I think Bernie Sanders got it right:
“It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them,” the Vermont independent said in a statement Wednesday. “First, it was the white working class, and now it is Latino and Black workers as well. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.”
Sanders, who just won reelection to another Senate term in Vermont, didn’t sound optimistic the party brass would heed his calls though. “Will the big money interests and well-paid consultants who control the Democratic Party learn any real lessons from this disastrous campaign?” Sanders asked.
“Will they understand the pain and political alienation that tens of millions of Americans are experiencing? Do they have any ideas as to how we can take on the increasingly powerful Oligarchy which has so much economic and political power? Probably not.”
Hmmm, could this be why, say, the Working Families Party succeeds, at least in Delaware, more than the traditional political parties?
I have another thought as well. Any of you who made it through ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ knows that the Vance who wrote the book did a lot of ‘victim-blaming’, a stance he completely abandoned once he decided that politics was in his future. I think that the resentment that the R ticket cultivated resonated with voters. As in ‘My life sucks. Yours should too.’ Ours most certainly will. Randy Newman wrote a song about it:
Delaware Will Have Two Special Elections. Sarah McBride will get sworn into Congress before the Delaware General Assembly convenes in January, and Kyle Evans Gay will be sworn in as Lt. Governor on January 21. Since Bethany Hall Long will be the acting Governor starting on January 7 (that’s when Carney is sworn in as Mayor of Wilmington), she will almost certainly issue the writ for the special elections. I expect that both elections will take place during the Joint Finance Committee hearings that run from the end of January through mid-March. I don’t know whether they will be held on the same date, or on different dates, although my guess would be that they would both be on the same date. Parties designate the nominees for these special elections, and the RD’s and/or city wards play a key role in selecting the nominees. I’m glad that the Special Elections aren’t taking place in December (and, yes, we’ve had Special Elections in December), because, let’s face it, we are, as Chuck Berry sang, Too Pooped To Pop:
That’s it for today. Still trying to figure out what a Fascist era Open Thread should be, or if it even should exist.
What do you want to talk about?