Sometimes, when you slow down...you actually have the time to research the Ibsen play that ends with Oswald saying “the light, the light.” Why do we only look to Scandinavia for democratic socialism demos, rather than the effects of late stage syphilis, dramatized? You may ask yourself. If you are not already bogged down in some numerological fugue, perseverating upon “What else comes in fives? DC5, Five Guys, taking the 5th, five blind mice, etc, etc, etc, etc…..
But getting back to 3 blind mice, I have observed The Third Way continuing to get their thongs on wrong, lamenting
“There is no question that the prevailing temper of the Democratic party is populist: strongly sceptical of what we like to call capitalism and angry about the perceived power of the monied elite in politics,” says PPI president and founder Will Marshall.
“But inequality is not the biggest problem we face: it is symptomatic of the biggest problem we face, which is slow growth.”
Al From, a leading figure of the centre left who chaired the Democratic Leadership Council during the first Clinton presidency, argues that a focus on inequality, though understandable after the banking crash, risks driving all candidates too far from policies that would promote growth.
Growth me out, dudes. From
that very same article it is unkindly said:
The Wisconsin congressman Ron Kind, who chairs the New Democrat Coalition in Congress, even compares some progressives in the House of Representatives to the Tea Party movement among Republicans: a sign that redistricting of once tightly-contested seats has left American politics “way too polarised, way too partisan, and way too much about playing to niche interests”.
Oh yeah, the progressives are like the Tea Party. In that the Koch brothers funded some silly ass hat ornaments and bused them everywhere to bogus rallies.
So, yeah, some people still suck like a hamster getting its cage water. But others?
Green and Neil Sroka of the grassroots group Democracy for America also revealed how a key gathering of activists in California in 2013 laid the groundwork for the transformation now reverberating through the party.
The meeting in a San Jose hotel room of groups also including MoveOn.org , Working Families , Progressives United and Social Security Works was an informal spin off from the annual Netroots Nation conference. Attendees dressed in shorts and T-Shirts.
Note it is the haberdashery, rather than the millenary, that makes for a real revolution. (My bold, and apologies in advance.)
