Exactly!! Until someone supports candidates like Butch Ware, I’m going to assume they’re part of the Dem machine and probably engaging in controlled opposition.
Nice one, Corbin. I'm in! And if all of your 100,000+ subscribers will sign on to A Fight Worth Having (afightworthhaving.com), we'll be an unstoppable force! 🤞🏼
Makes a lot of sense to me at a time when so much is senseless! I am one of those Independents who are DONE with business as usual and see the need for a strong coalition of forward-thinking leaders. Thank you, Corbin!!
Corbin, you are so close to saying what no one in the D brand wants to say -- the D brand is dead, because the D brand represents no one. Lipstick on pigs is not solution. You say the time is ripe. No. Buds on now just swelling. Still time to jettison the labels of a D brand party that cares. I, a lifelong crazy progressive conservationist Independent, have shouted - 'What about daring to be independent and believe/think/do the unthinkable, organize around and dare to allow all the people to frame a resistance AND a recovery Toward a Public Party of Citizens?' You say folks cringe to speak of socialism cuz it just slaps too many hot buttons? Well, hell yes, those are the buttons that scramble the thoughts of those who are addicted to the Koolaid. Fire it up, and show them what real coalition looks like. Your program does just that, but NOT under the calcified D brand, arthritic and encrusted in corporate and middle man bureaucratic gunk. We can spend 2 billion (hah, actually 3 times that) on an Assault (not a war with, an assault against) a country that exists via justifiable paranoia. But we cannot spend 1 billion a year to eliminate 800k homeless?? We do not have the empty buildings and out-of-work social professionals to do that?? We can now be shown that corporate 'murka has stashed 12-17 TRILLION offshore and hidden in other ways from taxation, but we can't afford to protect ALL our little ones? NO damned 'party' run by entrenched bureaucrat professionals will move the needle anywhere except toward more filthy avarice. People's Park, Berkeley CA. I was there. The low folks, the street folk, the alternate vision folk, the youth folk, the prolitariat folk, all made the park out of a junk yard, and WHAM, the establishment ripped it up with jack-booted thugs, very reminiscent of ICE thugs. Direct democracy, mandatory democracy, inclusive democracy, bottom up democracy. Public servants, NOT politicos. Sell that Corbin, you can sell anything dude. You are that good. I never want to hear the words 'Democratic Party' ever again.
Corbin, I think you may appreciate this interview on Nima's website with Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson. Wolff forcefully supports your viewpoint on American manufacturing and economic issues.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCJd_7aXhxM
Unlike others who are promoting a third party, at this point in time I don't believe it will be viable, and will only split votes. It's not impossible for a party to change its stripes... the current GOP is a far cry from what it was just a short while ago (listen to Adam Kinzinger for one). We all know that Lincoln was a republican, and the democrats were the ones promoting slavery. I believe the working class family party is also putting up candidates to run as democrats, so as not to split votes. that being said, working on a vision of our country that is not entrenched in consumerism and doing what is 'convenient' i.e. using Amazon rather than shopping local; seriously boycotting, and stop purchasing anything other than the absolute necessities for as long as it takes; our worship of wealthy people... or thinking because they are billionaires they are smarter than the rest of us; allowing ridiculous amounts of money in elections, etc. - that will be a start to what can save us, and bring us back to a 'we the people' country. I can imagine that somewhere down the road we could adjust our government to be more representative, but now is not the time - we have a lot ahead of us in terms of prosecuting the current regime when it goes out of power, undoing the damage that is being caused. We are in the midst of 'the great unraveling' and it is time for us to be working on 'the great turning' - and do everything in our power right now to build a world the way we want it to be... what can we do right now? support these candidates, build our local communities, reach out to our neighbors, find ways to discuss the issues without being divisive, search our own souls and change the habits we have developed that support the 'business as usual' system and do our best to step out of it. We can imagine our way to a better world. Bernie and AOC have a clear vision, we can rally around those who share that vision. some of us Elders are on board... some of us want to cling to the systems that we are used to - but all of us would benefit from a more equitable society and I think most of us are able to be convinced of this. to quote from grateful.org: "If we want a chance at rebuilding the fractured world, we have to visualize a connected one, and then live our lives in ways that contribute to individual wholeness and collective healing." I appreciate you, Corbin for being a strong voice in this wilderness...
