\n… the Democrats have got to recognize they have to have a change of leadership … The Democrats raised huge amounts of money this time around and … although they finally came around to the only issue that Politico said is getting traction for the Democrats – raising the minimum wage for 30 million people, who are paid less now than workers in 1968, adjusted for inflation, 30 million people and their families, a lot of voters – they didn’t make it a big enough issue … We got a president who spent almost two weeks in salons, from New York and Maine and San Francisco and Los Angeles, raising money for the Democrats, not barnstorming the country on an issue that has 80 percent, 80 percent support, that even Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum have come out for restoring the minimum wage. So, it is the-they didn’t have a policy. They didn’t have agenda. They didn’t have the message. They had tons of money to put on insipid television ads that didn’t move the needle … <\/p>\n
In other words, people back homeare not given enough reason to vote for the Democrats. But they’re given plenty of emotional reason to vote for the Republicans because of all the social issues-the school prayer, the reproductive rights, the gun control. The Democrats have dropped the economic issue that won election after election for Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry Truman. They can no longer defend our country against the most militaristic, corporatist, cruel, anti-worker, anti-consumer, anti-environment, anti-women, even anti-children programs, the Republican Party … <\/p>\n
We cannot be dependent anymore on representatives who sweet-talk us and go back to Washington and betray us for careerism … <\/p>\n
And they come across to the voter as not having their own identity. They’re too wishy-washy. The challenger for Senator-elect Capito in West Virginia is an example of that. She just didn’t know which way to go. You know, she went big on coal in West Virginia, which is only 6 percent of the economy and 3 percent of the workers. And she wouldn’t come out really strong on the minimum wage, where, you know, if you want a state that’s ripe for a minimum wage increase, it’s poor West Virginia …\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Substitute names and geography to suit your own local area\/nation and the problems are the same.<\/p>\n
For Australia, why is the Australian Labor Party supporting a policy (and engineered it when they were in power) that locks refugees up on godforsaken tropical islands and allows guards who are sociopaths to murder the detainees while suppressing reports that show the children detained acquire severe mental illness which ruins them for the rest of their lives?<\/p>\n
Why did the ALP support cruel policies attacking the unemployed when they also introduce fiscal policy cuts that killed employment growth?<\/p>\n
And the rest of it.<\/p>\n
A change of progressive leadership is desperately needed.<\/p>\n
Here is Jon Stewart’s take on the election.<\/p>\n
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