Dunno if this was posted here but I saw this in PoliERA:
This could be a movement, I'd love to see more women run like this.
"The people closest to the pain should be closest to the power."
godfuckingdamnit ain't that the truth.
Dunno if this was posted here but I saw this in PoliERA:
This could be a movement, I'd love to see more women run like this.
There are places with a job guarantee and higher education for all?
so ummmm...how does Hannity make these things sound bad? This is a really great list lol
Looking at the candidates page for the Justice Democrats is giving me goosebumps. Candidates from many races are presented. Looking at it makes you wonder what an ideal version of congress in the US would look like and that candidate makeup is it.
https://now.justicedemocrats.com/candidates
Also check out Brand New Congress.Looking at the candidates page for the Justice Democrats is giving me goosebumps. Candidates from many races are presented. Looking at it makes you wonder what an ideal version of congress in the US would look like and that candidate makeup is it.
https://now.justicedemocrats.com/candidates
I just relocated to Omaha where Kara Eastman also just pulled an upset against a Dem incumbent. Won't be as easy here in Nebraska for a W though. She's gonna need help.Looking at the candidates page for the Justice Democrats is giving me goosebumps. Candidates from many races are presented. Looking at it makes you wonder what an ideal version of congress in the US would look like and that candidate makeup is it.
https://now.justicedemocrats.com/candidates
She's so charming and intelligent. I watched her interview on Colbert and I really liked her. Hope we will continue to see more of her in the future.
And here's Colbert's interview with her. And her response to the question "are you going to be nicer to the president" was "Trump ain't ready for a girl from the Brox."
"The people closest to the pain should be closest to the power."
godfuckingdamnit ain't that the truth.
Given that she has an econ degree I would be legit shocked if she meant anything past SocDem.
His audience is more of the mindset that it's those other senior who shouldn't get support, not me.It's probably asking too much, but I hope that there's at least one sixty-five year old in his audience that thinks "Wait, Sean thinks supporting me is a bad thing?"
Marx was good at identifying problems, but not addressing or analyzing them. Modern economics' basic concepts (trade is not zero sum, private ownership is generally good but imperfect and needs regulation) goes really hard against the foundations of Marxist thinking. Both it and the Austrian school (on the right) are not going to be considered legitimate means of analysis in today's world.Explain. 86% of all marxists I know have a degree in economics, and 67% have it from Boston (Ocasio Cortez has a degree from Pardee at BU)... wouldn't be shocked if they have David Harvey in the curriculum.
Her ideas are straight from Marx. They resulted in the poverty and ultimately death of millions of people in the last hundred years. They've never worked and it won't work today. I'm sad for our country and New York.
WTF at those yt comments
She will be one vote in the entire House of Representatives and she may help introduce leftist programs and legislation in her two year tenure in a likely Democratic House next year.
Her voice is important, but also don't pretend that this means the introduction of "commie" politics in the US.
Her ideas are straight from Marx. They resulted in the poverty and ultimately death of millions of people in the last hundred years. They've never worked and it won't work today. I'm sad for our country and New York.
Her ideas are straight from Marx. They resulted in the poverty and ultimately death of millions of people in the last hundred years. They've never worked and it won't work today. I'm sad for our country and New York.
WTF at those yt comments
Her ideas are straight from Marx. They resulted in the poverty and ultimately death of millions of people in the last hundred years. They've never worked and it won't work today. I'm sad for our country and New York.
Her ideas are straight from Marx. They resulted in the poverty and ultimately death of millions of people in the last hundred years. They've never worked and it won't work today. I'm sad for our country and New York.
WTF at those yt comments
Marx was good at identifying problems, but not addressing or analyzing them. Modern economics' basic concepts (trade is not zero sum, private ownership is generally good but imperfect and needs regulation) goes really hard against the foundations of Marxist thinking. Both it and the Austrian school (on the right) are not going to be considered legitimate means of analysis in today's world.
SocDems, by contrast, are completely within the left part of the normal economic opinion spectrum.
