rose to become team leader enlisted, then after commissioning an officer.
To do that I had to be able to read the room and navigate the sharp edges of reailty, anticipate and stay one step ahead. I obviously succeeded.
Emotional intelligence (also known as emotional quotient or EQ) is the ability to understand, use, and manage your own emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, communicate effectively, empathize with others, overcome challenges and defuse conflict.
I do have it but am not especially motivated to use it, especially when it comes to being false and untrue to ones self.To be frank, that is how I managed to survive and prosper in an otherwise hostile environment.
BTW, FWIW, I have no idea of what it is like to be stressed or depressed.I guess if I lived in Alaska I would find out. I'm very Zen. I take life as it comes to me, and take steps to insure that what comes to me is palatable.
I'm 85 and in very good health, despite the fact that I am insulin resistant (genetic) and in remission from stage 4 lung cancer (environmental). My affairs are all in order, provisions made for my wife and family, and I am donating my corpse to science via MedCure.
Anything else I can help you with?
Oh and I am very opinionated, it took my 8 decades to arrive at the opinions I hold, but present me some solid facts and I will easily change an opinion or two, nothing is rock solid.
And Native Americans couldn't vote till 1924 and people of color in much of the country couldn't vote till the mid-1960s. "Aspiring democracy" is more like it. And until we the people deal with the fourth and arguably most powerful branch of government -- money, aka those with economic power -- we're not going to make much headway.
I could not agree more. I just received a fund raising letter. It seems that Trump has raised 86 million from the wealthy, including tech, $800,000 each.
With a parliamentary system, which IIRC most of the world's democracies have, there's no need for an Electoral College. The prime minister is chosen by the dominant party or coalition in parliament.
Yet Trump lost the popular vote by 2.87 million votes. the states that made him president were the Swing states, the Great Lakes Rust Belt, the states that lost jobs because her husband signed two bills that resulted in their jobs being shipped to Mexico and Asia. NAFTA and GATT
Those States were Wisconsin, 10 electoral votes, Indiana 11 votes, Michigan 16, Ohio, 18, PA 20
No doubt that Comey, Russia cost Hillary popular votes, but the elections were lost and won in Swing States, anything else is rationalization.
Winning football coaches engage in after play analysis and self evaluation, making excuses is not the way to win.
Agree on points Clinton sold out the working class with NAFTA, etc. The aftermath was brushed into dust by a complicit media and a spectacularly silent Democratic Party. Still can't believe how elected Democrats and media wrote "three lines of 'ain't it a shame and forget it'".
All kinds of theories about the birth of MAGA, but shipping jobs out of their country made trusting DC just too much for working people to swallow. Clinton and Gore signed NAFTA in and gave birth to the beast, IMHO.
MAGA is the result of evolution. In my voting time, it started with Goldwater, when he lost, Bill Buckley Jr, was the intellectual god head of the Conservative movement, with Nixon and his southern strategy it evolved some more, with Reagan capitalizing on Nixon, and adding anti union, and the agenda of Jerry Falwell and his ImMOral majority,, it picked up steam with Newt Gingrich and the Tea Party, then the Freedom Caucus, and by the time Trump, who had been a racist Democrat, was solicited to run for President. His unleashed racism. broke the cultural dam, and all of the pent up hate, fear, angst of white nationalist, theocratic patriotism came busting forth in the form of MAGA, it has always been there, but lacked an organizing principle and a name, and and was tamped down by a civil society. That no longer exists.
Yes. The pro fascist movement has been pounding on our doors, trying to get in for decades. They succeeded in getting recent footholds with Nixon and Reagan, who seeded the courts with right wingers. Trump was the bull who broke down the door completely, with the money hungry press acting as his cheerleaders.
The shipping of our jobs overseas began when Reagan changed our economy from one based on business, over to one that was totally financial. The bottom line profit numbers became more important than investment in business and producing a better product/service. Wall Street became master. Short term, immediate gains supplanted long term growth.
Pennsylvania gave trump the 20 votes for one reason: Jill stein. She got about 40,000 protest votes from democrats who were sure that Hillary was going to win anyway, so they could remain their infantile, pure progressive selves, and cast a vote against her knowing that “ trump could never win!” He took Pennsylvania by only 20,000 votes.
