Nickolai wrote:
I agree there is a kind of partnership between the Two majority political parties in the sense that they managed to make it impossible for a third party candidate to be elected President They have successfuly eliminated any serious competition. I dont see that the MSM touted anybody but reported news.
The DNC did keep Bernie Sasnders down with their super delegates which is not democratic. The RNC and Neocons did try to stop Schtruminski But where is the evidence they funded Clinton I don't believe it. They would rarther have nutter like Schtrumpinski that allow Clinton to win If for no other reaso that he wold noninate a nother nutter for the SCOTUS and Clinton would not. The Constitutional Republic neded reform and Democracy in this country has had to be fought for but for every two stepps forward the nutters drad us back a step they are highly resistant to change of any kind.
The Federal Reserve "is"part of the cause of decline but is is far more complex than that. The U.S. is following the same trajectory as all previous Empires, the decline and fall is enivitable, its just what happens to empires.
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Nikki, while it isn’t offend we agree I need to tell you much of what you said here is accurate..
Of course I disagree with your assessment that the MSN didn’t tout anyone more than the other by supposedly reporting on how bad he was and Had no chance of winning while making Hillary out as the one that was going to save this country.. I need not repeat it you saw it and bought into as well..The one sided reporting along with the out and out lies is what motivated people to get out and vote Trump in and they will do it again..
Anyway my point is this was refreshing to read and, again there were parts of it I was one, amazed you said it and two, I was agreeing.. Thank You for that ....
You often defend the DNC and dems, progressive lefts etc with jabs of the Republicans being a mess and having no true path etc ...
I read this and do believe while most of left say there is nothing wrong with the DNC, dems this article admits the state of disarray and dismantling of the dems by them, not the republicans....
DNC overhaul struggles as Sanders-Clinton rivalries persist
'I undeniably underestimated the depth of the turnaround job,' the Democratic Party chairman says.
By EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE 01/16/2018 05:01 AM EST
One year into Tom Perez’s project to save the Democratic National Committee from complete collapse, officials are beginning to dig out of the hole left by Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s mismanagement, Barack Obama’s indifference, Russian hacking and the bitter rivalry between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders capped by accusations of election rigging.
But going into a midterm election that should be the Democrats’ to lose, the DNC is still struggling to bring its factions together and assert itself. Throw into the mix powerful super PACs, the much-better-funded party committees focused on Congress and governors, and more independent voters than ever, and many wonder whether the DNC has a place at all anymore...
“I knew it was a turnaround job when I ran, but I undeniably underestimated the depth of the turnaround job. We had to rebuild almost every facet of the organization, and equally importantly, we had to rebuild trust,” Perez said in a recent interview at party headquarters. “Not just people who had invested in the DNC, but others — they just felt the party had let them down.”
It’s hard to overstate the scale of his task. The DNC has become every frustrated Democrat’s favorite piñata, and a symbol of everything that went wrong in 2016. Sanders-Clinton hostilities have taken on a new form: The tension now is over whether Sanders should hand over his massive voter list to the committee, as Perez has asked, and whether the committee has gone far enough to overhaul internal rules that Sanders forces are convinced rigged the nomination for Clinton. Neither side is satisfied, and words like “crazy,” “still doesn’t get it” and, in one case, “Judas” are tossed around to describe people in the opposite camp.
The relationship between Perez and Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), the former rival whom Perez named deputy chair in an attempt to ease tribal infighting, remains chilly, with periodic explosive fights over party strategy and appointments. “Functioning unity is something we’ve got to build back over time,” Ellison said, after praising Perez.
But there are glimpses of progress, and a sense of tempered optimism.
Most of the DNC’s officers and members have coalesced behind Perez. Fundraising, while still trailing far behind the Republican National Committee, is on the uptick, boosted by a major donor program Perez has nurtured and checks that picked up after Democrats won high-profile races last fall in Virginia and Alabama. State party chairs say they’re being listened to again. And a tech operation that had atrophied to the point of near collapse under the previous leadership is being rebuilt.
“People understandably, because of [President Donald] Trump and what’s going on, want things to be moving quickly,” said Michael Blake, a DNC vice chair. “But because it’s not moving fast, that does not mean it’s not moving well.”
The DNC’s 2018 will be about tailored expectations: adapting its 2017 strategy of targeted, under-the-radar field and infrastructure investments to a much bigger map of races and a much smaller pool of money than it would like to have. Officials say it'll stay off TV — in part because it won’t have the money — but will fund staff on the ground, new voter turnout initiatives driven by new technology, and constituency-specific mailers and outreach by phone and text message.
As it did in a host of down-ballot races last year, the DNC will also deploy staff to competitive elections as well as people to train campaign aides and volunteers.
The committee will make some donations to campaigns and the committees for House and Senate races, as well as $10,000 per month to each state party. And it’s rushing to bank money for a promised $10 million “innovation fund” that state parties will compete for.
But aware of just how tarnished the party’s national brand is, not to mention the DNC’s own tattered reputation, most of this will happen under the radar. The committee put $1 million into Alabama’s special election last month for voter turnout efforts targeting millennials and African-American voters, but kept mostly quiet about it.
“They provided the support that we needed. They were always there to give us advice and understood that we wanted to keep this race local,” Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.), the upset winner, said in a statement. “Chairman Perez understood we had a message that was consistent with the party, but it was also a message that he felt like, and we felt like, would be consistent with folks in the state of Alabama.”
The committee is trying to forge ahead even as it remains saddled by factionalism. The war between Sanders and Clinton has morphed into a battle between people who believe the Vermont senator needs to actively participate in an institution that's changing to accommodate his demands — and those who believe the DNC should just be grateful Sanders and his allies are helping it change.
The dispute largely revolves around Sanders’ massive email list:The DNC wants it, but Sanders has no intention of handing it over. The Sanders line is clear: No way will he be providing his list or any other information to the DNC, as Perez has asked, or pitch in otherwise to an organization that he is demanding be reshaped. To the Sanders orbit, it’s not nearly enough that Perez backed the recommendations of a yearlong Unity Commission set up to revise internal rules that Sanders supporters argued disenfranchised the base.
“We still have a long way to go. We’ve made big steps forward in opening up the party and making the nominating process more democratic,” said Jeff Weaver, campaign manager for the 2016 Sanders campaign and a leader of the efforts on his behalf in the Unity Commission. “We’ve also got to make sure that all the different factions of the party are represented at the DNC. Tom can do a little bit more to bring in some other voices.”
Weaver said, though, that there won’t ever be a point when Sanders gives the DNC access to his voter data.
“I don’t think you should expect that to happen. If people think the Sanders list is just an ATM, they’re sadly mistaken,” he said. “It’s a list of millions of people who are motivated by a certain policy agenda. If they think it can be easily transferred, I think it’s a fantasy.”
Blake, a New York Assembly member who’s focused on local candidate training, called that “a missed opportunity.”
“Not everyone is going to be Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders, but for the local candidate for statehouse and the local candidate for city council, having more data gives them more opportunities,” he said.
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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/16/democrats-clinton-sanders-reforms-340616