Not much commentary is needed about the following latest development….the Clinton/Schumer/Pelosi wing is tightening its grip on the DNC and also using so-called “identity politics” to prove its non-racism. (Identity politics…the use of people with darker skins and/or Asian/Spanish names in positions of public prominence while simultaneously fronting for the same-old same-old aforementioned neocentrist Clinton/Schumer/Pelosi wing.)
Don’t be fooled. They are simply beefing up the DNC control system in the face of challenges from people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other Bernie Sanders-allied democratic socialists.
Read on.
DNC taps former Perez chief of staff for CEO
The Democratic National Committee tapped Seema Nanda to serve as its new CEO and handle day-to-day operations, the committee announced Friday.
As midterm elections continue and the 2020 election draws closer, hiring the management-oriented Nanda is a move away from more explicitly political executives who have led the troubled party in the past.
“I’m beyond excited that Seema is bringing her talent and brilliance to the DNC,” DNC Chair Tom Perez said in a statement. “She is a seasoned manager who has a proven track record of success.”
Nanda previously worked as Perez’s chief of staff at the U.S. Department of Labor. She replaces interim CEO Mary Beth Cahill, who took the helm of the DNC in February after replacing Jess O’Connell, a seasoned operative who left after less than a year on the job.
“People are hurting all across our country. I believe that Democrats are offering the positive solutions so desperately-needed right now — solutions forged by the strength of our diversity, the rigor of our ideas, and the decency of our values,” Nanda said in a statement.
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Poltics as usual in theDemocratic Party these days.
Sigh…
Stampede to the middle while claiming “inclusionary” status using identity politics.
Identity politics is racism/sexism, only turned on its head and given a brand new paint job. If you think that this appointment is based totally on merit, there’s always a bridge in Brooklyn that I can sell you. Now…I have no idea how competent Mr. Perez and Ms. Nanda may have been at their old jobs, nor how competent they will be at their new ones. Both appointments may have “merit.” But if you were picking candidates for these jobs purely on merit…if there was some way to conceal the various qualified candidates’ names and political affiliations within the Demographic…errr, ahhh, of course I mean Democratic…Party while still accurately grading their previous work output, what are the chances of coming up with these two as primary front people?
One of the ways that the Dems lost millions of white voters was by systematically emphasizing this “identity”politics. Yes, all races, religions and sexes should be equally represented, and yes people of color, immigrants from Third World cultures and females/LGBTs etc. have not been equally represented in this country for hundreds of years. But by emphasizing this sort of identity politics, suddenly people of primarily European descent…especially those who are on the relative downside of the economic spectrum…stop looking to the Democratic Party as a reliable ally.
What do you get then?
Non-voters and Trump voters.
This is what Ron Paul…completely disregarded by centrists of both parties who were hell-bent on non-personing an ideological threat…was arguing in the 2008 and 2012 campaigns.
See below. (Emphasis mine)
Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals. Racists believe that all individuals who share superficial physical characteristics are alike: as collectivists, racists think only in terms of groups. By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so-called “diversity” actually perpetuate racism. Their obsession with racial group identity is inherently racist. The true antidote to racism is liberty. Liberty means having a limited, constitutional government devoted to the protection of individual rights rather than group claims. Liberty means free-market capitalism, which rewards individual achievement and competence, not skin color, gender, or ethnicity.
This identity politics thing is not just a moral and intellectual mistake, it is quite plainly a political mistake. Why do i say that? Simply look at who and what is sitting in the catbird seat in DC today for all you need to know in that regard.
And to the kneejerkers on his blog who will undoubtedly go into a froth-at-the-mouth state at the mere mention of Mr. Paul?
I repeat:
Simply look at who and what is sitting in the catbird seat in DC today for all you need to know in that regard as well.
I deeply fear that the DNC is in the process of screwing everything up once again.
Let us pray not.
Thank you and goodnight.
AG
Arthur, your own preferred policy positions are far, far, far, far, far, far, far to the right of the most conservative members of the Democratic Party Congressional Caucuses. It is an absurd game you play here, trying to split support for the Democratic Party here by encouraging dissent from the left. It doesn’t reflect your own personal polcy views.
That is why this community has grown beyond tired of your lies. Lies like “Ron Paul is not a racist.” We’ve covered this over and over again. Ron Paul’s record is chock full of racial animus.
Ron Paul has been disregarded by centrists from both Parties because he’s a radical right-winger. Like you.
But, given that you’re evangelizing for “paragon of progressive values” Ron Paul here again, let’s begin taking up Paul’s monstrous sexism, which you appear to share.
Let’s start with this: do you share Ron Paul’s view that Roe v. Wade is anti-Constitutional, and that Congress should strip the Judiciary of jurisdiction over family planning decisions?
A couple of notable quotes from your diary here:
“Identity politics is racism/sexism, only turned on its head and given a brand new paint job.”
This is one of the go-to talking points from the Trump movement. It’s incredible that you have so immersed yourself in white supremacist propaganda that you could post that here in expectation that it would be persuasive to anyone in this community.
“Now…I have no idea how competent Mr. Perez and Ms. Nanda may have been at their old jobs, nor how competent they will be at their new ones.”
Why don’t you bother to have an idea about Mr. Perez’s and Ms. Nanda’s competency at their Labor Department jobs before lodging your incendiary, radical right wing “reverse racism” accusations?
. . . who wrote the book on it, as quoted by Tom Scocca, the guy who wrote the “book” (ok, essay) On Smarm:
Free markets rarely exist and only for a fleeting moment. Unrestricted capitalism gives freedom only to the 0.1% who own it. Even then, they are bound by cartel agreements and will be punished by the TBTF banks.
Removing all governmental controls on business is like ensuring personal freedom by allowing unrestricted sales and possession of military weapons while removing all “bad” government constraints like laws, police, courts. How well would that work out?
The result would be anarchy not freedom as most Americans would call it. Freedom to huddle down in your own bunker and shoot at whatever roving gang of freebooters that comes around.
And what comes out of anarchy? What does history tell us? Despotism, that’s what comes out of anarchy.
The only way to have fair markets as opposed to “free” (anarchic) markets is detailed government regulations and laws.
The sort of thing we had from the ’30s up to 1980 when it started to be dismantled wholesale.
The basic philosophical flaw in Libertarianism is Rousseau’s concept of the Noble Savage, the idea that Man is naturally good. A detailed look at any Kindergarten class would reveal that that is not true. Kids bully and torment the weak not because they have been corrupted by government, or capitalism, or secular humanism, but because that is there nature. Civilization puts constraints on survival instincts that served humans well on the Serengeti plains a million years ago. Libertarianism takes those constraints off and returns us to nature red in claw and fang.
Today’s Republican and Democratic parties assume that businessmen are some sort of angels working hard to produce goods for an ungrateful “deplorable” proletariat. ROTFLMAO! Marx and Engels assumed that working people and peasant farmers had an inherent nobility that made them superior to the rotten bourgeoisie and aristocracy. UTTER NONSENSE! I’m a working man, the descendent of workers, peasant farmers, and serfs. I knew from my earliest days that was nothing morally superior about us. Human beings are vicious greedy animals that need to be tamed.
Okay, I logged in this one time to correct you, Arthur.
Now, Marduk and oogabooga, you bastards can proceed to troll rate this to oblivion. I don’t know if there is an emoticon for it, so just imagine a fist with a raised middle finger. I’m talking to humans, not you animals.