“Why
can't the Democratic Party landslide the serial corporate criminal and
government outlaw Donald Trump? He is a servant of Wall Street and, by his
deeds favoring the powerful, a proven ‘enemy of the people.’ Why has the
Democratic Party been losing again and again at the federal and state level to
the worst, cruelest, soft on corporate corruption, war-mongering, anti-worker
Republican Party in history?
“The
answers are many. The Democratic Party is indentured to monied interests and is
incapable of taking responsibility for its losses and mistakes. Democratic
operatives resist organized grassroots pressure and the party excludes/punishes
any dissent inside its ranks. The shrinking trade unions that have historically
pushed the Democratic Party are increasingly content with crumbs for workers
and afraid of union members who have swallowed the Trump lies.
“The
two-party duopoly and an electoral system that obstructs challengers from
smaller parties lets the Democratic Party stagnate. Unfortunately, the fate of
the nation and our Constitutional Republic is in its hands. Joe Biden should be
thirty points ahead in the polls against the delusional, falsifying, lawless,
selected occupant of the White House who spends most of his time tweeting
insults, lies, and fictional accusations when he isn't watching the Fox
News adoring bloviators. Instead, Biden's lead is in single digits and
he is having a hard time getting the offensive Trump on the defense. Here are
some suggestions for the Democratic Party's quivering leaders:
- Organize a
mass demand for Trump/Pence to Step Aside and let
experienced pandemic scientists and managers run the federal response to
Covid-19, saving tens of thousands of lives and allowing the economy to
recover. Trump's Virus, spreading daily owing to Trump's bungling,
fabricating, quackering, chaos, denials, and grinding government
scientists through his ignorant, ego-obsessed shredders, requires such a
demand. It will encourage more people and state and local governments to
be more assertive and insist on professional management and critical
coordination by Washington.
There are many Republicans in Congress who privately dread how
the daily Trump Virus Show is diminishing their own electoral poll numbers.
- Stop
Coddling, Aiding, and Abetting Corporate Crooks who are cheating and
endangering the health/safety of red state and blue state Americans alike.
Demand Law and Order enforcement and greater funding for the
corporate crime police. By massively dismantling government law
enforcement, Trump is intensifying the corporate crime wave with
subsidies, handouts, bailouts, and huge tax escapes. How's that for
putting Big Business over Main Street? Let them steal, let them pollute,
let them park their profits in tax havens abroad are elements of the
Trumpian mantra which he brazenly applies to his own business interests.
- Stop Trump
from committing big-time violations of our Constitution and our federal
laws in order to deepen his dictatorial regime. Trump illegally uses
federal employees and property to promote his political campaign – a
federal crime under the Hatch Act. He seizes the ‘power of the purse’ from
Congress, spending money for unauthorized domestic and foreign objectives
thereby violating the criminal statute known as the Anti-Deficiency Act.
He fires prosecutors and Inspectors General closing in on his and his
crony's crimes and egregious misdeeds.
Take on Trump when he declares phony national emergencies to
grab more dictatorial powers making him the largest national emergency of them
all. Trump makes it easy for the Democrats when he declares ‘I have an Article
II, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president.’ Nixon was about
to be impeached and convicted in 1974, before he resigned, for a tiny fraction
of what the Democrats are letting Trump get away with.
- Announce it
is time to Vote Trump Out and Vote in the long-overdue Pay Raise. Ending
the freeze on the $7.25 per hour federal minimum wage and raising some 25
million workers' wages to $15 per hour would answer the question: ‘Whose
Side are You On?’ The House of Representatives has passed a $15 an
hour minimum wage bill, though with a long implementation schedule. The
Republican Senate, however, blocks passage and it has blocked the $600 a
week relief payment to many millions of Americans without jobs due to
Trump's Virus.
Shouldn't the Democrats make these contrasting, notorious
corporate-driven cruelties more vivid, and more front and center? Repetition is
what reaches people who are numb to years of empty rhetoric and who want authenticity.
Comparing Walmart's CEO making $12,000 an hour while many of his workers
languish well under $15 per hour sharpens what should be the authentic contrast
between the Republicans and Democrats.
- Make Mitch
McConnell, the self-styled ‘Grim Reaper’ toady of big business, who buries
scores of good bills passed by the House, the number two Ogre in the
campaign. The evil McConnell is the worst suffocator of necessities for
the American people, their children, and retirees in American
congressional history. The Democrats have listed scores of bills under
McConnell's chokehold – such as protections for poor children, fragile
worker and retiree pensions (including those for coal miners in his state
of Kentucky), lowering drug prices and expanding health care coverage,
controlling climate disasters – to name a few. Yet, once again, they have
not made ‘Moscow Mitch's’ record (including blocking safeguards for
election security and voter's rights) vocal, vivid, and front of center.
