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r at least believed in her greater electability and to whatever degree they support a democratic party which serves the actual needs of the american people they are my allies as for the folks who spew hate toward bernie and toward the left i am relieved to discover that though very loud they are in a nasty little minority even among democrats just as the nasty bernie supporters are a sliver of the community just as they always were no matter how much the dnc and clinton campaign tried to insist otherwise according to a recent poll by yougov and the economist bernie sanders has 56 favorability among all americans higher even than obama s 53 80 favorability among registered democrats 85 favorability among liberals 31 favorability among republicans that s right almost a third of republicans actually like bernie 53 favorability among all men 58 favorability among all women note that s higher than among men because you know bernie bros 52 favorability among all whites 64 favorability among all blacks note that s higher than among whites and most bernie bros are supposed to be white 58 favorability among all hispanics ditto 61 favorability among other races ditto 86 favorability among those who voted for hillary note that on the day of the election hillary had 43 favorability exactly half bernie s number here not even a majority and 56 unfavorability 27 favorability among those who voted for trump you know all those voters we re told bernie absolutely couldn t have gotten trump by the way had 39 favorable 60 unfavorable on election day bernie sanders finished the primaries as the most popular politician in the country and he remains so so don t be surprised when people champion him for continuing to champion us or when they voice regret that he didn t get the chance to beat trump or when they simply say good things about him he isn t old news he is arguably the current leader of the democratic party at least to the american people and to the degree the democrats embrace him and his policies they have a greater chance to prevail oh and in case you re interested elizabeth warren has a 34 favorability among all voters just so you know where the other progressive champion stands and as for those acid spewing bernie haters on the left i assume they re in the very unfavorable category which makes up a pathetic 6 of democrats nurse that grudge you re so insignificant you re basically the margin of error by the numbers part 1 how democrats continue to lose by the numbers part 3 election 2016 how we really lost share share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on reddit opens in new window reddit email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading leave a comment posted in politics tagged bernie sanders democrats dnc donald trump gop hillary clinton liberals life politics progressives republicans resistance rnc by the numbers part 1 how democrats continue to lose feb 13 this is the first of three posts regarding democratic attitudes and performance both in the election and at present i think it s vital that the party recognize what really went wrong and where they continue to fail there will be some overlap in my references to certain data through the three posts some interesting polling figures from gallup since the election national party affiliation for republicans has gone up slightly from 27 to 28 national party affiliation for democrats has gone down more significantly from 31 to 25 this is a record low in the past seventy five years national party affiliation for independents has gone up even more significantly from 36 to 44 i suspect that the tiny bump for the gop is more from the excitement of retaking power from the other party or in this case pretty much nearly obliterating the other party than it is a referendum on trump for comparison democrats jumped from 33 to 36 between obama s initial election and his inauguration but the democrats have lost fourteen million members since the election to get a sense of this number in the democratic primaries last year just under thirty million votes were cast the democratic party has lost nearly half as many voters as participated in its primaries this is pretty fucking incredible considering how appalled enraged and terrified the left has been about trump s victory over clinton the left may be woke but it ain t happy with its presumptive champions at all meanwhile establishment democrats seem largely committed to falling in line behind rather than challenging the existing power structure nancy pelosi s declaration i don t think people want a new direction is their guiding star progressive democrats and left leaning independents want to seize the energy of the populist wave that formed around bernie sanders and reform the party or failing that to topple it and replace it with an actual progressive party in spite of establishment resistance they are making some progress for instance bernie sanders is now part of democratic leadership a nice gift to all those who keep saying that the dnc was justified in unfairly favored clinton in spite of its own regulations and public declarations to the contrary because bernie isn t a democrat and is in many very visible ways leading the charge for the party against trump and the democratic party in california was recently taken over by progressives inspired by and endorsed by sanders with similar battles being waged across the country whatever side folks fall on it s clear that the democratic party isn t doing itself any favors with its strategy of general capitulation to trump with intermittent bits of ineffectual political theater to show how tough they are if they stood united and uncompromising even as they inevitably lose the fights because they lack the numbers they would probably at least slow the emaciation of their party and if they started making more sincere moves away from corporatism and toward progressivism they d likely start regaining some of those lefty independents they ve lost some other interesting numbers these from a recent poll by yougov and the economist give us an idea how our leaders are perceived barack obama favorable 53 unfavorable 43 net 10 nancy pelosi favorable 25 unfavorable 47 net 22 yep the party figured someone with numbers like that should be in charge of the minority in the house i don t think people want a new direction indeed chuck schumer favorable 23 unfavorable 29 net 6 better than pelosi at least and he s been making some statements in support of bernie sanders and a more progressive direction for the party but time will tell how sincere he is donald trump favorable 42 unfavorable 50 net 8 and his numbers are of course falling because fascist shitbag paul ryan favorable 33 unfavorable 41 net 8 mitch mcconnell favorable 20 unfavorable 42 net 22 bernie sanders favorable 56 unfavorable 32 net 24 bernie s numbers have always been great in his state and by the end of the primaries he was and remains the single most popular politician in the country his favorability among registered democrats is 80 the only other member of our little group who has majority favorability is obama and he has both a lower favorable score and an 11 higher unfavorable score than bernie