Corbin, you are correct. No one wants to go back to the dysfunctional system we've been pretending is a democracy. In addition to developing a consistent, compelling, positive message, we need to find a way to get that message past the censorship of established media.
It's time to dump the duopoly. Vote Green. The Big D's are NOT a democratic organization. They are a political club. All the give us is promises. They had their chance. (Recovering life-long Dem here.)
It's complicated, to be sure. The White Christian Nationalism movement, aka MAGA/KKK got lucky in getting Trump into a 2nd presidency. But, what should the Democrats be promoting? IMO, a new NEW DEAL. Beginning with Reagan's war on the Middle Class, the oligarchs have run the national debt up to $39 trillion by using wedge issues (abortion, racism, women's and gay rights advocates, immigrants, etc.) to get some Americans to vote against their own best economic and social issues. [Thomas Frank, "What's the Matter with Kansas?" (2004) and Heather Cox Richardson, "How the South Won the Civil War." (2020) There's also the study by two Univ. of Kansas professors entitled "The Anger Games: Who Voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 Election, and Why?" published in the Feb. 2018 edition of the peer-reviewed journal, "Critical Sociology." Democrats need to send the message: if Republicans are not voted out of power, starting now, Americans now in their 30's, 40's and 50's probably won't get Social Security or Medicare, or in any amount that matters. We can and should adopt the Scandinavian model: Pragmatic Capitalism. Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and the person most responsible for our having Social Security summed it up this way: "The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to facilitate the means by which all the people under its jurisdiction can access the best possible life."
Both establishment parties serve the God of capitalism. The needs and interests of money literally Trump all other human, social, annd environmental needs. (yes, pun was intentional.)
Capitalists used to pray for money – in this final death spiral they *prey*
Even if electoral politics alone could save us, it wouldn’t be via the Democrats. Please stop clinging to a rotten party so desperately — why do you insist on continuing to do so Corbin? Look at third-party candidates like Butch Ware (Green) of California for the future, if we actually have one.
I’m beginning to think that, having worked for imperialist war Dem Obama, you’re continuing (intentionally or not) the Dem legacy of attempting to keep would be third-party voters from leaving the illegitimate two-party system by giving them false hope that the Dems actually have a progressive wing, or that they’ll magically now change after showing us their refusal to do so repeatedly.
"How captured it’s [the Dem. party has] become by Wall Street, big pharma, big tech, big oil, the military industrial complex, and every other industry that’s learned to write checks to both sides and win no matter who’s in power."
Got to fact check you here Corbin. Big oil is NOT writing 'checks to both sides' in any meaningful way.
According to Open Secrets, for the 2023-24 election cycle, big oil and gas gave only 15% of its PAC contributions to Democrats. The fossil fuel industry is the epitome of an industry that has 'captured' the GOP. A Democratic party that is willing to fight for a better future should target the fossil fuel industry for elimination and therefore defund the GOP cult. But, of course, as you know better than most, 'fight' is not a word associated with this Dem. party and its corrupt leadership; 'weak' is.
Thank you for saying this so clearly. We see that Old Guard Democrats are compromised, owned by billionaires, and part of the rotten system.
Some other fighters you might want to support:
Abdul El-Sayed
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Analilia Mejia
Angela Gonzales-Torres
Annie Andrews
Ayanna Pressley
Bernie Sanders
Brad Lander
Bushra Amiwala
Chris Pappas
Christian Urrutia
Cori Bush
Donavan McKinney
Eileen Laubacher
Elijah Manley
Gay Valimont
Graham Platner
Hoan Huynh
Ilhan Omar
Jasmine Crockett
Jasmine Crockett (US House)
Jason Crow
Jordan Wood
Josh Weil
Leaders We Deserve
Manny Rutinel
Mark Kelly
Oliver Larkin
Randy Bryce
Richard Ojeda
Sunrise PAC - Coordinated
The Intercept
VoteVets PAC
World Central Kitchen
Zeeshan Hafeez
Butch Ware
Kshama Sawant
When those names appear, I’ll know you mean business.
