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Chargement... Political Suicide: The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party (2020)par Ted Rall
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Rall makes the case for a progressive majority of Democrats being suppressed by a centrist leadership minority. It has the feel of a rant with a touch of conspiracy theory, but having just fought down a feeling of disgust as I cast a mail-in ballot for Joe Biden as the lesser of two evils, I have to say I'm buying into a lot of what Rall has to say here. I'm not a registered Democrat, but I have been voting for their moderate candidates for decades, and I'm disappointed with the results so far. As I get older I'm feeling more and more progressive. A Green New Deal, election reform, and government regulation of corporations all sound pretty good to me. And frankly, I would love to see a presidential candidate younger than 70 again before I turn 70 myself. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"There's a split in the Democratic Party. Progressives are surging with ideas and candidates like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. 72 percent of Democratic voters are progressives. But centrists like Tom Perez and the Clintons still run the DNC party apparatus--and they don't want to compromise. Intraparty warfare exploded into the open in 2016. It's even bigger now. The struggle goes back decades, to the New Left and the election of Richard Nixon over George McGovern. It continued with the Democratic establishment's quashing of insurgent progressives like Jesse Jackson, Ralph Nader and Howard Dean. The vast scale of the DNC's secret conspiracy to stop Bernie Sanders in 2016 nomination came out courtesy of WikiLeaks. Will Democrats again become the party of the working person? Or will the corporatists win and continue their domination of electoral politics? Ted Rall gets to the bottom of the story neither the Democrats nor the Republicans want you to know: how the civil war in the Democratic Party poses an existential threat to the two-party system"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Ted Rall is firmly behind Bernie Sanders as he sees much of the rest of the Dems having slithered to the right and caved in to big corporations.
Some of his talking points:
Once in office, Barrack Obama backed corporation friendly politics.
Hillary Clinton’s control of the DNC stole the 2016 nomination from Bernie Sanders.
Third party candidates should not be considered spoilers, but viable alternatives. The only problem is that with electoral colleges, they need huge numbers to win states even if they achieve popular vote such as what happened with Ralph Nader.
The mainline press can torpedo a worthy candidate by not covering them example - of this was Howard Dean’s campaign.
“The Democratic Party today is less about historically disadvantaged groups like ethnic minorities and women than it is about urban upwardly mobile minorities and women” p 143
I’m not a fan of Ted Rall’s drawings, but his political points are thoughtworthy. ( )