tt post nov 10, 2016 b

#politics

bq. _"Has he tweeted at the people rioting in the street who don't realize elections happen every four years ..."_

The midterms are under two years away. All of the House and 1/3 of the Senate are in the election for 2018.

In 2006, the democrats gained a majority in the House. In 2010, the republicans gained a majority in the House.


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In my opinion, 100 percent of the blame belongs to the national democrat party for choosing Hillary years ago. The democrat party ran an undemocratic primary process. It was a sham. I don't understand why _that_ rigged election is not investigated more by the media. It's probably because a logic-based, useful media does not exist. 

The national democrat party chose a candidate with too much bad political   baggage.  Some democrat voters voiced their disgust by skipping the presidential choice on their ballots. Hillary didn't enthuse the voters like Obama did. Hillary was suppose to be the party's choice in 2008, but upstart Obama kicked over Hillary's potato cart.

The democrat party leadership needs a purging, like what occurred after the 2004 election, which led to Howard Dean becoming the party's chairman. Dean helped the democrat party achieve  success in the 2006 midterms with a lot of assistance from the Netroots liberal or progressive grassroots movement that began after the 2000 election.


br. Nov 10, 2016 HuffPo "story":http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donna-brazile-democratic-national-committee_us_5824cb95e4b0ddd4fe7954e8

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On Thursday, Democratic Party officials held their first staff meeting since Hillary Clinton’s stunning loss to Donald Trump in the presidential race. It didn’t go well.

Donna Brazile, the interim leader of the Democratic National Committee, was giving what one attendee described as “a rip-roaring speech” to about 150 employees, about the need to have hope for wins going forward, when a staffer identified only as Zach stood up with a question.

“Why should we trust you as chair to lead us through this?” he asked, according to two people in the room. *“You backed a flawed candidate,* and your friend [former DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz] plotted through this to support your own gain and yourself.”

Some DNC staffers started to boo and some told him to sit down. Brazile began to answer, but Zach had more to say.

*“You are part of the problem,”* he continued, blaming Brazile for clearing the path for Trump’s victory by siding with Clinton early on.

Zach gathered his things and began to walk out. When Brazile called after him, asking where he was going, he told her to go outside and “tell people there” why she should be leading the party.

Brazile, a seasoned Democratic strategist, is the DNC’s interim chair until March 2017, when party officials hold a full DNC meeting to elect a new chair. Brazile has been filling in since July, when then-chair Wasserman Schultz stepped down after WikiLeaks released internal DNC emails showing party officials trying to help Clinton win the Democratic primary.

Brazile ran into her own bit of trouble in October when Wikileaks released emails showing that, in her role as a CNN strategist, she shared questions for CNN-sponsored candidate events in advance with friends on Clinton’s campaign.

A third attendee told HuffPost that, despite Zach’s blow-up, there was “overwhelming” support for Brazile in the room. 
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br. Everybody now has ideas, but a few of Michael Moore's thoughts "make":https://www.facebook.com/mmflint/posts/10153913074756857?_fb_noscript=1 the most "sense.":https://www.facebook.com/mmflint/posts/10153915876426857?_fb_noscript=1 Excerpts:

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Take over the Democratic Party and return it to the people. They have failed us miserably.

Everyone must stop saying they are "stunned" and "shocked". *What you mean to say is that you were in a bubble and weren't paying attention to your fellow Americans and their despair.* 

YEARS of being neglected by both parties, the anger and the need for revenge against the system only grew. Along came a TV star they liked whose plan was to destroy both parties and tell them all "You're fired!" 

Trump's victory is no surprise. He was never a joke. Treating him as one only strengthened him. 

Demand the DNC apologize to Bernie Sanders for trying to fix the primaries against him, for spinning the press to ignore his historic campaign, for giving Clinton the questions in advance at the Flint debate, for its latent ageism and anti-Semism in trying to turn voters against him because of his age or religious beliefs, and for *its anti-democracy system of "superdelegates" who are elected by no one.* 

We all know now had Bernie been given a fair shot, he probably would have been the nominee and he -- as the true outsider and "change" candidate --would have inspired and fired up the base and soundly defeated Donald Trump. 

If no apology is soon forthcoming from the DNC, that's ok -- when we take over the Democratic Party, we will issue the apology in person.
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br. The 2000 election inspired the creation of the Netroots. The 2008 election inspired the creation of the Tea Party. Both movements found success at all levels of government.

And something new may spring up after the 2016 election, but I think that we are more easily distracted by shiny objects today, compared to only five or six years ago. Our attention spans are  withering geometrically.  

Today, Snapchat began selling their "'Spectacles'":https://support.spectacles.com/en-US glasses in a "vending machine.":https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/10/this-it-what-its-like-to-buy-spectacles-from-snapchats-vending-machine/ That's so much more interesting than politics. 



--dislaimer: i voted for bernie in march, and i did not vote in the november 2016 general election, not even on the local issues.--