Democrats need to go on a massive talent search for candidates up and down the ballot

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Senate is rough for Dems in 2018. But lots of state houses and state legislatures to be won. Building from bottom up is not a terrible thing

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[FuzzyLumpkins]

Leadership needs to change more than anything. Schumer, Reid, Pelosi, etc. Until they are deposed nothing will really change.

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reid retired from senate not sure if he will be involved any more

[hater]

:lol ducks going in raw

[HI-FI]

Maybe set it up like the Voice, see who can recite Das Kapital or spirit cook the best.

[hater]

Create a MMOG about who can kill an ambassador the fastest

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sanders says he will not rule out running again

[spurraider21]

pelosi is scum. schumer is too much of a shill and will obstruct as bad as all the republicans he's been whining about. reid is retired. sanders is too old to lead for any significant period of time... he needs a protege

[boutons_deux]

Dems sure could use some talent, but their problem is much bigger.

Dem establishment had its own revolt in Bernie and his supporters.

Robert Reich: What Donald Trump's Election Really Means

The Democratic party once represented the working class.

But over the last three decades the party has been taken over by Washington-based fundraisers, bundlers, analysts, and pollsters who have focused instead on raising campaign money from corporate and Wall Street executives and getting votes from upper middle-class households in “swing” suburbs.

Democrats have occupied the White House for 16 of the last 24 years, and for four of those years had control of both houses of Congress.

But in that time they failed to reverse the decline in working-class wages and economic security.

Both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama ardently pushed for free trade agreements without providing millions of blue-collar workers who thereby lost their jobs means of getting new ones that paid at least as well.

They stood by as corporations hammered trade unions, the backbone of the white working class—failing to reform labor laws to impose meaningful penalties on companies that violate them, or help workers form unions with simple up-or-down votes.

Partly as a result, union membership sank from 22 percent (http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bls.gov%2Fnews.release %2Funion2.nr0.htm&t=MzkwZTMyZjNkNGViZDAyNWZhNDk0YWIwZTZlMTQxOWQ3MDBk MzIxZixFdTBacFMxcA%3D%3D) of all workers when Bill Clinton was elected president to less than 12 percent (http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bls.gov%2Fnews.release %2Funion2.nr0.htm&t=MzkwZTMyZjNkNGViZDAyNWZhNDk0YWIwZTZlMTQxOWQ3MDBk MzIxZixFdTBacFMxcA%3D%3D) today, and the working class lost bargaining leverage to get a share of the economy’s gains.

Bill Clinton and Obama also allowed antitrust enforcement to ossify—with the result that large corporations have grown far larger (http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitehouse.gov%2F...% 2F20151016_firm_level_persp...&t=Njc1MTBlNWFhNGQzNjZhZjYwOTRhNzllNzhlZTE3YzMyYmZh MjkwMixFdTBacFMxcA%3D%3D), and major industries more concentrated.

The unsurprising result of this combination —

more trade, declining unionization and more industry concentration —

has been to shift political and economic power to big corporations and the wealthy, and

to shaft the working class.

This created an opening for Donald Trump’s authoritarian demagoguery, and his presidency.

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/robert-reich-what-donald-trumps-election-really-means

iow, the Dems have been corrupted, compromised by, beholden to BigMoney as much as the Repugs, but are less blatant is their slavish subservience BigMoney.

And the Dems have nothing to counteract the VRWC, the right-wing-hate propaganda media, the Christian Taliban.

[baseline bum]

pelosi is scum. schumer is too much of a shill and will obstruct as bad as all the republicans he's been whining about. reid is retired. sanders is too old to lead for any significant period of time... he needs a protege

Pelosi may be scum but at least she got a decent health care bill passed by her chamber. Meanwhile Reid couldn't get a public option through his and wouldn't use reconciliation to get it passed. What a loser Reid was.

[boutons_deux]

Reid couldn't get a public option through his and wouldn't use reconciliation to get it passed.

PO was killed by the WH, specifically banker Rahm Emmanuel. It was never anything Reid ever even saw, it never existed on WH or Congressional paper.