New World Order
See other New World Order Articles
Title: There Is a Revolution on the Left. Democrats Are Bracing.
Source:
[None]
URL Source: [None]
Published: Jul 22, 2018
Author: ALEXANDER BURNS
Post Date: 2018-07-22 09:25:23 by sneakypete
Ping List: *Politics and Politicians* Subscribe to *Politics and Politicians*
Keywords: Revolution, Communist Children, Bye,Bye,Dim elites
Views: 3158
Comments: 17
DETROIT — For Rachel Conner, the 2018 election season has been a moment of revelation. A 27-year-old social worker, Ms. Conner voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 primaries, spurning the more liberal Bernie Sanders, whom many of her peers backed. But Ms. Conner changed course in this year’s campaign for governor, after concluding that Democrats could only win with more daring messages on issues like public health and immigration. Sign Up For the Morning Briefing Newsletter And so on a recent Wednesday, she enlisted two other young women to volunteer for Abdul El-Sayed, a 33-year-old advocate of single-payer health care running an uphill race in Michigan to become the country’s first Muslim governor. “They need to wake up and pay attention to what people actually want,” Ms. Conner said of Democratic leaders. “There are so many progressive policies that have widespread support that mainstream Democrats are not picking up on, or putting that stuff down and saying, ‘That wouldn’t really work.’” Voters like Ms. Conner may not represent a controlling faction in the Democratic Party, at least not yet. But they are increasingly rattling primary elections around the country, and they promise to grow as a disruptive force in national elections as younger voters reject the traditional boundary lines of Democratic politics. Energized to take on President Trump, these voters are also seeking to remake their own party as a ferocious — and ferociously liberal — opposition force. And many appear as focused on forcing progressive policies into the midterm debate as they are on defeating Republicans. The impact of these activists in the 2018 election has been limited but revealing: Only about a sixth of Democratic congressional nominees so far have a formal affiliation with one of several important insurgent groups. Fifty-three of the 305 candidates have been endorsed by the Justice Democrats, the Working Families Party, the Progressive Change Campaign and Our Revolution, organizations that have helped propel challenges to Democratic incumbents. But the voters who make up the ascending coalition on the left have had an outsize effect on the national political conversation, driving the Democrats’ internal policy debates and putting pressure on party leaders unseen in previous campaigns. Mark Brewer, a former longtime chairman of the Michigan Democratic Party, said “progressive energy” was rippling across the state. But Mr. Brewer, who backs Gretchen Whitmer, a former State Senate leader and the Democratic front-runner for governor, said Michigan Democrats were an ideologically diverse bunch and the party could not expect to win simply by running far to the left. “There are a lot of moderate and even conservative Democrats in Michigan,” Mr. Brewer cautioned. “It’s always been a challenge for Democrats to hold that coalition together in the general election.” Progressive activists have already upended one major election in Michigan, derailing a former federal prosecutor, Pat Miles, who was running for attorney general with the support of organized labor, by endorsing another lawyer, Dana Nessel, who litigated against Michigan’s gay marriage ban, at a party convention. In more solidly Democratic parts of the country, younger progressives have battered entrenched political leaders, ousting veteran state legislators in Pennsylvania and Maryland and rejecting, in upstate New York, a congressional candidate recruited by the national party. In Maryland, Democrats passed over several respected local officials to select Ben Jealous, a former N.A.A.C.P. president and an ally of Mr. Sanders who backs single-payer health care, as their nominee for governor. And in a climactic upset in New York last month, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old Democratic socialist, felled Representative Joseph Crowley, the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House. [Read about Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s debut on the national campaign stage in Kansas.] With about two months left in primary season, a handful of races remain where restive liberals could flout the Democratic establishment, demolishing archaic party machinery or pressuring Democrats in moderate areas to tack left. Beyond Mr. El-Sayed, there are also insurgents contesting primaries for governor in Florida and New York, for Senate in Delaware and for a smattering of House seats in states including Kansas, Massachusetts and Missouri. The pressure from a new generation of confrontational progressives has put Democrats at the precipice of a sweeping transition, away from not only the centrist ethos of the Bill Clinton years but also, perhaps, from the consensus-oriented liberalism of Barack Obama. Less than a decade ago, Mr. Obama’s spokesman, Robert Gibbs, derided the “professional left” for making what he suggested were preposterous demands — like pressing for “Canadian health care.” That attitude now appears obsolete, on matters well beyond health policy. Corey Johnson, the progressive speaker of the New York City Council, who supported Mr. Crowley over Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, urged Democrats to recognize the intensity of “anger, fear and disappointment from people in our own party,” especially those new to the political process. “They’re young, and a lot of