Since the DSA has been having some success in the elections I have watched the predicted panic from the MAGA twats and also from Dems and most of the centrists (who pretend they are independent voters)….all this chaos these dweebs are creating is really amusing.
That Repub, ex-House member, Joe Scarborough, who has not been Donny’s biggest fan, has had his say about the ‘progressives’ success….
Joe Scarborough has managed to find some common ground with a man he frequently criticizes, President Trump. On Monday’s Morning Joe, Scarborough made the case that Democrats were embracing “extreme” positions on their left flank, reports Mediaite. The reference is to the success of social democrats in Democratic primaries, a group that Trump has taken to calling “communists.” “I mean, there have been some extraordinarily loony ideas coming from some,” said Scarborough. “Some of these people have actually won races and are going to be seated in Congress, most likely. Like, you know, getting rid of prisons, getting rid of cops, that didn’t work well for Democrats before, didn’t work well for American cities, either.”
His comments came in a discussion with Ed Luce of the Financial Times, who wrote a column suggesting that the Democratic Socialists of America “comes across as anti-American, which does not play well in the heartlands.” Both say that the DSA’s recent wins are clustered in safe, highly educated districts, not among the working-class voters Democrats need. Scarborough likened the moment to the 2020 primary, saying progressive contenders performed well early, but Joe Biden’s centrist stance ultimately prevailed—and predicted a similar clash of visions in the party’s next presidential contest.
His ingrained BS from being a GOP toadie is started to show again….get rid of cops, nowhere did I see that as a policy….I did see defund the police and take away that military air about them and let them go back to serving the community not the M-IC….plus Joe said that lack of police did not work well for cities….and which American cities would that be?
Hey Joe! Here is what the DSA platform says….
Demilitarize police departments, disempower police unions, and redirect funding to public services. Treat drug addiction and mental illness as health issues, not crimes. End qualified immunity and empower civilian oversight bodies with real authority over the police.
The platform does call for replacement of the police but they will be as popular as the Dems promise of health reform.
The platform also calls for Healthcare for all, housing reforms, tax reform, education reforms and the Green New Deal….none of it is anything a Repub or a Dem will support…that brings me to a question I often ask….If these ideas are not good then what does the Democratic Party stand for?
That little demented nazi, Miller, has lots to say about Dems….
White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller blasted the Democratic Party as “a party of freaks, weirdos, losers, and crazies,” warning that if they gain power, the “American people will lose everything.”
Let me ask just what has the American people, working people, got from this admin with all its morons? I may agree with him if he is speakjing of the centrists….but anyone else and he is full of shit.
That is not something new for me for I wrote about it 10 years ago…..
There was NO answer ten years ago and that trend continues for there is NO answer today.
There are the obvious answers….they are for greed, corruption and wasteful government….but those are feelings not real answers….then what is the long overdue answer?
Will these few upcoming elections answer the question.
Most of us know about the game plan for Donny’s second term., Heritage’s Project 2025, so not to be outdone by the MAGA crowd the Dems have their game plan, at least for now….so far it is known as Project 2029….another attempt to chase down the GOP’s success.
Democrats trying to lay policy groundwork for the 2028 presidential race are rolling out their first major policy proposal: a framework for online child safety.
Known as “Project 2029,” the liberal group was formed as a counterweight to the conservative Project 2025 to write a policy agenda for the next Democratic presidential nominee. The group reckons starting with online internet safety — which has widespread Democratic support — will help galvanize the party to address what it calls this generation’s “tobacco moment.”
The “Kids Over Clicks” proposal calls for narrowing protections under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act that shield platforms from some liability. Among other items, the group wants to clarify that companies aren’t protected from lawsuits stemming from AI-generated content, paid ads, illegal content or activity, and platforms that promote stalking or other nonconsensual behavior.
The group is hoping the plans will pick up traction among what is expected to be a crowded field of Democratic presidential candidates heading into 2028.
“We’re going to see many people running for president … and we want to set the standard in terms of the type of ambition that we want to see when it comes to solving these problems,” said Chad Maisel, a former adviser to President Joe Biden and Democratic Sen. Cory Booker who now serves as Project 2029’s executive director.
The proposal also advocates for banning social media accounts for kids under 16 years old, adopting stronger default privacy protections, designing safer internet platforms, banning cell phones in schools (with exceptions), pushing for a smartphone-free childhood until age 14, banning surveillance advertising, and limiting data collection on children.
Project 2029 wanted to start with kids safety because it’s among the least politically polarizing topics, but plans to release policy agendas centered on issues including healthcare, housing, AI, and the border.
