I'm right tnere with you Corbin. We lost everything a year ago in the Altadena fire. As we get closer to start the rebuild, I went to a local progresive Dem group to say hi to Jess Craven, a longtime ass kicker. I've met some serious locals and it feels good to be back in, even in a new community we are renting in for another year. I'm near Monrovia now and several kids from Monrovia High School were there that night. They speak clearly and were the ones that got the entire school to walk out several months ago to stand agains ICE at the local Home Depot where the empoyees and day laborers were getting beat up and kidnaped. Amazing kids.
I've been very active since the mid 1960s, having started as a Dem precinct walker in 1956. Then later as the security coordinator for two huge anti Iraq and then Afganistan war marches in San Francisco and then Los Angeles. I'm an old fart encouraged by your vision and focus. I'll do what I can.
Corbin, please include the commitment to 'expand the SCOTUS, and adopt and enforce ethics' in the platform. We cannot rebuild anything without nullifying the power of this corrupt Federalist Society 'bought and paid for' body.
Also, the platform needs to be developed into a Project 2028 document.
A simple silly question. If the candidates are honest and have similar progressive platforms, what prevents them from coordination after the election without Corbin? And, on the other hand, if something does or will prevent this, how Corbin can help after the elections? They are still the Democrats or independents and have neither legal nor moral responsibilities to any PAC. They can always blame each other, specific conditions, changed situation, etc. This is very different from being representatives of a specific organization different from the Democratic party, even being formally independent. While DSA is a part of the Democratic party, they have to play by certain rules, and will never make a significant difference in our political (and, therefore economic and social) landscape. This relates to Sanders as well.
1) AIPAC and the NRA and other organizations have been able to maintain influence over policy with this very tool.
2) I think the biggest leverage is the ability to create social commitments personal commitments between the candidates themselves. That’s the idea of doing multi candidate livestreams and in person events. There is a power to committing to do something with other people.
1) These organizations, most probably, didn't support the minority candidates, who had to resist a tremendous pressure from their peers and leaders to vote against their declared principles.
2) This is true that the power of sincere commitment is very strong. People used to give their lives for that. Personal commitment (allegiance to certain people) is not so strong in our society as it used to be in the past. Commitment to an idea, belief, etc. is much stronger. Of course, going through the election process as a part of a progressive pack should make a difference, but the strength of individual convictions, as well as both public pressure and support will be the key factors, the same as with the MAGA candidates. It's very unlikely that during this process the candidates develop such a strong bond that it will prevent them from making and justifying compromises.
Corbin, you are always right in theory. But this will go nowhere in practice. Wh? As long as House members are only elected by folks in their districts, they cannot do as you ask, especially if they must begin campaigning one week after being elected. 'murkans are not homogenous, every state, every district, is beholden to the overlords located there. Party politics is just fascist-light. The bigshots will rule, or be displaced by yet another overlord. Push to change the Constitution. If reps become electable by the entire state, things will change, but not via party unity, but by citizen unity. The way you get the plethora or 'types' of voters to act together is to give them real power with their vote, and that means the House is as powerful as the Senate, and that reps get a minimum of 4 years to serve ALL the constituents of their state. And we will finally hit bottom as a nation and as a world unless we allow the minority, which is everyone if you divide us up into camps, the minority(s) will just be bitter, uncooperative, deceptive, and antagonistic. It results in 'minority rule' cuz the oligarchs get their way by buying that minority via the sloppy and biased mechanisms in place to advertise and lie and assault candidates into defeat via fiat.
Not neccessarily. Show up. Things take time. Lev Bronstein pushed the revolution through in 1917 Russia and you saw a sloganeered oligarchy sprout right up. AOC and a few others are clear evidence that we can stand up. Maybe I should have listened to that bunch of "little old ladies", who always turned out at events I organized while in high school , who pushed me to run for Santa Cruz mayor in 1964. Perhaps I might have been elected to the Assembly later instead of Leon Panetta. One never knows, but the times, they are a changing, as an old rock a doo tune says. The change you see as necessary will not happen untill WE organize.
Who will make that change you want?
Bill Clinton is a Wall Streeter who pushed more Republican bullshit through than any Repub POTUS ever did or could have. Many of us know the problem.
It is not whether we show up. That is about the simplest thing, in theory. I am a presiding judge in a voting precinct. Easy peasy to register and either vote in person or do any early mailing of a vote by mail. the problem is that politics as usual will never work. the divisions Corbin wants to eliminate cannot happen when the country is so divided, not the politicos, the country. Politicos do what we allow them to do via mostly apathy. Apathy and stress and futility are the issues. Psychology has studied this stuff for years. If any person just decides to take on a task, not certain of the outcome, that person learns and becomes confident. Confidence is NOT a given prior to actual actualization. The work is citizen unity, not politcal parties getting more united. There are dozens of valid factions in the citizenry who must be included in the tent, the largest by far are Independents, who are ALWAYs completely ignored, like they have cancer or something. Politicos are toxic, public servants are healthy. We need to dismantle the party, at least in practice, and relable and rejuvinate it with public service, starting with the public.