Thank you I totally agree. The same happened in Michigan and other rust belt states.
The problem is with the DNC,it's criteria for Presidential Candidate, and even gubernatorial candidate, for example the loser Terry McAuliffe who lost to GlenYoungkin in Virginia;
The DNC rewards the faithful, the old tired race horses, that have been trotting around the paddock accumulating credentials, of which the most important to the DNC has been foreign service credentials, mainly because their major donors are international finance. Bill Clinton in 21 Speechs, praised international financial institutions, and when he left the White House (broke by the way) they rewarded him with his own non profit, the Clinton Global Initiative, which provided him a steady income.
Hillary ran against Obama in the primary and lost because of the black vote (which the Republicans have taken notice of). Obama won the General, again because of the black and white liberal vote, perhaps the first time the black population was really motivated to vote.
The Republicans picked up on that and have fronted their own black candidates, the Stephens (Django unchained) are legion, except for President, no white racist will ever vote for a black President or VP.
When Hillary lost to Obama, and Obama won the General, the DNC had Obama appoint Hillary as Secretary of State to burnish what they thought were the all important Foreign Service Credentials, the people in the vital swings states could have cared less, what they saw was Clinton and their jobs being shipped to Mexico and Asia.
The DNC, it's backers, analysts, advisors and Hillary herself, can not accept facts and reality, anymore than Trump and his cult can, that the people rejected her, like the people rejected Trump. They had to come up with excuses rather than admit that they had nominated a flawed candidate.
If they admit to a flawed candidate, then that means they have to change their criteria.
This election we have two aged candidates, one, Trump, suffering from dementia, as well as other health problems,like being unable to control his bowels,and a candidate that is showing signs of old age. I'm 85 and have difficulty verbally expressing myself as well, he also suffers the disability of being politically raised to be "bipartisan" and is now forced to act contrary to his nature, where as Trump has been pugilistic all of his life.
The DNC, because of it's decades long policies and priorities has not developed young blood and the young blood that has been transfused, like the Progressive Caucus, is like transfusing A Negative into a B Positive blood stream..
The only candidates the Democrats have in their stable, are the old tired race horses that have been trodding around the paddock, picking up credentials, biding their time till hauled to the starting gate. They had a chance after the last election to change that but they keep selecting old school loyalists.
The problem is not just the DNC but the DCCC and DSCC, Pelosi absolutely hates progressives and the Freedom caucus, and backed a Demopub, Joseph Kennedy Jr, in his run for Senator against a tried and true progressive Sen Markey of Mass, and lost. She also backed a radical catholic anti Obama care, anti Choice homophobe , who against aMarie Newman, endorsed by the likes of Emily's list and the HRC in a run for Congress. She backed 7 term anti abortion, homophobic Dan Lipinski of Illinois against a pro choice, gay friendly
Lipinski had routinely voted against Pelosi as minority leader.
Pelosi is typical of professional Democrats she has no principles, party is all. She is also the 4th wealthiest Democratic Representative and the 7th Wealthiest Representative
here is a list of the wealthiest, it will amaze you and explain why we are in deep shit
Bottom line, the old guard, the equivocating, bipartisan professionals are terrified of new blood, new blood has taken over the Republican party with the ascent of the Trump cult, but there is no countervailing force its equal in the Democratic party, and thus the fascists are running roughshod over Democracy.
I maintain there are leftist fascists and rightist fascists, but all we have ever seen on the political scene is right wing fascists, Hitler, Mussolini, William Jennings Bryan, Huey Long, Father Coughlin, Pat Buchanan, Trump
The only left wing populist who has run for President is Bernie Sanders, but there has been a successful effort to smear all populism with the same brush, when the only populism that has succeed is right wing populism.
If interested there are articles on wikipedia about Left Wing Populism and Right Wing Populism, but I don't agree with them entirely. I know how wikipedia is edited and bias does show up.
As an example wikipedia styles the Sandinistas as left wing populism,, and they aren't as Daniel Ortega has subsequently proven.