All this is the Dems doing what they always do…REACT to the policies of the GOP…..so far I do not see any difference than any other election strategy…..do you?
We all know that the mid-terms are less than 6 months away and the voted in the primaries has already began….and the Dems are making some in-roads into taking back Congress.
But is it sound Democratic polices or just a dislike of Donny? Sorry to say it appears the hatred of Donny and his policies that is driving this bus. But will the hatred of Donny save us?
My opinion is the rise of Dems will do little to save us from the damage of Donny.
But here is an opinion on this phenom….
All told, Democrats already seem as though they’re headed for a great midterm election. Voters already troubled by the state of the economy now have the impacts of Donald Trump’s teeter-tottering war in Iran to contend with, and polls tell us they aren’t happy – per poll averages from the analyst Nate Silver, nearly 55% of Americans oppose the war in Iran, 61% of Americans disapprove of Trump’s handling of the economy, and 57% of Americans disapprove of Trump overall. As it stands, Democrats have a six-point advantage in generic congressional ballot polling over Republicans.
And Republican hopes that a mid-decade redistricting rush would save their tight majority in the House have been frustrated. The partisan gerrymandering war of the last several months peaked with the victory of a ballot measure in Virginia that allows the state’s Democratic legislature to draw maps that would eliminate three Republican seats and a riposte by Florida Republicans who approved their own map that could allow Republicans to gain as many as four seats in that state – mere hours after the supreme court struck down provisions in the Voting Rights Act banning racial gerrymandering.
While the redistricting battles will drag on, electoral history and Trump’s standing give Democrats plenty of reason to presume it will take the House in November – on average in elections since the end of the second world war, the president’s party tends to lose well over 20 House seats in midterm elections and Republicans currently hold the chamber by just three. And given polling for competitive races in Maine, North Carolina, Ohio, and elsewhere, even the Senate may now be in Democrats’ reach.
Some voters see the likes of the mayor of NYC, Bernie and AOC, among others as the true intent of the Democratic Party and also see them as the savoir of a struggling party.
Progressives are gaining in all quarters….as a hard Leftist I see this as a positive change….but there is so much to be done will it be enough?
This year marks 250 years since the first American Revolution. Yet the American ruling class has no grounds for celebrating the occasion. The country they have ruled for a quarter millennium is teetering on a catastrophe.
As they survey the state of the nation from the bird’s-eye view of their skyscraper penthouses and corporate boardrooms, from their gilded halls of power, and their remote luxury islands, they see a picture of decline. As they look at this country’s position in the world, the mood of its population, perception of its institutions, quality of its political leadership, and its economic trajectory, they have no reason for optimism in the years ahead.
We are living through a historical pivot. On the global stage, US imperialism has lost the hegemonic grip it once held. In the space of 25 decades it has matured from colonial infancy, to unrivaled colossus, to the irreversible frailty of senile decay. Its strength has waned for decades, but in the 2020s, the gradual downward slope has started to tip into free fall. When future historians look back on the country’s curve of rise and decline, they’ll identify this decade as the tipping point.
Capitalism’s historical mission has come and gone. The next American revolution is approaching.
I say bring it on!
Get money out of politics, silence special interests and lobbyists, enact term limits and mandatory retirement requirements….work on things that will make any change permanent for that is what Donny and the Bros are attempting to do as I type.
It is time to make this country a great nation…..a beacon of democracy and freedom that it use to be….
The DNC has seen to the exposure of the public in the reasons why they were so beaten in 2024….my thought it is decaying corpse of a political party.
The 2024 election “was a punch to the gut, and people were pissed off,” Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Ken Martin wrote Thursday in a statement accompanying the report’s release. “How, we all asked, could Democrats have lost to Donald Trump again? How did we blow through billions of dollars? And where do we go from here?”
The resulting report paints a bleak picture for Democrats. “We must admit and accept some hard truths about our Party,” it cautions. “Since the high point of the 2008 Obama landslide…the Democratic Party has vacillated between stagnation and retrogression. In doing so, we have lost the confidence we once received from everyday Americans—and election results show it. In the sixteen tumultuous years since that historic election, Democrats have lost ground at every level of government.”
This is actually the first time in more than a decade that Democrats have publicly taken any such introspection.
The party did not need this ‘autopsy’….The party had the wrong candidates, the wrong issues, and were controlled by special interests….see how hard was that?
Come on let’s be honest…..the Dems were and still are….pathetic….
Well, the much-ballyhooed autopsy on the 2024 election has arrived from Democratic National Committee’s headquarters, and it is a shame it didn’t stay buried in a trashcan in one of their offices deep inside the Beltway, and as far away from real people as possible.
