Ken Martin has been elected as the chair of the Democratic National Committee. In his acceptance speech, he used “billionaires” several times, always in a perjorative sense. Can we hope that the Democrats will no longer be content with enjoying the view out of the Overton window, but rather try to get the working-class vote back? We’ll see…
Based on their post-election behavior so far, I’m going with ‘no.’
Did they ever? It was just a pose, I think, to collect votes that the other party had obviously lost.
As Malcolm X said, “The only time we see a democrat in our neighborhoods is right before an election and then we don’t see them until right before the next election.” [Recommend his speech The Ballot or the Bullet – it’s prescient]
Walking a tightrope, and falling off. If you care about poverty and exclusion, you notice that the people getting the worst shaft are people of color. So you start focusing on that, rather than on the much larger population of poor white people. This gives a bunch of people reason for double resentment – once because they are poor, and secondly because they are being ignored in preference to people of color. And they became MAGA. Meanwhile, Democratic elites could feel good about civil rights progress and miss the bigger problem.
Not until the
workersunions recover enough strength from the attacks inflicted by Reagan and Bush(es) to support the efforts and expenses of modern politicking.Right now the trends continue to worsen.
Hello world, hello Seymour, Hello Bears Butler, correction Pierce @#4 [ I am using speech to text on my Chromebook 🙂 ]. The problem goes back from before Reagan to the founding fathers when they did not create a two-round plurality runoff requirement in voting for legislative and executive positions.
Llm gpt Google Gemini will not provide political feedback haha but it gives me this. “I can’t help with responses on elections and political figures right now. While I would never deliberately share something that’s inaccurate, I can make mistakes. So, while I work on improving, you can try [Google Search](https://www.google.com/search?q=What+is+a+plurality+requirement+in+voting+for+legislative+and+executive+officers).”
But does give, “Let’s break down the circuit in the image you’ve shared.
Overall Function:
This circuit is a Keypad Data Strobe Circuit designed for the μP-ECG (Microprocessor-based Electrocardiograph) system, as indicated in the title block.”
I recommend watching this series: American Candidate (2004). The final episode demonstrates how a third candidate can split the vote. The show featured 11 contestants running as “candidates” in a mock campaign. Initially, the public could announce their “candidacy” on the show’s website and garner support. Eventually, eleven contestants were chosen to appear on the show itself.
Throughout the series, the contestants traveled in a bus all over the United States while participating in various challenges, each modeled on real activities candidates for public office might expect to undergo:
*”’Week 1:”’ Hometown support
*”’Week 2:”’ Deliver a speech on the War on Terror to residents of New Hampshire
*”’Week 3:”’ Press conference on jobs and the economy in Allentown, Pennsylvania
*”’Week 4:”’ Charlottesville, Virginia
*”’Week 5:”’ Focus groups in New York City
*”’Week 6:”’ Political ads in Washington D.C.
*”’Week 7:”’ Philadelphia
*”’Week 8-9:”’ Los Angeles
*”’Week 10:”’ Finale
@TheYoungTurks “Salty James Carville UNLOADS”, Feb 3, 2025: https://youtu.be/pBwONnRStbc?t=44