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'17 Specials & '18 Midterms Thread

TuffaloDeac10 said:
An out-of-power party changes and chases votes like when the Dems went from Al Smith to FDR? I don't see how socialists helping a capitalist party win elections is supposed to make that party become socialist.

The only example I can think of for an in-power party radically changing is the 1828 election, but that's really a party schism in a one party system.
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If socialists don’t vote, they help a capitalist party become more capitalist. I haven’t seen why that’s better.
 
Louis Gossett Jr said:
This is why the only true way the socialist utopia happens is with the bloody revolution that mdmh has advocated for but will never happen.
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And if it did happen, they'd get their asses kicked (which means I'd get my ass kicked)-- completely out-gunned.
 
Also capitalists would use their capital and buy mercenary armies, cant be touched when surrounded by a fortress staffed with 500 Filipinos being paid just slightly more than Nike pays.
 
Louis Gossett Jr said:
Also capitalists would use their capital and buy mercenary armies, cant be touched when surrounded by a fortress staffed with 500 Filipinos being paid just slightly more than Nike pays.
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Better off just protecting the status quo of letting capitalists use their capital to pay mercenary armies and paying Filipinos sweatshop wages.
 
The “they don’t vote!?!!” straw man argument is impressive.

Based on their posts, both mdmh and MHB voted for Clinton and have conducted outreach on behalf of Democratic candidates.

Beyond that, there are fundamental differences between liberalism and socialism. It’s not that hard to understand.
 
If the DSA isn't a political party, I'm not sure how they plan to implement their platform other than working with/through the democratic party.
 
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/10/trump-neoliberal-democratic-party-america?CMP=share_btn_tw

Here in Colorado, where Democrats have been winning elections, the party machine joined with Republicans in 2016 to help the insurance industry crush a universal healthcare ballot measure. At the same time, the administration of Democratic governor John Hickenlooper – a 2020 presidential hopeful – has threatened to sue local communities that try to regulate fossil fuel development.

And now in 2018 – as climate-change-intensified wildfires torch the state – top Democrats are breaking with the party’s grassroots activists and uniting with Republicans to allow oil and gas companies to frack and drill near schools, hospitals and residential neighborhoods. Democratic leaders have taken up that cause even after a series of deadly explosions near oil and gas sites outside Denver, and even as ever-more academic research spotlights potential health hazards of living too close to fracking sites.

Then there is Chicago, the most reliably Democratic stronghold of the heartland’s cities with a mayoralty that enjoys more inherent institutional power than almost any other.

There, the administration of Democratic stalwart Rahm Emanuel has used that power to initiate one of American history’s largest mass closures of public schools and layoff hundreds of teachers. During Emanuel’s tenure, public workers’ retirement savings were invested with financial firms whose executives have bankrolled Emanuel’s political apparatus. Emanuel’s administration also reportedly oversaw a police dark site where suspects were allegedly imprisoned without charge – and the Democratic mayor’s appointees infamously blocked the release of a videotape of Chicago police gunning down an unarmed African American teenager.

With the city subsequently suffering an explosion of gun violence, racial strife and economic inequality, Democratic donors responded by lavishing Emanuel with massive campaign contributions and Democratic voters reelected him. When Hizzoner later announced his retirement amid the trial over the police shooting, Emanuel was immediately lauded as a great hero by the most famous face of the Democratic party, Barack Obama.
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The former president’s move was a powerful reminder that Democrats’ let-them-eat-cake attitude and nothing-to-see-here complacency is a toxic gangrene afflicting not just the distant tips of the party’s local tendrils. The fish rots from the head down, and Democrats’ festering noggin is at the top of the national party, where Democratic states’ federal lawmakers have been helping Republicans ransack everything not nailed down to the floor.

Less than a decade ago, with Democratic majorities controlling both the House and Senate, it was the administration led by Obama and Emanuel that bailed out Wall Street, enshrined a too-big-to-jail doctrine for megabanks and – by its own admission – designed the Affordable Care Act to preclude Medicare for All. Obama’s administration did this while Democrats controlled both the House and Senate. It was Democratic lawmakers’ like Delaware’s Tom Carper and Connecticut’s Joe Lieberman who helped insurance and pharmaceutical lobbyists make sure the ACA also excluded any public healthcare option that could compete with private insurers.

Today, it is House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, from deeply liberal San Francisco, insisting that Medicare for All will not be any kind of litmus test for her party and promising that budget-cutting austerity will govern Democrats’ legislative agenda should they retake Congress.

It is 16 Senate Democrats voting to help Wall Street lobbyists gut post-financial-crisis banking regulations. Those include blue-staters like Colorado’s Michael Bennet and Delaware’s Chris Coons, the latter of which then went on to make national headlines slamming progressives for supposedly pushing the party too far to the left.
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VA-02: Taylor Moves From Lean Republican to Toss Up

On Wednesday, a Richmond circuit judge kicked Independent candidate Shaun Brown off the congressional ballot, dealing a setback to Virginia Beach GOP Rep. Scott Taylor. Taylor's campaign had ham-handedly collected signatures to boost Brown, an African-American who was the Democratic nominee against Taylor in 2016, to split his opposition. But the judge ruled that the petitions contained numerous forgeries and involved "out and out fraud."

Taylor's race against former Naval Surface Warfare officer Elaine Luria was already highly competitive, considering Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam carried the 2nd CD by four points last November. But without Brown, it moves from Lean Republican to the Toss Up column.
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FiveThirtyEight still has it at 94% chance Taylor holds onto the seat.

In ad news, a NJ Republican is running an ad in the Philly area featuring a couple who say that the congressman helped their family by stepping in when the wife was at risk of deportation. The CLF, meanwhile, is trying out ads featuring mothers claiming the Dem challengers' policies are just too risky. (Including one on healthcare.)

Fearful mother in ad attacking Sharice Davids is a Kansas GOP official

That's up to five attack ads against Davids, who is running against Keith Yoder, who complained in that recent Politico story that the CLF hasn't done enough to support him.
 
We're down to the last of the primaries, with New Hampshire tomorrow. NH-1 is a swingy seat and the Dem incumbent is retiring. On the Dem primary:

The Daily 202: N.H. congressional primary tests the prowess of the Democratic establishment as 2020 approaches

There are five people running for the Republican nomination and this many Dems:

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A bunch of people just lectured me about how important voting is. ITC says re-enfranchisement is a low priority for political capital expenditure. High priorities for spending political capital includes protecting the oil and gas industry, protecting healthcare profits, and protecting killer cops. And y’all scratch your head over an enthusiasm gap.
 
MHBDemon said:
A bunch of people just lectured me about how important voting is. ITC says re-enfranchisement is a low priority for political capital expenditure. High priorities for spending political capital includes protecting the oil and gas industry, protecting healthcare profits, and protecting killer cops. And y’all scratch your head over an enthusiasm gap.
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No one on this board has said any such thing. Why do you invent lies?
 
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