Before moving on just as quickly as I can, from this unmitigated mess of typos, redactions, double-talking and sniping — and better yet, the leadership who allowed it — I want to underline some finer points, and hard-earned lessons we can take from it, and the disastrous 2024 campaign season.
First, given all the unprofessionalism, money-wasting, bickering, and out and out dysfunction in the party, it’s a wonder Kamala Harris didn’t lose by 25 points. It is clear that because of a series of self-inflicted wounds, the Democrats were not ready to do battle during the most important election in U.S. history.
Now the DNC is scrambling….but it matters not for they will continue to lose….the DNC purged any and all members that had good sound ideas that conflicted with the special interest agents that now dwell within the DNC.
A new election is on the horizon….does anyone see anything that will lead us to believe that the Dems are capable of winning a national election? So far most of the Dems have done nothing but complain….that will not fly in the next election.
I do not see it….do you?
Time to find a political party that will actually treat you and the rest of us with some sort of respect.
Soon political lies will determine the winner of any elections…..no need to do the hard work of checking out the candidates…..just let AI choose what you believe.
As we count down to our next election and then the next general we should start looking beyond the silliness that is this two party system that has actually given this country nothing but grief.
Just have to throw some light on the Left in this country from late 19th century and into the 20th….yes it is a boring history lesson but a lesson that should be taught and learned….there is so much we can do as Americans and we need to be reminded of our strenth and power.
Eugene Debs….a tireless fighter for worker rights and unions….jailed several times for his work and even ran for president from prison….actually he ran for president 5 times starting in 1904 through 1920 and each time he got over 3% of the vote. He was a tireless antiwar spokeman which got him arrested again for his opposition to American involvement in WW1….his voice lead the way for countless others, like myself, to see the problems and protest for a better nation.
Much of U.S. political commentary today oozes with pessimism: red-blue tribalism, the government shutdown, the alt-right … the list of fracture points is long. But for revolutionary socialists—those of us who believe an equitable world is possible if working people rise up and end capitalism—the picture is not all bad. A historic strike wave of teachers rolled across many regions of the country last spring, followed by the recent L.A. teachers’ revolt. Class struggle remains on the agenda, and many want an alternative to capitalism.
Given the increased interest in socialism, it’s worth defining the S-word: Does it refer to European Social Democracy (a la Sweden), the early Soviet Union, Cuba or something else entirely? Many people believe that socialism is foreign to the United States, a view that only reinforces the bourgeois status quo. In reality, socialist politics has a rich tradition in the U.S. and has influenced, as well as led, a variety of social movements. Today’s generation of radicals have the challenge of rescuing the best elements of the American socialist tradition from oblivion so we can effectively learn from the past and prepare for tomorrow.
When Bernie Sanders identified himself as a democratic socialist, Google searches for “socialism” spiked. Millions want to understand the legacy of socialist politics—what was achieved and what failed. In the United States, the Democratic Socialists of America has become the greatest beneficiary of renewed interest in socialism, with membership surging beyond 50,000. As a multitendency organization, the DSA has certain commonalities with the old U.S. Socialist Party (SP), the first anticapitalist party with real influence on American soil.
Most radicals today recognize the important achievements of the SP in the first decades of the 20th century. It led historic strikes, elected hundreds of its members to local and national offices and developed an array of newspapers—in a word, it made socialism relevant to American workers. That Eugene V. Debs, the SP’s most notable public figure, gained about a million votes for president while sitting in a jail cell for opposing World War I is proof positive that the Socialist Party is worth learning from.
The argument will be that the US is not going to embrace socialism…..and that is true only because of the distorted visions that the centrist want to present as facts.
Eighty-four percent of independent voters told pollsters last fall that “the United States is in a political crisis.” Democrats and Republicans flip back and forth on these kinds of questions depending on which team won the most recent election. But unaffiliated voters, the largest part of the electorate, are deeply concerned in ways that can’t be soothed by the next swing of the pendulum. Indeed, each “vibe shift” further convinces them that the system is see-sawing out of control.
All this leaves open for a new way of politics….but will the American have enough energy to find the alternative?
AS it is today I do not think they will….they are too set ion their ways to change…..but as the society deteriorates all things are possible…..and now is the time to start the search for a better tomorrow.
Since the election of the Orange Man from Florida the DNC has been struggling with their message…..is it possible they could find it before the next election?
With an election coming soon I have been looking that the Dems and their party in the coming years.
Their biggest problem is they are mostly old farts….
