Rebkeh
Rebkeh's JournalTwo ways the Bernie movement is like the Tea Party and Ten ways we are not
I saw the suggestion that we better not "become the TP of the Left".
First I was like 
Then I was like 
Now, I'm all 
1. Both groups distrust the current status quo, but they want the old one. We want a new one.
2. Both are angry for the same reasons, all having to do with Trickle Down Economics. They blame the wrong people, we blame the right people.
3. They want to regress to the old ways when they could prosper on the backs of the poor and poc. We want to progress to a better way where we all prosper together.
4. They want justice for themselves, we want justice for all.
5. They want an unlevel playing field, we want a level playing field.
6. Their policies are bad for the planet, ours are better for the planet.
7. They want policies that protect stolen resources. We want policies that return stolen resources.
8. They want democracy for them. We want democracy for all.
9. They want to divide the nation into parts. We want to bring the nation together.
10. They blame the government for causing our problems. We blame the government for neglecting our problems.
Okay, one two more...
We welcome them because their woes are our woes (some of us do). They reject us because we are the wrong colors, genders, religions, not religious, etc. We embrace differences between people, they reject differences. They hate, we love.
Don't forget about the WY caucuses tomorrow
I see a lot about NY... which is great but there's a primary contest before then and a debate next week too.
In case I can't come back later to finish
Read these and share. http://m.truthdig.com/
Busy day
Lest another false narrative take hold
Read this
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2016/04/08/3767776/bill-clinton-welfare-reform/
Health care for all in MO
http://missourihealthcareforall.org/They will have an event, Lobby Day, next week (Tuesday) in Jefferson City. Sign up for training now.
Getting back to the issues, if you please.
And by issues, I mean those which illustrate the philosophical differences between the democratic candidates. Income inequality, the disappearing middle class, exploitation of the poor, a pathetically unlevel playing field supported by racism, and the lack of representation of the poor among them. Writer Thomas Frank uses (so called) liberal Massachusetts' economic successes and failures to illustrate the economic problems that are at the foundation of just about every argument we are having this raucous primary season.
America is having an identity crisis. Who are we going to be?
Wealthy Liberals Don't Seem to Care About Inequality
Thomas Frank asks in his new book: What ever happened to the party of the people?
By Thomas Frank / TomDispatch April 6, 2016
http://www.alternet.org/economy/thomas-frank-wealthy-liberals-dont-seem-care-about-inequality
:big snip:
The answer is that I’ve got the wrong liberalism. The kind of liberalism that has dominated Massachusetts for the last few decades isn’t the stuff of Franklin Roosevelt or the United Auto Workers; it’s the Route 128/suburban-professionals variety. (Senator Elizabeth Warren is the great exception to this rule.) Professional-class liberals aren’t really alarmed by oversized rewards for society’s winners. On the contrary, this seems natural to them—because they are society’s winners. The liberalism of professionals just does not extend to matters of inequality; this is the area where soft hearts abruptly turn hard.
Innovation liberalism is “a liberalism of the rich,” to use the straightforward phrase of local labor leader Harris Gruman. This doctrine has no patience with the idea that everyone should share in society’s wealth. What Massachusetts liberals pine for, by and large, is a more perfect meritocracy—a system where the essential thing is to ensure that the truly talented get into the right schools and then get to rise through the ranks of society. Unfortunately, however, as the blue-state model makes painfully clear, there is no solidarity in a meritocracy. (emphases mine) The ideology of educational achievement conveniently negates any esteem we might feel for the poorly graduated.
This is a curious phenomenon, is it not? A blue state where the Democrats maintain transparent connections to high finance and big pharma; where they have deliberately chosen distant software barons over working-class members of their own society; and where their chief economic proposals have to do with promoting “innovation,” a grand and promising idea that remains suspiciously vague. Nor can these innovation Democrats claim that their hands were forced by Republicans. They came up with this program all on their own.
Read from the beginning:
http://www.alternet.org/economy/thomas-frank-wealthy-liberals-dont-seem-care-about-inequality
Wisconsin!! Thank you!
Volunteers, voters and everyone involved. Thank you for your hard work!
TYT Election results coverage?
Anyone know if they are doing a live show and when it starts?
Afaict, the website doesn't say anything.
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