Can Democrats pivot to the center? They can if they are willing to look back to those leaders who knew how to win.
The historic Democratic icons FDR, and JFK would laugh at what passes for policy in their own beloved party. Although they were upper class they understood that victory for their party depended on appealing to working class voters. Current party leaders distain the “deplorable” and “racist” members of the working class. A not very helpful approach to winning elections.
A laundry list of things for Democrats to keep and to dump if they ever want to actually be smart and maybe to win again nationwide.
Keep a woman’s right to choose for the first trimester.
Dump abortion until birth unless the mother’s health is at risk or the fetus is not viable.
Keep a concern for climate change and the environment and grow nuclear power.
Dump intermittent, unreliable renewable energy that requires backup continuous generating capacity which is then used intermittently. A ridiculously expensive approach. Even more important, realize that the stifling maze of environmental procedures that now must be followed to build anything has raised the price of necessities like mass transit and housing that the working class needs to survive. Figure out how to build stuff quickly.
Keep and develop new effective vaccines.
Dump vaccine mandates.
Keep equality of opportunity for all. Dump equity of results based on discriminating against men, whites and Asians in a futile attempt to compensate for past discrimination against women and blacks. Recognize that D.E.I. Is unconstitutional.
Keep the protection of gay and lesbian rights.
Dump men in women’s sports, private spaces and prisons. Oh, and mutilating children who might grow up to be gay.
Keep an opportunity for selective high value immigration.
Dump sanctuary cities and open borders.
Keep helping the homeless find jobs and a place to live.
Dump camping in cities, shitting in the streets and allowing open drug use.
Keep a concern for due process in criminal justice.
Dump letting shoplifters and other petty thieves off the hook and releasing predators back on the streets without bail to kill and maim again.
Keep support for unions and fair wages
Dump “free trade” policies that have devastated our manufacturing sector.
Do all of the above and start governing like you know what the fuck you’re doing (a good definition of being smart) and you might just find your way back to power.
Democrats should go for a family-friendly six hour day and "affirmative action for all" at our leading colleges and universities. But first they need to get radical trade and immigration reform behind them as the issues the public cares about most.
The Atlantic piece got under my skin. I felt sympathetic to the individuals, but felt like the thesis unifying all the anecdotes was, as you indicated, basically missing the entire point of family.
My friend, you need to understand the methods of how you put your justified contempt for mainstream “journalism” into the successful dissident’s realm of useful workarounds. Of course we shouldn’t fund the opposition but fortunately we don’t have to. The archive sites can be your technological middle finger to the propaganda machine. As in…. https://archive.ph/SCfnF
Mostly passive voice mewling about the human condition symptom generator.
“This is the best of all possible worlds.”
That the clay expends itself mostly in making ash tray gifts is just the way it is.
In other news bears will dumpster dive every (new york) time/s.
The powerlessness of lowest common denominator ‘distraction’(ends/means pragmatism) addiction “feeds a de/sense/itization.”
Comfortably numb 🎶
The bear doesn’t choose. Neither do the people.
Tulips tiptoe, & lip sync, from mania to mania.
Sloberalism, like The Dude, abides. “Man, they were nihilists, man.”
Rule-proving exceptions aside.
***
Reject/rump fears ejection, decides to pull up a chair … for Netanyahu.
***
The center is divots.
***
Nutbush City Limits on both sides of the Vatican walls.
***
The Atlantic is also the ocean the NYT is next to. Apple’s Eve owns it, to boot. Can’t read the piece w/o a commitment to bitten fruit … no, thanks.
But the same vein I note is the plight of the poor “caretaker.”
“Therapists” of self-entitlement/indulgence/centeredness/aggrandizement, colluding & scheming & pandering to weakness are pushing that righteousness.
But those apparatchiks report, ultimately, to the great supplanting displacer of all, the state. It’s not a new trajectory, even if it is accelerating.
Bobby McGee is the theme song … Feeling good is good enough - so long as it doesn’t feel like too much effort.
Would have enjoyed reading about my future extinction but the NYT wanted me to subscribe to read it, and I wouldn't give that propaganda rag a dime, unless they publicly apologize for the hundreds of lies told during the Pandemic, laptops, Ukraine war, and about sharp as a tack Biden to name just a few.
That’s a great point Dick. Perhaps you should sue the NYT? You could use Fox as a model, you’ll recall they were forced to disgorge $787 million for their parroting of Don’s big lie following his armed insurrection. Meanwhile, let’s all continue to marvel at Don’s unfolding strategery. It’s only been 24 days since Liberation Day, and he’s already flummoxed the free world with his cunning. And remember, there is no paywall for Don’s “Truth” Social feed. It should be required reading for all informed citizens. Miraculously, its incoherent ramblings make Joepa appear lucid. Imagine when Don is 81…
Anything to divert attention from the unfolding disaster that is Don 2.0:). DonOrenomics, embodied in "Liberation Day", likely buries tariffs for another century. Let's focus on the future, the 50's are gone.
Can Democrats pivot to the center? They can if they are willing to look back to those leaders who knew how to win.
