I really enjoy it when she drifts off into her Southern accent.

I think everyone here has heard that.

on a plantation, when she means being a wealthy United States Senator (her very first elected office, no less) in a Republican controlled Senate, with round the clock Secret Service staff, no less.

I've had the privilege of having lunch in the Senate dining room and can report they are eating high on the hog there, unless maybe some influential Senator has a real yen for pigs' feet. No male or female Senators being raped, no children of Senators being sold up river, no whips (that I know of), just lots of nice wood and marble, good food, good security, etc. In sum Americans can finally rest well knowing that working as a Senator of the United States of America is nothing like being a slave on a plantation. Thank God almighty, US Senators have overcome.

corporations and banks in those parts, the home of populism well before Huey Long. If people would somehow end the Fox noise, open their eyes and ears and vote.
That senators dine quite well I'm sure. IMF and World Bank affairs really put on the Ritz, like Investment Bankers on Greed Street where the money flows like rapids, or a sewer actually.

in Louisiana brought improvements in education, transportation and other systems. Populist and progressive actions for sure. His association with Father Coughlin of fervent anti Semitism was troubling but fortunately FDR, with Joe Kennedy Sr. and others extinguished the radio Priest's influence in the mid-late 30s by pulling his broadcast license for the common airwaves and ending the distribution of Coughlin's 'Social Justice' publication sent 2nd class through the USPS.

Too bad similar restrictions weren't implemented to prevent the dissemination and proliferation of RW hate propaganda by radio and TV broadcasters in the last 35 years who Coughlin preceded.

The 1920s and 1930s period in American history interests me, the political figures, movements, writers, labor union activists and others. Currently I'm researching an ancestor who was in the thick of it in that era, a political boss and patriarch who was a fairly forceful and colorful character. There's another I'm exploring who was a decent progressive state politician and medical doctor c. 1911.

How amusing that some here have referred to Bernie as a demagogue, or messiah. Rubbish, they must be ignorant of the many outspoken and firebrand political characters of earlier times esp. when contrasted with some of the sterile neolib. pols around now.

Well 94 degree heat is lingering here, but then 'Indian Summer' yay! favorite season. Worked on deadline Fri. and Sat. so we're off to walk pooches and hit the pool. Feel the Bern!, Bern Baby Bern! And Happy Birthday Bernie!
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~ If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. ~ Thomas Paine.

Your research into your ancestors sounds so interesting.

Every time I hear what is being said in GD and GD: P, I am happier that I've been staying away from them for the most part.

reminder: red states are the states that republicans win in the general election.

I guess it's just too much to ask for a democratic presidential candidate that can perform well in blue states and battleground states?

that is unlikely to go blue in the General election.

I like to believe that Democrats in a state like mine (Tennessee) have to be a little more aware and that we will remember who was on the correct side of the issues such as the repeal of Glass-Steagall and the IWR, among others.

I hope Senator Sanders surprises the hell out of the conventional thinkers in South Carolina. It's time for a revolution.