Still Getting It Wrong: How Media Pundits Keep Steering Democrats into the Shoals [View all]

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From the article:

But even if .........Democrats get one or both of the Houses back, it’s not the same as getting a mandate for reform. Getting elected because the other guy or gal is so abhorrent that even the crazies couldn’t bring themselves to vote for them is not the same as getting elected because you managed to sell your agenda.
"Getting elected because the other guy or gal is so abhorrent that even the crazies couldn’t bring themselves to vote for them is not the same as getting elected because you managed to sell your agenda."
And therein lies the problem.  Democrats have no agenda, and they have no agenda because they believe the myth that the Party’s neoliberals, Krugman, Fareed Zakara, and many others of the elite media are spewing: that America is a closely divided nation that is center-right politically.

To read the rest of this very provocative piece:

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/09/19/still-getting-it-wrong-how-media-pundits-keep-steering-democrats-shoals