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"When the old way has been proven not to work you have to try something new.
Everyone understands this intuitively, [FONT="]except for people whose prestige and salary and identity and power depend upon the old way.
Those people will never understand it no matter how hard you try. So they have to go. It is not about old people or young people—it is about new ideas. We need people running the Democratic Party who will try new ideas because the old ideas have gotten us to where we are today, which is unacceptable. This is not a radical concept. It is common sense."[/FONT]
Nancy Pelosi.
Chuck Schumer.
The Clintons.
The Kennedys.
The faithful leaders we have known so long.
We thank you for your service.
Now get out.
---When we stand on top of the mountain of Democratic Party failure and survey the landscape, it is impossible to ignore all the good people struggling to climb to the top.
They know it's a mountain of failure. The numbers are emblazoned across the north face of the slope:
2010, 2014, 2016.
They also know, however, that there's gold in them thar hills and the only thing that stands in the way of them setting up camp and digging in are the stakeholders who've been sitting on all that ore and squandering it for ages.
The calls for single payer health care or a reasonable equivalent, world class education that's affordable for anyone, worker rights and protection, consumer protection, the environment, interfaith dialogue, a meeting of the minds across racial and cultural divides, women's rights, marriage equality, upward mobility, all of these have been answered with a kind of glad-handing okey doke reminiscent of a used car salesman.
Used car salesmen don't refine that ore into gold and buy the things that will sustain the Democratic community.
Used care salesmen used that gold to make pinky rings for themselves.
Because our elite Democratic leadership isn't interested in fighting for those things.
No, not really...there is no way that a party could have been fighting hard for these things for over four decades and see them casually erased by a pack of jingoistic feral malcontents in the space of eighteen months.
No way unless that elite leadership maybe ignored the warning signs and didn't push back when they needed to.
People whose prestige and salary and identity and power depend upon the old way.
That's our Democratic elites, and they need to go.
Everyone understands this intuitively, [FONT="]except for people whose prestige and salary and identity and power depend upon the old way.
Those people will never understand it no matter how hard you try. So they have to go. It is not about old people or young people—it is about new ideas. We need people running the Democratic Party who will try new ideas because the old ideas have gotten us to where we are today, which is unacceptable. This is not a radical concept. It is common sense."[/FONT]
Nancy Pelosi.
Chuck Schumer.
The Clintons.
The Kennedys.
The faithful leaders we have known so long.
We thank you for your service.
Now get out.
---When we stand on top of the mountain of Democratic Party failure and survey the landscape, it is impossible to ignore all the good people struggling to climb to the top.
They know it's a mountain of failure. The numbers are emblazoned across the north face of the slope:
2010, 2014, 2016.
They also know, however, that there's gold in them thar hills and the only thing that stands in the way of them setting up camp and digging in are the stakeholders who've been sitting on all that ore and squandering it for ages.
The calls for single payer health care or a reasonable equivalent, world class education that's affordable for anyone, worker rights and protection, consumer protection, the environment, interfaith dialogue, a meeting of the minds across racial and cultural divides, women's rights, marriage equality, upward mobility, all of these have been answered with a kind of glad-handing okey doke reminiscent of a used car salesman.
Used car salesmen don't refine that ore into gold and buy the things that will sustain the Democratic community.
Used care salesmen used that gold to make pinky rings for themselves.
Because our elite Democratic leadership isn't interested in fighting for those things.
No, not really...there is no way that a party could have been fighting hard for these things for over four decades and see them casually erased by a pack of jingoistic feral malcontents in the space of eighteen months.
No way unless that elite leadership maybe ignored the warning signs and didn't push back when they needed to.
People whose prestige and salary and identity and power depend upon the old way.
That's our Democratic elites, and they need to go.