If Democrats continue to ignore the American working class’ increasing hatred of neoliberal policies — particularly so-called “free trade” — they’ll get buried by it in the next elections
Some dots need to be connected, from "furrners are stealin' our jobs" to "What the h... is 'neoliberal'-what?" Have to give a shout-out to Ross Perot along the way. "The electorate" is not the progressives who got it in 1992, except the nativist "electorate" maybe get it that Bill Clinton did it to us. You know: the "Democrat." Thom, you are right about everything, but isn't only the choir listening? Shall Bernie go once more into the lists against Hawley? Can't run one of the uppity females, or others on the so-effectively demonized list. Biden's age shows, and Kamala will lose on style points. Sorry, but it's gonna take a miracle, and mere reality and history obviously don't make the grade. I'm sorry, but can't somebody mount a shameless smear attack on Sheldon Adelson and widow connecting noxious Jewish, jewish, jewish money to Republicans? Works for them. Abiding above the sleaze seems to be a losing strategy.
I am encouraged by more posts like yours on The Democratic Party. I found another one last week and shared with my Democrat friends here in Galveston County, Texas. Here is what I shared from that similar article:
The Democratic Party - Representing The Donor class or The Worker class?
Key quotes about today’s Democratic Party: With which I agree:
- “What really is at issue is just whom the Democratic Party (and their duopoly partners the Republicans too, of course) supports: corporate lobbyists and the Donor Class, or wage-earning voters seeking economic policies that benefit them as employees, consumers and debtors.”
- “Democrats calling themselves “centrist” or “moderate” insist that the Progressives surrender to the Manchin-Sinema rewrite of the original version of the Build Back Better (BBB) act and make it into a grab-bag benefiting the Five Percent instead of the 95 Percent by replacing its most popular proposals with giveaways to the wealthy – as if this will win elections. Or at least, win campaign financing for the party.”
- “In today’s U.S. political duopoly the role of the Democratic Party is to protect the Republicans from attacks from the left. What the Republicans and centrists want is the “hard” business infrastructure program, not its pro-labor elements.” To that end, “the BBB that was downsized first from $6.5 billion to $3.5 billion, and now to a reported $1.8 billion."
--- “Neoliberal Clintonite centrists vetoed Progressive proposals to pay for their program by passing one of the most popular taxes of all: a tax on financial trading gains, to be collected by closing the carried-interest tax loophole that frees financial speculators and money managers from having to pay income tax on their gains, lowering the rate to the capital-gains tax rate. The heavy hand of Wall Street campaign donors far outweighs what voters want – including reversing the Trump Administration’s income-tax cuts for the wealthiest classes.”
--- “While downsizing these early popular elements, Congress has increased its giveaway to the Donor Class in an attempt to win them over. Most egregious is cutting taxes for the wealthiest home owners, especially on the East Coast, by raising the income-tax deductibility of property taxes – the State and Local Tax (SALT) – from $10,000 to $72,500.”
--- “The Democratic leadership argues that failure to increase subsidies and tax breaks for the economy’s wealthiest rentier layer, and to cut back social spending for wage-earners, will threaten their electoral prospects – by reducing their fundraising appeal to the Donor Class.”
- “The Democratic leadership policy is to back the candidates who are able to raise the most money. For most candidates the lion’s share come from these lobbyists and special interests, for whom their donations are a business investment."
- “In the United States, the debt [to wealthy donors] is not as crassly monetary. What is owed to donors is political support. The job description for a politician is to deliver voter support to one’s campaign contributors. That is how oligarchies suppress democracy, today as in the Roman Republic.”
- “Being a moderate means not interfering with the economic trends that are polarizing the U.S. economy between the rentier One Percent at the top and the increasingly indebted 99 Percent.”
- “The Democratic Party leadership has opposed the influence of the Progressive Congressional Caucus from the beginning. This is oligarchy, not democracy.”
--- “What really is democracy, after all? It is the ability of voters to get legislated the policies that they want – and which presumably are in their economic and social interests. But the process is manipulated by the DNC’s reliance on the Donor Class. Its political program is simply a marketing vehicle, with no “truth in advertising” regulation."
- “The Democrats’ calculation has been something like, 'OK, we’ve written off the working class. But maybe we can get some voters to think of themselves as some other identity.’ … But cultural pandering to identity politics fails when voters see their economic condition as being the most important political issue.“ Until The Democrats address massive economic inequality, The Theft of $50 Trillion since 1975, they will keep losing elections.
