Almost Over For Hillary: This election is a mass insurrection against a rigged system By Bill Curry
Curry was White House counselor to President Clinton and a two-time Democratic nominee for governor of Connecticut. He is at work on a book on President Obama and the politics of populism.
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The core of Clinton’s realpolitik brief pertains not to electability but to governance. Her point is that Sanders is naïve. She says none of his proposals can get though a Republican Congress. She strongly implies that he’d roll back Obamacare, a charge that is false, cynical and so nonsensical she’ll have to stop making it soon. She says she has a plan to get to universal health care—she doesn’t—and that she’ll do it by working “in partnership” with the insurance and pharmaceutical industries.
Who’s being naïve here? A Republican Congress won’t pass any of her ideas either. The only way to get real change is to elect Democrats to Congress and have a grass-roots movement strong enough to keep the heat on them. Nor will insurers cough up a dime of profit without a fight. Vowing to spare us a “contentious debate” over single-payer care she ignores the admonition of Frederick Douglas; “Power concedes nothing without demand. It never did and it never will.” There has been a lot of talk lately about what a progressive is. Here’s a hint: if you think Douglas is wrong, you might not be one.
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Twenty years on, Hillary still sees the world through the rose-colored glasses of that ’90s consensus. Not Bernie. He sees that in 2016 rising tides don’t even lift most boats, that growth comes at a steep price when it comes at all, and that new technology cost more jobs than it creates. He understands that when jobs flow to countries with weak governments and low wages, the American middle class can’t get a raise. He sees that public-private partnership meant pay-to-play politics, and that the whole system runs not on innovation but corruption. My guess is the middle class sees what he sees and wants what he wants: a revolution. If he can continue to drive the debate, they may get one.
http://www.salon.com/2016/02/07/its_almost_over_for_hillary_this_election_is_a_mass_insurrection_against_a_rigged_system/
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Hillary will not win this thing. A large number of Independents and Republicans are switching to Democrats because of Bernie.
I also honestly think that Bernie won Iowa. The party chair of the Democratic Party, Andrea McGuire, has a license plate on her car that reads 'HRC 2016'. She's refusing to release the voting data from Monday’s state caucuses. Biased much? It's very obvious why McGuire's refusing, because the numbers wouldn't match the totals for Sanders and Clinton, and she knows it. Hillary is not running an honest campaign, otherwise she would demand the release of the voting data, win or lose.
License plate on Andrea McGuire's car.
Feel The Bern!
"This Brenda Lawrence, D-Southfield, said she was lobbied heavily by the White House on trade. But she said she couldn't back Obama on this vote. “This is about my district. This is about my core beliefs,” she said in an interview. “Trade agreements don’t go away.”
She is also a very big supporter of the United States Postal System and worked there for over 30 years.
Something that Bernie Sanders has been championing for a along, along time.
I fully suspect like Sanders that she knows that if the Post Offices were again allowed to be havens for banking and allowed to expand and update its operational requirements instead of the nefarious way of gutting and cutting funding, and by the way, the only institution in this country both private and public to pay for there pension for the next 75 years is absolutely outrageous and this law needs to be overturned, because it is bankrupting requirement and trying to overturn the Constitutional mandate that it must provide-for the country--------------now forcing these employees by placing this burden on there backs of making that this Institution would survive and continue to carry out its functions that the republicans and those that want to further the dismantling it for greed------------------- like they did in making Staples a postal system in some parts of the system today.
I nominate Brenda Lawrence, when Sanders gets the nomination
Honk-------------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016
It is about getting a Progressive President, U.S. Supreme Court ,Congress, State and Local Legislatures
Democracy begins with you-------------------tag your it
Democracy is not a specator sport----------------get involved
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I was having so much fun. It did however finally break though, so this round is definitely done.
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This is the most cogent, concise explanation of why Bernie makes sense that I have read thus far. Thank you! 
Thanks for posting it.
Glad he mentioned the media screwing .. Trump gets 281 minutes on ABC (Stephanopoulos), Sanders 20 seconds.
Written by a past "White House counselor to President Clinton" .. oh, they'll be mad at him!! 
"The only way to get real change is to elect Democrats to Congress and have a grass-roots movement strong enough to keep the heat on them. Nor will insurers cough up a dime of profit without a fight. Vowing to spare us a “contentious debate” over single-payer care she ignores the admonition of Frederick Douglas; “Power concedes nothing without demand. It never did and it never will.” There has been a lot of talk lately about what a progressive is. Here’s a hint: if you think Douglas is wrong, you might not be one."
Obama had hoards of people come to his rallies. Did they uprise? Nope, and neither will Sanders' supporters once the election is over.
What happened after people Occupied Wall Street? Not that much.
His whole agenda is dependent on the Democrats having large numbers of liberals in Congress, who will be elected as a result of a hypothetical political revolution.
Actually, you have a better chance of winning the lottery than you do of having a revolution in this country, political or otherwise.
If he, by some twist of fate manages to get elected president, we can continue with this discussion. I predict nothing but gridlock and acrimony, worse than what Obama faced during his tenure in office.
Who replaced them? Not liberals, they came from conservative districts, that's why they were moderate in the first place. They were replaced mostly by members of the newly formed Tea Party. Thanks a lot libs. for trashing them into oblivion, now the Republicans have the largest majority in the House since 1929. All of you who spent two years trashing the Blue Dog Democrats got what you wanted, they are no longer in office, but only to be replaced by RW extremists that not even Boehner could control. That's what happens with dogmatic purists, they can't understand nuance and that sometimes there's a legitimate need for compromise.
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...but the article is full of good arguments, and it will definitely leave a mark.
I guess Bill Curry (not Bill Press, oops!) is not angling for a Cabinet position in a Hillary Presidency, should that occur!
These 3 paragraphs are really good:
Who’s being naïve here? A Republican Congress won’t pass any of her ideas either. The only way to get real change is to elect Democrats to Congress and have a grass-roots movement strong enough to keep the heat on them. Nor will insurers cough up a dime of profit without a fight. Vowing to spare us a “contentious debate” over single-payer care she ignores the admonition of Frederick Douglas; “Power concedes nothing without demand. It never did and it never will.” There has been a lot of talk lately about what a progressive is. Here’s a hint: if you think Douglas is wrong, you might not be one.
Clinton’s last argument concerns loyalty. Throughout 2015 she sniped at Obama from the right while relegating Bill to the sidelines. Last month, seeing her lead slip away, she wrapped herself in political and family connections, as if hoping to gain the White House as a legacy admission. Analysts say Sanders drove her to the left. It’s partly but only superficially true. Lately he has driven her to the status quo, a bad place to be in 2016.
Heck, look at the battles we are having right here on a Democratic site. Now increase that exponentially in the real world.
Sid
..is indeed DANGEROUS.
Just ask the Millions who have died in Iraq, Libya, and Honduras.
Oh, wait.
We can't ask them, because they are DEAD,
but many hundreds of thousands were just severely injured for life.
We can ask them.
If that creepy old mass murderer ever touched me, I would melt like the witch from the Wizard of Oz.
Just like the blood on their hands, I would never be able to wash it off.
Brrrr...creeps me out just thinking about it.
if Sanders is supposedly winning. /s