them are folks that weren’t around or weren’t engaged when Obama ran for the first time,” Mr. Johnson, 36, said. “So this is their moment of: Let’s take our country back.” In a source of relief to Democratic officials, the millennial-infused left has left a lighter mark in moderate areas where Republicans are defending their congressional majorities, and where bluntly left-wing candidates could struggle to win. In House races, Democrats have mainly picked nominees well to the left of center, but to the right of Mr. Sanders and Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. Across most of the approximately 60 Republican-held districts that Democrats are contesting, primary voters have chosen candidates who seem to embody change — many of them women and minorities — but who have not necessarily endorsed positions like single-payer health care and abolishing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency. Some national Democrats remain skeptical that voters are focused on specific policy demands of the kind Mr. El-Sayed and Ms. Ocasio-Cortez have championed. Former Gov. Martin O’Malley of Maryland, a left-of-center Democrat who ran for president in 2016, suggested the party wants “new leaders and fresh ideas” more than hard-left ideology. “Sometimes that may be filled by a leader who calls herself a Democratic socialist, and sometimes it’s not,” said Mr. O’Malley, reflecting on the political convulsion that touched his home state. “Sometimes it’s with a young person. Sometimes it’s with a retiree. Sometimes it’s with a vet.” Several crucial Democratic victories since 2016 have also come with avowedly moderate standard-bearers, such as Senator Doug Jones of Alabama and Representative Conor Lamb of Pennsylvania, who won grueling special elections. And unlike hard-liners on the right, Democratic activists have not contested Senate primaries in conservative-leaning states where the majority is at stake, allowing centrists to run unimpeded in Arizona and Tennessee. Yet among Democratic stalwarts, there is a sometimes-rueful recognition that a cultural gulf separates them from the party’s next generation, much of which inhabits a world of freewheeling social media and countercultural podcasts that are wholly unfamiliar to older Democrats. Evan Nowlin, a writer and barista supporting Mr. El-Sayed, said he had been motivated to volunteer by a podcast hosted by The Intercept, a left-leaning news site that has intensively covered challenges to the Democratic establishment. Mr. Nowlin, a soft-spoken 26-year-old who supported Mr. Sanders in 2016, said the traditional Democratic leadership had plainly failed to inspire the country. “I think they’re generally spineless,” he said. In some instances, the party’s rebels may be too brazen even for some of the candidates they have supported. The gradations of Democratic revolution were on display at an event in Brooklyn Tuesday celebrating the Working Families Party: Cynthia Nixon, the actor running in a September primary against Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York, a more moderate Democrat, drew cheers hailing Ms. Ocasio-Cortez and her fellow Democratic socialists. But Mr. Jealous, the Maryland nominee for governor, who is supported by Working Families and addressed the event, was warier of the socialist label. After embracing Ms. Nixon on stage but not quite endorsing her, Mr. Jealous chuckled at a question about the resurrection of Democratic socialism as a political identity. “I’m a venture capitalist,” he said, noting his work as an investor. “I’m kind of like the last person to ask.” In Michigan, however, Mr. El-Sayed is counting on a mood of ideological ambition to decide his primary: He remains an underdog, facing a well-funded rival in Ms. Whitmer, who is backed by powerful labor unions like the United Auto Workers. She has led in recent polls, while a third candidate, Shri Thanedar, a wealthy wild card, has complicated the race. Aiming to build momentum, Mr. El-Sayed will campaign later this month with Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, to whom he linked himself in generation and political outlook. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez also campaigned in Kansas Friday for liberal House candidates and was slated for an event over the weekend for a primary challenger to a Democratic incumbent in Missouri, William Lacy Clay. “The rise of somebody like Alexandria seems kind of obvious to somebody in our generation,” Mr. El-Sayed said in an interview, casting the moment in grand terms: “The machine, whether it is on the right or on the left, has assented to this broken system of corporate politics, and I think people are real frustrated about that.” That mind-set unnerves Democratic veterans like Mr. Brewer, the former party chairman, in a state where they have long struggled to overcome a Republican machine aligned with the business community. Mr. Trump’s slim victory there exposed divisions between the national Democratic Party and many of the white union members on whose votes Michigan Democrats rely, underscoring Democrats’ tenuous position in 2018. But within deep-blue precincts where Democratic insurgency appears strongest, talk of accommodating the center is in short supply. In Massachusetts, where several incumbent House Democrats are facing feisty challenges, Michelle Wu, a 33-year-old member of the Boston City Council, said voters are demanding leaders who share their intense alarm about economic and racial inequality. Defying the local machine, she recently endorsed Ayanna Pressley, a fellow council member, in a primary against Representative Michael Capuano, a long-serving liberal. “People want to believe we can take our own future into our hands,” Ms. Wu said.
