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Thursday, March 31, 2016
Disrespecting Bernie Sanders
I'll support Sanders against the vile GOP if he is the Dem nom. The court, ACA, civil rights, climate/financial reg, diplomacy require this.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 31, 2016
Possibly paradoxically, I support HRC over Sanders because I'm a democratic socialist who values sustainability & equity-in-diversity.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 31, 2016
I judge HRC's published positions, wide knowledge, pragmatic temperament & organizational ties more capable of making policy I value.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 31, 2016
Sanders penchant for protest, intransigence, hostility to "establishment" organizing all threaten an ineffectual & demoralizing Presidency.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 31, 2016
His campaign's bad advisors, vacuous sloganeering, insinuations of improprieties without evidence, burn-as-you-go funding are all worrying.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 31, 2016
All that said, aggravating tho the campaign is, I can't say I'm disgusted by Sanders or despise him. He's not my choice but he's no monster.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 31, 2016
HRC & Sanders are both politicians. They aren't Saints or Monsters, even if you have to be a little sociopathic even to run for the office.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 31, 2016
To the extent that Sanders' campaign is for some supporters a celebrity fandom, purity cabaret, or Hillary hate fest it disrespects Sanders.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 31, 2016
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Another Teaching Day
"Heightening the Contradictions"
Be very clear, Democrats losing means the vulnerable and exploited lose most.
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Teaching Day
Monday, March 28, 2016
Can Such Things Be?
Sunday, March 27, 2016
Erasure And Truthiness
Auntie Establishment
It's "been time" for universal healthcare, education, income, rights all my life. Most Dems agree. Saying the obvious doesn't get us there.— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 27, 2016
GOP obstruction is what keeps US from implementing sustainable social justice, not Dem failures to indulge in Sanders-style purity cabaret.— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 27, 2016
Bernie's sweeping anti-establishment message muddles identification of culprits and lends itself to anti-organizational suspicion of reform.— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 27, 2016
To build and maintain a sustainable, equitable, and diverse society what we need is precisely an ESTABLISHMENT committed to these outcomes.— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 27, 2016
@smoothkobra When you're against "The Establishment" and pretty much anything can be "The Establishment" it's conspiracies all the way down.— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 27, 2016
I must say, if I were trying to think up an anti-establishment political gesture running for President of the United States wouldn't be it.— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 27, 2016
Saturday, March 26, 2016
Sanders Dismisses Progressive Southern Voters... Again!
I have long expected this to be the worst day in the nominating contest for HRC supporters.
Friday, March 25, 2016
The False Two Party Equivalency Thesis Is Not Just Wrong But Reactionary
In reprising Naderite false equivalency conceits too many Sanders pseudo-revolutionaries ignore the Democratic Party's move leftward... 1— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 25, 2016
...either ignoring or dismissing the eclipse of the DLC, the renewed emphases on poverty, public investment, taking on of the gun lobby... 2— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 25, 2016
...the invigorating Democratic Party embrace of the diversifying, secularizing, planetizing REAL Real America of the Obama Coalition... 3— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 25, 2016
...the emergence of a Democratic consensus repudiating white supremacy and patriarchy and recognizing the priority of climate change. 4— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 25, 2016
Partisan politics is reformist, compromised, problem-solving in real time with diverse stakeholders... 5— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 25, 2016
...but the Democratic Party in the Obama era reflects radical movements, Occupy, BlackLivesMatter, Dreamers, lgbtq and climate activism. 6— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 25, 2016
Indifferent to key differences between the parties too many Sanders pseudo-revolutionaries ignore and absolve Republican obstructionism... 7— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 25, 2016
...in so doing they insult pragmatic progressive work, encourage false, facile understandings of progress and abet reactionary politics. 8— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 25, 2016
State Of The Two Parties In A Two Party State
The twice victorious, still-rising Obama Coalition is the REAL Real America… 1— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 24, 2016
…and the Democratic Party with its ever clearer advocacy of equity-in-diversity is its united partisan vehicle… 2— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 24, 2016
…while the Republican Party is now an amalgam of ever more marginal, paranoid-aggressive bigot, plutocrat, theocrat factions… 3— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 24, 2016
…factions that are coming to hate one another as much as they hate the REAL Real America and the Democrats representing it. 4— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 24, 2016
The Republican Party cannot survive as a nationally viable political organization unless it changes as America is changing. 5— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 24, 2016
Republicanism in the Obama era has been nothing but their obstruction of reality resulting in the reality of their destruction. 6— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 24, 2016
So Proud To Be Wrong
Saint Bernard
Walk. Chew gum. Same time.