So when Real Time comes back on August 3rd, Bill's guest will include Alexandria and...Steve Schmidt. The guy that just compared her politics to Trumpism.
Given that she has an econ degree I would be legit shocked if she meant anything past SocDem.
The conservative media is going insane trying to take this girl down. Its kind of funny watching their ignorance on full display.
As for Cortez, I fully expect her to be a presidential candidate within the next ten years. Probably around 2028 (if we still have a country by then).
Hmm I dunno, as a Social Democrat myself (I would go so far as to say that the presence of actual socialists on a forums for an industry as peak capitalist as video games is...interesting),
You can't escape capitalism. Do you expect socialists to not enjoy entertainment?
U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is refusing to debate a Democratic primary challenger again this election season, spurring another round of criticism that she's stifling the democratic election process and not giving voters a chance to hear from her opponents
nah man, her ideas a vanilla Left to Center-Left from an intentional standpoint.Her ideas are straight from Marx. They resulted in the poverty and ultimately death of millions of people in the last hundred years. They've never worked and it won't work today. I'm sad for our country and New York.
WTF at those yt comments
How does the DNC organize that? If she comes in and the party brass are set against her, would they give her spotlight?My bet is 2032 or 2036 (depending on if there's a Democratic Incumbent in 2032)
And she's definitely getting a speaking slot at the 2020 DNC.
Next you'll tell me that feminists can wear makeup too.You can't escape capitalism. Do you expect socialists to not enjoy entertainment?
http://www.staradvertiser.com/2018/...lenger-criticizes-gabbard-for-ducking-debate/
Please oh please let history repeat itself
http://www.staradvertiser.com/2018/...lenger-criticizes-gabbard-for-ducking-debate/
Please oh please let history repeat itself
Why would the party brass be set against her?How does the DNC organize that? If she comes in and the party brass are set against her, would they give her spotlight?
Crowley was in no way a centrist. He was very much a liberal. Folks need to stop assuming "establishment" = centrist.I'm all for breaking up entrenched centrist candidates.
I just hope that:
A. The new blood of politicians like Cortez show some competence at their position when it finally comes time to go to work.
B. This anti-establishment attitude doesn't carry over to 2020. It's pretty much gonna be a election with binary options, and we don't need to see 2016 happen again just because we may not get the disruptive candidate we want.
Crowley was in no way a centrist. He was very much a liberal. Folks need to stop assuming "establishment" = centrist.
Ah, but here's the thing. A liberal is inherently closer to the center economically than a socialist.
Moving that Overton Window.
(But it remains to be seen if AOC is actually an socialist or a socdem calling herself a demsoc)
So when Real Time comes back on August 3rd, Bill's guest will include Alexandria and...Steve Schmidt. The guy that just compared her politics to Trumpism.
In so far as no 'establishment' figures seemed to even congratulate her let alone endorse herWhy would the party brass be set against her?
Crowley was in no way a centrist. He was very much a liberal. Folks need to stop assuming "establishment" = centrist.
She has labeled herself as a Democratic Socialist and the policies she ran on reflect that.
Her policies at this point are entirely social democratic, not democratic socialist. She's following the Bernie line of labeling Nordic welfare capitalist policies as "democratic socialism". Those are better policies than America's hellscape capitalism provides, but until she says something about collectivizing the means of production, she is not actually saying anything socialist. My belief that she actually does know what she's talking about but is hiding it for electoral gain basically just stems from her being in the DSA (and working with the media group "Means of Production" for her campaign).
We are now entering a period where a lot of people are calling themselves socialists because it still has a somewhat radical tinge in comparison to liberalism while finally having become a mainstream term, but people are confusing what it means. This is Hot Topic Socialism. Socialism does not mean "capitalist mode of production with redistributive policies and nationalized sectors". That's social democracy, a form of capitalism. Socialism requires workers controlling the means of production, outright, period.
It's better to have social democracy than not have it but we have to be clear about terms or else the word will lose its meaning. In the short term I'm fine with this but it just means eventually one day the Dems will call themselves socialist without actually being socialist if nobody course-corrects.