I listened to the whole program. Usually I just read transcripts since it's much faster. But hearing means picking up inflections and emotional color. And of course listening to you, Jim, is to hear the truth articulated in a delightful Texas populist accent.
What the others had to say is totally worth hearing as well.
Thank you all you veteran fighters who keep on fighting for the common good.
Hi Jim, I am sorry to see you associate yourself with that loathsome man Ralph Nader. If he had not had the conceit to run for president in 2000 (his slogan was that there was no difference between Bush and Gore), Gore would have won Florida and the presidency, the US would have had a climate change program by 2021, and who knows what other good things would have happened. IAN NISBET
"Loathsome"?! Do you know anything about Nader's long career serving the common good? Car safety, clean water, disability rights, founding Public Interest Research Groups all over the country And telling the truth about our corporate funded dual aspect oligarchy--which he is still doing.
Yes, Gore did "An Inconvenient Truth," But he comes off as a bit hypocritical because of those mansions he owns. Sure, they're "green" designed. But consider the space they take up and the materials to build them--which do have negative impacts. And if he were truly green and for labor, he'd be fighting an econopathic system that defines away devastation of human communities and destruction of entire ecosystems as unimportant 'externalities.'
Like the rest of the D elite since the late '70s, he's a neoliberal. A term that isn't political--it's economic, support for the deeply inequitable trickle up system as if there were no alternatives. There are. Like the economics of the New Deal. Including regulations on financial manipulations passed because of the 1929 Crash but repealed by Clinton, leading to the Great Recession of 2008. The admin and professional upper middle class may have not suffered much, but millions in the majority working class did--losing jobs, pensions, homes. Under Obama, Wall St. was bailed out. For the working class? {*crickets*}
Young supporters of Bernie Sanders kept saying to the Ds in 2016, WE'RE NOT YOUR VOTES. Give us someone worth voting for and we might. You do not own us. As someone much older, I fought the neolib takeover and the subsequent dumping of the New Deal and abandonment of the working class. The D attitude so well expressed by Sen. Chuck Schumer in 2016: "For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we'll pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio, Illinois, and Wisconsin."
Well, that was a winner, wasn't it?! Not to mention deeply dismissive of the common good. I guess we commoners aren't worth any attention from the Ivy D elite. But if you Ds really want to win, then start by taking responsibility for your own actions.
PS--Instead of prejudging, the very definition of prejudice, go listen to the program. Then tell us specifically how you disagree with any of the speakers.
He didn't spoil an election for the Dems. Their own elitist behavior did. Neolibs since the late '70s; they dumped the New Deal and abandoned the majority working class. The attitude that they are owed votes, that votes belong to them somehow, doesn't help. Nor does their support for the current econopathy. Nor does their funding by 1%ers and corporations. Whose views do you think count?
For more details, read my full reply to Ian Nisbet.
I listened to the whole program. Usually I just read transcripts since it's much faster. But hearing means picking up inflections and emotional color. And of course listening to you, Jim, is to hear the truth articulated in a delightful Texas populist accent.
What the others had to say is totally worth hearing as well.
Thank you all you veteran fighters who keep on fighting for the common good.
Hi Jim, I am sorry to see you associate yourself with that loathsome man Ralph Nader. If he had not had the conceit to run for president in 2000 (his slogan was that there was no difference between Bush and Gore), Gore would have won Florida and the presidency, the US would have had a climate change program by 2021, and who knows what other good things would have happened. IAN NISBET
"Loathsome"?! Do you know anything about Nader's long career serving the common good? Car safety, clean water, disability rights, founding Public Interest Research Groups all over the country And telling the truth about our corporate funded dual aspect oligarchy--which he is still doing.
Yes, Gore did "An Inconvenient Truth," But he comes off as a bit hypocritical because of those mansions he owns. Sure, they're "green" designed. But consider the space they take up and the materials to build them--which do have negative impacts. And if he were truly green and for labor, he'd be fighting an econopathic system that defines away devastation of human communities and destruction of entire ecosystems as unimportant 'externalities.'
Like the rest of the D elite since the late '70s, he's a neoliberal. A term that isn't political--it's economic, support for the deeply inequitable trickle up system as if there were no alternatives. There are. Like the economics of the New Deal. Including regulations on financial manipulations passed because of the 1929 Crash but repealed by Clinton, leading to the Great Recession of 2008. The admin and professional upper middle class may have not suffered much, but millions in the majority working class did--losing jobs, pensions, homes. Under Obama, Wall St. was bailed out. For the working class? {*crickets*}
Young supporters of Bernie Sanders kept saying to the Ds in 2016, WE'RE NOT YOUR VOTES. Give us someone worth voting for and we might. You do not own us. As someone much older, I fought the neolib takeover and the subsequent dumping of the New Deal and abandonment of the working class. The D attitude so well expressed by Sen. Chuck Schumer in 2016: "For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we'll pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio, Illinois, and Wisconsin."
Well, that was a winner, wasn't it?! Not to mention deeply dismissive of the common good. I guess we commoners aren't worth any attention from the Ivy D elite. But if you Ds really want to win, then start by taking responsibility for your own actions.
PS--Instead of prejudging, the very definition of prejudice, go listen to the program. Then tell us specifically how you disagree with any of the speakers.
Unfortunately I have to agree with the sentiment.
Loathsome a bit harsh but a “ misguided” works
He didn't spoil an election for the Dems. Their own elitist behavior did. Neolibs since the late '70s; they dumped the New Deal and abandoned the majority working class. The attitude that they are owed votes, that votes belong to them somehow, doesn't help. Nor does their support for the current econopathy. Nor does their funding by 1%ers and corporations. Whose views do you think count?
For more details, read my full reply to Ian Nisbet.