Then just give up? Look for a beach front in Portugal? What is your problem? David Hogg is endrunning the party. Corbins "fuckm" we get OUR people in there. His proposal looks doable. Many people are doing things without and in spite of the "Party". Not a penny to the DNC type of people.
Give us a method to make the change happen. I think you are so overintellectualizing that you are missing the whole point. That's a big part of the problem too. Ease up on your ego.
Let go of the apple in your hand and watch it fall UP? That's going to work real good.
My ego has nothing to do with this. I do not favor a new and improved ketchup bottle with the same tomatoes. I do not mind uniting disparate members of a party struggling for an identity that is anything other than corporate oligarchy-lite. But sooner, not later, the citizenry has to grasp that it is the kibble in a dog pound. It is not necessary to attack someone online that basically agrees with most of what Corbin says. I am not the enemy here. You can bitch at me all you want, that changes nothing. I work hard daily to reveal the truth to the public via my writings and discussions. The public is VERY DISGUSTED and weary. Easier to move that needle, especially when I live in the most D brand state politically in the union. My best to you, and keep working you angle.
I only wondered what you offered. Lighten up. I did not attack you. Just waiting for how you think we can get there. We all know everything you identified.
This is simple, but not easy. A united Left Force with electoral capabilities backed by a broad popular movement. The Force that can express the needs and interests of those millions and legally represent them. Without it, a shift and social decline towards authoritarianism and, ultimately, dictatorship is highly likely and, probably, inevitable. You can read comments by Nekto to other Corbin's articles for clarification and details.
I always feel like I'm on the outside, looking at you, instead of being on the inside with you. Oh, that's because that's where I am. I wish it was different.
I invited you to a small group of people who have future master plans that are smart enough for me to think there's value in them being connected to one another. Indeed, we are connected now. The email in use for you is <corbintrent@gmail.com>. If that's right, you got something today that went out 12:15 p.m. pacific time. If it's wrong, tell me what to use.
Until you get rid of war you will never pay for your “tax the billionaire class and Medicaire for all”. The billionaires are already running from Blue states . California and New York are hemorrhaging
corporations and their FatCat rich folk. Hochul begged them to come back this week and Newsome has a rich guy exit tax. Something suggests to me , (common sense by chance?), that one time taxes are not the answer. Getting BlackRock out of the housing rental business is a more productive way to free up affordable housing than starting new Levitowns. As to Gaza-guess what? We’re now in the middle of WW3 -The Brush Fire Edition. And it will only get worse with
Recession in the US and Depression in the EU by 2028, which will only cause the neocon war in Ukraine to continue while the MidEast? We’ll be lucky if Bebe doesn’t get pissed and use a nuke to finish Iran, which probably won’t work out as he hopes. While you bloviate about “affordability” economic experts are counselling one secure 2 years of foodstuffs to prepare for shortages making the Covid fiasco seem like a brief toilet paper crisis.
An opposition separate from the current failed mainstream Dem message of King’s Day and their tired, over-used and failed claim of “We’ve got him now!” NEEDS to be created. But they’ve got to have some message, some plan that will effect real change.
I'm not sure if anyone is aware of this - I wasnt! Worth a read.
Obviously its not the subject of this particular post BUT remembering the 1st tdump administration's transferring the entire BLM agency away from Washington - NOW its the FS!
""Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the agency’s 121-year history. Not a budget cut. Not a policy shift. Not a “reorganization.” An execution.
They’re ripping the headquarters out of Washington and shipping it to Salt Lake City, Utah — the beating heart of the anti-public-lands movement in America. They’re shuttering every single one of the ten regional offices that have governed this agency since Gifford Pinchot built the system over a century ago — and with them, the career professionals who spent entire lifetimes earning the expertise and the authority to push back when politicians came calling with bad ideas and worse motives. They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone. And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees called “state directors,” embedded in state capitals alongside the very governors, legislators, and industry lobbyists who have spent their careers demanding that the Forest Service log more, protect less, and get out of the way.""
I will do whatever a 94 year old can do. it isn't much but.....
I'm sure you have a lot to offer June. Look forward to hearing more from you and this substack.
I'm right tnere with you Corbin. We lost everything a year ago in the Altadena fire. As we get closer to start the rebuild, I went to a local progresive Dem group to say hi to Jess Craven, a longtime ass kicker. I've met some serious locals and it feels good to be back in, even in a new community we are renting in for another year. I'm near Monrovia now and several kids from Monrovia High School were there that night. They speak clearly and were the ones that got the entire school to walk out several months ago to stand agains ICE at the local Home Depot where the empoyees and day laborers were getting beat up and kidnaped. Amazing kids.
