2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: We are the base of the party. The POC, the LGBT, the feminists. [View all]TheKentuckian
(25,039 posts)On labor.
On the safety net.
On health care as a right.
On campaign finance.
On the role of government.
On budget priorities.
On pick proposals.
On a free hand for extraction.
Have become near despicable on corporate accountability but of course the idiot TeaPubliKlans have manage to find some absurd lower than imaginable and do crazy stuff like go on TV and grovel and apologize to the piece of garbage bigwigs at BP. Clinton seems a strong bet to be a step back from a far too tolerant Obama.
The Hawks are unabashedly in charge. Stalemate there AT BEST, I think matters are worse and Clinton is a step back from Obama.
Drug war? Clinton is a half step or more back from Obama is my impression. Mostly be drug along by forces they can't stop without considerable electoral blow back on herb so I think there is a limit on brash opposition.
They are still at substantial risk of allowing TeaPubliKlans help off the mat by slow walking this issue and letting have the time to flip on it.
I also think Clinton has a judgment process that might lead to her backing off the hands off approach and quietly setting backfires to slow the progress.
Essentially if it isn't flat out nailed down to a demographic equality issue then the party has probably moved to the right and even on those it is more about eventually getting out of the way rather than leadership.
I'm glad we are wise and decent enough to believe that we are all humans and are entitled to equal protection under the law but that is the first brick premise for something a just civilization rather than a coven of soullessness not a basis for a political party.
This reasoning is dangerous because it accepts, supports, and is itself premised on the very regressive concept that our Civil Rights are up to a vote WHILE it abandons the whole idea of self governance by definition.
We are so invested as well as tied up in access to the vote that the actual purpose and power behind the act is all but a casualty of the shuffle just to be a person just as an example.
No apologies from me are to be expected for keeping an eye on the next level of tools of oppression being fitted for us and the bigger prisons being constructed around us while I also try to jump red lines, get tailed around stores, and dodge the goon squad on a fair day.
My struggle is on several fronts, I'm not sure allies with common objectives best describes people fighting me on some of them, maybe most while hiding behind the most bare bones essential human decency with little in the way of solutions for our common goals but strangely quite a load of crappy ones for the stuff we are supposed to be above or way on the back burner according to some.
Seems to me to a divide and conquer scam to support crooks getting over with my assistance as much as advancing my interests or more.