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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: How can a brilliant political scientist like Rachel seem oblivious to the DLC? [View all]JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)30. She's paid to know autonomously which details to miss, of course.
It takes a specialist who doesn't require constant monitoring. No one has to send Dr. Maddow a memo. (She's got a Ph.D., doesn't she?)
PS - Yes she does. From Oxford and the abstract seems impressive:
This thesis analyses HIV/AIDS, health care, and prison reform in British and American prisons and concludes that HIV/AIDS has engendered a novel form of prison activism. It develops a schematic history of prison reform, arguing that administrative, co-operative, and oppositional models of reform can be discerned according to relationships between reformers and prison officials. Modern alliances between prisoners and non-prisoner allies - disruptions to the beneficence dynamic that has usually held between prisoners and their outside supporters - have been intensely threatening to prison officials and have resulted in backlash. This thesis also argues that the HIV/AIDS movement has prioritised the experiences and needs of people living with HIV/AIDS, and has defined people living with HIV/AIDS and their communities as HIV/AIDS experts. To a limited extent, the HIV/AIDS movement has embraced prisoners within its constituency. Despite often radical, oppositional tactics, prison officials have not precluded HIV/AIDS activists' access to prisons and prisoners. Prisoners living with (or at risk for) HIV/AIDS have been both the subjects of outsiders' advocacy, and the agents of advocacy themselves. There has not been an overwhelming backlash against HIV/AIDS activism in prisons, and prison administrators have engaged co-operatively with HIV/AIDS activists to a greater extent than they have with other prisoners' advocates. This analysis also finds that prison health care reform has focused, with limited success, on integrating prisoners into the remit of free-world health authorities. It is shown that HIV/AIDS in prison activists have had greater success with this strategy than health care reformers because they have approached their task primarily as an HIV/AIDS issue, rather than as prison reform. HIV/AIDS in prison activism shows that when advocates treat prisoners as members of communities that supersede incarceration, they may also supersede some of the constraints of traditional prison politics.
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How can a brilliant political scientist like Rachel seem oblivious to the DLC? [View all]
WhaTHellsgoingonhere
Apr 2016
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Bernie plans to lead the Democratic Party. Whether he gets that opportunity is a different question
WhaTHellsgoingonhere
Apr 2016
#8
The POTUS is the leader of the Democratic Party. Starting to sound like Clinton supporters don't
WhaTHellsgoingonhere
Apr 2016
#19
bernie plans to be president. the democratic party is just his temporary vehicle nt
msongs
Apr 2016
#35
Nope, he said he's taking it with him. Sounds like you guys would drop out if he got the nomination
WhaTHellsgoingonhere
Apr 2016
#37
No, sound like the DLC and Clinton supporters are willing to shove old school democrats...
daleanime
Apr 2016
#53
Bernie Sanders on Monday told NBC’s Chuck Todd that he ran as a Democrat to get more media coverage.
Lucinda
Apr 2016
#16
nah, he has no interest in the party, he only caucused with it his whole career.
Punkingal
Apr 2016
#28
The party is there to be used. Bernie wants a better America. Bernie's vision
Ed Suspicious
Apr 2016
#57
Bernie only added "Democratic" to Socialist when he was thinking about running for POTUS
redstateblues
Apr 2016
#66
It is a label and running as third party could split votes. That what you want?
snowy owl
Apr 2016
#70
It is very hard to recognize the thruth when your paycheck depends on not seeing it.
Vincardog
Apr 2016
#33
Well, My Thunder Has Been STOLEN By At Least Four Ahead of Me...Hillary Is BOUGHT and PAID FOR Shill
CorporatistNation
Apr 2016
#12
Her dissertation doesn't help in this thread. I'll start a thread about her ignorance of HIV in
WhaTHellsgoingonhere
Apr 2016
#43
I got used to Rachel's lost objectivity, but Hayes is starting to make me sad. Didn't anticipate it.
WhaTHellsgoingonhere
Apr 2016
#25
lol Where's the CT? You guys are so blinded by your loyalty to Hillary, you can't see the demise of
WhaTHellsgoingonhere
Apr 2016
#67
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Skwmom
Apr 2016
#49
I thought everyone enjoyed her 20 minute "Purple Drank" set ups to her lead story
WhaTHellsgoingonhere
Apr 2016
#54