A generational clash is intensifying within the Democratic Party, as younger politicians challenge a leadership class that some say refuses to cede power and risks alienating voters. Veteran lawmakers such as 88-year-old Eleanor Holmes Norton, DC’s delegate to the House of Representatives since 1991, and senators in their 70s and 80s remain fixtures in Congress—even as millennials and Generation Z members now outnumber baby boomers in the adult population but hold far fewer seats, reports Rebecca Traister for the Intelligencer. The article describes incidents such as lawmakers physically struggling to navigate the Capitol or missing votes due to illness, but then running again anyway. One former member tells of an older colleague who, when asked why he doesn’t retire, simply asked, “Well, what would I do?” The power struggle is playing out in races across the country.
In Maine, 77-year-old Gov. Janet Mills, hopes to become the oldest freshman ever elected to the Senate in her primary campaign against 41-year-old oyster farmer Graham Platner. In Massachusetts, Seth Moulton, 47, is challenging Sen. Ed Markey, 79, while in New York City, 34-year-old Zohran Mamdani ran against and defeated 67-year-old Andrew Cuomo and 71-year-old Curtis Sliwa for mayor. While some of the older Democrats are stepping aside—for example, ex-New Hampshire Rep. Annie Kuster and Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith—many aren’t. And some, like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, are seen as actively working to keep younger candidates from gaining power. “While the olds may think they are saving us by sticking around, what they are often doing is denying the future itself just when Americans most keenly long to be reminded that there is one ahead of us,” Traister writes.
So new ideas are in short supply.
Plus since the 1990s Dems have been corporate controlled….
This time analysts are saying that the Dems, who have been struggling with messaging, have found the hook they need…..and that message is economics.
Democrats say: “They’re spineless,” Cathia Krehbiel, 48, of Indianola, Iowa, said of her party’s leaders. “I just feel like there’s so much recently that’s just going abhorrently wrong. And they speak up a little bit and they roll right over.” Overall, roughly one-third of Democrats described their party negatively in the open-ended question. About 15% described it using words like weak, or apathetic, while an additional 10% believe it is broadly ineffective or disorganized. Only about 2 in 10 Democrats described their party positively, with roughly 1 in 10 saying it is empathetic or inclusive. An additional 1 in 10 used more general positive descriptors. Jim Williams, a 78-year-old retiree from Harper Woods, Michigan said he typically supports Democrats but is disappointed with the party and its murky message. He feels much worse about the Republican Party, which he said “has lost it” under Trump’s leadership. “All he does is bully and call names. They’ve got no morals, no ethics. And the more they back him, the less I like them,” the self-described independent, said of Trump.
Trump was furious. “In just 6 months, I cut costs, especially Energy and Taxes, Tremendously. Elizabeth ‘Pocahontas’ Warren, on CNBC, said costs have gone up,” he wrote on Truth Social, using his long-standing offensive nickname for the senator. “She is just angry that I blew up her terrible Presidential Campaign. Call her out!!!”
Trump’s wrong. Prices are going up on just about everything. “Government data, including from the Commerce Department this week, show that prices rose in June on items heavily exposed to tariffs, such as home furnishings, toys and appliances,” The New York Timesreported over the weekend. That’s Trump’s Commerce Department. He may be trying to cook the books in other areas—notably by firing the federal official tasked with collecting (recently disappointing) jobs data—but he can’t hide the fact that the economy is getting worse.
In the coming 2026 midterms and the economy the way it is there should be an open door for a Dem win…..but is it?
The 2026 midterm elections should, by all rights, be good for Democrats.
That’s because midterms are almost always good for the party that doesn’t hold the presidency; that party has gained House seats in all but four midterms since the Civil War.
However, there is a sizeable “but” that comes along with that right now.
It’s looking like Democrats could squander at least some of that opportunity, if they don’t do something about their brand, which is historically awful right now.
That doesn’t mean they’ll lose the midterms. But it could mean they won’t take full advantage and grow their numbers as much as they could.
Me? I think if anybody can find a way to lose then the Dems are that entity….their messaging for decades has been sub-par for decades….a lot can happen between now and the election and if a way can be found then the Dems will have their asses handed to them…..yet again.
Why?
Well the top Dem senator candidates are just a repeat of the past….old farts with heavy corporate ties….so much for looking for new blood.
That is why Dems are running scared because of the rise of the Progressives…..
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Democratic party leaders havebeenaccusedof a wave of poor performances that go back far beyond last year’s chastening presidential defeat.
The party elite’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza, which has killed more than 69,000 Palestinians, have turnedvoters and donorsaway from the party. As have other incidents. In Illinois, Democratic US representative Chuy García’s plan to handpick his own successor upon his retirement next year, circumventing an open election, drew howls of criticism from all sides of the political divide.
