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| Source:Real Clear Politics with a look at the Vice Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, David Hogg. |
From Real Clear Politics
So Bill Maher's first question for David Hogg (the Vice Chairman of the Democratic National Committee) is basically what is his job and role at the DNC. And Vice Chairman Hogg answered with this:
"So that job really helps to play a role in managing a lot of what the DNC focuses on, which is things like the presidential primary. It's helping to lead the campaign and waiting for the president. It's helping to manage the debate schedule and helping to support our state parties and local parties around the country.
It's a volunteer role, I should add, as well. So it's entirely a volunteer capacity. So nothing."
Mr. Hogg is obviously not a dumb guy... very young, green, plays the kid on TV very well, does a spot-on impression of a high school student council member. But not a dumb guy. But Maher is essentially trying to get from Mr. Hogg what he thinks the Democratic Party should be about. And what Hogg is basically doing here is outlining his own vision of what he thinks the Democratic Party should be, like he's the leader of the party, or America's official opposition leader, when he says:
"What I'm trying to do here is say, all right, we're going to light a fire under Democrats' asses to make sure that we are here to meet the moment that our country is in and show people how we are not just the party that is against Donald Trump, but we're a party that is here to provide an alternative vision for the future of this country. To show... To show, Bill...
To show how are we finding to make it so that people don't have to make impossible decisions. And this really became true to me last September when my father was on his deathbed with early onset Parkinson's disease. Despite being a Navy helicopter pilot with full VA benefits and a medically retired FBI agent, his cost of care at the end of his life was $19,000 a month.
And I had to make a spreadsheet to figure out how long we could afford to keep him alive. And the only reason why my family didn't go bankrupt is because my dad didn't live long enough for that to happen. And unfortunately, that's not a unique story in this country.
And there are so many people around this country that are having to make impossible decisions like that every day. And what I want the Democratic Party to be is the party that shows what are we doing to ensure that nobody has to make impossible decisions like that anywhere in the richest country on the planet. And what are we doing as well to fight back against the corruption that has broken this system, that has eviscerated the American dream?
And what are we doing to revive it?"
Even though Mr. Hogg made it very clear what's his role as Vice Chairman of the DNC, when he told Bill Maher:
"So that job really helps to play a role in managing a lot of what the DNC focuses on, which is things like the presidential primary. It's helping to lead the campaign and waiting for the president. It's helping to manage the debate schedule and helping to support our state parties and local parties around the country.
It's a volunteer role, I should add, as well. So it's entirely a volunteer capacity. So nothing."
He was acting like he's the party leader, or the leader of the left-wing Democrats in America.
Clint Eastwood's most famous role and I believe his best role, was as San Francisco Police Department Inspector Harry Callahan from those Dirty Harty films in the 1970s. 1 of the famous lines from those films is: "A man's got to know his limitations". Meaning, he has to know his role in life, why he's here, what he's supposed to be doing in life... is how I would translate that. To put it more modern pop culture vernacular: "A man has to know his lane".
When David Hogg is old enough, he can run for Governor of Florida and talk about his social democratic agenda for that state and how government should be used to take care of everyone. And if he gets elected Governor of Florida, as a Democrat, he could then run for President, where he would be a in a great position to talk about what the Democratic Party should be about and how he would lead it. But while you are literally just a volunteer for a national committee, at 1 of the 2 major political parties in America, your job is to help run that committee. Not to try to lead the Democratic Party yourself and layout exactly what the party should be about and what should stand for.
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