I’m too tired to really get into the numbers yet, but here’s what I can say: We lost some races, but they were all squeakers. Which means, no matter how the Repugs will try to spin it, that they don’t exactly have a mandate. They will act as if they do, but I imagine they’re going to have to put the brakes on at least a little.
But the Dems have a problem. Notice how, even in the states where the Republicans took the governor’s mansion AND the Senate seats, they passed minimum wage increases? You’d almost think that, if the Dems had run campaigns as Democrats, they’d have won a lot more of these races!
And honestly, I’m so sick of progressives acting like we’re not in a deep economic hole. I don’t care what the GDP is, or the Dow, or the unemployment rate. People are hurting. They have shitty jobs that pay a lot less and uncertain futures. You can’t sell them this bullshit, it’s insulting!
It’s gotten a lot worse in my neighborhood – hell, the entire city. Every time I stop at a light, there’s someone with a sign and a coffee can, begging for money. I’ve never seen it this bad. And Democrats want to brag about the GDP? They got what they deserved.
As it is constituted today the Democratic Party is a creature of the 1%. It takes its orders from Wall Street and marches to the tune of the multi-national corporations. In other words it’s not much different from the Republican Party. Our representatives, Democrat and Republican, are interchangeable cogs in the same machine. Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and to some extent Alan Grayson, Franken, Jerry Brown and a few others are different. But as long as the Democratic Party follows either Bill or Hillary’s lead they will suffer defeat after defeat. The Democratic Party requires the leadership “purge” that Nader spoke about last night. And it must be broad and deep.
Pivot to job security, dammit!
Lless, in a capitalist economic model there is no such thing as job security. Or free markets. But not knowing what your definition of job security is I may be wrong??
i have never felt dread after an election but to see rick snyder keep his job made me fear for my children. I don’t think i will encourage them to stay in michigan.
I don’t think the Dems really want to win. They field lackluster DINOs because they do NOT want populist candidates who would mobilize the millenials to get out and vote.
BHO was such a disappointment to the kids who thought he was different – why should they get out and vote? I don’t blame them (although I did vote yesterday).
We don’t have two parties in this country – we have one.
End “at will” employment (shove that “right to work stuff” down their throats); make government a reverse cyclical employer; tax lay offs, out sourcing and part time employment.