Democrats: Organized as a fart in pantyhose!

[zeitgeist]

See new thread same title. Admin please delete or merge this one.

I merged, but the thread you didn't want came out on top; sorry--franksolich

[SVPete]

"Magic wand"? Is that what AOC has been waving around while demanding that rainbow-crapping unicorns exhaling golden pixie dust fly across WashDC's sky?

[zeitgeist]

Yes they can't.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212318094

Star Member RKP5637 (55,807 posts)
The Millennial Left Is Tired of Waiting - Very interesting article. Will this split the Democrats?
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/democrats-are-experiencing-clash-generations/594808/

The Atlantic

The key political partnership of the Millennial left was born over noodles. Saikat Chakrabarti met Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at Potjanee, a Thai restaurant near his apartment in the West Village, in March 2017. She was looking to get into politics; he was helping fund people getting into politics through the Justice Democrats, the progressive political action committee he’d co-founded that year.

The result has been a viral sensation: a House freshman with more than 4.9 million Twitter followers; a call for a “Green New Deal,” which has become a rallying point for young activists; and—from the cages on the border to the committees on the Hill—a serious powering-up of congressional oversight. This has made Ocasio-Cortez the leader of a movement, not just a congresswoman. Chakrabarti, for his part, has been much more than Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff—he’s become the chief strategist of a generational insurgency.

But the political establishment has now trained its fire on their collaboration. It began in June as a clash between the speaker and her best-known freshman, when Nancy Pelosi caved to Republicans and moderate Democrats and agreed to pass an emergency-aid package, skewed heavily right, for the southern border.

But the move horrified members of the progressive left—it was bad politics, they thought, typical of their elders’ timidity, and worse still, little in it would help the child migrants in what Ocasio-Cortez had called “concentration camps” on the border. Their pushback against it, which included tweets by Chakrabarti, outraged the party leadership.

The Democrats are experiencing a clash of generations. As in all such clashes, each side thinks the other is delusional. When the Millennial left looks at the establishment, it sees leaders senescent with decades in the House, blindly clinging to bipartisan civility that no longer exists, unable to view men like Mitch McConnell as their opponents and not their colleagues, and believing that white voters are the only path to victory in 2020. The Millennials see themselves as the realists here.
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Response to Post removed (Reply #9)Thu Jul 25, 2019, 10:22 PM
Star Member StarfishSaver (3,446 posts)

10. "We have a 6 hour hearing just to do nothing with information"

The fact that the Democrats didn't impeach Trump within 24 hours of the hearing being adjourned doesn't mean they're scared of taking action.
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Response to StarfishSaver (Reply #10)Thu Jul 25, 2019, 10:33 PM
DaDeacon (682 posts)

12. Really....

Let me know when Dick Chaney is charged with outing and American spy or shooting his friend in the face?!? Yeah I was told to wait then too. We can wait to act when they produce the Muller report, or wait till they have a hearing with him to clear the report up, ah then wait for the people to get really mad. Seems to be a lot of waiting no accountability or action. We aren’t Guaranteed the house past next election. If nothing happens to protect that vote we could be looking at a house flip and a permanent R majority.

Is Recursion displaying the bat signal here? 

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Star Member Recursion (53,522 posts)

24. No, it's just the same "magic wand" argument we had through 8 years of Obama

There are people who expect politicians to be wizards with a magic wand they can wave to make things happen, and people who don't.

You see the same thing on the Republican side, for that matter.

Nope the magic Neebro didn't have no magic wand.    

[USA4ME]

Is Recursion displaying the bat signal here?

This primitive has already shown himself to be dumber than a bag of hammers on another Best/Worst featured here. I don't expect him to have any greater insight into this issue, either. In fact, it's dimwits like him who have been screaming for the magic wand. He wants the magic wand, he just doesn't like the AOC groupies getting the attention.

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[SVPete]

Interesting that Recursion is using the Masons emblem as his/her avatar.

[YupItsMe]

Aah DaDeacon.  Dick Cheney did not "out' a CIA spy.  The person that really outed the spy was not charged because they had been appointed by a Democrat, instead you framed Scooter Libby.  Also you do know that Dick Cheney's friend went on national TV and apologized, right?