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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="][B]except for people whose prestige and salary and identity and power depend upon the old way.[/B]
[/FONT]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."[/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#1D2129][FONT=Helvetica]Nancy Pelosi.
Chuck Schumer.
The Clintons.
The Kennedys.
The faithful leaders we have known so long.
We thank you for your service.
[URL="https://splinternews.com/out-with-the-old-1827692070"]Now get out.[/URL]
---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.
It is not about old people or young people—it is about new ideas.
Ideas are not the problem. Hillary Clinton was advocating single-payer health care in 1993 when this Cortez woman was still trying to learn how to ride a bicycle. Perception is the problem. If Democrats want to consider themselves the party of youth, attract young voters, and be perceived as progressive it would help to have leaders who reflect that generation.
Perception is not the problem. Follow-through is.Ideas are not the problem. Hillary Clinton was advocating single-payer health care in 1993 when this Cortez woman was still trying to learn how to ride a bicycle. Perception is the problem.
What did you think when Joe Lieberman said that Ocasio-Cortez’s victory “seems likely to hurt Congress, America and the Democratic Party?"
Ideas are not the problem. Hillary Clinton was advocating single-payer health care in 1993 when this Cortez woman was still trying to learn how to ride a bicycle. Perception is the problem. If Democrats want to consider themselves the party of youth, attract young voters, and be perceived as progressive it would help to have leaders who reflect that generation.
"When the old way has been proven not to work you have to try something new.
Everyone understands this intuitively, [FONT="][B]except for people whose prestige and salary and identity and power depend upon the old way.[/B]
[/FONT]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."[/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#1D2129][FONT=Helvetica]Nancy Pelosi.
Chuck Schumer.
The Clintons.
The Kennedys.
The faithful leaders we have known so long.
We thank you for your service.
[URL="https://splinternews.com/out-with-the-old-1827692070"]Now get out.[/URL]
---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.
Greetings, trixare4kids. :2wave:
I did wonder what Lieberman was talking about! I have always liked him, and he did not deserve how his party treated him, IMO! Good for him on not giving up - :applaud:
I agree. Y'all need to clean the cruddy swamp dwellers out of your Party. But be warned...it's VERY hard to do. And be very careful what you replace them with. You may regret it.
but citizens also need to realize that the advocacy by HRC for all things health care really means that she was waaaaaaaaaaay ahead of her time; Americans are too stupid to realize that, and even too embarrassed to admit it.
I always said Americans are ****ing stupid; they don't know a good thing when they got it & then some times they just want **** sitting in The Oval Office too.
The people who fought Hillary tooth and nail on health care weren't JUST Republicans.
Many of the same moribund and self serving people my article referred to sat right in those chairs and helped Newt and his team shoot it down back then.
yes, I am aware of that but look at those same people that were on HRC's side of the aisle then
now many have changed their tune but ............ oh **** ...........
And to her credit she predicted a lot of the hot mess we're in now WRT health care, even back then.
I know, I get it
But still, at this point, we're not going to hitch our horses to another Hillary run, she is now obsolete and damaged, and unfortunately so is Bernie Sanders, at least as a POTUS candidate. I've NO desire to do a repeat.
And I think a growing number of people feel the same way. The sales window on old candidates and old approaches needs to close.
And look at it this way, this also DENIES the Republicans the easy way out, you know, recycle all the old agitprop and all the old attacks?
Nope, don't give them the opportunity to "phone to Moscow" to get their recycled Bannon blessed talking points.
The American average citizen won't hold their candidate to any standard; they just keep re-electing the same ole **** even when said politician screws up as big as possible.
politicians know how to play the voters & they have been doing it forever.
the voters are too lazy, too careless, and too stupid; they are Americans after all ........... and the politicians know this ........
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