MGB: Talking to the working class involves more than pandering, it involves talking about socialism in a way that makes believers feel welcome. Anything else is just pandering.
It is too bad Senior was not more well known in life. Had I known there was a Great Books program in the Midwest, I may have become a student.
The waters do rise sporadically. I fear the coasts of Florida must become permanently inhabitable before the Koch funded deniers help, rather than hinder, progress toward avoiding this, even if they still make profit on the status quo.
Sanders is good at latching onto standard proposals. If open primaries were such a good idea, he should have won Virginia. They really do favor centrism, so I am not sure why he is going there. What is needed is a good, full-throated, defense of socialism in both the corporate and political spheres, starting in employee-owned firms. Currently, being in an ESOP means extra duty and little else. It should mean worker-owner decisions on the means of consumption (whether they are internal or external to the firm). Not just the employee cafeteria, but housing and college education for new workers, home loans at zero percent for family housing, which would be built in neighborhoods rather than separately. Most importantly, the hiring of CEOs and supervisors. Notice there is nothing in that list about secularism.
On Alabama, I won't even say that this is how fascism starts. The Slave Power was fascistic and it never really left Alabama. The more we prove Moore is guilty the more it will be seen as Fake News. If Moore had the decency of Lawrence C.K. and Harvey Weinstein, he would throw the race. That is the tack to take.
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