Thursday, March 24, 2016
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Another Teaching Day
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
The Sanders Campaign As Political Miseducation
I can't help the fact that people who have not read my qualified case for Clinton attribute unqualified advocacy to me.
Sanders continues to claim voting in a party primary is a Revolution when it is not. He still claims he can accomplish extraordinarily more progressive outcomes than Obama did which he cannot. He continues to refuse to run as a Democrat in the Senate or support down-ticket Democratic congressional races and attacks the party as "Establishment" all the while trying to assume a position of leadership over it. And he is actively misleading his mostly neophyte supporters about the delegate math he faces and the unlikelihood that party superdelegates who resent all of this would ever switch to supporting him short of a Clinton catastrophe.
It is true that my pragmatic case for Clinton has assumed a more ethical dimension over time. Sanders has disappointed me enormously. I was pleased that the candidates demonstrated how far left mainstream Democratic party politics had moved in the aftermath of Occupy and BlackLivesMatter and expected Sanders to use his national campaign to educate a broader electorate about left policy questions. He has instead demonized his rival and made promises he cannot keep and provided few to no details about anything. I consider his campaign an actively mis-edcuational one at this point and a prompt for generational demoralization that will be costly to the radical ambitions of the left opened up by the ruins of neoliberalism.
I do not conflate Sanders and Trump, but emphasize that any political appeal to white working class voters in America in particular will structurally conduce to racist politics in general. That is a hard truth you may want to deny, but it is true nonetheless. The Sanders campaign is demonstrating this whether you like it or not -- and the Trump campaign, well, surreally more so. Part of the problem here is that so many people are still sensitive because even after generations of carefully making the point that it is not so, asserting that one is abetting structural racism is still misconstrued as an accusation that one is exhibiting racist animus. This leads Americans to waste a huge amount of time tending to white fragility whenever one attempts to address the actually real impacts of white supremacy on actually real people of color.
The Sanders campaign -- and especially Tad Devine -- has explicitly admitted its appeal is to "whiter" states and the results still overwhelmingly bear that out for anybody to see. In fact, these results have assured both Clinton's primary and eventual Presidential victories.
I do agree that it is easy for people who don't want to pay attention to the arguments I am making to misconstrue them. That is always true, and there is nothing I can do about it. Since Sanders is losing, will lose, and deserves to lose, it doesn't bother me much.
