2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumMore Proof the Fix is in - Hillary is the Third Way Candidate
I exposed the Third Way's meddling in the Democratic Primary process yesterday in this Op
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511533289
The Third Way Think Tank at a time when the GOP is clearly on the ropes from Donald's alienating of Americans by the 10s of Millions, and Large impromptu demonstrations popping up at virtually everyone of his events, behind the scenes Third Way is working feverishly to push the political conversation to the Clinton's favorite Centrist Positions
The Centrist positions are what is known here at DU and seen all too often from Washington as caving to the GOP. Why now, why at a time when Republican policies for the last 3 decades have lead to a revolt from within their own party ??
Here is yet another in a long string of "Artful Smear Jobs" against the Progressive Left's Champion, Bernie Sanders and an attempt to move the country back from the verge of Progressive Policies residing in Washington Politics
First: The 2016 cycle is, to many, a year of the populist, but liberal populism is being routed in the Democratic primaries. Sen. Bernie Sanders, like his recent populist predecessors Howard Dean and John Edwards, draws big crowds of cheering young people to his ralliesbut is failing at the ballot box.
This shouldnt be a shock: Liberals make up only about 40% of the Democratic electorate. Yet somehow it always surprises that liberal populism doesnt win Democratic primaries. It would have much less impact in a general election because liberals count for about a quarter of the electorate, according to 2012 exit polls. So how could populism be the path back for a party trying to dig out of the deepest down-ballot electoral hole it has been in since 1928 if it fails among its own base of primary voters?
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/03/02/3-ways-hillary-clintons-super-tuesday-wins-upend-democratic-conventional-wisdom/
Third Way has worked feverishly using Rovian Tactics against Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders for their advocating Working Class Policy - you know, actually representing the people who vote them into office.
So the logic they use to force the political track of the Democratic Party back towards the Clinton's DLC/Third Way position is "At a time when the Republican Party is in disarray Hillary should move to the center to attract the disenfranchised Republican Voters".
Not a return to the Era of Roosevelt and Johnson whose Social Awareness and Defense of America's Working Class gave us The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Social Security, Medicare, the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, the Fairness Doctrine, and many more Progressive Policies to protect America's Working Class. From the 1938 FCC Act to Glass-Stiegel Progressives have led the fight for America's People - NOT Corporations.
But rather they are advocating a melding of Republican and Centrist policies that has given us Welfare Reform, NAFTA CAFTA and soon to be TPP
It just doesn't make sense
At a time when the Democratic Party could virtually upend 35 years of the Failed Reagan Era Policies, and Trickle Down Economic Policy, should we nod our heads downward, kick rocks and succumb to Republican Policies
FlatBaroque
(3,160 posts)FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)It has always been about "Overturning the New Deal"
The Robber Barons just never forgave us for electing that man 4 times
Scuba
(53,475 posts)GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)to advance Republican business objectives. They are going to frame every event as an excuse to go rightward. They have been doing it for 35 years, and they will keep doing until they are shut down.
amborin
(16,631 posts)this; they want it as much, if not more, than
FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)Broward
(1,976 posts)Hillary is a Third Wayer through and through. The majority of the electorate is voting against their own interests.
CharlotteVale
(2,717 posts)FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)and I think a lot of Progressives could too.
But to succumb and further become entrenched in Reagan Era policies is absolutely absured
CharlotteVale
(2,717 posts)those I love.
Land of Enchantment
(1,217 posts)FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)Worked so well in the past why not bring it back
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Revolution
Here is a very interesting article how Progressives led to victories in the House and Senate in 2006
Why a Conservative America is a Myth
Halperin is hardly alone in his view that whether one is talking about economic issues or social issues, conservatives have the public on their side. Democrats may win an election here or there, but at its most fundamental level, conventional political wisdom assumes America is a conservative country: hostile to government, in favor of unregulated markets, at peace with inequality, desirous of a foreign policy based on the projection of military power, and traditional in its social values.
In truth, however, the Democratic class of 2006 was remarkably progressive. According to a survey conducted by Media Matters, all 30 newly elected House Democrats who took Republican seats advocated raising the minimum wage, supported changing course in Iraq, and opposed any effort to privatize Social Security. All but two supported embryonic stem cell research and only five described themselves as "pro-life" on the issue of abortion. Thirty-seven House and Senate candidates who promoted "fair trade" rather than "free trade" won; none of them lost.9 Candidates in the freshman class who were conservative on a particular issue got the lion's share of attention, but they were a distinct minority.
http://mediamatters.org/research/progmaj/
So the take away from history is The Democratic Establishment will USE Progressive Dems to bail them out when their Centrist Policies fail them
kristopher
(29,798 posts)"Reversals are the rule, not the exception."
Reversals are the rule, not the exception. Earth has settled in the last 20 million years into a pattern of a pole reversal about every 200,000 to 300,000 years, although it has been more than twice that long since the last reversal. A reversal happens over hundreds or thousands of years, and it is not exactly a clean back flip. Magnetic fields morph and push and pull at one another, with multiple poles emerging at odd latitudes throughout the process. Scientists estimate reversals have happened at least hundreds of times over the past three billion years. And while reversals have happened more frequently in "recent" years, when dinosaurs walked Earth a reversal was more likely to happen only about every one million years.
Sediment cores taken from deep ocean floors can tell scientists about magnetic polarity shifts, providing a direct link between magnetic field activity and the fossil record. The Earth's magnetic field determines the magnetization of lava as it is laid down on the ocean floor on either side of the Mid-Atlantic Rift where the North American and European continental plates are spreading apart. As the lava solidifies, it creates a record of the orientation of past magnetic fields much like a tape recorder records sound. The last time that Earth's poles flipped in a major reversal was about 780,000 years ago, in what scientists call the Brunhes-Matuyama reversal. The fossil record shows no drastic changes in plant or animal life. Deep ocean sediment cores from this period also indicate no changes in glacial activity, based on the amount of oxygen isotopes in the cores. This is also proof that a polarity reversal would not affect the rotation axis of Earth, as the planet's rotation axis tilt has a significant effect on climate and glaciation and any change would be evident in the glacial record.
Earth's polarity is not a constant. Unlike a classic bar magnet, or the decorative magnets on your refrigerator, the matter governing Earth's magnetic field moves around. Geophysicists are pretty sure that the reason Earth has a magnetic field is because its solid iron core is surrounded by a fluid ocean of hot, liquid metal. This process can also be modeled with supercomputers. Ours is, without hyperbole, a dynamic planet. The flow of liquid iron in Earth's core creates electric currents, which in turn create the magnetic field. So while parts of Earth's outer core are too deep for scientists to measure directly, we can infer movement in the core by observing changes in the magnetic field. The magnetic north pole has been creeping northward by more than 600 miles (1,100 km) since the early 19th century, when explorers first located it precisely. It is moving faster now, actually, as scientists estimate the pole is migrating northward about 40 miles per year, as opposed to about 10 miles per year in the early 20th century....
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CorkySt.Clair
(1,507 posts)Of course nothing could top this gem:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1280152456#post5
FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)pathetic