The democratic establishment must adopt the Mamdani recipe:
1. Speak with clarity
2. Be unafraid of what you stand for
3. Follow through with the promises you made to the people who put you in power
4. Dump the consulting class
5. Depend on small donors
6. Avoid the purchasers of politicians.
With this recipe, Mamdani, despite being an unabashed Muslim, and unequivocal about the plight of Palestinians, was elected in a landslide. Republicans and Democrats all want a government that works for them, not one that waffles and takes away their benefits.
The biggest obstacle is the Democratic Party, it plays at being liberal (but not progressive, because it is dependent on Donor Cash and PAC's like AIPAC, run afoul of them and the party will do deep oppo research, to remove the threat.
There is an oh my lawd feinting spell within the heirarchy at the moment, as it looks like the Squad is going to double its numbers, and they went all out to get rid of Platner, his big sin being critical of Israel. The all powerful AIPAC was horified. AIPAC is the tool by which to control the Democratic Party, while End times, rapture, Evangelicals need no Political Action Committee, their religion is self organizing.
Regardless progressives are the enemy of the money powers, that control both parties.
Wow! That was an excellent article with a powerful ending in Louise’s Daily Song.
The Democrats have to get on it! Bring it to the voters who are so so confused about everything - thanks to, in particular but not only the Democrats seeming inability to communicate effectively and Trump’s incredible ability to construct a fantasy and communicate it effectively through his weird mangled style.
The ruling class needs to keep us divided by income, race, gender, and religion in order to keep us from realizing we are being exploited by a very small number of thieves. Similarly, we are divided against each other into nations, so that we feel like a gradual migration is an invasion, and we characterize our own attacks on other nations as "defense". Maybe we all will start to wise up, now that Trump has made ruling-class duplicity so obvious.
We have more in common with the working families of the world than the superficial differences the wealth class keeps blasting about in the media they own.
Thom, so true. The vast majority of our population, the working people, who pay all the taxes to support the running of our country DO basically want the same thing.
This division of direction and ideals must halt if we’re to save the US as a county of opportunity and guaranteed rights of the individual from collapsing.
So many important things have been attacked so quickly and so viciously that we have definitely gone into fight mode as a country instead of build mode. This division and anger isn’t directed at what our real problems stem from.
We want to believe we are right and everyone else is the enemy out of apathy, frustration, and fear. We secretly feel our real enemy is too smart and powerful to fight.
We have to start circling the wagons and start thinking critically to protect ourselves from the big money and greed that got us here instead of merely lashing out and feeling vulnerable.
We the people are the vast majority. We the people do the work to feed and build. We the people deserve decent lives, safe work and play, with clean air, clean water, pesticide-free food. But the same people also want affordable, comfortable modern living, affordable education, and affordable, state-of-the-art modern medical care for ourselves and family. We also want affordable vacations and fun for ourselves and family. Why is this not in our reach? We are still the richest country in the world. But not for long. The buzzards have stopped circling and have landed.
Our money, our hard earned money is being systematically siphoned off to pay for trumped up wars and oligarch greedy, schemes. All this goes into the pockets of power hungry elitist billionaires and people too out of touch with society who believe they are the only ones who deserve a decent life.
These people use OUR power and wealth to herd us into isolated areas of ignorance, too poor— too tired to even help ourselves any longer.
We work and pay for them to live in splendor,
send their children to the best schools, build isolated bunkers to protect themselves from us the ones really paying for all this. They are able to and use their ill gotten gains and tax avoidance schemes to hoard and hide money or use it as if it were worthless tinder to be burned.
We, the people are being systematically dumbed down, hypnotized by media, and drugged into submission, and we are fast becoming some of the unhealthiest people in the world. But, we the people ARE ALLOWING THIS!
We are infighting so much and half of us are brain washed by media like FOX and X that we no longer talked to each other. We no longer travel with our families and see how others so close to us live and work. We’re so full of resentment and fear of losing the we want easy answers that set fire to the other guy—who we refuse to believe is in fact just like us.
Undirected rage is basically unfocused energy wasted. We must as a people turn off the constant chatter of meaningless media. Control AI and treat it like the parasite tool it is. And force the mega rich to pay their debt to us, the ones who make their lives possible.
What makes my head hurt is that the MAGAs voted Trump into office and it was a disaster. He let COVID get out of hand, and was only saved by a vaccine miracle thanks to Dr. Fauci, whom Trump later tried to toss in prison. Now Trump's 2nd-term is a train wreck. Even his health secretary is a dead-dog eating antivaxxer. The rest of his cabinet are unqualified nincompoops. MAGAs even elected a Congress full of right-wing sycophants with no sense of dignity or integrity.