Exactly!! Until someone supports candidates like Butch Ware, I’m going to assume they’re part of the Dem machine and probably engaging in controlled opposition.
Nice one, Corbin. I'm in! And if all of your 100,000+ subscribers will sign on to A Fight Worth Having (afightworthhaving.com), we'll be an unstoppable force! 🤞🏼
Makes a lot of sense to me at a time when so much is senseless! I am one of those Independents who are DONE with business as usual and see the need for a strong coalition of forward-thinking leaders. Thank you, Corbin!!
I signed up for a monthly recurring donation, who else is in to help?
Corbin, you are so close to saying what no one in the D brand wants to say -- the D brand is dead, because the D brand represents no one. Lipstick on pigs is not solution. You say the time is ripe. No. Buds on now just swelling. Still time to jettison the labels of a D brand party that cares. I, a lifelong crazy progressive conservationist Independent, have shouted - 'What about daring to be independent and believe/think/do the unthinkable, organize around and dare to allow all the people to frame a resistance AND a recovery Toward a Public Party of Citizens?' You say folks cringe to speak of socialism cuz it just slaps too many hot buttons? Well, hell yes, those are the buttons that scramble the thoughts of those who are addicted to the Koolaid. Fire it up, and show them what real coalition looks like. Your program does just that, but NOT under the calcified D brand, arthritic and encrusted in corporate and middle man bureaucratic gunk. We can spend 2 billion (hah, actually 3 times that) on an Assault (not a war with, an assault against) a country that exists via justifiable paranoia. But we cannot spend 1 billion a year to eliminate 800k homeless?? We do not have the empty buildings and out-of-work social professionals to do that?? We can now be shown that corporate 'murka has stashed 12-17 TRILLION offshore and hidden in other ways from taxation, but we can't afford to protect ALL our little ones? NO damned 'party' run by entrenched bureaucrat professionals will move the needle anywhere except toward more filthy avarice. People's Park, Berkeley CA. I was there. The low folks, the street folk, the alternate vision folk, the youth folk, the prolitariat folk, all made the park out of a junk yard, and WHAM, the establishment ripped it up with jack-booted thugs, very reminiscent of ICE thugs. Direct democracy, mandatory democracy, inclusive democracy, bottom up democracy. Public servants, NOT politicos. Sell that Corbin, you can sell anything dude. You are that good. I never want to hear the words 'Democratic Party' ever again.
THANK YOU, I completely agree and looks like many others here do too. Corbin, it’s third party or you/we are cooked brother.
Exactly !! well said - the Democrat Party is DOA ! Dead ! totally corrupted by GREED & INCOMPETENCE !!
It’s a ballot access vehicle and I think most democratic voters agree with positions and policies that need to be implemented.
Corbin, I think you may appreciate this interview on Nima's website with Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson. Wolff forcefully supports your viewpoint on American manufacturing and economic issues.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCJd_7aXhxM
If you think appropriate, I would like to add to this list of fighters, Christopher Armitage. He writes Extentialist Republic on Substack.
If all the fighters work in unison, we can win our democracy back, if that is our goal.
Unlike others who are promoting a third party, at this point in time I don't believe it will be viable, and will only split votes. It's not impossible for a party to change its stripes... the current GOP is a far cry from what it was just a short while ago (listen to Adam Kinzinger for one). We all know that Lincoln was a republican, and the democrats were the ones promoting slavery. I believe the working class family party is also putting up candidates to run as democrats, so as not to split votes. that being said, working on a vision of our country that is not entrenched in consumerism and doing what is 'convenient' i.e. using Amazon rather than shopping local; seriously boycotting, and stop purchasing anything other than the absolute necessities for as long as it takes; our worship of wealthy people... or thinking because they are billionaires they are smarter than the rest of us; allowing ridiculous amounts of money in elections, etc. - that will be a start to what can save us, and bring us back to a 'we the people' country. I can imagine that somewhere down the road we could adjust our government to be more representative, but now is not the time - we have a lot ahead of us in terms of prosecuting the current regime when it goes out of power, undoing the damage that is being caused. We are in the midst of 'the great unraveling' and it is time for us to be working on 'the great turning' - and do everything in our power right now to build a world the way we want it to be... what can we do right now? support these candidates, build our local communities, reach out to our neighbors, find ways to discuss the issues without being divisive, search our own souls and change the habits we have developed that support the 'business as usual' system and do our best to step out of it. We can imagine our way to a better world. Bernie and AOC have a clear vision, we can rally around those who share that vision. some of us Elders are on board... some of us want to cling to the systems that we are used to - but all of us would benefit from a more equitable society and I think most of us are able to be convinced of this. to quote from grateful.org: "If we want a chance at rebuilding the fractured world, we have to visualize a connected one, and then live our lives in ways that contribute to individual wholeness and collective healing." I appreciate you, Corbin for being a strong voice in this wilderness...
