Bob, Miriam and All,
As dangerous to democracy is any single selection by the president
elect to his Cabinet, it is the total collection of "Trumps Chumps"
that should drive fear into the hearts of all Progressive Men and
Women.
Betsy DeVos, Trumps choice for Secretary of Education, is merely one
piece to what we were told would be the return of government to the
people.
A member of the Upper Crust, she is sister to Erik Prince, the founder
of Black Water, and daughter of one of the Am-Way founders.
In her past, she has advocated for Charter Schools and government
funding of private church schools. If she has any say at all, we can
kiss Public Education goodbye. And forget ever seeing your children
brought out from under the exploitation of greed driven providers of
student loans.
Carl Jarvis
On 11/29/16, Bob Hachey <bhachey@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Miriam,
I don't think it is ever time to "set aside the socialist rhetoric." Yes, I
too fear all that you have mentioned as possibilities under a president
Trump. But that IMHO does not diminish the wisdom and importantce of Carl's
message.
Would you have us set aside the rhetoric for what purpose?
I'd argue that part of the reason we're in the mess we're in is that we on
the progressive left are far less aggressive in our approach to political
strategy than the right win of the Republican Party. For example:
1. WE on the progressive left should have been pushing on Obama and other
leaders in the Democratic Party much harder on things like continuing the
war policies of the Bush Administration and the deal he made with the
health
insurance industry that created winners and losers under the AHCA.
2. The Democrats should have been abel to read the tea leaves and should
have not allowed 2016 to be Hillary's turn.
Obviously, we can't put the genie back into the bottle. But must we cease
our perfectly justified complaining about how Democratic leaders knuckle
under to corporate interests? How will or would that stance help to stem
the
tied of Trumpism?
One of the lessons of Trump ought to be that any leders ignore those who
work with their hands at their peril.
Bob Hachey
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Miriam Vieni
Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2016 3:43 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Chuck Schumer: The Worst Possible Democratic
Leader at the Worst Possible Time
Look, it's time to set aside the socialist rhetoric, true as it may be, if
we are to be realistic about what is facing us for the immediate future.
Although I blame the Democratic Party for having put our country in the
position where the Republican Party won this election, the fact is that
there are vast differences in the social values that underlie the parties.
Our country may be run by corporations and the war machine and Obama may
have deported more immigrants than any other president, but whatever has
been done so far, pales in comparison to what this new administration
plans.
You're going to see an increase in jailing of people for small crimes, a
decrease in taxes paid by the rich, an end to legal abortion, a legalized
explicit registration of, an possibly imprisonment of huge numbers of
Muslim Americans, an increase in killings by police of people of color, a
privitazation of social security medicare, and medicaid, an end to
financial
assistance to poor people, an increase in the powers of the surveillance
state, an increase in our country's military activities, an explicit
governmental approval of torture, a disappearance between the state and
institutionalized Christianity, an increase in fossil fuel production and
the production of nuclear weapons, and appointments of ultra conservative
judges throughout our federal system. A new law has already been proposed
to
criminalize public demonstrations. The US is going to withdraw from all
world climate agreements. Net neutrality is ending. And that's just the
beginning.
Miriam d
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2016 11:00 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Chuck Schumer: The Worst Possible Democratic
Leader at the Worst Possible Time
Too bad we keep getting stuck on Party Labels. Given the fact that both
Major Political Parties are bankrolled by mostly the same money sources,
there is a guarantee that the rich will remain in control.
Why is it so difficult for many American working class people to understand
that when both major parties are beholden to Wall Street and the huge War
Profiteers, that they, the Working Class, will be left to rummage among the
crumbs. The Oligarchy will do all it needs to do in order to protect its
control. And that control especially includes the lives of the Working
Class.
How much we receive back as our share of the profits from our labor, the
quality and affordability of our medical care, the safety we have in our
streets, the privacy of our working class people from spying by the
Oligarchy, the cost, always rising, of educating our children, the kinds of
work our children can expect to secure, the safety of products and goods
sold in our marketplaces, the cost of security in our old age, in other
words,Our Quality of Life is totally controlled by that entity we know as,
"The Government". But this fully owned political body is merely the front
organization for the Oligarchy, freeing their greedy hands to do as they
please. None of the major political parties will risk biting the hand that
feeds them. Even Bernie Sanders, who took very little of the "tainted"
money, could not have changed much in this "Safe Haven" of the Rich.
