Progressives (Liberals)

This was fascinating. Waiting with George to know the reason for your sojourn in Nuristan. Now, my mental avatar for you is Harrison Ford in a dusty loose turban.

This belonged here and elsewhere.

What the Democrat party has put in place to stop democracy is actively working.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/policy-and-politics/2019/4/26/18518485/marie-newman-lipinski-anti-abortion-dccc-vendors

In early April, the official campaign arm for House Democrats, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said it wouldn’t do business with political vendors — like direct mail companies, advertising firms, or political consultants — that also work for candidates challenging incumbent Democrats. They said it was an effort to protect incumbent Democrats, who they believe give the party’s best chance of keeping control in the House. Progressive lawmakers in Congress railed against what they saw as a “divisive” policy that effectively “blacklisted” groups and candidates.

Now, at least one candidate, Marie Newman — who is mounting a progressive primary challenge against moderate anti-abortion Rep. Dan Lipinski in one of the most hotly contested primaries in the 2020 election cycle — says the DCCC’s rule is actively hindering her ability to campaign.

“I’ve had four consultants leave the campaign,” Newman told Politico. “We’ve now had two mail firms say that they couldn’t work with us because of the DCCC issue, and then a [communications] group, a compliance group and several pollsters.”

Newman is a particularly noteworthy case. In 2018, she ran against Lipinski, an Illinois representative who is now in his eighth term, taking over from his father, as a first-time candidate with almost no name recognition, and almost won. Lipinski, one of the last remaining anti-abortion Democrats, eked out a two-point win in the primary. Now, Newman is running again, with a campaign that’s being championed by progressive activist groups.

This DCCC policy around political vendors has already caused friction within the party. When it was first made public, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), the first-term progressive superstar, took to Twitter and told her nearly 3.8 million followers to “pause” their donations to the DCCC — the organization charged with keeping Democrats in the House majority.

“Give directly to swing candidates instead,” she tweeted, sharing the campaign websites of several of her vulnerable Democratic colleagues, who just won in previously Republican-controlled districts. Since, progressive lawmakers, and groups like the Bernie Sanders allied Our Revolution, have met with the DCCC chair Rep. Cheri Bustos (D-Ill) to see if the organization is willing to change its mode of operation. Nothing’s happened so far.

That Newman says she’s now losing political consultants gives progressives more reason to fight with the party.

Progressives have been sounding the alarm bells about this policy all along.
Prioritizing incumbent Democrats is something the DCCC has always done. But in early April, the organization put it in writing, publishing its criteria for determining which political vendors it will do business with in 2020. And it made clear that won’t include vendors that work with candidates challenging incumbent Democrats.

The official policy change sparked outrage among House progressives, several of whom found their way to Congress by doing exactly what the DCCC appears to be discouraging: challenging sitting Democrats. Ocasio-Cortez is one extremely notable example. She beat out Joe Crowley, a New York Democratic Party boss who had even been tapped as a possible successor to Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Another is Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), who beat out Boston Democrat Mike Capuano.

Both Pressley and Ocasio-Cortez, with the support of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, called the DCCC’s decision a “divisive” policy and an effort to “blacklist” groups.

The DCCC has pushed back on the term “blacklist.” There is no active list of Democratic political vendors that are banned from the DCCC right now, and this has always been the unspoken policy, one Democratic Party aide familiar with the guidelines told Vox then.

But progressive House members called out what they see as an exclusionary policy that could cut off important coalitions within the party Signature

What do you notice?

Australia's unexpected election result is being compared to Brexit and the 2016 US election
Australia’s Liberal-National Coalition government has returned to power in the 2019 federal election, despite polls consistently predicting victory for the opposition Labor Party. The most surprising result for Labor came from the state of Queensland. Now, many people are comparing the shock result to the 2016 US election and the UK's Brexit referendum, which both defied opinion polls.

Australia's election was billed as the "climate change election".
The climate lost.

How does this compare to Brexit and the US-election?

Why were the polls so wrong—like Brexit and Trump polls?

I think it’s a purposeful attempt to sway the vote by pollsters on the payroll of...who?

....aaaannd, we’re done here, folks.

Well, I just cab note about the Brexit referendum: a referendum certainly is different to an election, but since the young voters for Remain didn't show up as predicted (paid by whom?) and the murder of MP Cox (paid by?) in the days leading up to the vote triggered new challenges in polling ... .

Chomsky is a sour angry zealot who believes his **** doesn't stink.

