Democratic Leadership Council
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94% of Americans already had covid?
I find that hard to believe, and I hope it’s not true, because that leaves hundreds of millions of Americans open to the very bad effects of a second bout with ...
by Mark Hennon
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on Thu Dec 08, 2022 at 08:00 AM PST
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Dear Citizens and Elected Officials: Michael Tomasky, the main New York Review of Books (NYRB) political commentator, writes in “Who Can Unite the Democrats?” (December 5, 2019 print edition) that the unfulfilled party task so far is for a candidate to...
by billofrights
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on Sat Dec 07, 2019 at 08:15 AM PST
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Joe Biden is an original founding Democratic Leadership Council member. He is a Third Way Neoliberal New Democrat.
Make no mistake, Biden will disappoint you with his milquetoast Grand Bargaining, Catfood Commissioning ways. There is nothing...
by cauznfx
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on Sat May 04, 2019 at 03:04 PM PDT
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Ronald Reagan redefined the political landscape. (Oh? You thought when I said this article was about a winner I was going to discuss a Democrat? Yeah, I thought President Trump would continue to be a punchline.) Obama even compared himself to Reagan. I...
by aliberaldoseofskepticism
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on Sun May 14, 2017 at 01:47 PM PDT
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Since the election, I’ve been trying to figure out when Democrats separated from unions. This is the eighth post in a series. Previous posts can be found at the following links.
Whatever Happened to Unions?
Whatever Happened to Unions? An...
by JoeCarl
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on Fri Mar 03, 2017 at 10:22 AM PST
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Since the election, I’ve been trying to figure out when Democrats separated from working men and women. This is the seventh post in a series. Previous posts can be found at the following links.
Whatever Happened to Unions?
Whatever Happened...
by JoeCarl
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on Thu Mar 02, 2017 at 06:46 PM PST
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If the people with modest houses hire the same landscaper to take care of their yard as the massive mansions across the street, and notice that the landscaper hardly ever works on their yard, and half the time he shows up, he throws the trimmings from...
by Professor Smartass
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on Sat Feb 18, 2017 at 09:27 AM PST
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My goodness me! I did a preliminary search on the terms “Trump” and “mob” to find a cache of goodies I could steal from and — all I could find is links between Donald James Trump and the Mafia kind of mob! That is not what I meant at all, even if Trump...
by Karen Hedwig Backman
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on Thu Jan 12, 2017 at 01:14 PM PST
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Since the 1970’s the Democratic Party has asked progressives to accept a secondary, backseat role. As the conversations has moved to the right for 40 years, right wing Republicans now dominate the ...
by novenator
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on Mon Dec 12, 2016 at 06:00 AM PST
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Now that the electoral college making it official, it’s time to decide on a way forward for the Democratic party.
I would argue that the Clintonista domination of the Democratic Party must end now.
When Bill Clinton resigned as head of the DLC to...
by LunkHead
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on Tue Dec 20, 2016 at 09:00 AM PST
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Today Bernie and Amy Goodman sat down together for a chat. This was a good discussion that put forth a lot of ideas about the way forward.
I was hesitant to post this diary because there is so much pain right now. I certainly did not want Trump...
by ciganka
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on Tue Nov 29, 2016 at 01:37 PM PST
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In a weird way, I think the mainstream American voter is a lot like me. I grew up in San Francisco, and have lived all but three years of my life in the Bay Area. And I had no idea that the SF Giants had a pretty good season until they were a few games...
by Alferd Packer
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on Mon Nov 14, 2016 at 06:46 PM PST
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After several disastrous elections the Democrats formed the Democratic Leadership Council. Made up of largely pro-Wall Street, pro-interventionist, Democrats, they decided to try appealing to moderates and some conservatives by being conservative on...
by Mattstafford
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on Sun Nov 13, 2016 at 12:50 PM PST
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Generals who plan to fight the previous generation’s war are bound to lose. Hillary Clinton had 8 years to crate a presidential campaign, and she spent 8 years building a political Maginot line.
Hillary’s primal political experience at the...
by jlassen72
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on Fri Nov 11, 2016 at 01:20 PM PST
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2016 came as a big shock to many Democrats as Hillary Clinton led in virtually every poll leading up to Election Day and then fell to a shock defeat against Republican Donald Trump. However, this election loss was a result of one or two...
by Nimmy
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on Wed Nov 09, 2016 at 04:40 PM PST
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Okay, this is going to be an interesting challenge. You want to say triangulation and incrementalism plays better in red states? You think you’ll get a rout that way? Well, here you go. You must keep the above states blue and turn one of the following...
by aliberaldoseofskepticism
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on Sat Jul 23, 2016 at 03:00 PM PDT
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Do not go softly into that good night. Do not let silence be the voice that leads. Do not stand by while evil takes hold. Do not fear darkness when light has a seed.
Tim Kaine is a sour pill. No-one wants to swallow it and there is no benefit…...
by tecampbell
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on Sat Jul 23, 2016 at 12:46 AM PDT
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I only agree with the idea of voting Democrat in November because the founding fathers didn’t envision government as a one party majority tyranny. But even voting Democrat in its current state is a very narrow justification. Before you begin your...
by cauznfx
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on Sat May 21, 2016 at 12:17 PM PDT
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If mocking the political revolution is not enough, call it chaos! Such disarray! Republicans (named Henry for Hillary) are crying tears of joy tonight, you betcha. They just love all this chaos:
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by Galtisalie
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on Sun May 15, 2016 at 05:25 AM PDT
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For a while in this country, every thirty years or so brought a swing back to progressive, liberal ideas. It happened at the turn of the 20th century and again with the New Deal in the 1930’s, which brought us unemployment insurance, social security,...
by parker02
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on Mon Apr 18, 2016 at 05:44 AM PDT
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