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
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 |
The role of major progressive donors, and of Brock himself, was scrambled by Clinton’s surprise defeat. Trump’s victory upended more than a decade of infrastructure-building on the left, funded in part by the Democracy Alliance, another group of donors. As the Florida gathering unfolded, the Women’s March on Washington was drawing historic crowds there and in other cities; a point of pride among organizers was how little big money had to do with it.
On Saturday, Brock asked donors for $40 million to fund his network — American Bridge, Media Matters, and the viral news site Shareblue. [...]
Above emphasis mine.
Comments
Money will always be essential in politics, as it will be in life generally. Yet as the Tea Party showed, engagement by the rank and file citizen in your cause(s), along with a hearty dose of carefully parsed rhetoric can work freakin' wonders. If Democrats waste this narrow opportunity, we just might deserve continued losses.
While Brock and other Democrats continue their party donor begging (hopefully more behind the scenes than before), can we somehow manage as a people to recognize our own importance?
by barefooted on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 7:47pm
Yes.
In all the talk about identity, there seems to be a group missing that would countervail the people hell bent on removing "us" from the steps of power.
They are better at grouping us than we are.
A generation or two ago, there was remorse expressed at the limited powers of the "Commons" to solve all problems. I am pretty sure those critics were not recommending that we eliminate the concept entirely.
by moat on Sun, 01/22/2017 - 3:14pm