However his principals you pasted above for the establishment of public control are indeed an apt description of the principles of Progressives and the recent actions of the Democrat Party.

https://berniesanders.com/a-thurgood-marshall-plan-for-public-education/

I’m so damn proud of Bernie Sanders.
This is the future of education.
The Thurgood Marshall Plan to give less affluent children a fighting chance in our predatory economy—the idea of my man in Vermont.

He’s a pretty brilliant guy, George. What, you think he’s snooty? 🙂

RedwoodGirl🌹 #MedicareForAllNowCowards
@RedwoodGirl
CNN and MSNBC are both showing the empty podium at Biden's Pennsylvania rally. I'm seeing shades of how they propped up Trump in 2016. They won't even show Bernie's or Warren's or Harris's live rallies but they'll show Biden's empty podium. Yuck.

#ManufacturedConsent

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5cdecf96e4b09e057802f44c?r6

Thousands of workers from the University of California waged a one-day strike Thursday and found some unexpected allies out on their picket lines.

In an unusual move for a presidential candidate, the campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) sent out targeted text messages and emails to its supporters in California a day ahead of the strike, urging them to join workers as they rallied against the university system in a labor dispute.

“Tens of thousands of workers in the University of California system are standing up this Thursday to stop the outsourcing and privatization of union jobs,” the email said. “We are hoping you can join these workers tomorrow.”

The note included an RSVP link and an address for a local picket.

The move apparently worked, according to John de los Angeles, a spokesperson for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299, one of the unions involved in the strike.

“I deployed a press team across the state and was in contact with them,” de los Angeles said. “They were sending me pictures of random supporters out on the line because they had received an email or text from the Bernie campaign. That happened all over the place.”

It’s not uncommon for a presidential candidate to get out on a picket line to show support for workers. Julián Castro, another Democratic presidential hopeful, rallied with the California workers on Thursday. And when grocery store employees went on strike in New England, several candidates either visited pickets or gave speeches to the crowds.

But it’s far more novel to use a campaign’s infrastructure in an effort to help workers in a dispute with their boss. Fervent Sanders supporters point to this type of maneuver when they claim they are trying to build a movement, not just a candidacy.

The Sanders campaign says 1,000 people responded with interest or committed to go to a picket line.
It’s not unlike what another Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Kamala Harris (Calif.), did earlier this week, when her campaign sent out email blasts to supporters and raised $160,000 for abortion rights after Alabama passed legislation aimed at effectively barring the practice.

The Sanders camp’s collaboration with California strikers was apparently weeks in the making. The candidate delivered a speech to some of the workers during an earlier one-day strike in March. The campaign told representatives from the union to keep in touch and let them know if they could help further.

The Sanders campaign then recruited 12 college student leaders, who relayed information from union organizers to Sanders supporters on their campuses. They also sent texts to supporters in their database who live near planned picket lines.

Although it’s impossible to say what impact the outreach had, the Sanders campaign says 1,000 people responded with interest or committed to go to a protest.

The one-day strike took place at 10 college campuses and five hospital centers across the state. The strikers included custodians and food service workers, as well as a range of hospital employees. The workers are represented by AFSCME and the University Professional and Technical Employees-CWA.

AFSCME filed three unfair labor practice charges with the state on Thursday. The union claims the university violated its contract by not bargaining with AFSCME as it seeks to establish a new rehab center with a nonunion firm, Kindred Healthcare. The union also alleges the university is trying to outsource work to another firm, Aya Healthcare, at three medical centers in an effort to pay lower wages.

A university spokesperson told media outlets Thursday that the union’s “real reason for continual strike activity is to gain leverage in negotiations, at which they have failed time and again.”

Sanders has never been shy about criticizing employers embroiled in labor disputes. He recently blasted Delta for its anti-union campaign aimed at scuttling an organizing drive by ramp agents and flight attendants. And at his UCLA speech in March, he took aim at the university system.

“The University of California must not be a corporate-type employer,” Sanders told the crowd. “The University of California must be a model employer.”

Looks more like a republican agenda to me. You and J T just can't help but put a fox spin on everything you post.

And you are both ill -informed and blind to anything outside your fixed prejudices

Lash is once again sowing her republican agenda while claiming to be a democrat.

I’m starting to feel sorry for you.
I have NEVER CLAIMED to be a Democrat.
But, NEVER.

https://www.citizen-times.com/picture-gallery/news/local/2019/05/17/photos-bernie-sanders-asheville/3708569002/

Awesome photos of the Bern in Asheville, NC.

Your not a republican. Your not a democrat. That only leaves communist. Are you communist operative? That would explain a lot.

The only three parties in the world according to Rabel—Republican, Democrat, and Communist.

You should stop speaking in public. You constantly humiliate yourself.