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Yes, the Dems left open the door to the WH by trying to hide Biden's dementia. Now we have a president so demented that even some MSM writers are daring to point out that Trump is off his rocker.
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So, will MAGAs prefer a commie libtard over a proven demented president who insults all our allies, invades countries he promised never to do, sends trillions to billionaires, jacks the cost of all healthcare, gas for the car, food on the table, etc., and makes housing unaffordable just because racism clouds their judgement?
“That’s the one conversation the billionaires and their bought-off lickspittle politicians are truly terrified of.” Those “lickspittle politicians” include virtually the entire establishment (corporate) Democratic “leadership” class and their calcified, cautious consultants. It is increasingly obvious that our best defense against fascism is the Democratic Socialists of America and the like, a fact increasingly obvious to voters. The establishment Dems are currently working to leverage Graham Platner’s downfall to their craven advantage, and they’ll surely get their panties in knots over the resurrected “commie” charges; they must be ignored. Our 250th anniversary is a perfect opportunity to renew our vows and recommit to a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. We can and must defeat the forces opposed to that ideal, whoever they may be.
Exactly! We have to emphasize that we need to return, in spirit, to the New Deal and The Great Society; with updates to address the 21st Century problems!
An Albanian woman protester put it profoundly simple. Paraphrasing ; “They” think “their” greed & power can justify everything they do. Source; Democracy Now this morning. We must keep “slinging” equitable democratic ideals until this Goliath mentality falls !
One of your points that ironically doesn’t get much coverage is the difference in mainstream media coverage between the 24/7 visceral coverage of “record inflation” in 2022 and 2024 that propelled Republicans to victory in both elections versus the relative media silence about Trump’s inflation today. Another big difference is causation. Analysis shows 54% of the “inflation” in 2022 and 53% in 2023 and 2024 was caused by corporate price gouging…precisely to make Biden and the Dems look bad for both elections. Just check out corporate profits, CEO compensation and stock buybacks for those years for the oil industry, meat and poultry industry. A Republican colleague of mine has relatives who raise cattle. The colleague said: “Their fuel and grain costs have gone up, but they aren’t being paid any more for their cattle. So, why have meat prices gone through the roof?” Answer: to cause inflation to give the Republicans an issue to run on in 2022 and 2024. Republicans are still bringing up the “Biden inflation” caused by Republican CEO donors.
Conversely, THIS inflation is caused by Trump’s tariffs and his war with Iran. Still, after at least four years of record and near record profits, plus billions in U.S. subsidies per year, look for the CEOs to temporarily lower prices before the November election to help Trump and Republicans…again.
Good point. Quantitative easing also contributed to inflation then, given how much more money was added to try and offset the worst of the slowdown during the pandemic. And then the Fed stopped putting in money, which took adjustment. There also were bad supply chain disruptions at this time, made worse as people and businesses tried to satisfied their pent-up demands. The Democrats did a terrible job explaining any of this, not that most Americans are very good at understanding economics anyway. People were angry about inflation; as my father said, they will "vote their pocketbooks", and the Republicans jumped on that. Just maybe voters will turn on them now, thanks to the economic effects of this idiotic war. Trump certainly knows how mad people can get over rising gas and food prices, and his promises to immediately lower them are ringing more and more hollow.
THERE IS ONE THING TH HARD RIGHT IS COUNTING ON, THAT WE LOSE HOPE
AND STOP VOTING, STOP FIGHTING. IT IS PEOPLE LIKE YOU, THOM, ADAM KINZINGER,
AARON PARNAS, THAT KEEP OUR ATTENTION FOCUSED ON THE RIGHT TARGETS.
CHURCHILL FAMOUSLY SAID, "THE DARKEST HOUR IS JUST BEFORE THE DAWN".
THAT IS WHERE WE ARE NOW.
AND THE DAWN IS JUST FOUR MONTHS AWAY, WHEN DEMOCRATS WILL TAKE THE HOUSE AND CHANGE THE DOWNHILL CASCADE OF AMERICA. WHEN THAT HAPPENS, TRUMP AND HIS CRONIES WILL BE SO EMBROILED IN UNDER OATH DEPOSITIONS AND SUBPOENAS, AND CONGRESS WILL BE LEANING LEFT, THAT THEIR ABILITY TO CONTROL THIS NATION WILL END.
AND THEN, IN JUST OVER TWO YEARS, TRUMP WILL BE GONE. THE SUN WILL RISE ON A
DAY WHEN SOMEONE ELSE LIVES IN THE WHITE HOUSE, AND AMERICA WILL AT LAST BE FREE OF HIM.
We’re experiencing a class war; one declared by the morbidly rich against the rest of us.
