Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
Can we loalse the election 1 yr out? Sure we can. The first female McGovern? Could be.
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by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 11/01/2019 - 4:48pm
Good points. Warren was missing the attention. She also plans to partially fund the health care plan with her "Fair and Welcoming Immigration System" plan of open borders and amnesty for all forever. Sort of like having Mexico pay for it.
"I support immigration reform that’s consistent with our values, including a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants and expanded legal immigration consistent with my principles. That’s not only the right thing to do – it also increases federal revenue we can dedicate to Medicare for All as new people come into the system and pay taxes. Based on CBO’s analysis of the 2013 comprehensive immigration reform bill, experts project that immigration reform would generate an additional $400 billion in direct federal revenue."
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2019/11/01/what-you-need-to-know-about-war...
by NCD on Fri, 11/01/2019 - 5:02pm
The one thing i've debated about Hillary's 2016 performance (resigning myself to the loss of the 50-state push as due as much to the lame DNC as anything) was whether she should have gone for broke with Warren rather than the rather lame-in-the-end Tim Kaine. While I still imagine she could have found someone more inspiring than Kaine, I do recognize Clinton was smarter than me in dismissing Liz out of the box. Not just because people's heads would explode with 2 women on the ticket, but that Warren just doesn't always manage the political smarts, whatever the good things she's done. Hllary had to beat off the worst suicidal tendencies of the far left part of her party; Liz thinks these yo-yos are somehow going to get her elected. Roll the clock back to Bill Bradley to see how that worked.
And yeah, much as I dislike Biden, better the boring smiling functionary than the Suicide Squad.
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 11/01/2019 - 5:10pm
Interestingly, Warren clearly disagrees loud and proud that this is suicide squad stuff; she's not hiding from it:
by artappraiser on Fri, 11/01/2019 - 7:18pm
She is apparently running for President of progressive twitter.
by NCD on Fri, 11/01/2019 - 7:27pm
Don't get me wrong, I *like* Suicide Club - just not sure Margot Robbie will be president this cycle. But geez we could use that bat in the Oval Office. (and no Nats/Astros references please)
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 11/01/2019 - 7:41pm
Radio Free Tom had even wiser thoughts to offer as the day went on:
I really like this best, though:
by artappraiser on Fri, 11/01/2019 - 6:33pm
So it's almost like they rolled out all these contenders far enough in advance so they could clean the slate & start over with plenty of time to spare. (Robert Kennedy joined the race in what, March? but do we have a Bobby Kennedy?)
Draft Nancy - she's the only one that seems to bee firing on all cylinders (if she's not an EV).
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 11/01/2019 - 6:38pm
I like these three words, they are worth remembeirng. Dislike of zealotry That describes the voters that come out in the big elections in democracies in general and are often the deciders. They're not the ones who elect the far right and far left guys you see in U.S. Congress that are often elected in mid-terms where mostly the zealots show up. Zealots fall in love with primary candidates early on. This is where public funding and reduced spending would make a difference, there is no need to get supporters as passionate about candidates as their favorite sports team.. (Comes to mind RFK only displayed zealotry when prosecuting someone; and that his Prez bro showed lack of zealotry across the board, except maybe on a race to the moon, which was like sports.)
This is one thing I have always differed with Wolraich about. He would bemoan that the Dems don't stand for anything anymore, that they need to have a message that gets people impassioned and riled up. And I would think: why would you want that? That it would turn a lot of people off. We need the boring kind of elections that EU members used to hold: competent technocrat A, technocrat B, technocrat C, them's your choices. This is a mangerial position, not a legislative one. They should be selling their managerial talent, and yes, frankly it's a bi-partisan job, and they should not be considered the head of their party. Much shorter presidential campaigns would cut a lot of this crap. (Is where I differed with Josh Marshall too, he could go on and on about he loved the pageantry and bullshit and passions of long political compaigns. And that got us where? Infotainment world, and disinfotainment president.)
by artappraiser on Fri, 11/01/2019 - 7:07pm
You've hit on it. "We need the boring kind of elections that EU members used to hold: competent technocrat A, technocrat B, technocrat C, them's your choices."
I'm not a both siderist, but Warren and Trump represent the same "heroic mission" ideology to their fanatical supporters. It is the opposite of your 'technocrats" who are the ones we need. It may, eventually, represent the end state of a failed democracy.
Trump "Only I can fix it!"
Warren "Only I have a plan to fix it!"
The fact that Warren has actual (thousands of words) plans and Trump has a big mouth makes little difference. Neither can do it on their own, Warren is a Ivy league wonks Trump.
The supporters of both see them as the political messiah, who, alone, will bring on the new age. That is authoritarianism. It disrespects other points of view, like Warren's attacks on Biden today, and Trump's attacks on "Never Trumpers".
Warren and Trump both fit the description of "charismatic authority", which "cannot coexist with...the ideal modern state system".
by NCD on Fri, 11/01/2019 - 8:45pm
That's what really really bothered me about people fainting in crowds for Obama when he was starting to gain steam in the primary. And how some of the Obamabots acted on TPMCafe, as if he were god. There was one guy who used to post audio and then just the word "Here's Obama! LISTEN!" The savior thing.
Thank god he turned out to be humble.
(Mom taught him right? You are never going to be king of the world, buster. I read somewhere he said she called him that, "buster", about doing his homework in Indonesia. )
Can I just say: it's okay if they have some natural charm in order to manage people better. But not this god-savior-rock star-he/she can do no wrong shit.
by artappraiser on Fri, 11/01/2019 - 11:44pm
Except Warren is great on *defense*. She just sux on offense.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 11/02/2019 - 12:56am
She certainly does offense against other Democrats.
Her plan starts with personal family stories, and is full of personal pronouns, "I"s, "my"s, "my plan", "I have", 15 pages long. It's not on her website, which mainly has videos of her. Only at NPR in small window. She spends a paragraph attacking other Democrats in the plan with "my plan beats yours, if you're honest, you'll admit yours sucks".
It has the usual "we spend twice as much for healthcare, but are sicker" than every other major nation. No explanation of why that is, and how whatever caused it will disappear because she has "a plan."
by NCD on Sat, 11/02/2019 - 2:11am
I didn't say she doesn't do offense - I said she sux at it.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 11/02/2019 - 5:01am
Biden campaign running with that:
by artappraiser on Sat, 11/02/2019 - 3:16pm
He likes it!
by artappraiser on Fri, 11/01/2019 - 7:32pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 11/05/2019 - 11:43pm