2016年11月12日 星期六

人民的黨:民主黨的改造呼聲 (含Robert Reich意見);共和黨的新生





Robert Reich

Either the Democratic Party cleans house, or we start a third party.
The party reflects the goals of the moneyed interests. This must change.
NEWSWEEK.COM|由 ROBERT REICH 上傳


Plan A: All current members of the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic state central committees should resign, and Democrats should elect people who are committed to creating a New Democratic Party that will
(1) organize and mobilize millions of people into an activist army to peacefully resist Donald Trump’s takeover of America,
(2) provide this activist army with daily explanations of what is occurring in Trump’s administration, along with tasks that individuals and groups can do to stop or mitigate their harmful effects,
(3) protect vulnerable populations from harassment and exclusion, including undocumented young people, recent immigrants, people of color, and women,
(4) recruit a new generation of progressive candidates to run at the local, state, and national levels in 2018 and beyond, including someone to take on Trump in 2020, and
(5) do everything possible to advance the progressive agenda at state and local levels -- getting big money out of politics, reversing widening inequality, expanding health care, reversing climate change, ending the militarization of our police and the mass incarceration of our people, and stopping interminable and open-ended warfare.
Plan B: Create a new organization outside the Democratic Party to do (1) through (5) above.
Which plan do you prefer? Or do you have a Plan C? And how do you suggest we get started?


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Back in May, speaking to Bloomberg Businessweek about how he intended to remake the Republican Party, Trump laid out precisely the message that would activate these voters in November. “Five, 10 years from now—[it will be a] different party,” he said. “You’re going to have a worker’s party. A party of people that haven’t had a real wage increase in 18 years, that are angry. What I want to do, I think cutting Social Security is a big mistake for the Republican Party. And I know it’s a big part of the budget. Cutting it the wrong way is a big mistake, and even cutting it [at all].”



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正常的政黨改造之壓力

Clinton and Obama Plead for Unity as Trump Gets to Work

Leaders in both parties began coming to grips with the once-unimaginable scenario of Donald J. Trump’s presidency.


In the wreckage of Hillary Clinton’s unexpected loss, liberal lawmakers and advocacy groups have started plotting a major overhaul of the Democratic National Committee.



Lawmakers, advocacy groups are looking to remake the organization in the…
WASHINGTONPOST.COM

As a first step, I believe it necessary for the members and leadership of the Democratic National Committee to step down and be replaced by people who are determined to create a party that represents America -- including all those who feel powerless and disenfranchised, and who have been left out of our politics and left behind in our economy.
The Democratic Party has become a giant fundraising machine, too often reflecting the goals and values of the moneyed interests. This must change. The election of 2016 has repudiated it. We need a people's party that's ready and able to oppose Donald Trump's Republican party, which is about to take over the three branches of our government, and poses a threat to everything we believe in. We need a new Democratic Party capable of organizing and mobilizing Americans to fight intolerance and widening inequality.




"The Democratic party needs to be either decisively wrested from pro-corporate neoliberals, or it needs to be abandoned. From U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren to Nina Turner, to the Occupy Wall St. alumni who took the Bernie campaign supernova, there is a stronger field of coalition-inspiring progressive leaders out there than at any point in my lifetime."




People have lost their sense of security, status and even identity. Trump’s…
THEGUARDIAN.COM|由 NAOMI KLEIN 上傳

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