The democratic establishment must adopt the Mamdani recipe:
1. Speak with clarity
2. Be unafraid of what you stand for
3. Follow through with the promises you made to the people who put you in power
4. Dump the consulting class
5. Depend on small donors
6. Avoid the purchasers of politicians.
With this recipe, Mamdani, despite being an unabashed Muslim, and unequivocal about the plight of Palestinians, was elected in a landslide. Republicans and Democrats all want a government that works for them, not one that waffles and takes away their benefits.
The biggest obstacle is the Democratic Party, it plays at being liberal (but not progressive, because it is dependent on Donor Cash and PAC's like AIPAC, run afoul of them and the party will do deep oppo research, to remove the threat.
There is an oh my lawd feinting spell within the heirarchy at the moment, as it looks like the Squad is going to double its numbers, and they went all out to get rid of Platner, his big sin being critical of Israel. The all powerful AIPAC was horified. AIPAC is the tool by which to control the Democratic Party, while End times, rapture, Evangelicals need no Political Action Committee, their religion is self organizing.
Regardless progressives are the enemy of the money powers, that control both parties.
Wow! That was an excellent article with a powerful ending in Louise’s Daily Song.
The Democrats have to get on it! Bring it to the voters who are so so confused about everything - thanks to, in particular but not only the Democrats seeming inability to communicate effectively and Trump’s incredible ability to construct a fantasy and communicate it effectively through his weird mangled style.
"Weird mangled style" that he calls "the weave." Lol.
I like my version better. Ha!
The ruling class needs to keep us divided by income, race, gender, and religion in order to keep us from realizing we are being exploited by a very small number of thieves. Similarly, we are divided against each other into nations, so that we feel like a gradual migration is an invasion, and we characterize our own attacks on other nations as "defense". Maybe we all will start to wise up, now that Trump has made ruling-class duplicity so obvious.
We have more in common with the working families of the world than the superficial differences the wealth class keeps blasting about in the media they own.
Thom, so true. The vast majority of our population, the working people, who pay all the taxes to support the running of our country DO basically want the same thing.
This division of direction and ideals must halt if we’re to save the US as a county of opportunity and guaranteed rights of the individual from collapsing.
So many important things have been attacked so quickly and so viciously that we have definitely gone into fight mode as a country instead of build mode. This division and anger isn’t directed at what our real problems stem from.
We want to believe we are right and everyone else is the enemy out of apathy, frustration, and fear. We secretly feel our real enemy is too smart and powerful to fight.
We have to start circling the wagons and start thinking critically to protect ourselves from the big money and greed that got us here instead of merely lashing out and feeling vulnerable.
We the people are the vast majority. We the people do the work to feed and build. We the people deserve decent lives, safe work and play, with clean air, clean water, pesticide-free food. But the same people also want affordable, comfortable modern living, affordable education, and affordable, state-of-the-art modern medical care for ourselves and family. We also want affordable vacations and fun for ourselves and family. Why is this not in our reach? We are still the richest country in the world. But not for long. The buzzards have stopped circling and have landed.
Our money, our hard earned money is being systematically siphoned off to pay for trumped up wars and oligarch greedy, schemes. All this goes into the pockets of power hungry elitist billionaires and people too out of touch with society who believe they are the only ones who deserve a decent life.
These people use OUR power and wealth to herd us into isolated areas of ignorance, too poor— too tired to even help ourselves any longer.
We work and pay for them to live in splendor,
send their children to the best schools, build isolated bunkers to protect themselves from us the ones really paying for all this. They are able to and use their ill gotten gains and tax avoidance schemes to hoard and hide money or use it as if it were worthless tinder to be burned.
We, the people are being systematically dumbed down, hypnotized by media, and drugged into submission, and we are fast becoming some of the unhealthiest people in the world. But, we the people ARE ALLOWING THIS!
We are infighting so much and half of us are brain washed by media like FOX and X that we no longer talked to each other. We no longer travel with our families and see how others so close to us live and work. We’re so full of resentment and fear of losing the we want easy answers that set fire to the other guy—who we refuse to believe is in fact just like us.
Undirected rage is basically unfocused energy wasted. We must as a people turn off the constant chatter of meaningless media. Control AI and treat it like the parasite tool it is. And force the mega rich to pay their debt to us, the ones who make their lives possible.
What makes my head hurt is that the MAGAs voted Trump into office and it was a disaster. He let COVID get out of hand, and was only saved by a vaccine miracle thanks to Dr. Fauci, whom Trump later tried to toss in prison. Now Trump's 2nd-term is a train wreck. Even his health secretary is a dead-dog eating antivaxxer. The rest of his cabinet are unqualified nincompoops. MAGAs even elected a Congress full of right-wing sycophants with no sense of dignity or integrity.