The article on Right Wing populism claims that a quality is economic nationalism, and that is false, the left wants to keep investments and jobs in America, that is nationalism, while the right is globalist and financially backed by globalists.
Good points. However, this time around, Biden HAD to announce two years ago that he was running again. If he hadn't, he'd have been treated like a 'lame duck' for the second half of his term. He had no choice. And I'd bet he'd prefer to not be running again, too!
He could have changed his mind after he announced.
But the problem is that the DNC has not groomed anyone for the job,and are afraid to, those that have a chance of beating the Republicans are those popular with the people and have no baggage, and those types scare the donors who are a primary source of funds for the Democratic Party.
Look at how the DNC screwed up the Governorship of Virginia. Terry McAuliffe is one of the old tired race horses, waiting for his time to be called to the starting post, completely out of touch with the electorate and the popular mood. He said that teachers should have the right and say as to what is taught, and the mood in conservative areas especially, is that parents have that right. Result: Youngkin, who pretended to be reasonable, won and proved himself a MAGAt after taking office.
I'm also pretty old; and I am quite sure that the times are finally changing. This election will be the last with the old guard running things. I'm eagerly waiting for the progressives to get a bigger voice.
We know Senator Durbin is a weak leader who will take no further action on bringing Alito up on charges. I don't believe any one of the "old-guard" Dem leadership has the guts to challenge their Republican, i.e. fascist, colleagues. Although I agree with your position that Thomas and Alito must "resign or face impeachment" I don't believe either scenario will happen. The only way we, the people, can save our democracy from falling into the abyss created by the traitors on the SC is to VOTE every Republican-fascist out of office in November. Bless former speaker Pelosi for having the guts to act swiftly and with purpose on January 6th. She, and she alone, saved our democracy.
Thom, I wish you had included the man I will always believe is responsible for the 🟠💩 win in 2016 in exposing how Republicans rigged election results through the years. James Comey knew exactly what he was doing when, a week before the election, announced another "review" of Clinton's emails. Earlier, he found nothing of concern in reviewing her emails. Yet, with so many undecided voters, voters who were leaning towards a vote for Clinton on the line, he pulled the "but her emails" line, dooming her election as the first woman president of the U.S.
But lets not forget, despite Comey, Hilary Clinton DID win the election, if the one person:one vote ratio would have been honored. Wasn't the count 70,000+ for Clinton? The Electoral college has got to go!
Oh my god,YES! What a stupid stupid system we have, that absolutely NO one else in the world has!
The reat of the world did not have to appease the slaver states to approve the Constitution.
Alas, that is true, But let's not forget the times, women were still considered property of men, the founders did not trust the demos. Thomas Jefferson attended a business meeting of a Baptist church in Pittsylvania Co, VA and came away with a sour taste in his mouth for Democratic rule.
The Constitution did not make us a democracy,i took three amendments, the 15, 17th , and 19th.
Democracy is only 105 years old, the 19th amendment was passed in 1919
Well, yes. I've read a book or two in the past seventy-five years or so. I was referring only to the compromises made to get the Constitution ratified. The dear woman was complaining about the Electoral College. The other compromise was two Senators appionted, at first, by the states. Remember, black people were considered only 3/5ths of a white man for census perposes. I would suggest following Heather Cox Richarson, if you do not already.
I get Heathers newsletters. To be truthful, there is very little I learn from her, mainly because I am a historical and political junkee, but on occasion she drops a pearl. I am also 85 and been enmeshed in history and books for going on 8 decades.
You had a ten year or so head start on me. Heather's history chats were the whlole enchilada. She dug out events and documents that rarely were known when I was in school. She doen't have time, yhe past few years, but says she intends to get back to the chats when we know the nation will survive. Her news letters aren't history, just the context of the issues of the day, which are very helpful.
I, like yourself, am a history and political junkie. I learned how to read, at three years old, in 1951 when my uncle, who lived with us at the time, gave me Walt Kelly's "I Go Pogo". His first book, and a take off on I Like Ike, obviously. As a truant in elementary school, I could always be found in the library, reading my way from one end of the history section to the other. I aced all my high school history clsses without having to even read the text. Majored in history in college untill the draft was on my tail and I spent the next five years in a legal letter writing battle with my draft board, keeping units in easy classes to maintain the deferment. I survived.
