The AOC/marxist wing of the present Democratic Party seems to have little in common with the rest of them; the Blue Dogs, Yellow Dogs, Zionist liberals, other liberals, true Greens, etc. The AOC led wing of the party refuses cooperation with one and all. They have virtually paralysed the Pelosi/San Francisco leadership. Last week they would not vote for a supplemental appropriation that included money for HHS use on the border to support the human wave washing up on our desert shore. Yesterday, 15 of the neo-bolsheviki went as a Congressional Delegation to a Border Patrol facility and emerged screaming (literally) that women and children were being starved in filthy conditions by the Border Patrol fascists. Today, a delegation of evangelical Hispanic pastors visited the same facility and said that conditions were nothing like that and that the BP was doing the best job it could with the money it has. So, my conclusion is that the AOC neo-bolsheviks are interested in agitprop for the revolution to come and not in legislative compromise to improve the present situation.
As I have written before, IMO this extreme left group are forsworn in that they falsely and with an intention to deceive took the oath of office to enter Congress swearing to uphold the Constitution of the US and laws legally derived from it. IOW, they are a revolutionary subversive group like Antifa.
Does the Democratic Party really want them?
It seems clear that the neo-bolsheviks do not want the rest of the Democrats.
They should form a new party. This would enable them to dump all the embarrassing (for them) baggage of Democratic Party history as the old-timey party of the slave holding South and such people as Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson.
I suggest that the name could be the "Global Progressive Party" This would be more truly representative of their ultimate goals. pl
Fred, you asked for evidence of union thugs trying to pervert the Janus ruling and I led you to the link regarding the court settlement with SEIU, as highlighted by the Freedom Foundation newsletter.
AFT and NEA are national teachers unions, along with many other local iterations of teachers unions such as the California Teachers Association - CTA. LAUTA in Los Angeles, etc, etc, etc. Freedom Foundation tracks the antics of teachers unions specifically, but does help litigants fight other over-reaching public sector unions as well.
Teamsters also now reaches into the education industry. Certificated employees will use separate bargainings agents from classified education employees. Let's call them education industry unions, if "teachers unions" is too parochial. Yes, SEIU is well-embedded into the education industrial complex.
Posted by: Factotum | 06 July 2019 at 12:42 PM
The future of Minnesota is in the hands of People named "Abullahi Gunderson" and "Sven Abdishakur" (and a multi-ethnic coterie of women named "Marianne").
People of Somali lineage eating Luskfische! To (sort of) quote Garrison Keillor, it's the road to run . . . or, at least Hibbing . . . .
Posted by: John Minehan | 06 July 2019 at 12:56 PM
Time will tell.
"he who enters the Conclave Pope, usually leaves a Cardinal," which basically applied to Clay.
As Alcibiades and Talleyrand demonstrate, you never know what roles public people will fill.
Posted by: John Minehan | 06 July 2019 at 01:02 PM
"Tom: Do we give your son-in-law something important?
Vito: Never. Give him a living, but never discuss the family business with him." The Godfather (1972).
Posted by: John Minehan | 06 July 2019 at 01:06 PM
Trump Presidency a 'one-term proposition'?
If the Catfood Democrat Establishment forces the nomination of another Catfood Democrat nominee, Trump's re-election seems likely. The smellier the Catfood, the bigger Trump's margin of victory.
One of the 4 Decent Democrats ( Warren, Sanders, Gabbard or Gravel) would have a slight chance of winning if they were nominated. But the Catfood Democrats are doing everything they can get away with to prevent any Decent Democrat from ever getting nominated.
Posted by: different clue | 06 July 2019 at 03:29 PM
Independence for Puerto Rico, so it can join the other sovereign nations in the Caribbean.
Posted by: Factotum | 07 July 2019 at 07:34 PM
The young far left has not figured out the big public employee unions hijacked the Democrat Party years ago. They are now the all union, all the time party and run a massive government administration operation, contrary to FDR's warning not to unionize government employees.
The young Democrat radicals don't know the Democrat Party SJW buzz words do not apply to everyone; just the government workers. They have not even figured out the Green New Deal was nothing but a trojan horse carrying the all jobs must be unions jobs mandate in its final pages.
Posted by: Factotum | 07 July 2019 at 07:38 PM
As a tourist in Portugal recently, the number of zombie young people high on drugs was scary. Small but obvious, and scary. Not sure Portugal has handled this problem.
Posted by: Factotum | 07 July 2019 at 07:40 PM
factotum
Yes! And as a sovereign entity they should take their debt with them.
Posted by: turcopolier | 08 July 2019 at 08:10 AM
Factotum,
"the Democrat Party SJW buzz words do not apply to everyone"
They apply to the inputs of the academic economic enslavement machinery known as higher education; and to dissenting teachers and professors as a means of discipline enforcement. Culutural marxism at its best.
Posted by: Fred | 08 July 2019 at 11:43 AM
Factotum,
You seem to be one of those west coast guys who likes to be creative with language. AFT, NEA, LAUTA and the Teamsters are all not SEIU. But nice try. Does the foundation pay you to post like this 'cause you're beating a dead horse instead of trying to make an persuasive point.
Posted by: Fred | 08 July 2019 at 11:48 AM
If the zombie young people scare the non-zombie majority of young people to not be-like-that, then having the zombie young people on open display is serving as a use-uptake deterrent right there.
If supervised maintainance injecting of the zombie-addicts under containment has stopped diseases from spreading around via shared needle, then the expense of disease treatment has been reduced by just that much.
If the obvious zombie-condition of the regulated and maintained users has made getting addicted so un-cool and un-groovy that the majority young people just don't want to do it, then the conveyor-belt of fresh customers for the Global Narco-Financial Industrial Complex has been stopped in Portugal.
If that has indeed happened, the Portuguese may have decided that the visual offence of some drug-zombie young people in open view is a price worth paying in order to take Portugal off the Global Narco-Financial Industrial Complex plantation.
Posted by: different clue | 08 July 2019 at 03:31 PM