2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Rachel Maddow just called out Bernie Sanders [View all]islandmkl
(5,275 posts)I am 64 years old...schooling included education (to teach) and social studies/economics/political science...have been in business in several forms since 1974...old-school Democrat who knows the evils of all the tax cuts and also realizes that the current leadership model for the Democratic Party is more closely related to the Reagan-era Republicans than it is to traditional Democratic Party principles...
a severe price to pay for having a couple of weak Presidential candidates....
and now the Party has lost control of Congress, lost a great number of governorships, and has become weak on the local level across most of the states...and the 2010 and 2014 elections are the evidence of how strong the Party is throughout the general population...
those who only realize recent history are doomed by their own myopic view...the long road is not considered, the wrong turns not acknowledged, the reason for the journey forgotten....
it is not 'pragmatic' to have ever-changing positions that are influenced by constantly changing 'specifics'....
we are from the same generation, but see things differently...like on a staircase, looking at only one or two steps at a time reveals little direction, forward or back...
I see little direction forward from the current Third Way/DNC leadership...just a maintenance of the status quo, which in the past 30 years has been to the detriment of the great deal of the American population that made up the Middle Class...
"One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. "Which road do I take?" she asked. "Where do you want to go?" was his response. "I don't know," Alice answered. "Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
- Lewis Carroll
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