Your story sounds quite a bit like mine, although I can't say I started reading at three, but at age 8 I checked out of the public library Homer's Odyssey, and at age 12 I read the bible.
I hated high school it was boring and repetitive and I spent my time looking out the window, eventually played truant, attended 90 days in three years, and age 17 I was given a choice between Daniel Boone (a school for juvenile delinquents) or to quit (I had tested second highest IQ in a school of thousands, but had the worst academic record, and caused many a guidance counselor to get fired, and the principal, evidently was under pressure, so I quit and after 2 months moved to Louisiana to live with my grandparents.
However I just didn't , waste my time in truancy, but went to the public library and read books under the supervision of the librarian, who understood, she guided my education and gave me an oral quiz. I read over 150 Classics, an also a lot of books about the War, which had come to an end only 18 years previously.
Didn't finish HS in Louisiana either, joined the service two months shy of 18, passed the HS and an AA GED, within a year. Bootstrap commissioning program attended university, 3.74 GPA, later a Masters with 3.47 GPA.
I am largely an autodidact.
It shows, William. The reason I subscribed to this newsletter was because of your comments and the general community on this newsletter.
Thanks Eadie. The benefit of self learning is that your head is not full of the pablum they push in public and private schools., thus you are capable of arriving at your own opinions versus acquiring them from authorities, or pushed into your ego an id as beliefs.
There are a plethora of intelligence types. IMO, you have what is called fluid intelligence." It has a genetic component that is the ability to solve problems through non-verbal abstract reasoning. It is also linked to learning and memory" says nejm. On the other hand, there is something called crystallized intelligence that depends on prior knowledge and the ability to learn. You appear to have both. Whether you have emotional intelligence, I cannot comment on, however, it is a good predictor of academic achievement. It is second only to general intelligence." It consists of discovering, recognizing, and managing emotions and feelings."
I certainly do have emotional intelligence. My ability to read the room, and to read other people have enabled what would have otherwise been a skinny, under developed little kid from the projects to not only survive but to prosper in an otherwise hostile world.
I had joined the service as a high school dropout, was promoted ahead of schedule through the enlisted ranks, was a drill sergeant, though a blue eyed skinny .130 lb, 5'10, my troops saw a burly brown eyed hulk of 6' weighing 180 to 200 lbs.
The mind makes amazing adjustments to ones frame of reference to justify one's behavior.
From there I made my way into a Special Ops career, with all of that macho PT stuff, and training. I rose to become team leader enlisted, then after commissioning an officer.
To do that I had to be able to read the room and navigate the sharp edges of reailty, anticipate and stay one step ahead. I obviously succeeded.
Emotional intelligence (also known as emotional quotient or EQ) is the ability to understand, use, and manage your own emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, communicate effectively, empathize with others, overcome challenges and defuse conflict.
I do have it but am not especially motivated to use it, especially when it comes to being false and untrue to ones self.To be frank, that is how I managed to survive and prosper in an otherwise hostile environment.
BTW, FWIW, I have no idea of what it is like to be stressed or depressed.I guess if I lived in Alaska I would find out. I'm very Zen. I take life as it comes to me, and take steps to insure that what comes to me is palatable.
I'm 85 and in very good health, despite the fact that I am insulin resistant (genetic) and in remission from stage 4 lung cancer (environmental). My affairs are all in order, provisions made for my wife and family, and I am donating my corpse to science via MedCure.
Anything else I can help you with?
Oh and I am very opinionated, it took my 8 decades to arrive at the opinions I hold, but present me some solid facts and I will easily change an opinion or two, nothing is rock solid.
And Native Americans couldn't vote till 1924 and people of color in much of the country couldn't vote till the mid-1960s. "Aspiring democracy" is more like it. And until we the people deal with the fourth and arguably most powerful branch of government -- money, aka those with economic power -- we're not going to make much headway.
I could not agree more. I just received a fund raising letter. It seems that Trump has raised 86 million from the wealthy, including tech, $800,000 each.
Indeed we have the best government money can buy.
