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The Coming Democratic Civil War


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2019 Feb 4, 9:54am   1,526 views  17 comments

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Maybe you’ve heard the warning: The country is beset by a menace.A fringe conservative minority is holding Congress hostage, extracting radical policy concessions over the will of the majority. And it’s leading the nation to fiscal, environmental and moral ruin.

Maybe you haven’t heard this part: These dangerous conservatives are Democrats.


“I am talking about the radical conservatives in the Democratic Party,” said Saikat Chakrabarti. “That’s who we need to counter. It’s the same across any number of issues—pay-as-you-go, free college, “Medicare for all.” These are all enormously popular in the party, but they don’t pass because of the radical conservatives who are holding the party hostage.”

Not long ago, this would have been an outlier position even among American liberals. Today, it’s the organizing principle of a newly empowered segment of the Democratic Party, one with a foothold in the new Congress.


Chakrabarti is chief of staff to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the closest thing to a new celebrity Congress has had in years—a 29-year-old former activist and bartender who, on the most recent Martin Luther King Day, sat on the same New York stage as the rapper Common, Black Panther director Ryan Coogler and MacArthur “genius award” winner Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Although it’s Ocasio-Cortez who gets all the headlines, she arguably wouldn’t be in Congress in the first place without the group Chakrabarti founded: Justice Democrats, a new, central player in the ongoing war for the soul of the Democratic Party. It was the Justice Democrats who recruited her in a quixotic campaign early on, providing a neophyte candidate with enough infrastructure to take down a party leader. And it is the Justice Democrats who see Ocasio-Cortez as just the opening act in an astonishingly ambitious plan to do nothing less than re-imagine liberal politics in America—and do it by whatever means necessary.

If that requires knocking out well-known elected officials and replacing them with more radical newcomers, so be it. And if it ends up ripping apart the Democratic Party in the process—well, that might be the idea.

“There is going to be a war within the party. We are going to lean into it,” said Waleed Shahid, the group’s spokesman.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/02/04/the-insurgents-behind-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-224542

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1   AD   2019 Feb 4, 10:19am  

Saul Alinksy told left wing activists to not start their own party and become a fringe. He told them to gain power they need to take over the Democrat Party by any means necessary such as through Identity Politics.

That is why you are witnessing what you are witnessing with the Democrat Party and how it advocates for an open border (to gain more potential voters and also overwhelm the country via the Cloward-Piven strategy).
2   Shaman   2019 Feb 4, 11:06am  

The more they take over the D party, the less popular it will be with white people, conservatives, and the working class.
Consider whether Democrats can win without any of those people.
I’m thinking not without massive fraud like they did to win the House in 2018.
3   Shaman   2019 Feb 4, 11:12am  

Oh and I think how they did the fraud was a ton of people working to turn in fraudulent mail in ballots in key district races that were close. If you look, they won almost all of the close races. This isn’t statistically reasonable and points to ballot box stuffing to get them the win.

This is also why they lost the Senate so badly even though they won the House. Popular opinion was against them going into the election and manufacturing a win on a state wide level isn’t feasible using these methods so the greater majority was against them for the senate races.

But in specific close House races, they could absolutely turn those into wins with a bunch of volunteers or paid workers to run around and gather and fill out a bunch of provisional and mail in ballots.
4   MisdemeanorRebel   2019 Feb 4, 11:14am  

Exactly Quigley.

They were filling out mail-in ballots behind the scenes, or had some pre-filled just in case.

Snipes in Broward was trying to get Gillum over the top, she only quit despite ignoring multiple Judicial Orders, when they realized they couldn't fake enough fast enough.
5   Goran_K   2019 Feb 4, 11:24am  

Snipes should be in federal prison.

Also, the Dems became radicals when they actually elected that radical muzzie Ilhan Omar in Minnesota.
6   Shaman   2019 Feb 4, 11:26am  

To be fair, a good percentage of that district is Muslim, and they definitely vote for their kind and their interests as a block.
It was our bad (and read that as Bush II and Obummer’s bad) for inviting those asshat bearded pigs in to begin with.
7   MisdemeanorRebel   2019 Feb 4, 11:28am  

Y'all remember how we were assured the Somalians would integrate, and all the millions they got to prepare for their arrival?
8   Goran_K   2019 Feb 4, 11:38am  

MisterLearnToCode says
Y'all remember how we were assured the Somalians would integrate, and all the millions they got to prepare for their arrival?


Ha. Integrate. These people want their own court and legal system separate from non-muzzies.
9   GNL   2019 Feb 4, 11:56am  

Quigley says
The more they take over the D party, the less popular it will be with white people, conservatives, and the working class.
Consider whether Democrats can win without any of those people.
I’m thinking not without massive fraud like they did to win the House in 2018.

It depends how small the white working class becomes.
10   MrMagic   2019 Feb 5, 2:04pm  

OccasionalCortex says
But hey, I am in the minority.


Does that mean you're White or Black?

It's so hard to keep track today.
11   HeadSet   2019 Feb 5, 2:22pm  

It depends how small the white working class becomes.

The Dems have also abandoned the Black working class. The Dems just calculate that the Black working class will continue to vote for them.
12   MisdemeanorRebel   2019 Feb 5, 3:39pm  

OccasionalCortex says
This has been brewing for some time. Just like it has in the Right. Only the Right got started earlier with the Tea Party and is much further along (case in point: Trump).


Exactly. I think the election of the Islamists and Open Socials and Bernie's Primary Challenge was the point where it started to be a thing.

Before, Neoliberals were happy to use SJWs to shame America into Wide Open Borders. Problem is, the SJWs want to tax the bejeesus out of the Neoliberals' rich donors.
13   FuckTheMainstreamMedia   2019 Feb 5, 8:01pm  

Quigley says
The more they take over the D party, the less popular it will be with white people, conservatives, and the working class.
Consider whether Democrats can win without any of those people.
I’m thinking not without massive fraud like they did to win the House in 2018.


The problem is that white women are easily the dumbest species on the planet. So many will vote against their own interests.
15   NDrLoR   2019 Feb 5, 9:29pm  

AD says
Saul Alinksy
Saul-Patron Saint of Losers-Alinsky
16   mell   2019 Feb 5, 10:10pm  

CovfefeButDeadly says
Quigley says
The more they take over the D party, the less popular it will be with white people, conservatives, and the working class.
Consider whether Democrats can win without any of those people.
I’m thinking not without massive fraud like they did to win the House in 2018.


The problem is that white women are easily the dumbest species on the planet. So many will vote against their own interests.


Word. Although they are not that dumb considering they are advancing feminism (tm) in their favor. Even though it ultimately doesn't make them happy. Takes a while to figure out.
17   AD   2019 Feb 6, 12:15am  

MisterLearnToCode says
Before, Neoliberals were happy to use SJWs to shame America into Wide Open Borders. Problem is, the SJWs want to tax the bejeesus out of the Neoliberals' rich donors.


Exactly. And they also alienate the white liberals who make between $150,000 and $400,000. When you look at the annual income distribution, the largest wealth group is between $150,000 and $400,000 and is in the top 10%.

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