When we populate the House and Senate with more politicians like Ed Markey, we will get real middle-class-centric policies.
Ed Markey gets it
This is what a Progressive is supposed to sound like, unapologetically supportive of the American poor and middle-class.
I called a good friend today. We had a chat about the election. He is a very good progressive that believes we should take what we can get. “That does not mean I am not as progressive,” he said. I agreed.
“But it is going to be a close race,” he said. I disagreed with that.
I reminded him that Hillary won the popular vote by millions. And lost the electoral college by less than 80,000 votes in three states. I do not call that a loss. I call it a dereliction of duty for many reasons I have already blogged about.
Donald Trump knows he is losing. But he is campaigning with assertiveness as if the election is his. And his cult is responding. Most will vote.
Biden is winning. The president has been a quantifiable failure. Democrats need to run with the expectation that they will win big all the while letting Americans know that a landslide win is on each of them doing their job by voting at all cost.
One of my earliest memories was of watching JFK being assassinated on live television, notable as one of the few times Mom tried to use a television to babysit me,
Needless to say, I remember far more clearly much of the later civil rights era and witnessing things I’d take violent action to ensure my grandchildren wouldn’t have to witness, given the sheer length and brutality of what I personally witnessed.
I also remember, MLK was “a troublemaker”, who gained minimal ground against the power brokers, until militants did their thing. I actually gave an intelligence analysis talk on that very topic. The power refused to come to the table until militants gave them an unintended choice between two to deal with.
Who would you want to negotiate with? MLK or Black Panthers at their peak and Nation of Islam?
Yeah, no contest.
But, that’s precisely what it took to get a modicum of rights, nowhere near equal, anticipated steps as the militants allowed the power brokers to renege upon their previous agreements and commitments.
Now, if anyone can provide a suggestion for leverage to keep the bastards at the tables, you’ll find me a planet sized ear!
Otherwise, I’ll refuse to engage in some groups, while suppressing some groups upon pain of me and my old teams showing up. Given the current Boogaloo bozo and Militia Moron groups, I suspect we’ll be getting the old gang back together and give a firm lesson on messin’, especially given our maladministration’s misleadership.
A little exercise is always a good thing in one’s dotage, despite some thumbsucker tagging me REF.
Retired, Extremely Flatulent.
My specialties, thermonuclear weapons (no shit, I’m serious), firearms, edged weapons, high and low explosives. Rather why I prefer quiet surroundings.
The laugh is, those were literally part of my specialties, add in industrial electronics, both analog and digital, automation, robotics, IT, networking, minor in psyops and a joke is I was a major in mayhem that no commander laughed at.
As I said, I’ll be an ear bigger than Jupiter!
Keep it up! Thanks for the acceptance speech from Ed Markey.
Thank you!