| disclaimer for all these comments of this show and some of the other msbc shows, dovetailing more so towards sam seder, this ongoing electoral "prediction"/"advisement" isn't about teaching the "democrats" a "lesson". far from it. it isn't about hurting an "aligned interest" in the grand cause of a "lesson". it is about the long range dynamics of electoral politics plus even more so and inclusive to the other side. the key is the other side. for lack of a better term, the "collective" "right". and it isn't about a "lesson" being learned for any side, it is about an electoral shift in response to societal dislocation. this is what sam seder discounts in his naivete, both about long range strategic politics (which admittedly his "forte" is in the short term) and moreover his absolute ignorance about financial markets and how those two things could collide in societal psychology. if concentrated power needs to be diminished (which it does) then it isn't about a so-called "lesson", it is about shifting the ground of the culture of the dynamics of elections, yes starting with small donations and tactically sophisticated social movements. using the "lesson" canard as a response to this critique truly is meaningless. the only endgame of inhibiting the power of corporations and extremely concentrated capital and wealth is to eventually, some century, have some campaign finance reform that has any teeth along with a society less susceptible to corporate right wing and neoliberal propaganda. it is all tied in with labor and organization resulting with lessening the layers of special interest and concentrated power that parasitically preys on elections and spineless politicians. if "demoralizing and making the [republicans] less relevant in politics" ([sic]: seder) then electing donald trump for a second term is precisely what is needed to "vanquish" the republican party. screw these recovering republicans who actually ironically in their idiocy take absolutely no responsibility for creating trump to this day and are an opportunistic infection on the ill democrats. the republican party has to be purged, along with these memory lane hacks. the vast majority of democrats must also be purged. a correction, perhaps was too tough on the postal service in the last maddow comment, still it is a bloated, archaic, and soon to be an obsolete federal albatross. low earth satellite will revolutionize rural service. universal healthcare is different. |