The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    2018 or bust

    By jollyroger on Thu, 02/25/2016 - 12:42pm |

    You may choose between Hillary and Bernie based on varied criteria, but " who can get things done" is (almost willfully) obtuse.

     

    The Repugnants own the House of Representatives and will continue so to do until a wave of new registers rises,and it ain't rising yet.

     

    A realistic strategy for progressives is to reprise 2008 without the stake that Rahm Emmanuel and, yes, Barack Obama drove through the heart of the army of foot soldiers who were then ready to drive the now extinct blue dogs and moderate pugs like the animals they were.

     

    Thus,best case: We nominate the most electable alternative whose executive choices will tend most left ( I happen to think that's Bernie but YMMV), stave off dismantlement of the modest Obama gains and reproductive rights rollback, and build for complete victory in 2018.

     

    And, Supreme Court.(!)

    Comments

    I do not address foreign/military policy advisedly.  Too many unpredictables,although on the record HRCis too enthusiastic an intervenor for my taste.

     

    That said, Bernie evinces a troubling agreement with the idea that we have the right to project power ipso facto.


    by jollyroger on Thu, 02/25/2016 - 12:53pm

    The simple fact is that for all his talk of revolution and the enthusiasm he seems to generate among the young he has not been able to actually get them to the polls to vote. The revolution just ain't happening and you're talking about complete victory in 2018? Get real.


    by ocean-kat on Thu, 02/25/2016 - 1:58pm

    " get real"

    OK, 2022 or bust, after a few year of state by state recovery of local control, followed by redistricting...

     

    I have previously mentioned my clinically confirmed affliction with pathological optimism...


    by jollyroger on Thu, 02/25/2016 - 3:15pm

    I didn't think you were so naive to believe the Liberal elite would  allow you or anyone else to choose an electable alternative to their neoliberal agenda, now with Sanders or in the future. All you will get is a little Amerikan flag to wave when their minions ascend to positions of power. There is always the exception to the rule where a progressive looking political parasite wins but that is just to sooth the rubes and keep them believing the system is not totally corrupt.

    Don't be so modest about Obama's many gains for the MIC, the private insurance industry, the private prison industry, the industrial/government surveillance agenda and the neoliberal austerity agenda. Most all of the elites are quite satisfied with these gains.


    by Peter (not verified) on Thu, 02/25/2016 - 2:12pm

    I.... got ....

    nuttin'

    by jollyroger on Thu, 02/25/2016 - 3:55pm

    Your 'got' link reminds me how much i appreciate the Tea Party contingent in Congress and their stopping the Chained CPI/Grand Betrayal, even if it was for dubious reasons. I received no  COLA raise this year and under Obama's Grand Betrayal I might have seen a cut joining with others in the death of a thousand cuts.

     

     


    by Peter (not verified) on Thu, 02/25/2016 - 4:45pm

    Ironic, ain't it?


    by jollyroger on Thu, 02/25/2016 - 6:51pm