De
Democraten hebben weliswaar de presidentsverkiezingen gewonnen, maar
ondanks een keer zo hoog budget voor die verkiezingen dan de Republikeinen, hebben ze geen extra senaatszetels gehaald en daardoor zelfs
zetels verloren in het huis van afgevaardigden……. Kortom je zou
kunnen stellen dat Biden als nieuwe president bitter weinig voor
elkaar zal krijgen…….
Binnen
de Democratische Partij wijst men met de vingers naar de links kant
van die partij als schuldigen voor dit negatieve resultaat in het
congres…… Linkse Democratische politici die o.a. achter de Green
New Deal staan, hebben het wel degelijk goed gedaan tijdens de
verkiezingen, ofwel de conservatieve tak van de Democraten wijst
volkomen onterecht naar de progressieve krachten in de partij als
schuldigen voor dit verlies aan macht in het congres…..
Als die conservatieve Democratische tak van de partij zo doorgaat bestaat de kans dat de partij zal worden gespleten en er een nieuwe wat meer linkse Democratische Partij zal ontstaan. Gezien het resultaat van die progressieve, meer linkse tak zou die wel eens de oude Democratische Partij kunnen overvleugelen en dat zou een hele verademing zijn, daar er nog amper verschil bestaat tussen de Democratische en Republikeinse Partij, wat voor de wereld betekent dat Biden door zal gaan op het illegale oorlogspad en dat wellicht op een heel wat fanatiekere manier dan de Trump administratie…….
Kenny
Stancil van Common Dreams schreef een artikel over deze zaak:
Published
on Monday, November 09, 2020 by Common
Dreams
99%
of Green New Deal Co-Sponsors Won Their Races This Cycle: Analysis
“Saying
progressive policies held Democrats back from expanding their House
majority/taking the Senate just doesn’t hold water with data
available so far.”
by Kenny
Stancil, staff writer
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
(D-N.Y.) speaks to Sunrise Movement activists protesting in the
offices of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in Washington D.C., on Nov.
13, 2018. (Photo: Sarah Silbiger/The New York Times via Redux)
Shedding more light on a
significant electoral trend that progressives have drawn attention to
in the aftermath of the 2020 U.S. election, a new analysis by Earther
found that of the 93 House co-sponsors of the Green New Deal
resolution who ran for reelection this year, only one lost their
congressional race.
“Simply put,” wrote
journalist Brian Kahn in Earther,
“the Green New Deal is not a political loser,” including
for representatives in swing districts.
Kahn identified four House
co-sponsors who represent districts that “range from very
slightly Democratic to moderately Republican,” according to Cook
Political Report’s
Partisan Voting Index.
Of those four, three—Reps. Mike
Levin (D-Calif.), Jahana Hayes (D- Conn.), and Peter DeFazio
(D-Ore.)—have already “decisively won their reelection bids,”
while the fourth, Rep. Tom Suozzi (D- N.Y.), is projected to win
handily “once all mail-in ballots are counted.”
“This quick-and-dirty
analysis,” Kahn said, “aligns with other data showing that
representatives who have sponsored and voted for progressive policies
were not punished by voters.”
As Common
Dreams reported this
weekend, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and others pointed
out that every single congressional member who ran for reelection
this year as a supporter of Medicare for All won their race.
Ocasio-Cortez
hinted that her team would be “running numbers” on the
Green New Deal—of which she is the
lead House sponsor—next. As
Earther’s analysis showed,
the reelection rate for representatives who co-sponsored the Green
New Deal resolution was nearly 100% as well, with 92 out of those 93
congressional members retaining their seat.
“Saying progressive policies
held Democrats back from expanding their House majority/taking the
Senate just doesn’t hold water with data available so far,”
Kahn noted on
Twitter.
Let’s also not forget one of the Green New Deal Senate co-sponsors is the vice president-elect! Saying progressive policies held Democrats back from expanding their House majority/taking the Senate just doesn’t hold water with data available so far
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As Common
Dreams reported last week,
the blame
game within the Democratic Party began immediately in the wake of
its lackluster showing in down-ticket contests, with officials from
the right and left flanks of the party pointing
fingers at each other.
The New
York Times allowed
Ocasio-Cortez to make
the evidence-backed case for the positive
role played by the left in the 2020 election, but for the most
part, corporate media outlets over the weekend did their best to
cement the right-wing narrative that progressive policy ideas are to
blame for the party’s underwhelming performance in down-ballot races.
So-called moderate Republicans like
former Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, as well as
moderate Democrats like South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn,
were given airtime on CNN
to falsely claim Americans don’t back egalitarian policy proposals.
Yesterday we officially entered a new era of not listening to anything John Kasich says. The era will continue until further notice.
The Hill @thehill
John Kasich: “The Democrats have to make it clear to the far left that they almost cost him this election.”
11:35 AM · Nov 8, 2020 12.3K
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(voor de video in bovenstaand twitterbericht, zie het origineel)
David Sirota @davidsirota
this is the kind of clip that someone will put in a retrospective in 5 years when climate change has destroyed Utah and the entire country, and only then will everyone finally realize what a total monster Mitt Romney is
The Recount @therecount
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) says who he voted for is “in the rearview mirror.”
Now “I want to make sure that we conservatives keep on fighting to make sure we don’t have a Green New Deal, we don’t get rid of gas and coal and oil, that we don’t have a Medicare For All plan …”
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(voor de video in bovenstaand twitterbericht, zie het origineel)
Rep. Jim Clyburn railing against “socialism” while often having a bust of one of America’s most prominent democratic socialists — W.E.B. Du Bois — behind him on TV is a mood.
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These assaults continue despite
recent
polling, including surveys commissioned by
Fox News, that indicates
the majoritarian popularity of left-wing policy ideas eschewed by
Democrats and Republicans alike, including an expanded role for the
government in the provision of healthcare and the creation of green
jobs in energy and infrastructure.
In Georgia, for instance, where
Democrats
have a chance to secure a Senate majority if they win both runoff
races, voters
prefer a universal public option to the Affordable Care Act.
Since voting ended last week,
however, numerous corporate-friendly politicians have advocated for
shifting the nation’s political center of gravity rightward, despite
the fact that politicians who supported popular redistributive
policies, such as Medicare for All and the Green New Deal, were
reelected
at higher rates than ostensibly centrist Democrats, including in
swing districts.
“The people who actually back
progressive policies came through the election largely unscathed and,
in many cases, fared better than their more conservative Democratic
counterparts in swing districts,” Kahn wrote.
“For all the complaining about
progressive policies sinking Democrats’ chances of expanding their
hold on the House and overtaking the Senate,” he added, “the
data available so far just is not there.”
John Nichols, The
Nation’s national affairs
correspondent and author of The
“S” Word: A Short History of An American Tradition…
Socialism, tweeted
that “the Democratic Party’s problem is not Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez.”
“The Democratic Party’s
problem,” he continued, “is that it keeps trying to
marginalize the people who build energy and excitement about fighting
for the future, like… Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.”
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