While a lying, white-supremacist, minority of the GQP leads that party, the wealthy leaders of a dying Democratic Party remain dedicated to their loser strategy and blame others who don’t make Party decisions. The “buck stops” where?
As long as money is speech and corporate personhood is a thing, the donor class will decide where the "buck stops." All the rest of the issues you've noted so well in your comment are merely the consequences of the oligarchs grifting us into the 6th Mass Extinction.
Widely attributed to American author and social critic H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) but not found exactly verbatim in his published works, so the source and original form of this expression are not known with absolute certainty.[1]
Likely a nearly verbatim paraphrase of: "No one in this world, so far as I know ... has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people."[2]
We need some plain speaking, here. The oligarchs hire it: Soros: Jew: bad. Taxes: you pay tax: more tax bad. Free trade? What does that even, like, mean? Wal-Mart: cheap: good. Job: Mexican: bad Mexican. Uppity female: real bad. Shrill. Furrin or colored uppity female: end of Western Civilizashun. I'm sorry, but the oligarchs are communicating, the elitist intelligentsia are just losing, bye.
Ten months, that's how long Dems have been in a "barely there" majority. I swear if Joe cured cancer (and he wants to), he would not get an ounce of credit for it. People are overwrought, period, end of story. Of course trade policy concerning jobs is part of that picture, but with some power back in the hands of workers, I wonder what they will be thinking three years from now.
From what I could find on the subject, President Biden is not keen on any new trade agreements. He gets it, so do the vast majority of our party. The others seem to think there is a sweet spot where we can reduce the trade deficit and keep jobs. Throw in the issue that we need to be self sufficient for the necessities, and you have a whole lot of messages Dems need to communicate to the voters.
Anger, that's where Trump, Hawley and Republicans connect with the pissed-off people in the middle. That is not our style, and when a Democratic candidate dares to be anything but calm and reasoned they don't look intelligent and capable. What will be the mood of the 41% come 2022 and 2024? I hope it will have improved, even if Joe isn't given any credit.
Some dots need to be connected, from "furrners are stealin' our jobs" to "What the h... is 'neoliberal'-what?" Have to give a shout-out to Ross Perot along the way. "The electorate" is not the progressives who got it in 1992, except the nativist "electorate" maybe get it that Bill Clinton did it to us. You know: the "Democrat." Thom, you are right about everything, but isn't only the choir listening? Shall Bernie go once more into the lists against Hawley? Can't run one of the uppity females, or others on the so-effectively demonized list. Biden's age shows, and Kamala will lose on style points. Sorry, but it's gonna take a miracle, and mere reality and history obviously don't make the grade. I'm sorry, but can't somebody mount a shameless smear attack on Sheldon Adelson and widow connecting noxious Jewish, jewish, jewish money to Republicans? Works for them. Abiding above the sleaze seems to be a losing strategy.
Agreed, The republican lies need to be exposed and the media sure isn't doing it.
I am encouraged by more posts like yours on The Democratic Party. I found another one last week and shared with my Democrat friends here in Galveston County, Texas. Here is what I shared from that similar article:
The Democratic Party - Representing The Donor class or The Worker class?
Key quotes about today’s Democratic Party: With which I agree:
- “What really is at issue is just whom the Democratic Party (and their duopoly partners the Republicans too, of course) supports: corporate lobbyists and the Donor Class, or wage-earning voters seeking economic policies that benefit them as employees, consumers and debtors.”
- “Democrats calling themselves “centrist” or “moderate” insist that the Progressives surrender to the Manchin-Sinema rewrite of the original version of the Build Back Better (BBB) act and make it into a grab-bag benefiting the Five Percent instead of the 95 Percent by replacing its most popular proposals with giveaways to the wealthy – as if this will win elections. Or at least, win campaign financing for the party.”
- “In today’s U.S. political duopoly the role of the Democratic Party is to protect the Republicans from attacks from the left. What the Republicans and centrists want is the “hard” business infrastructure program, not its pro-labor elements.” To that end, “the BBB that was downsized first from $6.5 billion to $3.5 billion, and now to a reported $1.8 billion."