The Democrats certainly have the campaign money to do so.
The arrogant McConnell is up for re-election against a
hyper-cautious conservative Democratic opponent. Democrats should take McConnell's
pompous boast ‘The one thing I get to do that the other 99 /Senators/ don't get
to do, is decide what we're going to do.’ and flood Kentucky with the truth
about this malicious, destructive tyrant of the Senate and his 200
confirmed right-wing and corporate judges. McConnell's lapdog delivery of the
Senate has made possible Trump's monarchical drive to repeal the American
Revolution against Kings and for ‘a new birth of freedom.’
- Last
November, 61% of women in a national CNN poll wanted Trump impeached and
convicted. Certainly, on their minds was Trump's long history of being a
publicly bragging sexual predator and a terrible example for boys and
young men. Over twenty brave women have come forward with credible
accusations of sexual assaults by lying Donald. Why aren't the Democrats
making this a campaign issue and making Trump pay a political price for
such disgusting outrages? Democrats can turn the Republican Party's
campaigns on ‘values’ against Trump and his apologists.
- The
Democratic Party must choose to stand with the people by presenting
a solemn covenant that improves all the livelihoods of
all Americans and addresses the widespread anxiety, dread, and fear where
they live, work, and raise their families. Help make people's dreams of a
secure, fulfilling future a reality. This specific covenant would show
that the Democratic Party stands for much more specific changes than not
being Trump. Make it vivid and memorable, including empowering the people
in distinct ways.
“If
you like these suggestions, add some of your own, and call or email Democratic
National Chairman Tom Perez, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and the House Democratic Caucus leader Hakeem Jeffries”
(Ralph Nader).
To
Contact Chairman Tom Perez
Visit: https://democrats.org/contact-us/
or call (202) 863-8000
Visit: https://democrats.org/contact-us/
or call (202) 863-8000
To
Contact Members of Congress, call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121
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“In several key ways, the committee's counterintelligence investigation goes beyond the findings of former special counsel Robert Mueller released last year, as the Republican-led Senate panel was not limited by questions of criminality that drove the special counsel probe. Among the key findings:
• That then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort was working with Konstantin Kilimnik, a Russian intelligence officer, and sought to share internal campaign information with Kilimnik. The committee says it obtained 'some information suggesting Kilimnik may have been connected' to Russia's 2016 hacking operation and concludes Manafort's role on the campaign 'represented a grave counterintelligence threat.'
• That Trump and senior campaign officials sought to obtain advance information on WikiLeaks' email dumps through Roger Stone, and that Trump spoke to Stone about WikiLeaks, despite telling the special counsel in written answers he had 'no recollections' that they had spoken about it.
• That information offered at the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting 'was part of a broader influence operation' from the Russian government, though there's no evidence Trump campaign members knew of it. Two of the Russians who met with Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Manafort had 'significant connections' to the Russian government, including Russian intelligence, and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya's ties were 'far more extensive and concerning than what had been publicly known.'
• That Russian-government actors continued until at least January 2020 to spread disinformation about Russia's election interference, and that Manafort and Kilimnik both sought to promote the narrative that Ukraine, and not Russia interfered in the 2016 election.
• That Russia took advantage of the Trump transition team's inexperience and opposition to Obama administration policies 'to pursue unofficial channels,' and it's likely that Russian intelligence services and others acting on the Kremlin's behalf exploited the Transition's shortcomings for Russia's advantage.
• That the FBI may have been victim to Russian disinformation coming through intelligence sources such as the Trump dossier author Christopher Steele.
• And that campaigns, political leaders and other influential Americans must be even more diligent in the future not to fall victim to Russian interference, given the extent of Russia's efforts and successes to reach campaign operatives in 2016.
“The report is all the more remarkable because it was led by then-Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr, a North Carolina Republican, and Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia. The report provides an exhaustive, bipartisan confirmation of the contacts between Russians and Trump associates in 2016 -- and it was the only congressional committee that managed to avoid the partisan infighting that plagued the other congressional investigations into Russian election meddling…”
There are 251 articles about Trump ("Drumpf") on this blog to date. They provide thousands of reasons why Biden should win by a landslide. Perhaps the Democratic Party leaders should read them.
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