Poster Comment: The "eggs" the upper middle-class and Trust Fund commie children of the 60's has now hatched,and cannibal chicks emerged that are now of age and are going to devour the hens and roosters that created them. Chances are we will either see a violent revolution within the next 10 years,or America as a free and independent nation will cease to exist as we become part of an international borg of communist states. Who will win? Will it be the Stalinists,or the Jeffersonian's?
Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#1. To: sneakypete (#0)
― Benjamin Franklin Kinda scary. When the productive give up because its easier to take than to produce our Republic will die. Looks like it will happen before I die. perhaps, from the consensus-oriented liberalism of Barack Obama. BTW Obama won because he was black and no other reason. He was reelected because he was black. If any other candidate would have done the things that Obama had done or said they would have never last passed the primary.
100 percent agreement on that one. Even then he had to be a non-scary black that spoke normal English. The fact that he was a Idot-Savant whose gift was being a human parrot didn't hurt anything,either. He would pronounce words and say things with conviction without even knowing what he was saying. Without perfect diction he wouldn't have had a chance. I honestly don't think he ever thought he was going to get past the primaries because until he won the Dim nomination,he flat refused to wear an American Flag lapel pin. He pinned one on the day after the primary ended.
In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
Which was nothing. Literally. They never would have been nominated.
He did help that he ran against 3 dipsticks, Hilliary, McCain and Romney.
Vegetarians eat vegetables. Beware of humanitarians!
True.
It's like this one time, at Bank Camp when... Who's winning?
CZ: He did help that he ran against 3 dipsticks, Hilliary, McCain and Romney. Pete: The fact that he was a Idot-Savant whose gift was being a human parrot didn't hurt anything,either. He would pronounce words and say things with conviction without even knowing what he was saying. MW: [Candidate 0bama did] nothing. Literally. They never would have been nominated. All you guys make valid points regarding 0bama's AND re-election. Those all factor in. In a real election campaign, 0bama would have truly been challenged on merit and by words (by both a legit MSM and candidate who actually ran to win, like Trump). In that case 0bama would have been buried. Because he was "black", he was fawned over by the MSM to an absurd degree. And despite ZERO actual accomplishments. 0bama faced ZERO scrutiny...other than from Sean Hannity. Not even the GOP or McStain dared hammer at Bammy's real vulnerabilities. Even at that, the ones that were touched on were smoked and shut down by Big Media. QUICK. (As they did when Larry Sinclair held his news conference, exposing Bammy as a Pole-Smoking Crack Candidate). No one dared go there or ask questions. No one dared openly wonder why the friend of 0Bammy - the young church choir dude -- was found DOA. Imagine had the MSM given Bammy the Stormy Daniels treatment?) No real candidate in a real Presidential contest could have also escaped and politically survived the Reverend Wright Church of Hate association, the Bill Ayers association and bizarre book/Bio. McStain ran NOT to win (and almost did.) He sandbagged it EXACTLY like Poppy Bush against Bubba in '92. As to 0bammy's re-election, it seemed pretty obvious to me that Election 2012 was a complete sham, a Fake Election. Recall 0bama's confidence on open-mic as he assured the Russian President, "I'll have more flexibility after the Election" -- as though it were a fait accompli? Finally, now we should consider the obvious that the same cast of brazen Commie characters who openly set up Trump would have also thought nothing of Fixing the Voting Machines and just plain fudging the numbers. BECAUSE THEY COULD. (who would stop them? The MSM??)
Yeah he was about the only one saying anything negative about Obozo, I think Rush was too but not as much as Hannity was.
Vegetarians eat vegetables. Beware of humanitarians!
Well, he did have that stupid Star Wars name as well.
I honestly don't think it's fair to McLunatic to call him an opponent. EVERY SINGLE time Palin gave a speech that drew cheers and raised his ratings,he jumped right in front of tv cameras and apologized for whatever she said and said she didn't speak for him. I suspect those FBI background files that Hillary stole had some "good stuff" on McLunatic while he was committing treason as a POW,and that is what caused him to act like a trained Dim puppet during the campaign. Not that the reason really matters. What he did to sabotage his own campaign so that Bathhouse Barry would be President is what matters.
