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Yes it is true. Now pinch hitting for the DUmp. Jackass Radicals
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Jefferson23 (3544 posts) May 17, 2017 at 4:23 pm
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Why Bernie Sanders Wasn’t Invited to CAP’s Ideas Conference
*They conduct themselves as if excluding Bernie will make him disappear in the minds of his supporters. As if a transference of policy and confidence can be bought…learning nothing from 2016, imo.
The party has a coalition-building problem.
By George ZornickTwitter
Today 3:06 pm
In the battle over ideas in the Democratic party, it’s clear the moderates aren’t getting much quarter. This was on display at the “Ideas Conference” held Tuesday by the Center for American Progress, the central policy and personnel clearinghouse for Democratic administrations. Just before the event, the think tank released “A Marshall Plan for America”—an ambitious jobs guarantee via “a large-scale, permanent program of public employment and infrastructure investment.”
The racially and gender-diverse main speakers ranged from the liberal to the very liberal. Senator Elizabeth Warren gave a strong lunch keynote demanding strong antitrust enforcement to break up concentrated economic power. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand extolled the necessity of paid family leave, Senator Cory Booker demanded universal health care, Senator Kamala Harris called for the total decriminalization of marijuana and the election of “progressive prosecutors” nationwide, Representative Keith Ellison called Trump’s voter-fraud commission a scam and a “set-up,” and Senator Jeff Merkley demanded a green transformation of the energy economy that would put “every coal electricity-generating plant into a museum by the year 2050.”
Many of these speakers, particularly the ones gifted a “keynote” speaking slot, are widely rumored to be seeking the White House, and the mainstream media portrayed the event as a cattle call for 2020 candidates.
But there was an awkward absence: Senator Bernie Sanders. He was not invited to the “Ideas Conference,” and his exclusion makes clear that, while Democrats are converging around a general set of ideological principles, the party still faces some serious coalition-building problems.
https://www.thenation.com/article/why-bernie-sanders-wasnt-invited-to-caps-ideas-conference
azurnoir (1808 posts) (Reply to original post) May 17, 2017 at 4:33 pm
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1. so Cory Booker and Kirsten Gillibrand are cribbing FDR
in order to exclude Bernie? oh this is just too good :rofl:
why do establishment Democrats appear to be 'progressive' only when dominated by republicans?
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Jefferson23 (3544 posts) (Reply to azurnoir - post #1) May 17, 2017 at 4:36 pm
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2. I cracked up too. LOL
They fear this man, intensely so. The ****ing Four Seasons is where they meet? ha ha ha..the irony is too rich on every level.
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too RICH? I see what you did there. azurnoir (1808 posts) (Reply to Jefferson23 - post #2) May 17, 2017 at 4:38 pm
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3. ya know I'm starting to believe Jimmy Dore the Democrats would rather lose
to Republicans than back a true progressive
Note to Lurking DUmmies. These are the people who are eating your lunch (or at least your young). Read the article and reflect. :rotf:
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Isn't "cattle call" an offensive term?
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Isn't "cattle call" an offensive term?
Dog whistle, dude.
Dog whistle.
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azurnoir (1808 posts) (Reply to Jefferson23 - post #2) May 17, 2017 at 4:38 pm
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3. ya know I'm starting to believe Jimmy Dore the Democrats would rather lose
to Republicans than back a true progressive
Well, that actually is true, since except for the tech billionaires, all the real Dem money comes from Wall Street and business magnates, with a vested interest in their own wallets, just like the GOP. Unfortunately for the GOP, the same is true of them...they'd rather see a Wall Street puppet like Hitlery elected than see a Conservative or Libertarian elected.