With the recent turns in the Mueller investigation, many of us are celebrating what may be the earliest beginning of the end of the cooperative take over of our government by Russians , Banksters, pseudo-Christians, Nazis and other Republicans.  Some of us may think that with so much corruption and scandal from the Republicans, Democrats can walk in and take over.  The past shows clearly how mistaken that is.  Unless we offer something worth having, any victories we enjoy will be temporary at best.  To prevent that, we need to turn left!

A new poll shows most Democratic voters want their party to move left, with new people in charge. In other words, they want a political revolution.

They’ve got the right idea.

If the party establishment thinks Robert Mueller’s investigation will save it, it’s probably wrong. After President Richard Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew were both removed from office for malfeasance, Jimmy Carter barely eked out a win in 1976. Four years later, Ronald Reagan’s victory ushered in 12 years of Republican leadership in the White House.

That’s a lesson for today’s Democrats. High crimes and misdemeanors don’t automatically translate into enthusiasm for the other party, especially in today’s murky political environment.  Corruption is more likely to lead to cynicism than to citizen involvement, unless voters are given something to believe in.

A Left Majority Led By Women and People of Color

Democratic voters apparently know what they believe in. In the latest Harvard-Harris poll, a sample of the party’s base voters was asked: “Do you support or oppose movements within the Democratic Party to take it even further to the left and oppose the current Democratic leaders?”

52 percent of those polled said they support those movements, while 48 percent said they oppose them. That’s a call to political insurrection. These voters want to change the party’s ideology. They “oppose” (that’s a strong word, “oppose”) the people who have been running it for decades.

If the implications for the party’s upcoming races seem clear, the long-term implications are even more stark:  69 percent of voters aged 18 to 34 said they support those insurrectionary movements.

Among other things, the Harvard-Harris poll disproves the “Bernie Bros” canard so beloved by the party’s establishment. Democratic insiders have repeatedly insisted that the party’s left is dominated by white males. The implication is that the left is somehow sexist and/or racist.

But the poll shows that support for the left is greater among female voters (55 percent), Hispanic voters (65 percent), and African-American voters (55 percent) than it is among whites (46 percent) or men (49 percent)… [emphasis added]

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This a very long and detailed article, so I urge you to click through and read it in its entirety

Turning left is the very best way to

RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!

I made a comment on the Bill Maher lead article Saturday that I agree the way we are tring to appeal to large groups of voters isn’t working well, but I disagree with what we need to do about it.  My feeling is less exposition and more story is what we need.  This email from Elizabeth Warren perfectly illustrates how powerful story can be.

One of my heroes is running for Congress

Almost 20 years ago — early in the fall term of 1999 — I’d been covering an especially tough topic in my bankruptcy class.

You know that deer-in-the-headlights look on a CEO’s face when they can’t answer a question in a Senate hearing? That was my whole room of students that day.

A few students had looked a little shaken when they left class, so I wasn’t surprised when one of them stopped by my office later in the day. “Hi, I’m Katie Porter. You were really hard on me today.” I thought she was about to start complaining about how tough the work was, but she didn’t pause a beat. Instead, she said, “and I just wanted to come by to say please keep it up. I want to learn this, so don’t let up on me.”

I didn’t let up — and neither did Katie. Katie became an expert in the complex law of bankruptcy, and we worked together for years studying why millions of American families were in so much financial trouble. She became a law professor herself out in California — and in the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis, California Attorney General Kamala Harris appointed her to be California’s top consumer watchdog — fighting to hold the big banks accountable and help Californians who lost their homes.

Several months ago, I had breakfast with Katie. We were all still reeling from the election. After talking about her kids, Katie said, “This is terrible. The banks, they’re gonna let them go at it again. They’ll roll back the regulations on pollution, poison our children.” And then she said, “Elizabeth, I’m thinking about running for office.” And I said exactly one thing in return, “If you run, I will be there every step of the way.”

Katie lives in Orange County, California — in a district that Hillary Clinton won by five points last November. The Republican Congresswoman who holds that seat has voted with Donald Trump 97.8% of the time this year — including votes to repeal health care for millions of Americans, defund Planned Parenthood, and gut the rules on Wall Street.

Sending Katie to Congress in this winnable district would put us one seat closer to taking back the House in 2018. And Katie will give us another powerful voice in Washington who will stand up to the big banks and powerful corporations and fight for women, students, seniors, immigrants, and working people in her district and all across this country.

I’ve seen Katie’s commitment and grit up close and personal. I’ve seen her determination to tell the story of a rigged game. And I’ve seen her put it all on the line to fight for what she believes in.

Thanks for being a part of this,

Elizabeth

Doesn’t this just make you want to run out and vote for Katie?

Cross posted to Care2 HERE.