Who is the “Democratic Base” voter that the Democratic Party continues to abuse?

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Somebody asked if I could succinctly describe democratic base voters. I did, but they didn't like the answer, so they took a powder. Good riddance. That's fine but it is important to define terms so for everyone knows what I am talking about when I correctly observe that "the Democratic Party has spent the last 27 years abusing, berating and doing everything it can to drive the enthusiasm OUT of its base voters.". So here is some "politics 101" for anybody who needs it. First of all, "base voter" whether Democratic or Republican isn't a demographic. Base voters don't live in a certain zip code. Political scientist define base voters as voters who have a high degree of political participation and a strong connection to the espoused values of a political party. Therefor they are more likely to 1) show up on Election Day and 2) vote the "straight ticket." Political scientist further describe "base voters" as being more interested in strengthen a party’s...

“INFLATION PANIC!” is corporate pushback against rising worker power

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Whenever the corporate media moves en masse like this, it’s a good idea to slow down and consider what’s actually happening,
The inflation freakout is all about class conflict. In fact, it may be the fundamental class conflict: that between creditors and debtors, a fight that’s been going on since the foundation of the United States. That’s because inflation is often good for most of us, but it’s terrible for the kinds of people who own corporate news outlets....

Trump White House records can be given to Capitol attack panel, judge rules

The House panel should immediately release the documents to the full house and the public. Congress is the people's house. Executive privilege arguments are bullshit. The people don't owe that specious argument one minute's consideration.

A federal judge in Washington has ruled that hundreds of pages of White House records from the Trump administration can be turned over to the House committee investigating the deadly 6 January attack on the Capitol, defying objections from Donald Trump.

The decision, handed down late on Tuesday by the US district judge Tanya Chutkan, clears the way for the National Archives to start transmitting the records requested by Congress as early as Friday, though attorneys for Trump immediately vowed to appeal the ruling.

REV Talks w/ Becca Cotto

This Highlands Bunker episode starts a little slow but builds freight train like momentum.  From her web site:  I am running because I believe we should all live in a…

DL Open Thread Tuesday November 9th 2021

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27 years ago today, the Republican Party won control of both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate in midterm congressional elections.  It marked the first time the GOP held both houses in 40 years. Republicans accomplished this by consolidating and energizing their base voters and have worked that strategy for the past 27 years.  Meanwhile, the Democrats have berated, abused and done everything to drive all energy and enthusiasm OUT of the Democratic base voters for the past 27 years.  One electoral strategy seems to work.  The other is lacking.  I will leave you to figure out which seems to be more effective.    Also in today's open thread: - Ted Cruz trolled the US media again - Steve Smyk is still walking around a free man, and - Speaking of people brazenly showing their criminal faces in public, what ever happened to Dem's stopping the indicted auditor from auditing while under indictment? . Oh yeah... Pete Schwartzkopf likes her.

Our media is now just rich people interviewing each other

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Peter Eleftherios Baker is an American journalist and author. He is the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times and a political analyst for MSNBC. His net worth is estimated to be well over $1 million. Andrea Mitchell is an American television journalist, anchor, and commentator for NBC News, based in Washington, D.C. She married her second husband, then Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan, on April 6, 1997, following a lengthy relationship. Her personal net worth is estimated at over $8 million. This is what passes for "analysis" in the United States:
Andrea Mitchell: Peter Baker, is the congressional Democratic Party just too liberal for the country?

“A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.”

I think of the amazing things would could accomplish as a people and a species if we were not hobbled by being chained to such brazenly stupid people.   If we don't have the mental acuity to think beyond labels such as “progressive” and “liberal”  and instead think in terms of “people who generally favor some tangible benefit for the vast majority of people” - what hope do we have? Read the essay by Carlo M. Cipolla that Alby mentioned last week.   It explains so much about Republican Banditry and our national stupidity.