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Why are young people not joining the Democratic Party?
Is it because the Democratic Party sucks ass? The centrist agenda, which is based on the primacy of the private sector and private markets and the importance of the military and law-enforcement, has left us with a public-health system utterly unable to handle the COVID pandemic. It’s left us with a legacy of racist […]
Song of the Day 3/6: Cake, “I Will Survive”
A song for Ukraine, which Putin thought would crumble, lay down and die. Not so far. There have been nearly 200 covers of this song, in more than a dozen languages, since Gloria Gaynor’s original in 1978. Cake’s 1996 version is the only one I’ve heard that strips it down and gives the bass a […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, March 6, 2022
Bud Wins. So Do Guinness And Harp’s. 2210 to 1015. IMO, that’s an excellent turnout for a Special Election. Registration is destiny: “This wasn’t something I went looking for,” Freel said. “I was approached and asked to run, and I did. (He could have always said ‘no’.) I’m just anxious to go down to Dover […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, March 5, 2022
The Roger Stone Tapes. When a vain person participates in a vanity project, the results often don’t paint said person in a positive light: As a mob ransacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Roger Stone, Donald Trump’s longest-serving political adviser, hurried to pack a suitcase inside his elegant suite on the fifth floor of […]
Song of the Day 3/4: Electric Light Orchestra, “Showdown”
It’s raining all over the world. From “On the Third Day,” ELO’s third LP and its first without co-founder Roy Wood, released in 1973. The single reached No. 12 in the UK but couldn’t crack the top 40 in the US. Jeff Lynne played the guitar solo on Marc Bolan’s Gibson Firebird. The song was […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, March 4, 2022
Former Producer For Sean Hannity Arrested For Helping Russian Oligarch. For setting up a Russian propaganda network. When the history of democracy’s demise is accurately written, the creation of Fox News will play an outsized role. Oh No! Jumbo Bacteria! And there’s–let’s just say it musically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n3ZiFHluMs We’re doomed. I–can’t go on. I–must go on. […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Feb. 25-March 3, 2022
1. Sen. Bruce Ennis Announces Retirement. Which opens up the SD 14 seat. It has a strong D edge, and should remain in the Democratic column. The only candidate who has filed is R Mark Pugh. However, D Kyra Hoffner is expected to run. She finished second in a three-way primary behind Ennis in 2020, […]
Song of the Day 3/3: Bob Marley and the Wailers, “Exodus”
As might be expected, the Russian war on Ukraine has produced lots of refugees — more than 1 million so far, according to the United Nations, about 2% of the country’s population. Officials expect that as many as 4 million people eventually will leave, with another 3 million displaced within the country. Most European Union […]
DL Open Thread: Thurs., March 3, 2022
Texas Progressives Surge In Primaries: Progressives did very well in three closely watched congressional races. Greg Casar, a proud member of the Democratic Socialists of America, won a landslide victory in the Democratic primary for the 35th District. Casar received 61 percent of the vote in a four-way race and won every county in the […]
Song of the Day 3/2: Emerson, Lake & Palmer, “The Great Gates of Kiev”
Keith Emerson was probably the most technically accomplished keyboard player rock ever saw, and he loved to show off his chops by covering the classics. For The Nice, his band before ELP, he scored rock arrangements of pieces by composers from Sibelius to Bach to Dave Brubeck. So nobody was surprised in 1971 when his […]
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The Highlands Bunker. Your local RD. This little blog. The Delaware Call. Network Delaware. Delaware United. WFP, and many more larger and smaller streams of progressive action in Delaware. As they join together and flow in the same direction toward Election Day they can build into a river of change. We saw that happen last time. It works but it depends on you getting your boots wet.
DL Open Thread Wednesday March 2nd 2022
Joe Biden delivered his State of the Union last night. I didn’t watch it. As political bloggers go, I guess I am pretty awful. I suppose some other stuff happened too. Be a flower song would you, and let me know in the comments if I missed anything interesting. Thanks!
Dirty Liberals Slashing Joe Biden’s Tires
If you listen to Coons and members of his Toxic Centrist Caucus you will come to believe that all of Joe Biden’s problems are rooted in “liberals” and “progressives” asking for too much and not being convincingly sad enough when they got no part of what they asked for.
Also this-> Bye Bye Roe V. Wade!
Huzzah for the party of sober moderation! Vote for the Democrat Party because…. uh…reasons!
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