elizabeth warren favorable 34 unfavorable 34 net 0 warren s numbers will likely spike at least for a short time due to her capitalization of mitch mcconnell s tactically stupid dis of her this week but as progressive warriors go she s still far behind bernie likely because of her sitting out the primaries and then boldly endorsing the winner that wasn t exactly a profile in courage or principle and it really pissed off a lot of people hillary clinton favorable 40 unfavorable 54 net 14 this of course is largely how hillary did from the time she entered the race to today there are lots of things that contributed to her loss but no one can honestly deny that her historic unpopularity was one of the biggest she had been tested we were told but all that ultimately meant was that she was so deeply flawed that she had no business at the top of a national campaign i mean c mon trump is a monstrous buffoon crapping all over the world and she s still less liked than he is so make of all that what you will to me it all points to a democratic party that does indeed desperately need to go all in both on solid obstructionism at least symbolically toward trump and on the pursuit of truly progressive policies and they need to look to progressive leaders like bernie sanders to lead them back out of the wilderness instead of maintaining a status quo that is just running them deeper and deeper into oblivion by the numbers part 2 who s our champion now by the numbers part 3 election 2016 how we really lost share share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on reddit opens in new window reddit email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading leave a comment posted in politics tagged barack obama bernie sanders congress democrats dnc donald trump election elizabeth warren gop hillary clinton independents life politics polls republicans are you a rational republican feb 11 are you a rational republican who gets annoyed at all the invective and satire and fiery rage directed at your party simply because of the actions and policies of an enormous majority of your fellows stop just stop stop being defensive and butt hurt more importantly stop being a republican i know i know you ve always been a republican you believe in fiscal responsibility and blah blah blah your friends are republicans your daddy and mommy were republicans your great grandpappy and grandmaw were republicans hell abraham lincoln was a republican republican you keep using that word i don t think it means what you think it means not any more the republican party is not the party of lincoln not any more and if you don t support the actions of this monstrous republican president or the goose stepping boot licking quislings that make up the entirety of the existing republican power structure as has been the case for many years or the unfettered ignorance and bigotry of the overwhelming republican base then maybe it s not the party of you any more either you identify as republican because you think being republican means a lot of things that it probably actually does not any more if it ever really did that s a lie you re telling yourself stop it why lie to yourself and cast your lot with horrible people who are very actively destroying everything good and noble and beautiful about our country why do that to yourself why do that to the rest of us stop you don t have to be a republican you don t have to be anything but an american party loyalty can be a poison don t be a part of a big ignorant herd giving loyalty and power to those who do not deserve it just stop at the very least you won t have to keep getting your feelings hurt by people speaking truth to fascism note this goes for democrats too the democratic party isn t the party of fdr any more either not by a long goddamned shot though at least it s not a burning church of hatred ignorance and authoritarianism but blind uncritical loyalty to them can be just as poisonous and unproductive share share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on reddit opens in new window reddit email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading leave a comment posted in life politics tagged civil rights conservatives corruption democrats donald trump environment fascism gop immigration life politics republicans usa voting inauguration day 2017 i am calm jan 20 i am calm i did everything in my power to prevent this day from coming i campaigned hard for and donated a lot to the candidate who was not just the best choice for our country but who was by far the most popular candidate the candidate who energized the most voters the candidate with a demonstrably higher chance to win though the candidate who had at best a razor thin possibility of winning was chosen and though i was crushed and disillusioned when the time came i voted against apocalypse so i did all that i could i am calm i am at peace i am also unbowed unbroken unafraid i will not cry i will not huddle i will not hide i will fight i will fight i will fight i will fight on my terms i am not a part of any party i am not a part of any herd i am a one man guerrilla force against not just the despicable thug now infecting the white house but against all the forces that helped put him there whichever side they re on i will fight i will fight i will fight i am calm you want to get out of here you talk to me share share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on reddit opens in new window reddit email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading leave a comment posted in life politics tagged bernie sanders brand new congress democrats dnc donald trump election hillary clinton inauguration life our revolution politics progressives republicans liberal lockstep why i march to the beat of my own damned drummer dec 22 to some degree this is my facebook feed it was russia s fault it was comey s fault it was the millennials fault it was bernie s fault it was jill stein s fault me it was also because of poor choices by the candidate and her campaign and because of systemic failures over the years by the democratic party tim why are you still talking about this we have to unite against trump and we do and i am but i am a progressive and i want not just to beat the bad guys i want to improve the world i see what has happened to the democratic party since 1992 since the rise of the corporate friendly democratic leadership council funded by among other big business interests the freaking koch brothers and the clintons with their third way politics of embracing right wing policies in order to court voters on the right rather than on the left i see how the left lost congress during bill clinton s terms after controlling it for decades and through neoliberal policies and bad strategy has steadily lost more and more power ever since i see how donald trump is not just the inevitable result of years of republican degradation and capitulation to their worst elements he is also the result of democrats abandoning their traditional principles and essentially becoming socially liberal republicans and i see how the corruption and cronyism and arrogance of the democratic party went full tilt bozo this election and they ignored all the data and all the signs that they wer...