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Post by beth on Nov 21, 2016 21:29:47 GMT -5
Where will they go from here.
Chill with the ridicule. This is a serious discussion topic.
Will Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid soon be rejected and retired?
What about Bernie Sanders. His face book page got upward of 100,000 followers in the hours after the election results became known. Is he the designated leader?
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Post by men an tol on Nov 21, 2016 21:43:18 GMT -5
Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi will both become people of the past.
Bernie Sanders will become an elder Statesman.
The local chapters will begin redefining the party and new people will come to the fore.
Will it become more Left than now? That is a strong possibility but that will likely be defined from the States and for some time there will likely multiple directions until the internal structure of the party completes sparring with each other. The thing to watch will these newer directions be defined by the States with the largest Democratic members or, will combinations of States with smaller populations define new directions.
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Post by Sysop3 on Nov 21, 2016 23:16:14 GMT -5
I ran into a kind of interesting article about what's going on with Bernie Sanders. Here's a snip/clip from it and then I'll give you the link if you want to take a closer look. /ship Joseph Geevarghese, director of the labor-backed advocacy group Good Jobs Nation, which has helped lead the push for a $15-an-hour minimum wage, said the issue was emblematic of how Democratic Party has muddled its economic message. "Bernie said it directly. Hillary Clinton said $12 and a worker cooperative," Geevarghese said. "They've cast their lot with the WalMarts of the world, so is there any surprise that workers walked away? It's not just white workers. It's black workers, Latino workers. Workers walked away." After last week, however, "there is the opportunity for a new beginning where the Democratic Party can return to its economic populist roots," Geevarghese said. "That is the only chance we have." As progressives see it, the Democratic establishment made a mistake by overruling them and putting all their eggs in Clinton's basket. "A 30-year drift toward neoliberalism in the Democratic Party establishment damaged the Clinton campaign in ways no message could fix," said Joe Dinkin, communications director of the Working Families Party. "That allowed Trump's phony populism to flank Clinton on jobs and trade." Many progressives expect the party establishment to reassert itself and fear that it will re-establish itself as if nothing changed. But so far, they've met little resistance. \clip www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/bernie-mafia-sanders-supporters-look-seize-democratic-party-initiative-n686531 |
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Post by Sysop3 on Nov 21, 2016 23:19:15 GMT -5
All along some of us have thought it was strange there was so much focus on the split in the Republican party when the split in the Democratic party was just as bad or worse.
Clinton was shocked that she lost, but I was shocked she won the primary.
They need to get their ducks in a row before they start planning anything for 2020.
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