I think
it's time Democrats woke up and realized fully a fundamental political truth in
this country. And that is that the demographics of the House, and to a lesser
extent the Senate, are likely to make the presidential race in 2016 all but
irrelevant. Clinton, or Warren, or whoever ends up running, may well get
elected, but she (or he) will be unable to govern in the FDR or Johnson-in-1964
manner, with real policy progress, because there is almost no way we can win
back the House
(and possibly not even the Senate), without the most massive popular movement
and organization in more than a generation. And every day that goes by that
this isn't happening means that Democratic policies are less likely to become
national policy any time soon. Where is the leadership? Where are the street
demonstrations for economic justice, endorsed and even joined in by Democratic
pols? Where, even, is the clear and coherent Progressive platform, that
declares once and for all that the era of coddling Wall Street and being no
better than Republican lite, is OVER?
10 January 2015
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