“Sorry techies, after successfully posting what I mentioned in my text, after two red messages, I’ve got another one today trying to answer Ezra Klein’s Centrist appeal and straight jacket for the Dem Party in today’s Times. The volume of responses is only one third of a “hot article” there. Actually, in the 600’s as opposed to 3,000 or so for hot political potatoes.
May I say I don’t buy your technical arguments, since the times has had “time” to fix it.
I think it is “ideological bias” if you would prefer that to censorship.
Here’s what I tried to post:
“You have made the case for centrist Democrats very well, Mr. Klein. And they have led the Democratic Party since 1992, since I place Bill and Hillary, and President Obama in that centrist camp, the way they governed, not the way they campaigned in 1992 and 2008.
Yet there are three very large concepts missing from your analysis, and they are reality based, I'm sorry to inform you.
One, you did not mention the climate/ecological crisis, which centrist Democratic policies cannot address in policy remedy or needed scope. No Green New Deal from Mr. Klein.
Second, no sense of the political economy in crisis for 60% of Americans who can't meet a $400 dollar economic emergency without resort to credit cards. And by short extension of this, no mention of the crisis of Inequality in income and wealth.
And finally, your "eternal truths" Mr. Klein, fair to your explanation of Democratic policy limits by their diverse constituencies. Class? Class dismissed. And no crises that alter your view of American politics, no great upheavals possible, Mr. Klein - a very static view of history based on the implicit endorsement by you of the capitalism you don't mention, which turns the world upside down every 30 or so years. So no 1860, 1896, 1932...leaning left, just 2016 going Right?
No mention that this Dem centrist strategy has been a disaster in Statewide politics for decades now.
Your philosophy means Dems cannot form a coherent national ideology to compete with the Right.”
I might add that the CNN poll which shows Senator Sanders surging, Biden plunging, Warren tanking, and Senator Klobachar in single digits was not even mentioned when I heard CNN’s own mid-day Dem primary analysis today, Friday, Jan 24th. Wouldn’t even mention their own damn poll’s findings. Of course that is their editorial privilege, to deny their own polls findings if it doesn’t fit their Neoliberalism. It got a little better in the second link I have here, from today, and not from one of their live stars: I’ve never heard of Larry Enten, have you?
www.cnn.com/… (this was the orginal story)
www.cnn.com/… (here is a current one, more favorable to Sanders, and in contrast to their live reporting today, Friday at mid-day.)