Public art in Grass Roots Square by Do Ro Suh in Oslo, Norway. More
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Emily Greenhouse writes
The Left Is Building a Movement of Movements to Pressure Hillary:
In the absence of a genuine challenger to former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton—in the absence, most particularly, of Senator Elizabeth Warren’s candidacy, for which hungry liberals pine—a sort of movement of leftist movements has emerged to bring pressure on the presumptive nominee.
This week, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee announced that a petition it launched calling for the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee to campaign on a populist platform has been signed by 5,000 current and former elected leaders, as well as Democratic Party officials, union leaders, and progressive activists. These include twenty-five members of Congress, such as Senator Harry Reid, Representatives Bonnie Watson Coleman, Alan Grayson, Donna Edwards, and Barbara Lee, plus former Senator Tom Harkin. The petition—which was posted below a page header that reads ReadyforBoldness.com, and rides above a shooting star—begins, “We want the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee to campaign on big, bold, economic-populist ideas that tangibly improve the lives of millions of Americans.”
Last week, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio called for similarly big, bold, economic-populist ideas, from a podium at Gracie Mansion. On Thursday, de Blasio announced that he, with a coalition of progressives he had convened, would in May put forward a template for how best to conquer inequality, and then ask presidential candidates to respond. (He said it would parallel the GOP’s 1994 Contract for America.) De Blasio and his allies in the project, progressive activists and lawmakers including Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Governor Dannel Malloy of Connecticut, offered no specific policy suggestions, but spoke of their “vision.” The mayor talked of changing the national conversation, of “making sure income inequality is at the forefront of the national discussion.” A reporter asked if Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, had been involved in the gathering. De Blasio replied that her team had not been a part, but that he expected every candidate, including Clinton—were she to decide to run, he was careful to say—to speak to the matter.
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2012—Religious right: Gays are like the iceberg that sunk the Titanic:
The anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic has led the anti-gay conservatives at Truth in Action Ministries to produce a film comparing homosexuality to, yes, the iceberg that sunk the Titanic. You see, because ... um ... hmm. No clue here. [...]
Holy crap. I think watching that just gave me an aneurysm. Or cured me of one. Or made me sexually attracted to icebergs. What the hell, righties?
I could almost forgive the execrable attempt to link their little fight against the "homosexual agenda" to some little bit of something that the young kids might be hip to these days. (There was that movie, okay? And I guess it's being re-released with an extra dimension now, which is probably also an abomination unto the Lord.) It's not easy to wedge your obsessive bigotry into other people's daily lives, not without a catchy hook, so the professional bigot has to go the extra mile if he wants to earn his bigot paycheck.
But when you suppose that "there are just a couple steps before the military could be used in a persecution of those that are viewed as enemies of the new state belief system," I am sorry, but you are quite possibly an idiot. You are definitely delusional. You have spent entirely too much time thinking about The Gays, and your mind has migrated away from you.
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