In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
Let's not forget that a large portion of the Dim ruling class really ARE "true believers" in Communism,and you will NEVER convince them that given a clear choice between a communist and a capitalist,the communist would always win the popular vote. Anything else is inconceivable to them, I honestly think the Dim Power People were working behind the scenes during the primary elections to make sure Trump won because none of them believed he could ever win. THAT,IMHO,is one of the reasons the left hates him so much. They helped put him in office,and you KNOW that burns their asses!
In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
SHOULD READ "and you will NEVER convince them that given a clear choice between a communist and a capitalist,the communist would NOT always win the popular vote. Anything else is inconceivable to them.
In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
You have to wonder how much money he made for being the stooge during that election?
Vegetarians eat vegetables. Beware of humanitarians!
There still seems to be a lot of people who haven't forgiven her for that behavior, on both sides of the fence. I haven't seen a whole lot of her lately is she still helping out candidates by endorsing them or has she stopped?
Vegetarians eat vegetables. Beware of humanitarians!
I knew Trump was going to win. Or at least I was extremmely confident he would win. The democrats knew or suspected the same. That is why they put spies in his campaign and made up this bogus Russia stuff during the campaign. They knew. They just lied and tried to convince us he wouldn't and that he wasn't Presidential material. That is my opinion and I think it is right.
"Party People" will NEVER forgive anyone that goes against party desires. They are only happy by being "good little comrades". I haven't seen a whole lot of her lately is she still helping out candidates by endorsing them or has she stopped? I have no idea. She is no longer useful for hurting Republican candidates,so the media will have no use for her unless she does something like get drunk and drive over a bunch of black school childruns crossing a street. Then they will write about how she did that on purpose because all Republicans hate and want to kill all non-whites.
In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
I did too,but I'm not a communist and don't suffer under the delusion that the majority of the voters are communists. By the time the Dims started taking him seriously,it was took late for them to replace Cankles with a human candidate. Assuming of course the Dims can even find a human candidate.
In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
“When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic.”
#2. To: Justified (#1)
BTW Obama won because he was black and no other reason. He was reelected because he was black. If any other candidate would have done the things that Obama had done or said they would have never last passed the primary.
#3. To: Justified (#1)
"If any other candidate would have done the things that Obama had done …"
#4. To: Justified (#1)
BTW Obama won because he was black and no other reason. He was reelected because he was black. If any other candidate would have done the things that Obama had done or said they would have never last passed the primary.
#5. To: CZ82 (#4)
He(It) did help that he ran against 3 dipsticks, Hilliary, McCain and Romney.
#6. To: sneakypete (#0)
(Edited)
Revolution on the Left
#7. To: CZ82, Justified, misterwhite, sneakypete (#4)
J: Obama won because he was black and no other reason. He was reelected because he was black. If any other candidate would have done the things that Obama had done or said they would have never last passed the primary.
#8. To: Liberator (#7)
0bama faced ZERO scrutiny...other than from Sean Hannity.
#9. To: Justified (#1)
BTW Obama won because he was black and no other reason.
To 'Rats, that all adds up to "qualified".
#10. To: CZ82 (#4)
He did help that he ran against 3 dipsticks, Hilliary, McCain and Romney.
#11. To: Liberator (#7)
Finally, now we should consider the obvious that the same cast of brazen Commie characters who openly set up Trump would have also thought nothing of Fixing the Voting Machines and just plain fudging the numbers. BECAUSE THEY COULD. (who would stop them? The MSM??)
#12. To: All (#11)
and you will NEVER convince them that given a clear choice between a communist and a capitalist,the communist would always win the popular vote. Anything else is inconceivable to them,
#13. To: sneakypete (#10)
Not that the reason really matters. What he did to sabotage his own campaign so that Bathhouse Barry would be President is what matters.
#14. To: sneakypete (#10)
EVERY SINGLE time Palin gave a speech that drew cheers and raised his ratings,he jumped right in front of tv cameras and apologized for whatever she said and said she didn't speak for him.
#15. To: sneakypete (#11)
I honestly think the Dim Power People were working behind the scenes during the primary elections to make sure Trump won because none of them believed he could ever win.
#16. To: CZ82 (#14)
There still seems to be a lot of people who haven't forgiven her for that behavior, on both sides of the fence.
#17. To: A K A Stone (#15)
I knew Trump was going to win. Or at least I was extremmely confident he would win.
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
[Home] [Headlines] [Latest Articles] [Latest Comments] [Post] [Mail] [Sign-in] [Setup] [Help] [Register]