It is past time for us to examine ways of changing our value system, so
that
money is no longer the bottom line. Quality of Life for All should be our
new bottom line. By changing what we define as, "Success", we could turn
the present Ruling Class into a very small Minority. If we turned their
vast hordes of wealth into a liability, insisting that they spend down
through heavy taxes, to rebuild our nation's infra structure, provide
quality schools and free education, cover the increase of the living wage,
and provide medical care for all, their life style would not change
significantly, but ours would improve immensely. And before someone
protests that this would amount to robbing the rich, remember, they became
rich by taking most of the profits from our labor. Of course, since the
Oligarchy owns both the House and the Senate, and controls the Supreme
Court, and now the new president, we have only one choice. That choice is
not a violent overthrow. Violent overthrows always end in disaster. We
need to establish a priority list, rolling up our sleeves and preparing for
hard work. We can change the consistency of this unfriendly government by
supporting like-minded candidates at the ground level.
By training ourselves to be involved, we will set a new standard. We will
have a vested stake in a new government. Properly arranged, our
involvement
could take less time each week than we use to read wordy emails...like this
one.
Carl Jarvis
On 11/19/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dick, That's only because you don't like either. But I don't thinkoffice.
that all of the Democratic party are worthy of contempt, only the
corporate Democrats. I want to support the progressive wing of the
party. That's why I'm opposed to Schumer. He is like an old fashioned
Republican. Old fashioned Republicans cared about business interests,
but not about everyday people like my family and me. My father was a
factory worker.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Richard
Driscoll
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2016 10:12 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Chuck Schumer: The Worst Possible
Democratic Leader at the Worst Possible Time
All:
I voice an opinion to the effect that the election of Charles Schumer
to the Minority Leader of the Minority Democrat Party in the Senate
are truly worthy of each other.
Richard
On 11/18/2016 7:40 PM, Miriam Vieni wrote:
And for some of those reasons, I voted for the Green Party candiddateAmerica."
for the US Senate in New York.
Miriam
Schwarz writes: "When Barack Obama leaves the White House, New York Sen.
Chuck Schumer will almost certainly be elected Senate minority leader
- and therefore become the highest ranking Democratic official in
Senator Chuck Schumer. (photo: Alex Wong/Getty)
Chuck Schumer: The Worst Possible Democratic Leader at the Worst
Possible Time By Jon Schwarz, The Intercept
18 November 16
When Barack Obama leaves the White House, New York Sen. Chuck
Schumer will almost certainly be elected Senate minority leader - and
therefore become the highest ranking Democratic official in America.
That's a terrible roll of the dice for Democrats, because Schumer
might as well have been grown in a lab to be exactly the wrong face
for opposition to Donald Trump:
. Schumer, who's just about to turn 66, grew up in Brooklyn and went
to the same high school as Bernie Sanders. Then their lives diverged:
Schumer, the smartiest of the smartypants, got a perfect score on the
SATs and then went to Harvard and Harvard Law School. He was elected
to the New York State Assembly at 23, the U.S. Congress at 29, and
the U.S. Senate at 47. He's never had any adult job outside elected
office.credit.
. He possesses the same impressive political acumen as Hillary
Clinton's 2016 campaign, sagely explaining "For every blue-collar
Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two
moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can
repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin."
. Schumer's done more than anyone except Bill and Hillary Clinton to
intertwine Wall Street and the Democratic Party. He raises millions
and millions of dollars from the finance industry, both for himself
and for other Democrats. In return, he voted to repeal the
Glass-Steagall Act in
1999 and voted to bail out Wall Street in 2008. In between, he
slashed fees paid by banks to the Securities and Exchange Commission
to pay for regulatory enforcement, and eviscerated congressional
efforts to crack down on rating agencies.
. Schumer has long been the Democrats' point man in efforts to craft a
bipartisan deal to slash taxes on multinational corporations.