--- “Neoliberal Clintonite centrists vetoed Progressive proposals to pay for their program by passing one of the most popular taxes of all: a tax on financial trading gains, to be collected by closing the carried-interest tax loophole that frees financial speculators and money managers from having to pay income tax on their gains, lowering the rate to the capital-gains tax rate. The heavy hand of Wall Street campaign donors far outweighs what voters want – including reversing the Trump Administration’s income-tax cuts for the wealthiest classes.”
--- “While downsizing these early popular elements, Congress has increased its giveaway to the Donor Class in an attempt to win them over. Most egregious is cutting taxes for the wealthiest home owners, especially on the East Coast, by raising the income-tax deductibility of property taxes – the State and Local Tax (SALT) – from $10,000 to $72,500.”
--- “The Democratic leadership argues that failure to increase subsidies and tax breaks for the economy’s wealthiest rentier layer, and to cut back social spending for wage-earners, will threaten their electoral prospects – by reducing their fundraising appeal to the Donor Class.”
- “The Democratic leadership policy is to back the candidates who are able to raise the most money. For most candidates the lion’s share come from these lobbyists and special interests, for whom their donations are a business investment."
- “In the United States, the debt [to wealthy donors] is not as crassly monetary. What is owed to donors is political support. The job description for a politician is to deliver voter support to one’s campaign contributors. That is how oligarchies suppress democracy, today as in the Roman Republic.”
- “Being a moderate means not interfering with the economic trends that are polarizing the U.S. economy between the rentier One Percent at the top and the increasingly indebted 99 Percent.”
- “The Democratic Party leadership has opposed the influence of the Progressive Congressional Caucus from the beginning. This is oligarchy, not democracy.”
--- “What really is democracy, after all? It is the ability of voters to get legislated the policies that they want – and which presumably are in their economic and social interests. But the process is manipulated by the DNC’s reliance on the Donor Class. Its political program is simply a marketing vehicle, with no “truth in advertising” regulation."
- “The Democrats’ calculation has been something like, 'OK, we’ve written off the working class. But maybe we can get some voters to think of themselves as some other identity.’ … But cultural pandering to identity politics fails when voters see their economic condition as being the most important political issue.“ Until The Democrats address massive economic inequality, The Theft of $50 Trillion since 1975, they will keep losing elections.
While a lying, white-supremacist, minority of the GQP leads that party, the wealthy leaders of a dying Democratic Party remain dedicated to their loser strategy and blame others who don’t make Party decisions. The “buck stops” where?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/11/05/is-this-the-end-of-the-unreformable-democratic-party/
As long as money is speech and corporate personhood is a thing, the donor class will decide where the "buck stops." All the rest of the issues you've noted so well in your comment are merely the consequences of the oligarchs grifting us into the 6th Mass Extinction.
(fromWikipedia)
Widely attributed to American author and social critic H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) but not found exactly verbatim in his published works, so the source and original form of this expression are not known with absolute certainty.[1]
Likely a nearly verbatim paraphrase of: "No one in this world, so far as I know ... has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people."[2]
We need some plain speaking, here. The oligarchs hire it: Soros: Jew: bad. Taxes: you pay tax: more tax bad. Free trade? What does that even, like, mean? Wal-Mart: cheap: good. Job: Mexican: bad Mexican. Uppity female: real bad. Shrill. Furrin or colored uppity female: end of Western Civilizashun. I'm sorry, but the oligarchs are communicating, the elitist intelligentsia are just losing, bye.
We don't have enough workers now. How on earth would we meet the demands in the future??
Ten months, that's how long Dems have been in a "barely there" majority. I swear if Joe cured cancer (and he wants to), he would not get an ounce of credit for it. People are overwrought, period, end of story. Of course trade policy concerning jobs is part of that picture, but with some power back in the hands of workers, I wonder what they will be thinking three years from now.
From what I could find on the subject, President Biden is not keen on any new trade agreements. He gets it, so do the vast majority of our party. The others seem to think there is a sweet spot where we can reduce the trade deficit and keep jobs. Throw in the issue that we need to be self sufficient for the necessities, and you have a whole lot of messages Dems need to communicate to the voters.
Anger, that's where Trump, Hawley and Republicans connect with the pissed-off people in the middle. That is not our style, and when a Democratic candidate dares to be anything but calm and reasoned they don't look intelligent and capable. What will be the mood of the 41% come 2022 and 2024? I hope it will have improved, even if Joe isn't given any credit.