I think your analysis is correct, if we accept your premise that the Senate and the Supreme Court will block any real and meaningful reforms. So the obvious answer (to me, at least) is that the Dems need to aim for super majorities in Congress, along with clear policy plans (eg, single payor healthcare to compete with private insurance, government construction of affordable housing, universal pre-K through college education, etc.) and structural reforms (eg, reconstitute SCOTUS, progressive tax reform with no loopholes, strict enforcement of antitrust regulations, etc.).
Collectively, the progressive movement in the US is rich (close to $500 million to spend) and powerful. Unfortunately, it is also splintered into a thousand, narrowly focused groups. While each group has worthwhile aims, they will remain weak until they can unite under a single, overarching set of policies and goals. United, I believe they can finally carry the day and move our country forward.
There will be time, once the progressive left has control of the three branches of government, to also pursue the various worthwhile goals of each individual group. But for now, they need to unite to move our country away from the disastrous course toward which we are currently headed!
Nothing can be accomplished when money for election campaigns is free flowing from corporations and for foreign countries (Israel). The awful slaughter of the last two years in Gaza while the US supplies everything needed to kill with abandon has certainly awakened Americans to how little our government is responsive to we the people.
My first priority is to expose candidates who are taking money from AIPAC and will not pledge to support liberty and justice for all by not sending either money or weapons to Israel. LJ4A and ethnic cleansing are antithetical and claiming to support both is hypocrisy. If we cannot escape the grip of a tiny place with 1/40th of our population that determines US foreign policy then we are no longer a democracy.
The winning candidate will run on progressive (including economic) populism and an explicit intention to use sweeping progressive populist executive orders, or the whole thing will be corrupt and insane and despicable.
Hello, Waleed.
I think your analysis is correct, if we accept your premise that the Senate and the Supreme Court will block any real and meaningful reforms. So the obvious answer (to me, at least) is that the Dems need to aim for super majorities in Congress, along with clear policy plans (eg, single payor healthcare to compete with private insurance, government construction of affordable housing, universal pre-K through college education, etc.) and structural reforms (eg, reconstitute SCOTUS, progressive tax reform with no loopholes, strict enforcement of antitrust regulations, etc.).
Collectively, the progressive movement in the US is rich (close to $500 million to spend) and powerful. Unfortunately, it is also splintered into a thousand, narrowly focused groups. While each group has worthwhile aims, they will remain weak until they can unite under a single, overarching set of policies and goals. United, I believe they can finally carry the day and move our country forward.
There will be time, once the progressive left has control of the three branches of government, to also pursue the various worthwhile goals of each individual group. But for now, they need to unite to move our country away from the disastrous course toward which we are currently headed!
Waleed, I will go with the Political revolution
Great piece. I keeo going back to william jennings bryant and the last time we faced the interplay between gilded age monopolies and populist politics
Nothing can be accomplished when money for election campaigns is free flowing from corporations and for foreign countries (Israel). The awful slaughter of the last two years in Gaza while the US supplies everything needed to kill with abandon has certainly awakened Americans to how little our government is responsive to we the people.
My first priority is to expose candidates who are taking money from AIPAC and will not pledge to support liberty and justice for all by not sending either money or weapons to Israel. LJ4A and ethnic cleansing are antithetical and claiming to support both is hypocrisy. If we cannot escape the grip of a tiny place with 1/40th of our population that determines US foreign policy then we are no longer a democracy.
The winning candidate will run on progressive (including economic) populism and an explicit intention to use sweeping progressive populist executive orders, or the whole thing will be corrupt and insane and despicable.
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