The Democrat Party has already changed it's Stripes
FOR THE WORST
Corbin, you are correct. No one wants to go back to the dysfunctional system we've been pretending is a democracy. In addition to developing a consistent, compelling, positive message, we need to find a way to get that message past the censorship of established media.
It's time to dump the duopoly. Vote Green. The Big D's are NOT a democratic organization. They are a political club. All the give us is promises. They had their chance. (Recovering life-long Dem here.)
100%
It's complicated, to be sure. The White Christian Nationalism movement, aka MAGA/KKK got lucky in getting Trump into a 2nd presidency. But, what should the Democrats be promoting? IMO, a new NEW DEAL. Beginning with Reagan's war on the Middle Class, the oligarchs have run the national debt up to $39 trillion by using wedge issues (abortion, racism, women's and gay rights advocates, immigrants, etc.) to get some Americans to vote against their own best economic and social issues. [Thomas Frank, "What's the Matter with Kansas?" (2004) and Heather Cox Richardson, "How the South Won the Civil War." (2020) There's also the study by two Univ. of Kansas professors entitled "The Anger Games: Who Voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 Election, and Why?" published in the Feb. 2018 edition of the peer-reviewed journal, "Critical Sociology." Democrats need to send the message: if Republicans are not voted out of power, starting now, Americans now in their 30's, 40's and 50's probably won't get Social Security or Medicare, or in any amount that matters. We can and should adopt the Scandinavian model: Pragmatic Capitalism. Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and the person most responsible for our having Social Security summed it up this way: "The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to facilitate the means by which all the people under its jurisdiction can access the best possible life."
That's all well & good - But - the Democrat Party does not Support any of the above stated Progressive goals !! Put down the Crack Pipe !!
What is your recommendation?
Corbin, can you block this sullying of your playing field?
Done!
Both establishment parties serve the God of capitalism. The needs and interests of money literally Trump all other human, social, annd environmental needs. (yes, pun was intentional.)
Capitalists used to pray for money – in this final death spiral they *prey*
for money.
Right on! We must be FOR a vision of America the founders hoped would be. We'll join your efforts 💪🏻
Even if electoral politics alone could save us, it wouldn’t be via the Democrats. Please stop clinging to a rotten party so desperately — why do you insist on continuing to do so Corbin? Look at third-party candidates like Butch Ware (Green) of California for the future, if we actually have one.
I’m beginning to think that, having worked for imperialist war Dem Obama, you’re continuing (intentionally or not) the Dem legacy of attempting to keep would be third-party voters from leaving the illegitimate two-party system by giving them false hope that the Dems actually have a progressive wing, or that they’ll magically now change after showing us their refusal to do so repeatedly.
"How captured it’s [the Dem. party has] become by Wall Street, big pharma, big tech, big oil, the military industrial complex, and every other industry that’s learned to write checks to both sides and win no matter who’s in power."
Got to fact check you here Corbin. Big oil is NOT writing 'checks to both sides' in any meaningful way.
According to Open Secrets, for the 2023-24 election cycle, big oil and gas gave only 15% of its PAC contributions to Democrats. The fossil fuel industry is the epitome of an industry that has 'captured' the GOP. A Democratic party that is willing to fight for a better future should target the fossil fuel industry for elimination and therefore defund the GOP cult. But, of course, as you know better than most, 'fight' is not a word associated with this Dem. party and its corrupt leadership; 'weak' is.
https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs/industry-detail/E01/2024
AIPAC is the Monster that has consumed (BOUGHT) THE Democrat Party