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Related: About this forumHere's a bit of analysis that got zero consideration from the main stream media.
The idea is that Brat beat the unbeatable Cantor with an idea that will gain traction for any politician who takes it up. Wall Street and corporate criminals should be in jail.
"He comes across, instead, like a ninety-nine-per-cent conservative who sees the real villain as corporate America and its addiction to government largesse. One of his biggest applause lines is about how bankers should have gone to jail after the 2008 financial crisis. Brat is the Elizabeth Warren of the right."
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2014/06/david-brat-the-elizabeth-warren-of-the-right.html
Get it? This guy captured the energy of his district maybe with a bit of anti-immigrant racism, but with a large helping of corporate accountability.
MMS will not shut up about immigrant reform being dead, predictable that the corporate whores in the msm would obfuscate with all their might, but the real point is that America wants to bring the corpo-criminals who sunk our economy to justice.
As a party, we can remain in possession of this noble idea, election winning idea or we can allow the teaparty to recognize, latch on, and feed off the energy a political position like this engenders.
"Instead of lecturing the most vulnerable about the moral beauty of the marketplace, Brat targets the most well off. Free markets! he declared in Hanover, like a teacher about to reveal the essence of the lesson. In a nutshell, what does it mean?
It means no one is shown favoritism. Everyone is treated equally. Every firm, every business, and you compete fairly. And no one, if youre big or small, is shown special attention. And were losing that.
If this sounds familiar, its because its the kind of rhetoric that Ralph Nader, and even Noam Chomsky, have used for many years to pillory the government for protecting the rich and the well connected from the vagaries of the free market."
That Brat succeeded against all odds against one of the strongest most senior republicans who so easily outspent his challenger should chill us to the bone. This is the position we have been working towards since before occupy. We cannot cede it. We cannot run more corporatists. The time for populism is here. We can lead the way to it or we can follow as the teabillies discover and exploit the one kernel of truth that resonates across party lines and only stops resonating at the 1% and their stooges. It's time for the blue dogs to get the fuck out of the way or we will be in for teaparty terrorism for the next decade.
Populism is the only way forward. This is emergency time. Our leaders better figure this shit out and fast.
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Here's a bit of analysis that got zero consideration from the main stream media. (Original Post)
Ed Suspicious
Jun 2014
OP
Of total registered voters, as only 14% turnout! a huge increase over 2012.
Fred Sanders
Jun 2014
#5
He may be co-opting a part of it, but I hear as much about this common position against the greed
Fred Sanders
Jun 2014
#7
"Tea Party populism" --> Theocratic fascism. And now the Prez can disappear anyone at will.
blkmusclmachine
Jun 2014
#10
JustAnotherGen
(31,780 posts)1. Couldn't agree more with this statement:
The time for populism is here. We can lead the way to it or we can follow as the teabillies discover and exploit the one kernel of truth that resonates across party lines and only stops resonating at the 1% and their stooges.
Our candidate in the NJ-7th is running VERY hard left. No sugar coating. The man who is updating her web site - I know. And that man . . . when he tells me it's left - he means it.
Everything Leonard Lance has pandered to the out of state Tea Partiers is going to come back to bite him in the ass. He is still a family dynasty candidate - but maybe just maybe we can edge him out.
GeorgeGist
(25,311 posts)2. He smells like a fart in an elevator.
I read somewhere he got 8% of the vote.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/11/1306281/-Brat-Wins-With-8-of-Registered-Voters-Will-Cantor-Pull-a-Murkowski
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)3. We dismiss his win at our peril.
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,664 posts)9. Totally agree with that statement.
Everyone thought the tparty was dead. Laughs on us.
We better stay focused and on track.
Otherwise......
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)5. Of total registered voters, as only 14% turnout! a huge increase over 2012.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)4. The left needs to seize on populism before the extreme right does.
Nay
(12,051 posts)6. Exactly. We've been begging them to go left/populist for years, and
our pleas fell on deaf ears. And now a goddamn teabagger is co-opting what should be OUR position!!! It is beyond maddening! Anyone could have seen this coming.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)7. He may be co-opting a part of it, but I hear as much about this common position against the greed
of Wall Street and the corruption of the politicians as I usually do, which is very little.
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)8. For emphasis;
That Brat succeeded against all odds against one of the strongest most senior republicans who so easily outspent his challenger should chill us to the bone. This is the position we have been working towards since before occupy. We cannot cede it. We cannot run more corporatists.
The time for populism is here. We can lead the way to it or we can follow as the teabillies discover and exploit the one kernel of truth that resonates across party lines and only stops resonating at the 1% and their stooges. It's time for the blue dogs to get the fuck out of the way or we will be in for teaparty terrorism for the next decade.
Populism is the only way forward. This is emergency time. Our leaders better figure this shit out and fast.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)10. "Tea Party populism" --> Theocratic fascism. And now the Prez can disappear anyone at will.
Thanks, 9/11.