Has the regeneracy arrived?

[Eric the Green]

(01-23-2017, 09:42 PM)Marypoza Wrote:

Eric Wrote:The voters chose Donald (a con man who had been a Republican candidate already in 2012)

-- the Donald didn't actually run in 2012:

http://mashable.com/2015/06/16/donald-tr...Lw.can8aqn

Eric Wrote:over an honest to goodness sixties liberal activist.

-- except the DNC refused to run Bernie. lnfact they went out of their way to ensure they didn't have to 

Eric Wrote:Pelosi hasn't said any such thing. But I don't know who was elected yet to head the DNC. They need Ellison, I think.

http://www.dailywire.com/news/11329/pelo...es-barrett

This issue you raised was that Donald wasn't a Republican until this election. He WAS; he almost ran as a Republican in 2012, and was already testing out his demagoguery with his birther nonsense.

The DNC doesn't "run" candidates. The voters choose in primaries and caucuses. If Bernie had won, the DNC would have "run" him. Pelosi didn't say she was against change in the country. She said the Democrats did not need to change their position on issues to please the right-wing blogger you quoted. They need to get out their message better, she said. The Democrats are already about change, and the Republicans are about the status quo. Pelosi made a lot of change in 2009-2010. It was blocked by the Republicans, and by a few Democrats In Name Only (DINOs) in the Senate, and by the deceived voters in Nov 2010 on Black Tuesday, which allowed Republicans to gerrymander themselves into power. 

The "new direction" which that right-wing blog you quoted wants, is to go backward toward regressive Republican policies just because they won an election. NO, that's wrong, and the Democrats' policies are still right. Let the Republicans push the policies that THEIR voters want. That's NOT Pelosi's job, Marypoza. The Democrats answer to a different constituency: the people who know their real interests, and aren't deceived by economic libertarian slogans, race and gender baiting, religious-right nonsense, and so on.

Wow, that reactionary blogger you quoted actually said Pelosi's message sounded like Trump's. Gee whiz, so Pelosi sounds like the promises Trump made to workers, which he is now completely and utterly ignoring. All that says, is that American voters are easily deceived by the "changes" promised them by demagogues and deceivers (spelled Republican). Trump just "got his message out better." So, the Democrats need to make the people understand that Trump is the phony, and they are the real deal (at least a lot of them are, like Sanders and Warren and Kamila Harris).