HuffPost Senior Political Editor Howard Fineman appeared on MSNBC's "Hardball" Friday to analyze key Senate races and the ways in which campaign momentum may be shifting.
"Pennsylvania voters -- as you know, Chris -- are not philosophers. They're not into ideological experiments," Fineman told host Chris Matthews, referring to GOP Senate candidate Pat Toomey. "They may grouse about corrupt politicians, but they don't mind government in Pennsylvania."
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You nailed it !
Neoliberalism shares with Thatcheresque conservatism the paralyzing and dispiriting TINA principle: “There Is No Alternative” to corporate-dominated, coddle-the-rich trickle-down economics, authoritarian law-and-order policies at home, and ethnocentric neo-colonialist world policing by the West.
Neoliberal Democrats legitimized laissez-faire (through deregulation) and ruinously placed blue-collar Americans into wage competition with millions of workers throughout the developing world, including China and India. Instead of the robust leveling an earnest social democratic party would have produced, they and and their kissing cousins, conservative Republicans, have widened every basic metric of class stratification and oppression.
You can't discredit what you don't despise. Boxer can't effectively rally the California public against Republican (Fiorina's) cowboy capitalism and conservative government because Boxer fundamentally agrees with it.
The neoliberal Democratic Party IS being overwhelmingly repudiated. But unlike in 1992 when Ross Perot challenged Clinton and Bush1 voters are currently stuck in a binary system where there's no such nationalist/isolationist-oriented alternative candidates. (The best of the Tea Party is a deviant strain of the generally positive movement led by Perot, a prophet without honor about free trade.)
It's time for a new liberal party embracing Lincoln's and FDR's vision to form, with a serious mission to civilize our country and befriend the world.
Eric C. Jacobson
Public Interest Lawyer
Culver City, California
http://www.libdems.us
Eric, I've been reading you off and on since another poster I greatly admire, Olephart, suggested I do so.
I won't waste bandwidth flattering your erudition.
I have, instead, something to ask of you.
I cannot recall ever seeing you post on the 'main.".
You are generally posting to articles with depth for a more 'mature' reader, but you are missing your natural audience, and the largest group of posters, who would benefit most from your insight.
If your goal is to educate, uplift, and perhaps even incite to action, then please take your brilliant mind to the center of the maelstrom and be prepared to be demonized.
It should be great fun for you
No one wants to "through the bums out" only to put in crazier, incompetent bums.
It isn't Feingold against Johnson. It's Feingold against Johnson, Palin, O'Donnell, Paul, Angle, Wilson, DeMint and the rest.
Come on Democrats...wage the battle in the ring, not in the corner.