April 27, 2019

From 2005 - Professor Warren tries to protect us from Senator Biden's Credit Card Industry Bill

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March 30, 2019

All About Pete

I see a lot of folks getting excited by Mayor Pete. I myself had some thoughts about a one two ticket with him and Warren. But I recognize my limited knowledge of his actual political record and thoughts regarding power, which is something that matters a lot to me. This article is long, but it is a bit of a dive into Pete’s book, and the thing that jumps out at me is how he sees or doesn’t see regular people. What attracts me to Warren is her empathy, and her rage for justice (a book I read when I started in politics)

Talking about politics on campus, Buttigieg says:

In April 2001, a student group called the Progressive Student Labor Movement took over the offices of the university’s president, demanding a living wage for Harvard janitors and food workers. That spring, a daily diversion on the way to class was to see which national figure—Cornel West or Ted Kennedy one day, John Kerry or Robert Reich another—had turned up in the Yard to encourage the protesters.

Striding past the protesters and the politicians addressing them, on my way to a “Pizza and Politics” session with a journalist like Matt Bai or a governor like Howard Dean, I did not guess that the students poised to have the greatest near-term impact were not the social justice warriors at the protests […] but a few mostly apolitical geeks who were quietly at work in Kirkland House [Zuckerberg et al.]


[link:https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/03/all-about-pete|

March 24, 2019

Beto advocates raising retirement age and means testing for SS

It is difficult for me to comprehend that a Democrat would advocate for means testing of social security or raising the retirement age, but here is a video of Beto doing just this.

https://twitter.com/clarknt67/status/1109765901870682112?s=21

This is why we need more waitresses and construction workers elected to government. Rich people hang out with other rich people who love their careers and sit behind desks all days and have zero comprehension that the term back breaking work is an actual thing.

January 21, 2017

Question submitted by VoicesAcrossAmerica

January 20, 2017

Old Account Access

I had an account here since 2000, but I could never get the email code from AOL following the crash. Now I'm being accused of all sorts of things because I have a brand new account. Is there any chance I can get my old account back? The name is Dems2002

January 20, 2017

In One Tweet Claire McCaskill shows us that she's in trouble in 2018

Claire McCaskill is one of our most vulnerable Senators. Missouri voted overwhelmingly for Trump and also for a Republican Governor and Senator. This tweet is designed to make Senator McCaskill appear strong and tough, but it actually has the opposite impact. It makes her look weak.

Martin Luther King Jr. refused to condemn rioters and said that "Riots are the language of the unheard."

Also, calling anyone UnAmerican is rather UnAmerican. Since she's from Missouri, home to Fergusen, I can guarantee you that her Republican opponents will use her own words to condemn BLM.

Finally, I have a question that is hard to answer but it comes down to this: Does Senator McCaskill actually believe that violent protestors are UnAmerican? OR Did she feel the need to CYA because she's afraid that this type of protest will be used against her?

My gut tells me she tweeted this due to political calculation and fear of the Koch Brothers tying her to these protesters. And I get that. Because there's little doubt that if they think it will help them, Republicans will do and say anything. Remember Senator Cleland.

I may be wrong. She may be this appalled. But here's the calculation vulnerable Democratic Senators need to make -- if you're going to be hung for a sheep, be the best damn sheep you can be.

Trump and the Republicans practice a politics of dominance. When you post out of fear of what your opponent is going to do or say, that is the politics of submission. And that rarely wins. We've already seen how Trump's horrible strategy proved successful. If we take one thing away from it, take that complete authenticity is the order of the day.

January 20, 2017

He Will Not Divide Us

I love this -- HeWillNotDivide.US

Commencing at 9am on January 20, 2017, the day of the inauguration of the 45th President of the United States, the public is invited to deliver the words "HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US" into a camera mounted on a wall outside the Museum of the Moving Image, New York, repeating the phrase as many times, and for as long as they wish.

Open to all, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the participatory performance will be live-streamed continuously for four years, or the duration of the presidency. In this way, the mantra "HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US" acts as a show of resistance or insistence, opposition or optimism, guided by the spirit of each individual participant and the community.

January 20, 2017

The Majority Can No Longer Be Silent

Today Donald Trump will be sworn in as President of the United States and the world collectively weeps. While a few people will greet this news with enthusiasm, they are a clear minority. His poll numbers are at 32%, the lowest of any incoming President in recorded history. Trump lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes. Trump’s opponents are the clear majority, and we can no longer be silent.

“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence," said Leonardo da Vinci.

As of today, silence officially becomes consent. Every single day we are silent normalizes the next day under President Trump.

President Obama recently said that, "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."

Our country needs us to raise our voice. Now is the time to signal your willingness to your friends and family that YOU will be the change that we seek.

Option 1: Add an Upside Down Flag filter to your profile pictures in recognition that we have officially become a Nation in Distress.

Option 2: Go high, and simply raise your voice by adding a filter of Barack and Michelle Obama. Let them know that while you are going high, you also accept President Obama’s challenge to be the Change that We Seek.

What must be made clear to the incoming President and the Congressional Republicans is that the majority will no longer be silent. We stand united in pursuit of justice and in defense of our freedoms.

January 20, 2017

Greetings

So, this isn't a truly new account. I've been on DU since 2000. My old name was Dems2002, but alas and alack it was attached to my old AOL email address and I could never get the passcode.

So here we are. And now I am Voices Across America. (voicesacrossamerica.net)

I am a full-time political consultant. I went into politics after the 2000 election. I got my first paid gig in 2002 and I never looked back. I mostly do local consulting in California, but I did spend a bit of time on Bernie Sanders Campaign in Nevada and North Carolina.

I am scared right now. But I have hope. A friend posted the following and I really liked it:

"hope is vastly more potent than either optimism or pessimism, for it bestows upon us the impetus to act, with agency, from the knowledge that the future state we would be optimistic or pessimistic about, were it preordained, is in fact up to us." attributed to Rebecca Solnit