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Essentially the Democratic Party needs become Bernie Sanders.
And the old carpenter drives the nail home with one tap!
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete. R. Buckminster Fuller
Even Reid is backing Ellison for the Chair of the DNC:
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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Sunday endorsed Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) as the next chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
“My friend Keith Ellison is a terrific leader and a strong progressive who knows how to get things done,” Reid said in a statement provided to The Huffington Post. “Now is the time for new thinking and a fresh start at the DNC. Now is the time for Keith.”
I think the most important lesson for the Democratic Party is that America is not ready for a female President. Even in this age of enlightenment about gender, women voted en masse for Trump. It wasn't because of his policies (what policies?), it wasn't because of Clinton's policies (extremely women-friendly and clearly stated). It was more basic than that.
People like or dislike candidates first and then if they have any intelligence at all, they develop a rationale to explain their feelings. This is a basic truth we have to remember about human behavior, ALWAYS. People also feel differently about the characteristics of men and women.
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Writing in the Atlantic earlier this year, Peter Beinart surveyed some of the academic literature on the anxieties that powerful women provoke in both genders. “A 2010 study by Victoria L. Brescoll and Tyler G. Okimoto found that people’s views of a fictional male state senator did not change when they were told he was ambitious,” he wrote. “When told that a fictional female state senator was ambitious, however, men and women alike ‘experienced feelings of moral outrage,’ such as contempt, anger, and disgust.” The rage is more aggressive in men, but it’s there in women, too.
This is not right, of course, but it is true.
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Her victory would have been a sign that the gender hierarchy that has always been fundamental to our society—that has always been fundamental to most societies—was starting to crumble. It would have meant that men no longer rule. We have to come to terms with the fact that a majority of men would rather burn this country to the ground than let that happen.
The startling thing I have seen in this campaign is the rampant misogyny. At first I thought the politics was driving it, but I think it was the other way around. I think Democrats have to take this as an important lesson: We thought the voters were ready for a woman because they voted for a Black Man (twice!), but they have a very long way to go. It doesn't matter how intelligent a woman is, how wonderful her positions, the deeply embedded investment both men AND WOMEN have in male dominance will make it almost impossible for her to win.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete. R. Buckminster Fuller
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
Bernie was on The View today 11/14/16. I can't help but think that if Bernie was Hillary's VP, that we would have won. Bernie is da bomb. Hillary just bombed. Not even white women votedfor her.
My thought exactly. The party definitely needs some younger blood. If Clinton had won I'm pretty sure Paul Ryan would have tossed his hat in the ring in 2020, Depending on the way things go he may still try a primary run against Trump. We'll need a fresh face and a political vision that will resonate with millenials.
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
Hillary just bombed. Not even 