The elites' attack on Platner

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14. Very interesting. It is good that he came out and clarified things. It is funny what happens in elections . . .

. . . when the Democratic Party tries to cleave to Wall Street . . . or maybe not so funny. Sec. Clinton failed against Trump . . . VP Harris failed against Trump . . . . That might be a pattern that should be considered. It seems that there is no world in which the Democratic Party can win while running candidates that don't center the message that turning toward greater economic populism is the most important change they want to make if elected.

It is often said that the current election (whenever an election is occurring) is the most important election ever: well, this time it is actually that. More unchecked time in office for Trump means less or no democracy in the USA.

If the Senate election in Maine is to be won by Democrats, perhaps it is time for Sen. Schumer and Rep. Jeffries to look at the reality of politics as seen through the lens of the success of Zohran Mamdani.

Gov. Mills is purportedly Sen. Schumer's political project. Who did he support in 2016 and in 2024? Maybe that should be a lesson to him and to the Democratic Party. "If you go old, they'll stay home" could be a parody of Field of Dreams that the Democratic Party should consider.

However, will they consider that?

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Jeffries, Schumer keep refusing to endorse Mamdani
October 21, 2025 | 12:56 PM CDT

Nearly four months after Zohran Mamdani became the Democratic nominee for New York mayor, the two top Democrats in Congress are still withholding their endorsement.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/jeffries-schumer-keep-refusing-to-endorse-mamdani/2025/10/21/2e71cdb2-19fd-4d4a-841b-b297d0ae98b8_video.html

It appears that answer is in the negative.

Gee . . . I wonder how that will work out when they successfully displace Platner, put Mills in the race, and the election is held . . .

I expect the same result as Clinton versus Trump and also as Harris versus Trump. Should Collins be relatively easy to defeat? Yes, but at least we'll always have the strongly worded letters that we can read for solace.

Also, recall that when pressed to change healthcare fundamentally, a Republican plan was selected, and RomneyCare became Obamacare. And recall that the financial collapse at the end of Bush's second term was met not with the prosecution of bankers, but with their bailout and the loss of homes for many of the people who were greatly disadvantaged by that collapse. Was the groundswell of support that Obama received to defeat McCain repeated in the midterm elections? No. It was clear by then that the needed changes to help people were being slow walked or done in half measures. Calls for single payer healthcare were met by the a protestation from within the White House that the left is "fucking retarded".

History goes forward from there: the Tea Party, Boehner's government shutdown, . . . RBG's demise, McConnel's refusal to hold hearings for Garland, Clinton's loss, etc.

So, here we are now. I hope that the Democratic Party will learn something from its semi-recent history of abject failure (What else can losing to Trump twice be politely called?) and lean into progressive, economic populism as manifested by the new field of younger candidates. If the senior Democrats refuse to modernize and continue to hold on to power individually in the way that RBG did without regard for retiring and making way for younger voices, their collective legacy might be to do to the USA as a whole what RBG's refusal to retire except by death did to the Supreme Court.