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‘Tom Perez Apologizes for Telling the Truth, Showing Why Democrats’ Flaws Urgently Need Attention’
Topic Started: Feb 9 2017, 11:18 PM (251 Views)
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By Glenn Greenwald, February 9, 2017

http://theintercept.com/2017/02/09/tom-perez-apologizes-for-telling-the-truth-showing-why-democrats-flaws-urgently-need-attention/

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The more alarmed one is by the Trump administration, the more one should focus on how to fix the systemic, fundamental sickness of the Democratic Party. That Hillary Clinton won the meaningless popular vote on her way to losing to Donald Trump, and that the singular charisma of Barack Obama kept him popular, have enabled many to ignore just how broken and failed the Democrats are as a national political force.

An endless array of stunning statistics can be marshaled to demonstrate the extent of that collapse. But perhaps the most compelling piece of evidence is that even one of the U.S. media’s most stalwart Democratic loyalists, writing in an outlet that is as much of a reliable party organ as the DNC itself, has acknowledged the severity of the destruction. “The Obama years have created a Democratic Party that’s essentially a smoking pile of rubble,” wrote Vox’s Matthew Yglesias after the 2016 debacle, adding that “the story of the 21st-century Democratic Party looks to be overwhelmingly the story of failure.”

A failed, collapsed party cannot form an effective resistance. Trump did not become president and the Republicans do not dominate virtually all levels of government because there is some sort of massive surge in enthusiasm for right-wing extremism. Quite the contrary: This all happened because the Democrats are perceived — with good reason — to be out of touch, artificial, talking points-spouting automatons who serve Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and the agenda of endless war, led by millionaires and funded by oligarchs to do the least amount possible for ordinary, powerless citizens while still keeping their votes.

What drove Bernie Sanders’s remarkably potent challenge to Hillary Clinton was the extreme animosity of huge numbers of Democrats — led by its youngest voters — to the values, practices, and corporatist loyalties of the party’s establishment. Unlike the 2008 Democratic primary war — which was far more vicious and nasty but devoid of any real ideological conflict — the 2016 primary was grounded in important and substantive disputes about what the Democratic Party should be, what principles should guide it, and, most important of all, whose interests it should serve.
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The DNC is totally f%&ked....
Donald Trump is Barack Obama's President!
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If 20% of Blacks switch their votes, the Democratic Party would die a merciless death.
Edited by Drudge X, Feb 10 2017, 12:03 AM.
Kate Steinle was separated from her family permanently but leftists didn't seem to mind.
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Drudge X
Feb 10 2017, 12:03 AM
If 20% of Blacks switch their votes, the Democratic Party would die a merciless death.
That's not going to happen and it's not how Trump got elected. The key to Republicans was always to get whites in Pennsylvania and Michigan to vote like whites in Texas and Arizona.
Skipping leg day is the equivalent of a woman having an abortion. You're ashamed of it, and it was probably unnecessary.
#MAGA
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The Democrat's "smoking pile of rubbles" smells like a "smoking pile of dung" to me....The establishment shoved Hillary down the throats of the Party by bestowing upon her in the beginning with almost all the super delegates...Without that lead, Sanders should have beaten the evil shrew in the primaries....Hillary was "best qualified" to lose despite her claimed vagina...Or as I described her, "a high risk candidate" carrying excess baggage of corruption, incompetence lies, and treachery....The media pundits and liberals on Perspectives were absolutely certain she was going to win...I was absolutely stunned by their ignorance of politics...Some of these "experts" now want to groom Elizabeth Warren as their next candidate, a lock step liberal with a history of deceit and diatribes...Democrats desperately need a candidate who is moderate, non-ideological, honest, and who would concentrate on appealing to average Americans , rather than pet hamsters.................... :oyvey
Jesus can raise the dead, but he can't fix stupid
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