. Schumer voted for the Patriot Act in 2001, and sponsored its
predecessor, the Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995. During a
Senate hearing, Schumer explained that "it's easy to sit back in the
armchair and say that torture can never be used. But when you're in
the foxhole, it's a very different deal." In certain cases, he said,
"most senators" would say "do what you have to do." Schumer also
defended the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslims
across the region, which Trump has cited as a national model.
. In October 2002, Schumer voted for the Iraq War by giving George W.
Bush authority to invade. In a speech explaining his vote, Schumer
warned of Iraq's imaginary yet "vigorous pursuit of biological,
chemical and nuclear weapons."
. Schumer voted against Barack Obama's deal to limit Iran's ability to
enrich uranium and potentially develop a nuclear weapons program.
. Perhaps worst of all, Schumer gave Anthony Weiner his start, first
hiring him on his staff, then encouraging him to run for office and
then endorsing Weiner in the race for Schumer's seat when Schumer was
running for the Senate in 1998. Thanks, Chuck.
Are there any positive things about Chuck Schumer? Well . he did
vote against NAFTA in 1993, and while he's supported other trade
deals since, he made negative noises about the Trans-Pacific
Partnership.
Also, he's a talented matchmaker with as many as 11 marriages to his
And he's the second cousin once removed of Amy Schumer, which youvalid.
might see as good or bad, depending.
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Schumer will almost certainly be elected Senate minority leader - and
therefore become the highest ranking Democratic official in America.
That's a terrible roll of the dice for Democrats, because Schumer
might as well have been grown in a lab to be exactly the wrong face
for opposition to Donald Trump:
. Schumer, who's just about to turn 66, grew up in Brooklyn and went
to the same high school as Bernie Sanders. Then their lives diverged:
Schumer, the smartiest of the smartypants, got a perfect score on the
SATs and then went to Harvard and Harvard Law School. He was elected
to the New York State Assembly at 23, the U.S. Congress at 29, and
the U.S. Senate at 47. He's never had any adult job outside elected
. He possesses the same impressive political acumen as Hillarycredit.
Clinton's 2016 campaign, sagely explaining "For every blue-collar
Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two
moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can
repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin."
. Schumer's done more than anyone except Bill and Hillary Clinton to
intertwine Wall Street and the Democratic Party. He raises millions
and millions of dollars from the finance industry, both for himself
and for other Democrats. In return, he voted to repeal the
Glass-Steagall Act in
1999 and voted to bail out Wall Street in 2008. In between, he
slashed fees paid by banks to the Securities and Exchange Commission
to pay for regulatory enforcement, and eviscerated congressional
efforts to crack down on rating agencies.
. Schumer has long been the Democrats' point man in efforts to craft a
bipartisan deal to slash taxes on multinational corporations.
. Schumer voted for the Patriot Act in 2001, and sponsored its
predecessor, the Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995. During a
Senate hearing, Schumer explained that "it's easy to sit back in the
armchair and say that torture can never be used. But when you're in
the foxhole, it's a very different deal." In certain cases, he said,
"most senators" would say "do what you have to do." Schumer also
defended the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslims
across the region, which Trump has cited as a national model.
. In October 2002, Schumer voted for the Iraq War by giving George W.
Bush authority to invade. In a speech explaining his vote, Schumer
warned of Iraq's imaginary yet "vigorous pursuit of biological,
chemical and nuclear weapons."
. Schumer voted against Barack Obama's deal to limit Iran's ability to
enrich uranium and potentially develop a nuclear weapons program.
. Perhaps worst of all, Schumer gave Anthony Weiner his start, first
hiring him on his staff, then encouraging him to run for office and
then endorsing Weiner in the race for Schumer's seat when Schumer was
running for the Senate in 1998. Thanks, Chuck.
Are there any positive things about Chuck Schumer? Well . he did vote
against NAFTA in 1993, and while he's supported other trade deals
since, he made negative noises about the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Also, he's a talented matchmaker with as many as 11 marriages to his
And he's the second cousin once removed of Amy Schumer, which you
might see as good or bad, depending.
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