Thanks for responding. Politics is a knife fight. We need though to cut the right people.
For context, as you may know (apologies if you do) The SED was the uniparty ruler of the GDR. Their anthem starts with the following verse
Die Partei die Partei die hat immer recht, und Genosse es bleibet dabei.
The party the party is always right, and comrade that’s how it’s going to stay.
What I was getting at was that the positions of those who are with Sanders might not be misinterpretations of the party, but rather what they actually want independent of the party platform. The way you worded it had the party at the center of universe. raising at least for me, the question is the party there to advance the ideas of members or do the ideas have to come from the party itself?
That’s just for clarity though. The Democrats have a history of being a very tight ship, and they don’t really tolerate a lot of dissent.
There are other more important things to discuss. I was not implying that you yourself are a member of die Linke, the SED or anything else East German. The Party is not important. It’s the people and ideas that are. Forget that at your own risk. The way the party handled Sanders led to the loss and the split, it’s piss poor leadership and could have been avoided.
Dodd-Frank
Bernie isn’t telling me anything and I don’t take my research from his press releases. My opinion takes into account former President Clinton’s half spin that Glass-Steagal’s repeal didn’t cause or lead to the crisis. What he doesn’t ever mention is that it was a capstone on a process begun at least 2 administrations earlier. It certainly contributed by allowing the process to continue. For the Party to be responsible for that, and not admit it, is I think a terrible shame. Considering our rhetoric, after the crash, we bailed out the banks, but left the people to rot and lose everything. Something is wrong there. And I’m not happy about it. That has nothing to do with Sanders and everything to do with how I want the country to operate. As a former Wayne County Michigander, a Detroiter even, I am ok with the Dingell’s, although their district is a bit posh and Ann Arbor is out of touch with reality. I don’t though think of them as heroes or villains. They are public servants. They work for us.
Successful Prosecutions?
How about any major prosecutions? Indictments? Any. Not one. Speaking of the Dingell’s and my former home. Carl Levin as Senator Chaired the creation of this fine document,Wall Street and the Financial Crisis: Anatomy of a Financial Collapse. If as former President Obama said repeatedly he inherited the mess and he did. Then the previous administration should have been on the hook. And there would have been plenty to investigate and plenty of fish to fry. Senator Levin made recommendations for prosecutions to the DoJ. They were ignored. If you want examples, then pick the boards of Lehman or AIG or any other companies that were involved in CDO fraud. That’s more than three and they were all guilty. And they were. Even Allan Greenspan said before Congress that it was fraud. Then HSBC was not prosecuted. Something was very very wrong there.
There’s no excuse for having A. let Wall Street off the hook, and B. Having the party miss the Rooseveltian chance to save the day, the country, and the chance to restructure the nation to make the banking system safe for the future.
DWS
It wasn’t just DWS who resigned. she wasn’t alone. I care about what the entire staff did. They hurt the party, and by their incompetence and partisanship and getting caught, they hurt the Candidate and that probably affected the super close presidential race in ways that are too horrific to contemplate.
SI model health care.
we’ve been saying this for almost two years now,
Too smug an answer by far. :) No one from the Democrats has referenced the success / practicality of the German / Swiss system. You are all too busy scratching each other’s eyes out crying about your feels.