With a parliamentary system, which IIRC most of the world's democracies have, there's no need for an Electoral College. The prime minister is chosen by the dominant party or coalition in parliament.
Hillary won nation wide by three million votes
It was 3 million, nation wide. Biden won by 7 million.
It takes 64 senators to enforce a subpoena. Concentrate on DOJ.
Yet Trump lost the popular vote by 2.87 million votes. the states that made him president were the Swing states, the Great Lakes Rust Belt, the states that lost jobs because her husband signed two bills that resulted in their jobs being shipped to Mexico and Asia. NAFTA and GATT
Those States were Wisconsin, 10 electoral votes, Indiana 11 votes, Michigan 16, Ohio, 18, PA 20
No doubt that Comey, Russia cost Hillary popular votes, but the elections were lost and won in Swing States, anything else is rationalization.
Winning football coaches engage in after play analysis and self evaluation, making excuses is not the way to win.
Agree on points Clinton sold out the working class with NAFTA, etc. The aftermath was brushed into dust by a complicit media and a spectacularly silent Democratic Party. Still can't believe how elected Democrats and media wrote "three lines of 'ain't it a shame and forget it'".
All kinds of theories about the birth of MAGA, but shipping jobs out of their country made trusting DC just too much for working people to swallow. Clinton and Gore signed NAFTA in and gave birth to the beast, IMHO.
As if the Republicans opposed it. It was their idea... Clinton acquiesced.
IMHO they were not ready for a woman. [That was a period.]
Absolutely true. I saw that in people I know.
MAGA is the result of evolution. In my voting time, it started with Goldwater, when he lost, Bill Buckley Jr, was the intellectual god head of the Conservative movement, with Nixon and his southern strategy it evolved some more, with Reagan capitalizing on Nixon, and adding anti union, and the agenda of Jerry Falwell and his ImMOral majority,, it picked up steam with Newt Gingrich and the Tea Party, then the Freedom Caucus, and by the time Trump, who had been a racist Democrat, was solicited to run for President. His unleashed racism. broke the cultural dam, and all of the pent up hate, fear, angst of white nationalist, theocratic patriotism came busting forth in the form of MAGA, it has always been there, but lacked an organizing principle and a name, and and was tamped down by a civil society. That no longer exists.
Yes. The pro fascist movement has been pounding on our doors, trying to get in for decades. They succeeded in getting recent footholds with Nixon and Reagan, who seeded the courts with right wingers. Trump was the bull who broke down the door completely, with the money hungry press acting as his cheerleaders.
The shipping of our jobs overseas began when Reagan changed our economy from one based on business, over to one that was totally financial. The bottom line profit numbers became more important than investment in business and producing a better product/service. Wall Street became master. Short term, immediate gains supplanted long term growth.
Pennsylvania gave trump the 20 votes for one reason: Jill stein. She got about 40,000 protest votes from democrats who were sure that Hillary was going to win anyway, so they could remain their infantile, pure progressive selves, and cast a vote against her knowing that “ trump could never win!” He took Pennsylvania by only 20,000 votes.
Thank you I totally agree. The same happened in Michigan and other rust belt states.
The problem is with the DNC,it's criteria for Presidential Candidate, and even gubernatorial candidate, for example the loser Terry McAuliffe who lost to GlenYoungkin in Virginia;
The DNC rewards the faithful, the old tired race horses, that have been trotting around the paddock accumulating credentials, of which the most important to the DNC has been foreign service credentials, mainly because their major donors are international finance. Bill Clinton in 21 Speechs, praised international financial institutions, and when he left the White House (broke by the way) they rewarded him with his own non profit, the Clinton Global Initiative, which provided him a steady income.
Hillary ran against Obama in the primary and lost because of the black vote (which the Republicans have taken notice of). Obama won the General, again because of the black and white liberal vote, perhaps the first time the black population was really motivated to vote.
The Republicans picked up on that and have fronted their own black candidates, the Stephens (Django unchained) are legion, except for President, no white racist will ever vote for a black President or VP.
When Hillary lost to Obama, and Obama won the General, the DNC had Obama appoint Hillary as Secretary of State to burnish what they thought were the all important Foreign Service Credentials, the people in the vital swings states could have cared less, what they saw was Clinton and their jobs being shipped to Mexico and Asia.
