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| Source:The Zero Hour With RJ Eskow with a look at U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (Democrat, Brooklyn New York) |
From The Zero Hour With RJ Eskow
As my colleague Fred Schneider wrote about this last week:
"See, whatever you think of what Leigh McGown is proposing here, it's the wrong approach, even if you like what she's proposing. At least the politics of it, even if you agree with her ideas. What she's talking about is proposing an alternative to what House Republicans are trying to jam through the House right now, but seem to be short on votes.
I'm with James Carville on this:
When you see your arch-enemy is drowning in the ocean. don't throw them a lifeline. Let them drown.
When you see your arch enemy's house is on fire and no one is there to do anything about it, don't even offer to spit on the fire, let alone dump your own water on it, or call 911. Just let the house burn down...
From The New Democrat
As Fred wrote last Friday:
"Look, what do left-wing Democrats expect Chuck Schumer and company to do:
filibuster every piece of legislation that Republicans try to bring to the floor, just to prevent Republicans from passing anything at all?
Perhaps threaten government shutdowns unless Trump and company gives the Left everything that they want on every issue on every piece of legislation that is brought up?
Silly question. Of course the left-wing of the Democratic Party expects the Democratic Leadership to do that.
Maybe they want Hakeem Jeffries to tell all of his 215 members in the House to walk out every time House Republicans bring a bill up to a floor for vote. No maybe there. That's what the Democrats version of the political escaped mental patients (a phrase that was coined by The New Democrat) expects the Democratic Leadership to do for them.
But, just as Leigh McGowan is wrong about Democrats (who are the minority party both in the House & Senate) need to offer alternatives to the bad legislation that Trump and company are bringing up, so is the rest of the left-wing of the Democratic Party is wrong about how the Democrats should act as the opposition. As the great political humorist P.J. O'Rourke said many times...
From The New Democrat
If RJ Eskow and Sam Rosenthal really want to know why they and the rest of the Socialist-Left (not progressive) are always on the outside looking in (including left-wing Democrats) and why mainstream Democrats (the real Liberals and Progressives) are always in charge of the party and why leftists are always trying get the Democratic Party move into a more left direction, they need to look into their own political mirrors.
You want to know why Hakeem Jeffries leads the House Democrats and not Alexandria O. Cortez or Al Green, or some other Democratic Socialist in the House... I'll tell you anyway: because the Democrats aren't a left-wing party in America. They have 215 seats in the House. Maybe 80 of those are Democratic Socialists, whether you are talking about dues paying members of Democratic Socialists of America, or people who are just inline with the Socialists ideologically, but aren't ready to be card-carrying members yet.
And if you look at Chuck Schumer in the Senate.... the same thing. He's the leader of the Democrats instead of let's say Elizabeth Warren, because the overwhelmingly majority of the Senate Democratic Caucus is center-left and in some cases center-right, like the JFK New Democrats. But they're not Democratic leftists.
Right now Republicans are proving to the American people that their form of government doesn't work:
The cost of living is now more expensive than it was under Joe Biden.
Donald Trump's own voters in West Virginia, North Carolina and other Trump states are losing their disaster relief because the President is refusing to give it to them.
The Justice Department is firing and laying off prosecutors and law enforcement agents, while crime is up.
While air plane crashes are up, the Federal Aviation Administration is laying off air traffic controllers.
And I could get into all the dictatorial moves that the President has been making and will continue to make in oder to centralize more government power with himself. But I don't want to put too many of my readers to sleep on this.
So while Donald Trump and MAGA are screwing up the country and screwing over their own voters, you have these left-wing Democrats who want to be the faces of the Democratic Party and essentially tell swing voters and Republican voters who don't like Donald Trump and MAGA:
"Hey, you may think they're incompetent and crazy, but you should look at us as well. We got into political debates at the same nuthouse that MAGA was at before Donald Trump pardoned them and brought them into his administration".
And instead of letting the Democratic Leadership just talk about how bad Donald Trump and MAGA are, the Socialist-Left in America wants to become the issue in America and have Democrats promote their crazy politics of:
Cutting off Israel and perhaps Ukraine as well
Nationalizing health care and health insurance and perhaps banking and energy as well.
Defunding the police
They're tell people it's not murder when it's a CEO who is killed. And Democrats should be defending Luigi Mangione, instead arguing he's getting what he deserves.
The reason why the so-called democratic-left (even though some of them are actually Communists, at least ideologically) is on the outside looking in of the Democratic Leadership and broader Democratic Party, is because they're not popular within the Democratic Party. And if these folks ran Green Party, they would struggle to get 5-10% of the vote in the general election.
Right now it's MAGA that is screwing up America. Donald Trump and MAGA are what American voters don't seem to like or trust government. Let's not give them another reason not to trust and like government by trying to prove that Democrats are just as crazy and incompetent as President Trump and MAGA.
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