it's like triangulation, only more pointed toward progressive

and those who prevent peaceful revolutions...

As HRC puts Bernies failing campaign out of its misery.

the rest of the country really doesn't matter, as that post sadly illustrates. and you can't really blame them, as they've been told for decades that they are indeed the anointed ones: The creative class, the wired workers, the well-graduated.

Thomas Frank points out that the narrative constructed from the 90s and beyond is that people who have been left behind in this economy have done it to themselves. they should have graduated from Ivy League schools, and gone into financial services.

It's a myth that's laughable on its face. has there ever been a country of nothing but high-degreed professionals doing well-paid work, without the muss and fuss of real workers? what's really being putting forth in that script, i wonder? where do we expect those people to go -- you know, the ones who (gasp!) didn't go to college, or have no interest in derivatives, and would like to simply live working on a living wage? are we to believe that they don't deserve a living wage b/c they don't do work on keyboards wired to the internet?

Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?

http://www.amazon.com/Listen-Liberal-Happened-Party-People-ebook/dp/B012N992EK/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1458479015&sr=1-1&keywords=listen+liberal

I commented that Democrats had a hand in that. The Hillary supporter in front of me laughed and said don't hate on my buddy Bill (or something to that effect).

I do not know how these people sleep at night.

Bernie is/was our last chance.

Yes, believe it or not, I was a Clinton True Believer back in the day.

My believe in The Clintons and the Democratic Party under them was a transformation that began right here on DU -- it's amazing what information the age of the Internet can reveal. It was like the peeling back of an onion. Layer after layer, exposed, discarded, until I came to the point I am now: fully awake and unwilling to continue being held captive.

I now look back at what I defended, I excused, I overlooked, I justified and cringe.

Now that I have been let lose from the Clinton Closet, there isn't anyone who is going to stuff me back in. Ever.

when the people one reveres turn out to be career criminals.

Thomas Frank puts things into words that people can remember.

Thank you for an outstanding OP and article, amborin!

been waiting for his return. this is quite an impressive product of his sabbatical.

And also listened to Thom Hartmann's discussion with Thomas Franks. There is simply no defense of the Clintons and the rest of the Third Way Progressives unless you are a conservative.

it's especially good b/c Thomas Frank does his own reading.

http://www.audible.com/search/ref=a_hp_tseft?advsearchKeywords=listen+liberal&filterby=field-keywords&x=0&y=0&sprefixRefmarker=nb_sb_ss_i_0_12&sprefix=listen+liber

if you're not already a subscriber, they offer a free book with trial subscriptions.

People are beginning that voting for the "lesser of two evils" or a "different evil" just perpetuates the corruption of our government and democracy.

Speaks the truth. When he wrote "What's the Matter With Kansas" it opened my eyes to how people can vote against their own best interest. I used to see and hear him all the time on TV and talk radio. Guess now that so much of the media has it's own corporatist agenda is why I rarely see him anymore, although he was on Thom Hartmann's program on Friday Tis a pity more people don't hear him.

TBTH, they are.

All I get is an ad at the top and it never actually gets to anything else.