The historic Democratic icons FDR, and JFK would laugh at what passes for policy in their own beloved party. Although they were upper class they understood that victory for their party depended on appealing to working class voters. Current party leaders distain the “deplorable” and “racist” members of the working class. A not very helpful approach to winning elections.
A laundry list of things for Democrats to keep and to dump if they ever want to actually be smart and maybe to win again nationwide.
Keep a woman’s right to choose for the first trimester.
Dump abortion until birth unless the mother’s health is at risk or the fetus is not viable.
Keep a concern for climate change and the environment and grow nuclear power.
Dump intermittent, unreliable renewable energy that requires backup continuous generating capacity which is then used intermittently. A ridiculously expensive approach. Even more important, realize that the stifling maze of environmental procedures that now must be followed to build anything has raised the price of necessities like mass transit and housing that the working class needs to survive. Figure out how to build stuff quickly.
Keep and develop new effective vaccines.
Dump vaccine mandates.
Keep equality of opportunity for all. Dump equity of results based on discriminating against men, whites and Asians in a futile attempt to compensate for past discrimination against women and blacks. Recognize that D.E.I. Is unconstitutional.
Keep the protection of gay and lesbian rights.
Dump men in women’s sports, private spaces and prisons. Oh, and mutilating children who might grow up to be gay.
Keep an opportunity for selective high value immigration.
Dump sanctuary cities and open borders.
Keep helping the homeless find jobs and a place to live.
Dump camping in cities, shitting in the streets and allowing open drug use.
Keep a concern for due process in criminal justice.
Dump letting shoplifters and other petty thieves off the hook and releasing predators back on the streets without bail to kill and maim again.
Keep support for unions and fair wages
Dump “free trade” policies that have devastated our manufacturing sector.
Do all of the above and start governing like you know what the fuck you’re doing (a good definition of being smart) and you might just find your way back to power.
Democrats should go for a family-friendly six hour day and "affirmative action for all" at our leading colleges and universities. But first they need to get radical trade and immigration reform behind them as the issues the public cares about most.
The Atlantic piece got under my skin. I felt sympathetic to the individuals, but felt like the thesis unifying all the anecdotes was, as you indicated, basically missing the entire point of family.
Paywall. Was going to take your advice despite my loathing for Douthat but not going to fund NYT
My friend, you need to understand the methods of how you put your justified contempt for mainstream “journalism” into the successful dissident’s realm of useful workarounds. Of course we shouldn’t fund the opposition but fortunately we don’t have to. The archive sites can be your technological middle finger to the propaganda machine. As in…. https://archive.ph/SCfnF
Thanks for the reminder. Drinking from a firehose leads one to just go away when a paywall is hit.
Mostly passive voice mewling about the human condition symptom generator.
“This is the best of all possible worlds.”
That the clay expends itself mostly in making ash tray gifts is just the way it is.
In other news bears will dumpster dive every (new york) time/s.
The powerlessness of lowest common denominator ‘distraction’(ends/means pragmatism) addiction “feeds a de/sense/itization.”
Comfortably numb 🎶
The bear doesn’t choose. Neither do the people.
Tulips tiptoe, & lip sync, from mania to mania.
Sloberalism, like The Dude, abides. “Man, they were nihilists, man.”
Rule-proving exceptions aside.
***
Reject/rump fears ejection, decides to pull up a chair … for Netanyahu.
***
The center is divots.
***
Nutbush City Limits on both sides of the Vatican walls.
***
The Atlantic is also the ocean the NYT is next to. Apple’s Eve owns it, to boot. Can’t read the piece w/o a commitment to bitten fruit … no, thanks.
But the same vein I note is the plight of the poor “caretaker.”
“Therapists” of self-entitlement/indulgence/centeredness/aggrandizement, colluding & scheming & pandering to weakness are pushing that righteousness.
But those apparatchiks report, ultimately, to the great supplanting displacer of all, the state. It’s not a new trajectory, even if it is accelerating.
Bobby McGee is the theme song … Feeling good is good enough - so long as it doesn’t feel like too much effort.
On the limits of robots and the future of automation, Construction Physics has an interesting analysis: https://www.construction-physics.com/p/robot-dexterity-still-seems-hard
Would have enjoyed reading about my future extinction but the NYT wanted me to subscribe to read it, and I wouldn't give that propaganda rag a dime, unless they publicly apologize for the hundreds of lies told during the Pandemic, laptops, Ukraine war, and about sharp as a tack Biden to name just a few.
Dick Minnis
removingthecataract.substack.com
That’s a great point Dick. Perhaps you should sue the NYT? You could use Fox as a model, you’ll recall they were forced to disgorge $787 million for their parroting of Don’s big lie following his armed insurrection. Meanwhile, let’s all continue to marvel at Don’s unfolding strategery. It’s only been 24 days since Liberation Day, and he’s already flummoxed the free world with his cunning. And remember, there is no paywall for Don’s “Truth” Social feed. It should be required reading for all informed citizens. Miraculously, its incoherent ramblings make Joepa appear lucid. Imagine when Don is 81…
Anything to divert attention from the unfolding disaster that is Don 2.0:). DonOrenomics, embodied in "Liberation Day", likely buries tariffs for another century. Let's focus on the future, the 50's are gone.