Teaching Day and the Fear of Epic Nosebleeds
Monday, March 21, 2016
The "Self-Flagellation" Of A White Male HRC Supporter
That's "white male votes," obviously.Some HRC supporters have proposed that courting white make votes is no longer necessary to win and this is a good thing. 1
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 21, 2016
I agree with both the observation of the electoral eclipse of white males and the judgment that this is a good thing. 2
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 21, 2016
Recognition of these facts isn't hateful or dismissive at all. Approving them follows from rejection of white supremacy & male domination. 3
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 21, 2016
By the way, millions upon millions of white guys are supporting HRC.Why wouldn't they? Nothing preceding recommends otherwise. 4
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 21, 2016
The "its" refers to the Clinton campaign.It's easy to judge Clinton the better candidate even if you aren't the center of its universe. All you have to do is get over yourself. 5
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 21, 2016
Anybody who thinks it is "self-flagellation" for a white guy like me to deplore white supremacy or male dominance is rather sad. 1
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 21, 2016
Neither is it self-flagellation to recognize as a beneficiary of privilege I have to be vigilant about complicity in what I deplore. 2
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 21, 2016
Oppression is painful, why should anybody expect efforts to overcome it to be painless to its beneficiaries, even if they would resist it? 3
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 21, 2016
Why on earth would it be hateful or self-hating to find whiny white guys ridiculous as they're marginalized from their unearned privilege? 4
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 21, 2016
I think all these attitudes are straightforwardly commonsensical. I am quite cheerful about them, to be honest. 5
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 21, 2016
Sunday, March 20, 2016
Saturday, March 19, 2016
The "Anger" Of The Hillary Voter
I agree with this piece https://t.co/uDgEwNnL1D Hillary voter interests and enthusiasm are being completely ignored or misrepresented. 1
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 19, 2016
I would highlight a disagreement tho. It isn't true Hillary voters are not *angry* as so much of the rest of the electorate is angry... 2
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 19, 2016
First of all, Trump voters are not "angry" but racist, and Hillary voters oppose bigotry and hence that pundit euphemism doesn't apply. 3
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 19, 2016
Second, Hillary voters are very frustrated indeed by government dysfunction, but know better than to treat unicorn promises as solutions. 4
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 19, 2016
Hillary voters embrace the Obama coalition and legacy. Those of us with more radical politics know such struggles take more than voting. 5
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 19, 2016
Campaigns Are Job Interviews Not Revolutions
If I thought the job of a President was to harangue people about ideal policy from the White House rooftop I'd be interested in Sanders. 1
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 19, 2016
Since I know the job to be problem-solving among diverse stakeholders and mobilizing coalitions for reform legislation I prefer Clinton. 2
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 19, 2016
And if it's Revolution I want, I look to mass movements and long struggles like BlackLivesMatter, climate activism, and queer feminisms. 3
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 19, 2016
I have far too much respect for the work of radical politics to pretend voting in a party primary for a celebrity dreamprez is Revolution. 4
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 19, 2016
Trump And Sanders Can Have 'Em
Chris Christie Assures Us Trump Is Promising "Political Riots" If His Voters Don't Get Their Way Not "Literal Riots"
Friday, March 18, 2016
Grandmothers In Democratic Politics Kick Ass
My future President, my Leader, and my own Representative. Every one has made and is making history. Every one has made and is making progress.
Thursday, March 17, 2016
"Love Trumps Hate"
Hate isn't an American value. Division isn't something to be glorified. We can’t let Trump be our next president.https://t.co/wSgKlxOP3s
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) March 17, 2016
Twitter Smells Bitter
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Sanders Disqualifactoids
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Monday, March 14, 2016
Sunday, March 13, 2016
Schumpeter Was Wrong:
Saturday, March 12, 2016
Friday, March 11, 2016
Braking for Rainbows
Update: Returned last night from the hospital. Taking it easy for a while, under orders. Probably won't be tweeting much for a while still.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 11, 2016
It's been a harrowing week. The sweet accumulation of warm words and kind tweets I've found on returning here -- it means a lot. Thank you!
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 11, 2016
Present mood: https://t.co/EZGxQ98xCG
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) March 11, 2016
Friday, March 04, 2016
So Self Whiteous
#FeelTheUrn
Thursday, March 03, 2016
Clinton's Twitter Game Not Bad At All Tonight
Marriage equality is the law of the land. Deal with it. #GOPdebate pic.twitter.com/gPS1BVgipl
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) March 4, 2016
It's not "politicizing" to say that what's happening with the poisoned water in Flint is an emergency and a moral outrage. #GOPdebate
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) March 4, 2016
True on foreign policy—and literally everything else. #GOPdebate pic.twitter.com/kP4j13iwQV
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) March 4, 2016
The #GOPdebate is offering a stark picture of one vision for America. Here's another: pic.twitter.com/4mDHjxN3si
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) March 4, 2016
#GOPdebate pic.twitter.com/SGW200luN8
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) March 4, 2016