The Scariest Thing About Trump Is That We’ve Still Got No Way Of Replacing Him In 2020

Caitlin Johnstone

March 20, 2017

"It’s time to start turning around and facing your captors, progressives. The ruling elites of your party don’t fear Trump, they fear you. They fear you discovering your true power and coming together to demand that they start working for you instead of the oligarchs. A true progressive takeover of American politics would transform the entire world into something sane and beautiful and bring health and harmony to all of humanity. We can have this. There are people whose job it is to keep you from seeing this, but we can. Stop placing your trust in the ruling Democratic elites who’ve been exploiting your for money and votes, stop listening to their corporate media mouthpieces who get paid millions of dollars a year to lie to you, and stop accepting anything other than complete and total loyalty to you and your wellbeing from the people who have the great privilege of governing your nation."

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Key Democratic Officials Now Warning Base Not to Expect Evidence of Trump/Russia Collusion

The Intercept/Glenn Greenwald
March 16, 2017

FROM MSNBC POLITICS shows to town hall meetings across the country, the overarching issue for the Democratic Party’s base since Trump’s victory has been Russia, often suffocating attention for other issues. This fixation has persisted even though it has no chance to sink the Trump presidency unless it is proven that high levels of the Trump campaign actively colluded with the Kremlin to manipulate the outcome of the U.S. election — a claim for which absolutely no evidence has thus far been presented. [READ MORE]

What do you call it when you do the same thing over and over and expect different results? Oh yeah, the democratic party. 
-- Naomi Klein



Current Affairs/February 25, 2017

THEY MUST BE TRYING TO FAIL

By failing to appoint Keith Ellison to chair the DNC, Democrats have written their suicide note…

by NATHAN J. ROBINSON

At this point, one has to conclude that the national Democratic Party has a death wish. Given the opportunity to throw a minuscule bone to the Sanders progressives, the DNC declined. By giving its chairmanship to former Labor Secretary Tom Perez, instead of Rep. Keith Ellison, party leaders have shown that they must be actively desiring electoral oblivion.

The Ellison/Perez fight had been portrayed as a re-litigation of the Sanders/Clinton primary fight. It was and it wasn’t. It was, in that Keith Ellison was endorsed by Bernie Sanders, while Tom Perez had the backing of members of the party’s more traditional establishment. But that’s also an oversimplification. After all, Chuck Schumer, not exactly a socialist insurgent, had endorsed Ellison, and the political differences between Ellison and Perez were not nearly so obvious as those between Sanders and Clinton. (READ MORE)