This is a list of the headlines on the Front Page, Wednesday 11:30pm Eastern through Thursday 4:50 pm.
When did the Democratic Party change its name to the Less Scary Oligarch Party? Does anybody in their right mind think Republicans come here and get converted? Do Independents come here and think “Golly, the Democratic Party is sure concerned about me? I should go with them!’ Anybody got analytics on this?
Okay, the Supreme Court obstruction, I can see that being useful. But where’s the bit about Democratic Officials reviling them in Public? The other stuff, okay. But all in a row?! and — here’s the salient point — without one mention of building downstream voters; without one instance of what’s at stake in our own Primaries; without one review of either Hillary or Bernie’s stances and history? Without one instance of focus on the state of the people in this nation; neither their condition nor their mood? Nothing about the state of War making; the TPP trade agreement and it’s impact? Nothing about the ongoing War on PoC and the poor in general. Nothing about the steady increase of Food Insecurity and Child Poverty year over year for this whole century?
Nothing about which laws are being pushed right now, whether good or ill. Nothing about analysis of how climate, war, banks, corporations, media all interact to our detriment.
In short, almost nothing useful to electing more Democrats let alone better ones.
There’s two mentions of Democrats themselves: one about someone apparently insane in St Louis; the other a criticism of Bernie supporter and populist Alan Grayson. There’s one instance of a human rights violation against a minority — the sole Democratic rousing issue.
Yeah, okay. One day. But it isn’t much different than any other day. You’ll find there’s a smattering of election-meaningful diaries, of living real life in America diaries (mostly by one Front Pager), but the tenor overall is exactly the same, day after day after day.
Just how serious is this place about winning? Kos sold (congratulations. live long and prosper!) his SB Sports blog system; but is this just another style of Sports Blogging? If it is, it’s like a New York Yankees blog where every story is about how the Boston Red Sox suck. Guess how long Yankee fans show up at that one, absent real info on the Yankees.