It just gets more absurd all the time. We have the leadership in the Democratic Party virtually silent on concentration camps, build up for another illegal war, and Trump’s assault on our public lands and the already-thin regulations in place to mitigate some small fraction of destruction from industry. But they are certainly brave enough to go after junior members of their party.
But to my point:
NO, this isn’t true: Bernie Sanders to skip Netroots Nation because it's moderated by Kos
No, this isn’t true either: Elizabeth Warren is the only candidate to have forsworn big-dollar, big-donor fundraisers. Even Bernie Sanders is doing them.
This is what is clear to me: the old guard have been complicit in decisions and policy and legislation and regulation (or lack thereof) that have brought us to the brink of a collapsing planet. For DECADES now. They toss around social issues like chum to stir up extremists to make so much noise it drowns out the real threats.
You’d think it was still 2006 around here. Wake up. It isn’t. And the man we sent to the White House in 2009 used rhetoric and bandaids to confront climate/environmental collapse. DO NOT give me his record… he supported WAR and WALL STREET and FOSSIL FUELS. Those are facts. And whether or not the GOP obstructed his efforts make very little difference given his push for TPP (a sovereign-killing giving primacy to corporations trade agreement), war, wall street, fossil fuels.
The only advantage of the dire situation in which we find ourselves is this: it should free us to go for broke to go for “the rightness of a thing” . . . being practical and sensible are not luxuries we have.
There are a sane few left in the Democratic Party. Line up behind them. Not people stuck in a world that no longer exists.
Access to health care or abortion on an uninhabitable planet dot dot dot