Yesterday, the Democratic Party of Amerika demonstrated how much it really doesn’t give a crap about the future, or democracy, with its flawed primaries. To be fair, the ancient, NeoLiberal, Boomer-dominated faction is to blame, they’re known as the DLC. Pelosi, one of the worst Speakers in our history, continued to aid other old farts over younger, more progressive candidates; translation = people who will have to live with the consequences of these selfish, old fucks. And nevermind some are shit birds who vote against the party’s platform for their seniority and fundraising talents overrule principles and morals. Case in point, the AARP Triumvirate of Pelosi, Clyburn and Hoyer went to the mat to save Cuellar over a fellow, female Hispanic who is younger and more in-touch (Cisneros). Their excuse? Someone who’s too progressive will lose the seat to the GOP, so we must rescue this anti-choice turd. It will be for naught in the near future, Cuellar is under investigation by the FBI and I’m confident there’s a prison cell being prepped for him. It’s a familiar mantra the NeoLiberals said against gay rights and when they were proven wrong, Black Nixon said, “Oh, my position evolved.”
Let’s also review too progressive exactly? HRC’s gestapo bullies forget, many Trumpanzes actually agreed with Sanders’ proposals. They still do when AOC wastes her time on FAUX NEWS.
- An improved healthcare system on par with the EU which gets better results, costs less and isn’t operated for a profit.
- Free community college! Something to scare the bloated, overpriced four-year institutions which are now diploma mills with pseudo NFL and NBA teams.
- Investing in our failing, crumbling and decaying infrastructure via improved Internet access/speeds, schools, roads, hospitals, bridges, high-speed rail, etc.
- Doing more to combat climate change now instead of kicking the can down as if it were still an existential threat? Also, natural gas and coal aren’t “clean.”
- Implementing reforms to eliminate the entrenched, corrupt and useless two-party duopoly made up of red-bag of shit v. blue-bag of shit.
With Texas, I’m not terribly shocked. The Democrats have to be Republican Lite as the racism and ammosexuality remain stubbornly intransigent in the suburbs, gentrified Tech Bro zones and the vast rural wastelands. Florida and New York I’m more bummed for.
Firstly, the people of Redneck Dagobah went from choosing three possible Republicans for governor and now they have two. Crist is fooling nobody. He will always be a Republican and he laid down the possibility for the horrible creatures named Sen. Rick Scott (aka Discount Lex Luthor) and Herr DeSantis (Fascist POTUS for Life in waiting) that followed his tenure. Fried, a weak Democrat in the same NeoLiberal mold as money bagwoman Wasserman-Schultz, was going to be slaughtered in the general election since Florida shares the Deep South’s sexism. On the other hand, the MAGAts must’ve stayed home and/or didn’t participate in the dirty trick of changing party affiliation to give their dictator an easier opponent. Come November, the Democrats are gambling foolishly on the Left and Liberals holding their collective noses to vote for Crist, the Evil Lesser. The Left (my team) knows better, Fried was 90% Crist on the issues and Crist is 95% DeSantis on the issues. Liberals were naive thinking Fried and Crist were vastly different so they’re getting the same outcome. Liberals can also kiss the Left’s ass if the Left choosing to sit out this farce called “democracy.”
Now comes New York’s Dinosaur Duel which resulted in Nadler winning, the decrepit fossil in the clip I posted above shown shitting his pants on C-SPAN. Either way, the people of New York lost even if he’s a spry 75 over the Maloney’s 76. The Corporate-owned media tried to spin the battle as a struggle of survival for two experienced incumbents with 30 years in the House each. HELL NO! The correct, more accurate narrative would be, two selfish Boomer assholes are duking it out to continue overstaying their welcome as they mortgage our collective future! Plus there was little mention of the third, younger person offering the people a serious, better choice.
What these two states have emphasized is the real battle we all need to fight across the political spectrum…abolishing the outdated (The) Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929. It’s the primary reason why Amerika has the second-least representative democracy on the planet. Number one is obvious…India given there’s 1.3 billion people packed into the place. What happened almost a century ago was clinched by the 1920 Census’ results. It showed that the majority of Americans lived in urban areas for the first time, and from then on. The Republicans (famous city haters) and Dixiecrats refused to accept this reality and refused to implement reapportionment altogether, leaving the US with the same, outdated, dysfunctional congressional districts throughout the Roaring Twenties. As the decade was concluding, Congress finally came up with a compromise since they couldn’t figure out what the mythical Founders wanted. My response remains the same as I argue with those Federalist Society Fascists, Who fucking cares! They’re dead and many were morally reprehensible people. The solution enacted was this law locking the House down its membership in 1913, 435 members.
Now we’re constrained by this stupid system every decade with “winners and losers” and ugly fights when a state can’t keep up with another’s growth rate. When these douchebags created this law, the US population was under 100 million. Today we’re over 300 million and many House members have three times the people to represent, making them mini-senators. It’s utter bullshit. New York, California and Illinois continue to grow via their urban centers as they’re home to half of the country’s ten largest cities! Yet they got robbed of a seat while Texas and Florida, places run by Neo-Confederate, Right Wing juntas, stole them. The latter has zero cities in the top ten by the way.
The two major arguments against expanding the House of Representatives didn’t hold up in 1929 nor do they now.
The first excuse we continue to live with through the Senate as well; The rural areas are overly paranoid on how they’ll be ignored when we all know what they’re really scared of, losing their disproportionate say over the levers of power which gets them pork projects (they’re the real welfare queens) and they fear social change more, aka, they’re more often the racists, homophobes and other bigots. City dwellers are not going to cut their own throats by destroying the food supply; COVID-19 exposed our vulnerability on depending on the global supply chains NeoLiberals, Republicans and Rich Assholes destroyed Rust Belt to create! And despite our acceptance of homosexuals, non-whites, trans people, non-KKKristians and education, America will not be re-organized as per the Hunger Games.
The second excuse is, “The House’s continued expansion will eventually lead to the chamber becoming unwieldy as there will be eventually too many members; look at the Senate Chamber in the lame Star Wars prequels or China’s 3000, the biggest rubber-stamp legislature on Earth. It’s a load of crap. Germany is about a third our population size and has 900 members. Lowering the ratio of voters to representative will improve things while giving a non-traditional party a better shot. What should it be? Around 1790, it was ~30K. Today it’s ~750K for the major cities and we know in the vastly empty Great Plains and Alaska, they all get one at large. Personally, I would pull the Senate into the reform. The House has one member for every ~100K residents (not exclusively citizens) and the Senate is elected at large the same way New Zealand and the Dutch do. Then the Senate will no longer be a place for progress to die via NeoConfederates who only speak for a couple million angry Hillbillies or an incompetent, corrupt New Yorker whose children have lucrative jobs at corporations he’s “incapable” of regulating.
Yes, I’m being angry and pissy over these futile pre-elections which have become the new contests to install more rich assholes into power because we live in The Gilded Age 2. But I’m with AOC and the Squad. We’re tired of being told “no” or “this isn’t possible.” Those are lies. Newt Gingrich became Speaker in 1995 and used the Bill of Rights to wipe his ass and the Republican/Right have never stopped. It’s time to go on the Offensive and fight fire with fire. First up. Eliminating all the dead wood in the party of FDR while creating new political parties at the local level.