The DNC, it's backers, analysts, advisors and Hillary herself, can not accept facts and reality, anymore than Trump and his cult can, that the people rejected her, like the people rejected Trump. They had to come up with excuses rather than admit that they had nominated a flawed candidate.
If they admit to a flawed candidate, then that means they have to change their criteria.
This election we have two aged candidates, one, Trump, suffering from dementia, as well as other health problems,like being unable to control his bowels,and a candidate that is showing signs of old age. I'm 85 and have difficulty verbally expressing myself as well, he also suffers the disability of being politically raised to be "bipartisan" and is now forced to act contrary to his nature, where as Trump has been pugilistic all of his life.
The DNC, because of it's decades long policies and priorities has not developed young blood and the young blood that has been transfused, like the Progressive Caucus, is like transfusing A Negative into a B Positive blood stream..
The only candidates the Democrats have in their stable, are the old tired race horses that have been trodding around the paddock, picking up credentials, biding their time till hauled to the starting gate. They had a chance after the last election to change that but they keep selecting old school loyalists.
The problem is not just the DNC but the DCCC and DSCC, Pelosi absolutely hates progressives and the Freedom caucus, and backed a Demopub, Joseph Kennedy Jr, in his run for Senator against a tried and true progressive Sen Markey of Mass, and lost. She also backed a radical catholic anti Obama care, anti Choice homophobe , who against aMarie Newman, endorsed by the likes of Emily's list and the HRC in a run for Congress. She backed 7 term anti abortion, homophobic Dan Lipinski of Illinois against a pro choice, gay friendly
Lipinski had routinely voted against Pelosi as minority leader.
Pelosi is typical of professional Democrats she has no principles, party is all. She is also the 4th wealthiest Democratic Representative and the 7th Wealthiest Representative
here is a list of the wealthiest, it will amaze you and explain why we are in deep shit
https://ballotpedia.org/Net_worth_of_United_States_Senators_and_Representatives
Bottom line, the old guard, the equivocating, bipartisan professionals are terrified of new blood, new blood has taken over the Republican party with the ascent of the Trump cult, but there is no countervailing force its equal in the Democratic party, and thus the fascists are running roughshod over Democracy.
I maintain there are leftist fascists and rightist fascists, but all we have ever seen on the political scene is right wing fascists, Hitler, Mussolini, William Jennings Bryan, Huey Long, Father Coughlin, Pat Buchanan, Trump
The only left wing populist who has run for President is Bernie Sanders, but there has been a successful effort to smear all populism with the same brush, when the only populism that has succeed is right wing populism.
If interested there are articles on wikipedia about Left Wing Populism and Right Wing Populism, but I don't agree with them entirely. I know how wikipedia is edited and bias does show up.
As an example wikipedia styles the Sandinistas as left wing populism,, and they aren't as Daniel Ortega has subsequently proven.
The article on Right Wing populism claims that a quality is economic nationalism, and that is false, the left wants to keep investments and jobs in America, that is nationalism, while the right is globalist and financially backed by globalists.
Good points. However, this time around, Biden HAD to announce two years ago that he was running again. If he hadn't, he'd have been treated like a 'lame duck' for the second half of his term. He had no choice. And I'd bet he'd prefer to not be running again, too!
He could have changed his mind after he announced.
But the problem is that the DNC has not groomed anyone for the job,and are afraid to, those that have a chance of beating the Republicans are those popular with the people and have no baggage, and those types scare the donors who are a primary source of funds for the Democratic Party.
Look at how the DNC screwed up the Governorship of Virginia. Terry McAuliffe is one of the old tired race horses, waiting for his time to be called to the starting post, completely out of touch with the electorate and the popular mood. He said that teachers should have the right and say as to what is taught, and the mood in conservative areas especially, is that parents have that right. Result: Youngkin, who pretended to be reasonable, won and proved himself a MAGAt after taking office.
I'm also pretty old; and I am quite sure that the times are finally changing. This election will be the last with the old guard running things. I'm eagerly waiting for the progressives to get a bigger voice.