This Theda Skocpol article is worth adding to the discourse since it addresses the issues most important for the coming resistance to Orange GazBag, a.k.a. Prezident Kozyr.
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Much of the post-election recrimination has focused on the wrong things — on feckless second-guessing and on proposed strategies that range from utopian to counterproductive.
In this piece, I will argue that in our time, the key priority should be strengthening the Democratic Party at state and local levels, even as liberals also build a mass movement to demand universal voter access and devise new formats for unions and other dues-based popular associations…
National media outlets are already speculating about which Democrat is positioning him or herself for 2020, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer will grab the spotlight as he tries to protect his caucus’s right flank for 2018 reelection by triangulating among President Trump, House Republicans, and his own vulnerable red-state senators.
But party organs and the party faithful can’t afford to let the worries about 2018 Senate losses or 2020 positioning take up all of the air. Democrats need to organize widely across the country and rebuild their bench of elected officials. Unless Democrats register legislative and state-level gains starting in 2017, they will not succeed in shifting the momentum for 2020.
In short, the Democratic Party’s most promising path forward runs through dozens of states and many legislative districts. To ensure that party leaders get on that path soon, all voters, activists, and groups in the party’s orbit need to push for new organization-building strategies. Donors big and small should stop giving until they hear clear, practical plans, and citizens should organize voluntarily at the local level.
It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter, someone he outranked in privilege and power and the capacity to fight back. It, it kind of broke my heart when I saw it and I still can’t get it out my head because it wasn’t in a movie. It was real life. And this instinct to humiliate when it’s modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody’s life because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing.
Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose. OK, go on with that thing. OK, this brings me to the press. We need the principled press to hold power to account, to call them on the carpet for every outrage.
That’s why our founders enshrined the press and its freedoms in our constitution. So I only ask the famously well-heeled Hollywood foreign press and all of us in our community to join me in supporting the Committee to Protect Journalists, ’cause we’re going to need them going forward and they’ll need us to safeguard the truth.
One more thing. Once when I was standing around the set one day, whining about something, we were going to work through supper or the long hours or whatever, Tommy Lee Jones said to me: “Isn’t it such a privilege, Meryl, just to be an actor?” Yeah, it is. And we have to remind each other of the privilege and the responsibility of the act of empathy. We should be very proud of the work Hollywood honors here tonight,
As my, as my friend, the dear departed Princess Leia, said to me once: “Take your broken heart, make it into art.”
Well, well sometimes blessing come in many forms and forums… from NPR, a exercise in futility Trump has given CNN a great boost…. Will Turley cross back to a Liberal news Media or does he intend to pimp Trump…. it remains to be seen….. if Kelly Ann is any representative of how one is supposed to be as a mouth piece of the president and she was a student of Turley’s… the reputation of Turley is greatly diminished….. and from NPR “Actually, CNN’s ratings are flying high right now — thanks in no small part to the controversy and conflict engendered by the president-elect in the past year. And as for fake news, Trump himself has been a leading purveyor of false claims, from hoaxes over Obama’s birth to unfounded allegations of widespread voter fraud.”
Russell,
Your opinion on use of language. Is is better to call the bogus stories “fake news” or propaganda?
Trump, Bannon, and Kellyann Conway are definitely channeling Goebbels.
I vote for “fake news” – considering the state of public education in the U.S., many Americans may not know the meaning of a four-syllable word like propaganda.
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Well, well sometimes blessing come in many forms and forums… from NPR, a exercise in futility Trump has given CNN a great boost…. Will Turley cross back to a Liberal news Media or does he intend to pimp Trump…. it remains to be seen….. if Kelly Ann is any representative of how one is supposed to be as a mouth piece of the president and she was a student of Turley’s… the reputation of Turley is greatly diminished….. and from NPR “Actually, CNN’s ratings are flying high right now — thanks in no small part to the controversy and conflict engendered by the president-elect in the past year. And as for fake news, Trump himself has been a leading purveyor of false claims, from hoaxes over Obama’s birth to unfounded allegations of widespread voter fraud.”
Russell,
Your opinion on use of language. Is is better to call the bogus stories “fake news” or propaganda?
Trump, Bannon, and Kellyann Conway are definitely channeling Goebbels.
I vote for “fake news” – considering the state of public education in the U.S., many Americans may not know the meaning of a four-syllable word like propaganda.
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