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Progressive Initiatives Win While Dems Continue To Lose
I am getting a bit stuffed from all that popcorn.
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But hey, they found another bag of 'mailed in' ballots.
Mark Niesse @markniesse – 9:20 UTC · 6 Nov 2020
Biden has taken the lead in Georgia for the first time. He is ahead of Trump by 917 votes after more results were reported in Clayton County.
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This line in a Washington Post report, filed from Taipei, Taiwan, is the most condescending I have seen in a while. What evidence does the writer have to back up that claim?
As the United States tallied votes in a presidential election that appears headed for a court battle and fractious final phase, Chinese commentators and state mouthpieces this week lined up to portray the cross-Pacific superpower — viewed with awe and envy by generations of Chinese — as a politically crumbling edifice in 2020.
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Scott Ritter is unfortunately right:
In the end, the future of the United States and, in many ways, the rest of the world, will be decided not by the American voter, but a much more nefarious form of life – the American lawyer.
Yves Smith diagnoses the Democrats' disease:
Democratic Party insiders are already deploying their blame cannons, and the progressive wing of the party is a big target. One of the big complaints of corporate Democrats who did or nearly lost their seats is that they were smeared as “socialists” in attack ads.
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The Democrats need to quit running from socialism and start explaining that America already practices socialism for the rich (with examples) and maybe it’s time for socialism for ordinary people (with examples). But the problem is that the Dems are culpable of promoting socialism for the rich, as exemplified by the “no accountability” bank bailouts and the reluctance to address student debt and ever-rising health care costs.
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At the same time, as readers know well, there are boatloads of “progressive” policies that are very popular with voters, like raising the minimum wage, strengthening Social Security, providing for more income support during lockdowns, getting rid of the ACA and replacing it with government-provided insurance, and cutting military spending. And if 2016 and 2020 demonstrated anything, it’s that the Democrats aren’t benefitting from being joined at the hip with big corporations and billionaires. Bloomberg spent $100 million on the party’s behalf, for instance, yet what difference did that make?
So the Democrats institutionally could break away from the grip of corporate big money, but too many pols and operatives are in their vise for that to happen. It will take at least another epic failure for them to be rooted out. And in the meantime, the scapegoating will continue.
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The results in Florida seem to confirm that take:
@TravisMenard00 – 3:13 UTC · Nov 6, 2020
Bernie Sanders: "We need a federal minimum wage of at least $15/hr."
Joe Biden: "I beat the Socialist!"
Florida: *Votes for $15 statewide minimum wage, and *not* Joe Biden*
The problem in the United States and most of the ‘western’ world, is that people just enjoy being told what to do, what to think, who to applaud. It has reached the stage …???by: bevin @28
<=No Bevin, your are a victim of the surrounding media, educational propaganda, and "live with it" culture.. The USA is excited, even beamingly overjoyed, with the outcome, 340,000,000 people so divided nobody but the wealthy few and their monopoly house corporations can make any decisions or do anything or plan anything. <=there is no problem at all at the USA or among the seven layers of private and foreign interest that control the management and use of the USA, its business as usual <=an infight between propaganda figures over elections, but all in all, the Wealthy Oligarchs are quite happy with the USA, the two party [divide and conquer] system, and media's ability to control everyone's thinking. all in all it could almost not be better.
USA Governed Americans lack American leadership, no one has update the declaration of independence... Americans are without access to the media that controls their thoughts and regulates their understanding, imprisoned by the USA in rule of law fabrics and lost in the take down swamps maintained by the financial communities; and worse, the USA defends, supports, rewards, and finances these institutions.
The Declaration of Independence explains why Americans are so slow to respond to Tyranny, first it reminds the Governors that Governor control over the Governed masses is conditional " WHEN in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of nature and of Nature's God entitle them, .. "
then it goes on to explain governance which seeks to curtail Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness has opened itself up to be cut loose: "WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by the Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness "
then it goes on to explain that governments are formed by mankind to secure these unalienable rights to all men equally, "That to secure these Rights Governments are instituted among Men,.."
Then it explains that the power of the Governed comes from the consent of the Governed: "..deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, .."
Then it explains that misbehavior by those who manage the government is sufficient cause for the governed masses to change the government "..that whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and happiness.. "
Then it explains that people are reluctant to engage the effort to change the government so <=the misbehaviour of the managers of the government and their failures and abuses are often allowed to continue for long periods before the governed people take matters into their own hands and decide to fix it "Prudence, indeed, will dictate the Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed.."
Then it explains when these abuses and Evils justify a change in government by the governed, "But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariable the same object, evinces a Design to reduce the {governed] to absolute Despotism, it is the.. right [of the Governed], it is the.. Duty [of the Governed], to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security. "
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