The 2020 “Coronavirus PLANdemic – Arrival And Initial Impact” (PART 1 @ COVID EMPIRE)
April 5, 2020Vermont Governor: “We Will Shelter-In-Place Until May 15th” (RATIONALE?)
April 10, 2020Publisher’s Note: Full story here. Plan ‘V’ for a Free Vermont!
The BS “postmortems” will continue for years. Assuming good intentions and not BS as Sheepdog, BS’s biggest strategic error was to think he and his campaign could reform the corrupt, bloated and bankrupt DEMOCRATIC PARTY from within. See Nick Brana’s email and the “Movement for a People’s Party” below – BS has held up this process for four years now. We don’t have a dog in the US political fight, but important to know this movement exists.
| Rob, Two weeks after Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 general election, I wrote an article in the Huffington Post predicting that if progressives tried to reform the Democratic Party, it would end badly. I was so convinced that I left my career in Democratic politics, and the personal economic security that it had provided, to start Draft Bernie for a People’s Party as a volunteer. Unfortunately, much of what I wrote in that article has happened. For the past five years, the progressive movement has tried to break the spiral that has seen our country shift to the right with each passing president over the past half-century. The spiral that has seen wages decline, the cost of health care increase, student debt rise, the social safety net fade, and inequality skyrocket. Today we are confronted with the fact that we did not succeed in breaking that spiral into oligarchy. Biden is more corporate than Obama and proving to be to the right of Trump on health care and more. But out of the sadness of Bernie dropping out comes a clarity that our experiment in reforming the Democratic Party did not succees. A clarity that the Democratic Party cannot be reformed. A clarity that we will win when we listen to the majority of Americans who are saying — in poll after poll — that they do not want different flavors of an establishment party, they want an entirely new one. A clarity that victory will come when we swim with the millions who are leaving the establishment parties and becoming independents, instead of struggling against the populist current in a fruitless attempt to save the party that created this system. So now we find ourselves at the same crossroads that we came to after the 2016 election. And we’ve been given the chance to make that choice again with the wisdom and experience that we’ve gained — and an acute sense of the profound consequences for working people if we pick the wrong strategy. That’s what we’ll be discussing tonight. Join our Special National Call at 5:30 pm PT / 8:30 pm ET this evening to discuss the next steps for our movement and how we can lead progressives in forming a major new party that fights alongside movements for economic, racial, social and environmental justice, instead of against them. With Bernie out of the race, AOC giving up on a corporate free caucus and primary challenges, and no path forward in the Democratic Party, this is our moment to build a new consensus around a people’s party. This is our moment to lead a progressive movement from the brink of despair to surging back stronger than ever and shocking the establishment with a new plan. Just across our southern border, progressives in Mexico started a new party in 2014, after many years of unsuccessfully trying to reform their neoliberal parties. By 2018, they had swept the presidency and both chambers of the legislature, drawing from and defeating both establishment parties. Meanwhile, we’ve tried to reform an establishment party and the presidential nomination has been stolen twice, and all but two progressives were blocked from unseating Congressional Democrats in the midterms. The last five years of progressive strategy have revolved around Bernie’s runs for president and the efforts to reform the Democrats. With him leaving the race, the progressive movement is left without a direction, plan, or next steps. This is our moment to popularize a new strategy. Sign our Open Letter to the DNC Declaring our Independence from their corporate party. Then forward it to at least three progressives you know. It’s going to take all of us sharing on social media and peer-to-peer. It’s our turn to choose and the establishment is holding its breath, watching and praying that our movement will recede. Hoping that we’ll let this opportunity pass. But together we’ll build a dynamic and flourishing party that ushers in a new progressive era. Our darkest hour will be our finest moment. Looking forward to great things, Nick Brana National Coordinator Movement for a People’s Party |
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