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Saw Jealous at the local

Anon — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 16:59:22 +0000

In reply to A Path to the Maryland Governor's Mansion for Ben Jealous

Saw Jealous at the local rally for Sanders. The good news is that he doesn't have the taint of Martin O'Malley. A few days after the second anniversary it is worth remembering that a lot of people laid the death of Freddie Gray at the feet of O'Malley's get tough policing tactics.

The bad news is that the sort of technocratic firms that donate to establishment Dems are very entrenched in MD cities. NIH types near DC, and Hopkins types near Bmore.

More bad news is that Larry Hogan isn't that unpopular.

Yes, I think he is very

CVille Dem — Sat, 15 Apr 2017 23:20:51 +0000

In reply to tom periello 'a good guy and

Yes, I think he is very progressive. I read the article and I still thin so. Being allied with the US is likely what will save Burundi from the fate of Rwanda. I also disagree that the US was acting as an imperialist power, based on what this article cited. Trading with the US is not the same as being taken advantage of.

But if you think he isn't progressive enough I guess you could try to persuade a bunch of people to vote for the republican, who wants to wreck health care, including continuing to prevent Medicaid expansion, lower taxes for the wealthy instead of funding infrastructure, dropping support for education (both el-hi and college), and on and on and on....

Go ahead! Knock yourself out!

tom periello 'a good guy and

goldberry — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 21:20:09 +0000

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tom periello 'a good guy and very progressive'? i guess it's in the eye of a partisan. just another in the long list of 'good dems' who don't blink at f'ing over africans for resources and neo-coloniasim.

Funny how the propaganda

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 20:37:28 +0000

In reply to The Democrat Party

Funny how the propaganda terms all get recycled, left or right. Does Trump rail against "neoliberals" as well?

Forcing change may not be so easy with Supreme Court justices put on the court at age 49, or in the case of Clarence Thomas, 43.

The Susan Sarandon (bat) wing of the party is so good at leading the party (into a ditch), she should run for office herself. She's great at insight ("Hillary could have health issues"), predictions ("There's going to be [an indictment]. I mean, it's inevitable"), the truth ("Bernie Sanders accepts Pope Francis' invitation to travel to the Vatican") and threat analysis ("I believe in a way she is more dangerous...I think we’ll be in Iran in two seconds....But this is what we’re fed - ‘[Trump's] so dangerous. He’s so dangerous,'” Sarandon said, shrugging off Trump’s most controversial rhetoric as too implausible to be considered a serious threat. “Seriously I am not worried about a wall being built, he is not going to get rid of every Muslim in this country… but seriously, I don’t know what his policy is. I do know what her policies are, I do know who she is taking money from, and I do know that she is no transparent, and I do know that nobody calls her on it”. Damn that Hillary, she's *still* covering up her Parkinson's.

Amazing slogan, "vote Republican - they're not as bad as the Democrat" - if anything points to the "Democrat" party as being too stupid to drive/survive, this would be it. Fortunately it seems to be the Independents doing the backseat driving without a map that are responsible for most of the idiocy.

I agree with your preferred

HSG — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 20:33:26 +0000

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I agree with your preferred candidate in the Virginia Democratic Gubernatorial primary CVille. From what I've read Tom Perriello is the right, er left, choice!

The Democrat Party

CVille Dem — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 19:17:04 +0000

In reply to There is another reason

The Democrat Party

"The Democrat Party?" Really? I guess those same people who voted for trump in order to force change in the Democratic Party, are the same ones who use the word "Democrat" incorrectly, as an adjective just to show disrespect. In other words, people who are not Democrats, and who put their ideology over country; over the environment; over the elderly; over all the people who will lose benefits; over world peace; over women's, and all other civil rights; and over everything else that anyone realizes is good.

The harm they did is unforgivable.

. I've been thinking about

CVille Dem — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 19:09:06 +0000

In reply to Sure, with the caveat that

. I've been thinking about the people who voted for both Obama and Trump. These guys are so completely different--ideologically, temperamentally, demographically -- it's hard to imagine how you could vote for both.

I agree. Here in Virginia we have a Democrat who admits to voting for George Bush. TWICE! Fortunately, we have another choice. Tom Periello, who is a really good guy and very progressive. He was a political novice when he ran for and won, one term in the House. He got some very good assignments through Obama's State Department and he is like a new man. He is everywhere, and is now a little ahead of Ralph Northum.

The other good news? They both are beating the Reps in current polling. There are 3. One is a complete idiot, another is a bad speaker, and the third is a better politician, but he is running on all the GOP things that the tide has shifted on, including health care. Now if the legislature could go Dem, we could (Maybe) even get Medicaid expansion here.

Okay. Thanks for taking the

HSG — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 15:53:20 +0000

In reply to I'm just saying that it's not

Okay. Thanks for taking the time to read closely what I wrote and for commenting. It is much appreciated.

I'm just saying that it's not

Michael Wolraich — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 15:42:10 +0000

In reply to I wrote: "There's a real

I'm just saying that it's not a real danger at this point--a false threat. There is no evidence of Democratic leaders "cajoling" the party to move right. The folks at thirdway.org are marginal players.

I wrote: "There's a real

HSG — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 15:15:27 +0000

In reply to Yeah, you need better

I wrote: "There's a real danger, however, that centrists Democrats will successfully misrepresent Hillary's loss as a repudiation of progressive politics - 'she was the most progressive Democrat ever' - so as to cajole the party even further to the right on economic matters or, at a minimum, prevent populists from taking the party back."

As you point out, Third Way is not in any way progressive. But I did not write that left-of-center democrats would argue that Hillary was too progressive. I argued that centrists, like Hatalsky and Kessler, would. Likewise, the fact that neither Hatalsky nor, I suppose, Kessler were in Clinton's inner circle is irrelevant to my point.