Dems, you wanna win. Go to the Left Harder
| By Doug - Nov 4th, 2009 at 11:20 am EST |
The economy is a mess now that the Republicans have brought Survivor Island to the mainland. Yet the banksters are getting huge bonuses soon after the bailouts.
Tea-bagger and Columbus city council candidate Matt Ferris came only 1,300 votes short of winning.
Democrats and progressives are mistaken to ridicule the tea baggers. The tea baggers actually tell some truths such as the fact that the middle class is getting shafted. The tea baggers just don't understand that corporate power is the cause or our economic woes and that government is the only institution that can counter-balance the transnational corporations.
The cuts to the social safety net have come with Dems as mayor and governor in Columbus. This does not bode well getting the Democratic base out on Election Day in 2010 and 2012. It also doesn't bode well with Democratic Party identification with the working class. I meet a lot of poor people who vote Republican.
Democrats better get their populist mojo and fast. There needs to be fundamental, structural change at the local, state and national levels.
For example, Columbus taxpayers pay over $100 million each year for health insurance premiums for city employees. Democrats at the state and local level would be wise to pound podiums during future elections that Medicare for All would save local budgets untold millions by getting public employees into a single-payer system.
Republicans won the governor's seat in Virginia and New Jersey. The lesson of last night's election should be that Dems would be wise to begin channelling Franklin Roosevelt.
Tea-bagger and Columbus city council candidate Matt Ferris came only 1,300 votes short of winning.
Democrats and progressives are mistaken to ridicule the tea baggers. The tea baggers actually tell some truths such as the fact that the middle class is getting shafted. The tea baggers just don't understand that corporate power is the cause or our economic woes and that government is the only institution that can counter-balance the transnational corporations.
The cuts to the social safety net have come with Dems as mayor and governor in Columbus. This does not bode well getting the Democratic base out on Election Day in 2010 and 2012. It also doesn't bode well with Democratic Party identification with the working class. I meet a lot of poor people who vote Republican.
Democrats better get their populist mojo and fast. There needs to be fundamental, structural change at the local, state and national levels.
For example, Columbus taxpayers pay over $100 million each year for health insurance premiums for city employees. Democrats at the state and local level would be wise to pound podiums during future elections that Medicare for All would save local budgets untold millions by getting public employees into a single-payer system.
Republicans won the governor's seat in Virginia and New Jersey. The lesson of last night's election should be that Dems would be wise to begin channelling Franklin Roosevelt.
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