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Yes, the Dems left open the door to the WH by trying to hide Biden's dementia. Now we have a president so demented that even some MSM writers are daring to point out that Trump is off his rocker.
----------
So, will MAGAs prefer a commie libtard over a proven demented president who insults all our allies, invades countries he promised never to do, sends trillions to billionaires, jacks the cost of all healthcare, gas for the car, food on the table, etc., and makes housing unaffordable just because racism clouds their judgement?
“That’s the one conversation the billionaires and their bought-off lickspittle politicians are truly terrified of.” Those “lickspittle politicians” include virtually the entire establishment (corporate) Democratic “leadership” class and their calcified, cautious consultants. It is increasingly obvious that our best defense against fascism is the Democratic Socialists of America and the like, a fact increasingly obvious to voters. The establishment Dems are currently working to leverage Graham Platner’s downfall to their craven advantage, and they’ll surely get their panties in knots over the resurrected “commie” charges; they must be ignored. Our 250th anniversary is a perfect opportunity to renew our vows and recommit to a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. We can and must defeat the forces opposed to that ideal, whoever they may be.
Dear Tom,
Exactly! We have to emphasize that we need to return, in spirit, to the New Deal and The Great Society; with updates to address the 21st Century problems!
It’s instructive to ponder what Schumer, Gillibrand, Jeffries, Martin, et.al., would do to FDR and Johnson.
Excellent summary!
An Albanian woman protester put it profoundly simple. Paraphrasing ; “They” think “their” greed & power can justify everything they do. Source; Democracy Now this morning. We must keep “slinging” equitable democratic ideals until this Goliath mentality falls !
One of your points that ironically doesn’t get much coverage is the difference in mainstream media coverage between the 24/7 visceral coverage of “record inflation” in 2022 and 2024 that propelled Republicans to victory in both elections versus the relative media silence about Trump’s inflation today. Another big difference is causation. Analysis shows 54% of the “inflation” in 2022 and 53% in 2023 and 2024 was caused by corporate price gouging…precisely to make Biden and the Dems look bad for both elections. Just check out corporate profits, CEO compensation and stock buybacks for those years for the oil industry, meat and poultry industry. A Republican colleague of mine has relatives who raise cattle. The colleague said: “Their fuel and grain costs have gone up, but they aren’t being paid any more for their cattle. So, why have meat prices gone through the roof?” Answer: to cause inflation to give the Republicans an issue to run on in 2022 and 2024. Republicans are still bringing up the “Biden inflation” caused by Republican CEO donors.
Conversely, THIS inflation is caused by Trump’s tariffs and his war with Iran. Still, after at least four years of record and near record profits, plus billions in U.S. subsidies per year, look for the CEOs to temporarily lower prices before the November election to help Trump and Republicans…again.
Good point. Quantitative easing also contributed to inflation then, given how much more money was added to try and offset the worst of the slowdown during the pandemic. And then the Fed stopped putting in money, which took adjustment. There also were bad supply chain disruptions at this time, made worse as people and businesses tried to satisfied their pent-up demands. The Democrats did a terrible job explaining any of this, not that most Americans are very good at understanding economics anyway. People were angry about inflation; as my father said, they will "vote their pocketbooks", and the Republicans jumped on that. Just maybe voters will turn on them now, thanks to the economic effects of this idiotic war. Trump certainly knows how mad people can get over rising gas and food prices, and his promises to immediately lower them are ringing more and more hollow.
THERE IS ONE THING TH HARD RIGHT IS COUNTING ON, THAT WE LOSE HOPE
AND STOP VOTING, STOP FIGHTING. IT IS PEOPLE LIKE YOU, THOM, ADAM KINZINGER,
AARON PARNAS, THAT KEEP OUR ATTENTION FOCUSED ON THE RIGHT TARGETS.
CHURCHILL FAMOUSLY SAID, "THE DARKEST HOUR IS JUST BEFORE THE DAWN".
THAT IS WHERE WE ARE NOW.
AND THE DAWN IS JUST FOUR MONTHS AWAY, WHEN DEMOCRATS WILL TAKE THE HOUSE AND CHANGE THE DOWNHILL CASCADE OF AMERICA. WHEN THAT HAPPENS, TRUMP AND HIS CRONIES WILL BE SO EMBROILED IN UNDER OATH DEPOSITIONS AND SUBPOENAS, AND CONGRESS WILL BE LEANING LEFT, THAT THEIR ABILITY TO CONTROL THIS NATION WILL END.
AND THEN, IN JUST OVER TWO YEARS, TRUMP WILL BE GONE. THE SUN WILL RISE ON A
DAY WHEN SOMEONE ELSE LIVES IN THE WHITE HOUSE, AND AMERICA WILL AT LAST BE FREE OF HIM.
ALLELUIA !!!