I've been very active since the mid 1960s, having started as a Dem precinct walker in 1956. Then later as the security coordinator for two huge anti Iraq and then Afganistan war marches in San Francisco and then Los Angeles. I'm an old fart encouraged by your vision and focus. I'll do what I can.
Corbin, please include the commitment to 'expand the SCOTUS, and adopt and enforce ethics' in the platform. We cannot rebuild anything without nullifying the power of this corrupt Federalist Society 'bought and paid for' body.
Also, the platform needs to be developed into a Project 2028 document.
Yes, 100%
Most candidates won’t say what needs to be said because they might upset their corporate owners.
A simple silly question. If the candidates are honest and have similar progressive platforms, what prevents them from coordination after the election without Corbin? And, on the other hand, if something does or will prevent this, how Corbin can help after the elections? They are still the Democrats or independents and have neither legal nor moral responsibilities to any PAC. They can always blame each other, specific conditions, changed situation, etc. This is very different from being representatives of a specific organization different from the Democratic party, even being formally independent. While DSA is a part of the Democratic party, they have to play by certain rules, and will never make a significant difference in our political (and, therefore economic and social) landscape. This relates to Sanders as well.
A couple thoughts here.
1) AIPAC and the NRA and other organizations have been able to maintain influence over policy with this very tool.
2) I think the biggest leverage is the ability to create social commitments personal commitments between the candidates themselves. That’s the idea of doing multi candidate livestreams and in person events. There is a power to committing to do something with other people.
1) These organizations, most probably, didn't support the minority candidates, who had to resist a tremendous pressure from their peers and leaders to vote against their declared principles.
2) This is true that the power of sincere commitment is very strong. People used to give their lives for that. Personal commitment (allegiance to certain people) is not so strong in our society as it used to be in the past. Commitment to an idea, belief, etc. is much stronger. Of course, going through the election process as a part of a progressive pack should make a difference, but the strength of individual convictions, as well as both public pressure and support will be the key factors, the same as with the MAGA candidates. It's very unlikely that during this process the candidates develop such a strong bond that it will prevent them from making and justifying compromises.
Corbin, you are always right in theory. But this will go nowhere in practice. Wh? As long as House members are only elected by folks in their districts, they cannot do as you ask, especially if they must begin campaigning one week after being elected. 'murkans are not homogenous, every state, every district, is beholden to the overlords located there. Party politics is just fascist-light. The bigshots will rule, or be displaced by yet another overlord. Push to change the Constitution. If reps become electable by the entire state, things will change, but not via party unity, but by citizen unity. The way you get the plethora or 'types' of voters to act together is to give them real power with their vote, and that means the House is as powerful as the Senate, and that reps get a minimum of 4 years to serve ALL the constituents of their state. And we will finally hit bottom as a nation and as a world unless we allow the minority, which is everyone if you divide us up into camps, the minority(s) will just be bitter, uncooperative, deceptive, and antagonistic. It results in 'minority rule' cuz the oligarchs get their way by buying that minority via the sloppy and biased mechanisms in place to advertise and lie and assault candidates into defeat via fiat.
Not neccessarily. Show up. Things take time. Lev Bronstein pushed the revolution through in 1917 Russia and you saw a sloganeered oligarchy sprout right up. AOC and a few others are clear evidence that we can stand up. Maybe I should have listened to that bunch of "little old ladies", who always turned out at events I organized while in high school , who pushed me to run for Santa Cruz mayor in 1964. Perhaps I might have been elected to the Assembly later instead of Leon Panetta. One never knows, but the times, they are a changing, as an old rock a doo tune says. The change you see as necessary will not happen untill WE organize.
Who will make that change you want?
Bill Clinton is a Wall Streeter who pushed more Republican bullshit through than any Repub POTUS ever did or could have. Many of us know the problem.
It is not whether we show up. That is about the simplest thing, in theory. I am a presiding judge in a voting precinct. Easy peasy to register and either vote in person or do any early mailing of a vote by mail. the problem is that politics as usual will never work. the divisions Corbin wants to eliminate cannot happen when the country is so divided, not the politicos, the country. Politicos do what we allow them to do via mostly apathy. Apathy and stress and futility are the issues. Psychology has studied this stuff for years. If any person just decides to take on a task, not certain of the outcome, that person learns and becomes confident. Confidence is NOT a given prior to actual actualization. The work is citizen unity, not politcal parties getting more united. There are dozens of valid factions in the citizenry who must be included in the tent, the largest by far are Independents, who are ALWAYs completely ignored, like they have cancer or something. Politicos are toxic, public servants are healthy. We need to dismantle the party, at least in practice, and relable and rejuvinate it with public service, starting with the public.
