Todays_Illusion
Todays_Illusion's JournalA very revealing article about the libertarian take over of the Democratic
Party, called "New Democratic Party. The article is from Business Insider.
"The Republican party is not the only party experiencing a grassroots political coup. A new breed of capitalism-loving and urbanized liberals is demanding an entirely new role for the federal government.
"With heavy support from Silicon Valley, these new tech Democrats want the government to embrace economic disruption, with unlimited high-skilled immigrant visas, expansive trade deals, and performance-based funding that encourages charter schools to abandon teacher unions and adopt the management model of a modern startup.
“The replacement of working-class whites with upscale professionals has turned the Democratic coalition into an alliance with a built-in class division," wrote Columbia Journalism Professor and NYT Columnist, Thomas B. Edsall, on the migration of professionals from the Republican party to the Democrats. "While constituting a minority, the relatively upscale wing clearly dominates party policy and provides the majority of the activists who run campaigns, serve as delegates to the convention and have become the core of the party’s donor base.”
More here with charts and more details.
http://www.businessinsider.com/silicon-valley-overhauling-democratic-party-2015-11
The origins of this takeover occurred along with the introduction of that word Progressive instead of liberal for Democratic, also that awful "New Democrat, Third way and left libertarian. These people are not liberal and Hillary has embraced them, they do have all the money and power now.
Polling and the 2016 Presidential Elections
This panel discussion posted on c-span.org features an AEI Panel about polling and the 2016 elections I have posted additional links to articles talking about negative aspects of polling and suggesting that polling not be used in election reporting.
http://www.c-span.org/video/?400380-1/discussion-2016-presidential-election
Deep in this discussion that focuses on polling is a mention that Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio will be the final Republican candidates, something the polls currently counter, showing as they do Trump and Carson leading.
That was certainly interesting.
The Panel is actually an American Enterprise Institute, aei.org panel.
Here is a link to another discussion on polling from the same organization
https://www.aei.org/publication/imagining-a-world-without-polls/
This article is now being featured by many conservative publishers
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/426669/imagining-world-without-polls
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/bal-imagining-a-world-without-polls-20151106-story.html
and other published articles about the negative effects of polling on the elections
https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2015/11/how-pollsters-are-killing-the-conversation
It is all looking like an effort to minimize polling and that seems to be an extension of much less exit polling beginning with the 2012 Presidential election.
I am seeing it as more message control and limiting information available to voters. I wonder if anyone else has any thoughts on polling and is it good or bad for elections.
Warning: The last time I posted the aei.org links they were shortly after made unavailable by that organization, and I had to search that site to find them again.
I have been a DU user since 2013 and until sometime in September all my old comments were available
Now they only go back to October 6 of this year. How can I see my old comments, I wanted to look up one from around August/September of this year. They are gone.
At that time I was removed as a user with no warning or explanation and for a few days after I was reinstated I first had no history, then it was there then it was gone again.
How can I get my history back?
Administrators: I first posted this to the help forum, because I am certain that you are busy and this is personal to me and trivial to the site overall. However if possible I would love to have my comment history back.
I have been a DU user since 2013 and until sometime in September all my old comments were available
Now they only go back to October 6 of this year. How can I see my old comments, I wanted to look up one from around August/September of this year. They are gone.
At that time I was removed as a user with no warning or explanation and for a few days after I was reinstated I first had no history, then it was there then it was gone again.
How can I get my history back?
Is it possible to update the links on the right side of the page to other sites,
some of the links are to long dead sites, and it is so old, perhaps there are new more active sites to add.
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