Rightwing media outlets have gone after Democrats’ low favorability ratings and the party’s apparent refusal to integrateyounger members into its leadership, at a time when the Republican party made JD Vance a vice-presidential candidate last year at the age of 40.
Democrat warns US progressives against moving toward the center: ‘It lost me the election’
However, observers say that the Democratic party’s failure to secure the continuation of federal subsidies for health insurance for millions of Americans last month, a move that ended the 43-day government shutdown, could have the most lasting negative effect on the party going forward.
With the mildly successful voting in the past election the Dems seem to have found their political legs to defeat the Donny machine….or have they?
They were successful in NYC, Virginia and New Jersey but will that translate to the mid-terms?
Many people are delighted at the voting outcome….but will it translate?
To answer my question….past track record suggest they probably have not.
History is not on their side….
Democrats enabled Donald Trump to become president twice because of repetition compulsions that still propel the party’s leaders – undermining the party’s potential to end the real-life nightmare of Maga control over the federal government. Scrutinizing how this century’s Democratic leaders set the stage for Trump’s electoral triumphs is crucial not only for clarity about the past. It also makes possible a vital focus on how such failures can be avoided in the future.
Elites did quite well after Barack Obama took back the presidency for Democrats in January 2009, amid the Great Recession. He bailed out big banks while a huge number of people lost their homes. By the time Obama was most of the way through his presidency, he had facilitated “the dispossession of at least 5.2 million US homeowner families, the explosion of inequality, and the largest ruination of middle-class wealth in nearly a century”, the journalist David Dayen pointed out.
Obama’s last year as president was supposed to lead to Hillary Clinton’s first. She was the party establishment’s favorite. “You know, I get accused of being kind of moderate and center,” Clinton told a Women for Hillary audience in 2015. “I plead guilty.” The Democratic National Committee and corporate media provided major assists as she withstood the strong progressive campaign of Bernie Sanders. But after winning the nomination, Clinton never got traction with younger voters, who had gone overwhelmingly for Sanders during the primaries.
After Trump defeated Clinton in November 2016, Democratic party leaders could hardly blame themselves or their “moderate and center” nominee. Criticizing her coziness with Wall Street wouldn’t do. Neither would critiquing her thinly veiled contempt for the progressive wing of the party. Instead, the swift response from prominent Clinton campaigners was to blame Russia, launching a prolonged fixation on “Russiagate” that let the corporate-friendly leaders of the party off the hook.
The party leadership’s devotion to economic elites continued to evade scrutiny. As Sanders told a reporter in 2017: “Certainly there are some people in the Democratic party who want to maintain the status quo. They would rather go down with the Titanic so long as they have first-class seats.”
Today there a few elections that could point to what will happen next year in the midterms…..will we see a break in this silliness of Donny?
This is a breakdown of what we can expect with these votes….
Another Election Day has arrived in America, the first major one in President Trump’s second term. Some of the big races that readers of political tea leaves will be watching:
New York City mayor: Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani, the front-runner, is trying to fend off former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is running as an independent. Trump dislikes Mamdani so much he has endorsed Cuomo over Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa, How Mamdani fares—including his margin of victory, should he win—could have big repercussions for other progressive politicians in the US, reports the New York Times.
New Jersey governor: Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill has a narrow lead in the polls over former GOP state Rep. Jack Ciattarelli. A CNN analysis sees this as perhaps the night’s most telling race in regard to Trump because Sherrill has put him front and center. “He’ll do whatever Trump tells him to do,” she says of her opponent, “and I will fight anybody to work for you.” Ciattarelli, meanwhile, is a strong backer of Trump’s policies and has the president’s endorsement.
Virginia governor: Democrat Abigail Spanberger, a former congresswoman, leads the GOP candidate, Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears. Trump has not specifically endorsed Earle-Sears, notes NBC News. Spanberger is seen as a moderate, and a win could help refute the notion that Democrats need to move aggressively to the left to be successful, per the Deseret News. (The state’s attorney general race is also interesting, after violent texts sent years ago by Democratic candidate Jay Jones surfaced.)
California redistricting: Californians will vote on Proposition 50 to determine if the state will adopt a new congressional map seen as more favorable to Democrats, per ABC News. It’s a key battle in the ongoing redistricting wars in multiple states. “Prop 50 will have a big impact on the midterms,” says Christian Grose, a professor of political science at the University of Southern California. “The US House margin right now is so narrow that every seat in every state could make a difference for which party controls Congress.”
Anyone care to venture a prediction on how all this will turn out?
This will be a telling election I think…..and I will be watching….