Then just give up? Look for a beach front in Portugal? What is your problem? David Hogg is endrunning the party. Corbins "fuckm" we get OUR people in there. His proposal looks doable. Many people are doing things without and in spite of the "Party". Not a penny to the DNC type of people.
Give us a method to make the change happen. I think you are so overintellectualizing that you are missing the whole point. That's a big part of the problem too. Ease up on your ego.
Let go of the apple in your hand and watch it fall UP? That's going to work real good.
My ego has nothing to do with this. I do not favor a new and improved ketchup bottle with the same tomatoes. I do not mind uniting disparate members of a party struggling for an identity that is anything other than corporate oligarchy-lite. But sooner, not later, the citizenry has to grasp that it is the kibble in a dog pound. It is not necessary to attack someone online that basically agrees with most of what Corbin says. I am not the enemy here. You can bitch at me all you want, that changes nothing. I work hard daily to reveal the truth to the public via my writings and discussions. The public is VERY DISGUSTED and weary. Easier to move that needle, especially when I live in the most D brand state politically in the union. My best to you, and keep working you angle.
I only wondered what you offered. Lighten up. I did not attack you. Just waiting for how you think we can get there. We all know everything you identified.
This is simple, but not easy. A united Left Force with electoral capabilities backed by a broad popular movement. The Force that can express the needs and interests of those millions and legally represent them. Without it, a shift and social decline towards authoritarianism and, ultimately, dictatorship is highly likely and, probably, inevitable. You can read comments by Nekto to other Corbin's articles for clarification and details.
Both, eh? Corbin and Mick both have good plans and deserve our support. They are both radical rejections of the status quo.
The HOW is the issue. We all know the problem. I rather be looking at the mountains in you background pic. Too much work to do.
I always feel like I'm on the outside, looking at you, instead of being on the inside with you. Oh, that's because that's where I am. I wish it was different.
I invited you to a small group of people who have future master plans that are smart enough for me to think there's value in them being connected to one another. Indeed, we are connected now. The email in use for you is <corbintrent@gmail.com>. If that's right, you got something today that went out 12:15 p.m. pacific time. If it's wrong, tell me what to use.
I’ll check it out
Until you get rid of war you will never pay for your “tax the billionaire class and Medicaire for all”. The billionaires are already running from Blue states . California and New York are hemorrhaging
corporations and their FatCat rich folk. Hochul begged them to come back this week and Newsome has a rich guy exit tax. Something suggests to me , (common sense by chance?), that one time taxes are not the answer. Getting BlackRock out of the housing rental business is a more productive way to free up affordable housing than starting new Levitowns. As to Gaza-guess what? We’re now in the middle of WW3 -The Brush Fire Edition. And it will only get worse with
Recession in the US and Depression in the EU by 2028, which will only cause the neocon war in Ukraine to continue while the MidEast? We’ll be lucky if Bebe doesn’t get pissed and use a nuke to finish Iran, which probably won’t work out as he hopes. While you bloviate about “affordability” economic experts are counselling one secure 2 years of foodstuffs to prepare for shortages making the Covid fiasco seem like a brief toilet paper crisis.
An opposition separate from the current failed mainstream Dem message of King’s Day and their tired, over-used and failed claim of “We’ve got him now!” NEEDS to be created. But they’ve got to have some message, some plan that will effect real change.
That's what the Squad was supposed to be. Still struggling in the single digits -- er, humans.
I'm not sure if anyone is aware of this - I wasnt! Worth a read.
Obviously its not the subject of this particular post BUT remembering the 1st tdump administration's transferring the entire BLM agency away from Washington - NOW its the FS!
""Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the agency’s 121-year history. Not a budget cut. Not a policy shift. Not a “reorganization.” An execution.
They’re ripping the headquarters out of Washington and shipping it to Salt Lake City, Utah — the beating heart of the anti-public-lands movement in America. They’re shuttering every single one of the ten regional offices that have governed this agency since Gifford Pinchot built the system over a century ago — and with them, the career professionals who spent entire lifetimes earning the expertise and the authority to push back when politicians came calling with bad ideas and worse motives. They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone. And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees called “state directors,” embedded in state capitals alongside the very governors, legislators, and industry lobbyists who have spent their careers demanding that the Forest Service log more, protect less, and get out of the way.""
https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2026/04/02/breaking-trump-administration-orders-dismantling-of-the-u-s-forest-service/
Thank you. Court challenge to follow, I am sure. We have won most of the cases so far.
Thanks for the reply - never sure if anyone reads these posts when it doesnt pertain to the issue in the main post!
I hope there IS a court challenge.
This bunch appear to be throwing stuff at the wall to see if it sticks!