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I agree with your characterization of Trump, fully. He is incoherent, inept, and ignorant, even to those who have interviewed him with the intent of showing him to be less so. That anyone would put faith, or hope, in whatever he says is e extremely foolish.
A very dangerous dilemma for the nation, and the world.
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<div class="">Did it ever occur to you that Trump might have been LYING when he criticized "neolib and neocon policies" in order to stoke voter anger and gain votes, just like he lied about draining the swamp, respecting women, not hurting Medicare and Social
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<div class="">Even the term "lying" seems too rational or calculated or sophisticated, somehow, to describe tRump. You can't THEORIZE about tRump in anything like the normal way. I would simply say that tRump is so far gone that his words bear absolutely
no relation to his actions or intentions, which are impulsive and childish and motivated solely by insecurity and narcissism, certainly not by any coherent ideology. His words are never to be believed or trusted, to a far greater degree even than the average
politician. They are simply to be ignored, and his actions observed and noted as the actions of a madman. He's a dangerous child with the nuclear codes.</div>
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<div class="">The Democrat party supports neoconservative policies (more war) abroad, and neoliberal policies (more inequality) at home. Jones is an apparatchik of that party. The people of Alabama need to educate him on their real needs - viz., an end to 40
years of accelerating immiseration, under Democrat as well as Republican administrations. Their remarkably quiescent suffering finally elected a president who criticized neolib and neocon policies (who was then under intense pressure to continue those policies).
Time-servers like Jones probably won’t be able to put the populist genie back in the bottle. We shouldn’t help them.
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<div class="">Here’s what we’re dealing with, along with the vicious military policies of the Obama-Clinton administration to “maintain the disparity” with the rest of the world: <<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/dec/14/inequality-is-not-inevitable-but-the-us-experiment-is-a-recipe-for-divergence" target="_blank" class="">https://www.theguardian.com/<wbr class="">inequality/2017/dec/14/<wbr class="">inequality-is-not-inevitable-<wbr class="">but-the-us-experiment-is-a-<wbr class="">recipe-for-divergence</a>>.</div>
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<div class="">All the political establishment (very much including the Democrats) has to offer is disingenuous 'anti-Trumpism’: <<a href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/anti-trumpism-is-anti-progressivism-in-disguise-9e688e6152e9" target="_blank" class="">https://medium.com/@<wbr class="">caityjohnstone/anti-trumpism-<wbr class="">is-anti-progressivism-in-<wbr class="">disguise-9e688e6152e9</a>>.<br class="">
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<div class="">Americans are coming to understand that they can do better than that, but rather clearly not with Democrats. —CGE</div>
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<div class="">Right you are, Karen. Doug Jones has a decades-long record of public service. Getting elected in AL was step 1. Now he needs to truly represent (and educate) the people of AL, those who elected him and those who opposed him, in a principled and
fair manner. It was the Democratic grassroots who first embraced Jones--the Democratic leadership hung back and only offered support when it looked like he might win. </div>
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<div class="">As we at PDA say, we have to drag the Democratic Party kicking and screaming toward more progressive policies. It is a long journey, full of setbacks, but we keep trying. Doug Jones offers an opportunity--we would be foolish not to take advantage
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<div class="">Exactly: As a “Green socialist” I may not support the Democrat Party, but given evil of Mr. Moore, and the Republican Party, especially their record of impoverishment of the people in Alabama. It’s time for a change, Democrat candidate Doug Jones,
has an opportunity to do something for that state and his constituents, lets see if he is up to the task. As I have said previously, he prosecuted the KKK successfully in the 70’s for the crimes they committed in the sixties, that everyone else allowed them
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<div class="">According to <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(25, 31, 36); font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span class="m_-7334336921596084382caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">JUAN</span> GONZÁLEZ:</strong><span style="color: rgb(25, 31, 36); font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: -0.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> Doug
Jones’ victory marks<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">the first time in 25 years that a Democrat has won a U.S. Senate race in Alabama.</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tuesday’s special election was highly controversial,
pitting Doug Jones against Roy Moore, an accused pedophile with a long history of racism, sexism, homophobia and Islamophobia. </span>
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vote was highly divided by race and gender, with African-American voters, particularly women, largely responsible for defeating Roy Moore. Overall, 96 percent of African-American voters voted for Doug Jones, with a staggering 98 percent of all black women
voting for Jones. In contrast, nearly 70 percent of white voters voted for Roy Moore. A full 63 percent of white women voted for Moore, despite Moore being accused by multiple women of sexually harassing or assaulting them when they were teenagers, one as
young as 14. Democratic strategist Symone Sanders, who served as Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’ press secretary during his presidential campaign, said, quote, “Doug Jones would not have won today without the turnout we saw from African-American voters. …
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