

Nothing. He’s always been a bullyish jerk. The national media never covered it. And his opponent was objectively worse.
Nothing. He’s always been a bullyish jerk. The national media never covered it. And his opponent was objectively worse.
Bread and circuses. As long as they aren’t starving, and the forth estate only covers media circuses. Not actually reporting. They’ll never know.
The whole vegan pet abuse thing caused a lot of bad blood over a few bad actors. But you’re always going to have a few bad actors virtue signaling.
Yes I never bothered with pronouns before. And it didn’t bother me when people used them. I’m giving some serious thought to using them more now just to piss them off. It seems only right.
He at least got Social Security and a few other things passed. Though they set to work immediately gutting it all. And this was before the worst of world war ii. But they didn’t learn from that and they haven’t learned since.
He 100% did. In return for not releasing the evidence and basically scrubbing it’s from the history books. He got some of his Great Society legislation passed. Which they promptly gutted and rendered useless. Because fascists are remorseless sociopaths.
FDR waved prosecution in exchange for the fascist senators involved. Voting for his legislation.
Burning those libraries
Just fascist things
It would make it harder. Because instead of a single national level party for oligarchs to buy. They would have to buy 51 state level groups. Groups that live, with their constituents. Are answerable to their constituents. Not across the country from them.
Power corrupts. Concentrated power more so. If you want a party responsive to the people. To push against things like citizens united that hurt the people. Give power and voice to the people. Not some oligarchs or vanguard. Not a few nameless unaccountable rubes on the other side of the continent.
Well it’s either that or Democrats continue to be beholden to the oligarchs.
Consider that you may have had better, and less biased when it comes to foreign affairs media. You’re comparing apples to oranges here. Still I don’t have a lot of sympathy for these people. It doesn’t take a lot of effort to be basically informed. But so many people don’t consume information unless it’s spoon fed to them. And that isn’t happening here.
This is all absolutely true. Though it is important to point out that it actually is better than what came before.
But just because it’s better than what we previously had does not mean that it’s good enough or that we should have stopped. We absolutely do need to basically dismantle the national leadership and build up locally. The national Democratic party should only be a facilitator for state democratic parties and not the core.
Yes that’s probably fair. They would have to be willfully ignorant at that point I would think.
Again if you weren’t in the New York area. Or highly online/ informed your average person surprisingly isn’t going to know that. The 4th estate has failed us for decades. It’s gotten worse recently but it’s not been good or healthy for a long time
I’m with you. We all knew this would happen because were all politically engaged and moderately informed. Your average person isn’t. And the media does this on purpose. And yes it is definitely cathartic to point laugh and ridicule them for their obvious ignorance. I wish we could figure out a way to break through that ignorance. We’d be doing ourselves a lot more good than catharsis.
There’s no money in it for the this quarter. Their attention spans can’t last any longer than that. It might make them a hundred times the money two years down the road. But they don’t care
The primary process was absolutely far too weighed towards national leadership. But it wasn’t “rigged”. Obama winning proved that. No matter how many excuses you make. Hillary and many in the national party were sure pissed about it. And yet they didn’t change the rules.
Yes national leadership had their pick. They always have. But even the courts didn’t find that the party had rigged anything or done anything in violation of the rules. Tropicaldingdong’s own links elsewhere in the threads prove it an disprove his claims. Leaving them just quoting Donald Trump to support their claims. And if Donald Trump is your source of truth you have problems.
Before this the party simply picked a candidate at the convention. The public didn’t get to vote.
It wasn’t a very democratic primary process ironically. It was definitely far too weighed towards national leadership. But hardly rigged. It’s hyperbolic and unconstructive to even claim. The fact Obama won only illustrates that. Rules didn’t change between Obama and Sanders. Organizations are allowed to set their own rules within reason. And Sanders helped make them better.
And despite all that. So many people who claimed to support Sanders seem so focused on hindering him. Ask yourself why has Sanders not echoed your claims. Why hasn’t he been a party to any of the laughable failed suits supposedly filed in defense of him. Think critically. I’m no fan of the national Democratic party. I think the state parties should take leadership back. This doesn’t do that. All these false claims do is aid the fascists.
If you want to punish national Democrats. Don’t enable fascists with division. Build your local and state party to be independent of the national party. It’s what we all need to do. And that will make them listen.
Sounds like “heil honey, I’m home”