Yesterday while I was getting dressed, I switched on MSNBC and saw Maryland Wall Street whore and DSCC chair Chris Van Holland being interviewed.A little background MSNBC didn't provide:
• Panicked that stalwart progressive Donna Edwards might be elected, last year the banksters financed Van Hollen's successful primary race against her for the Senate, giving him $3,306,869, more than any other non-incumbent from either party.• The Finance sector has given Van Hollen $4,932,470 in bribes since he was first elected to Congress in 2002.• Van Hollen has worked very hard to make Wall Street happy they put their faith in him.• Big Insurance ponied up $267,805 last year to make sure Van Hollen got into the Senate instead of Edwards.• Pharmaceutical companies chipped in last year too, giving Van Hollen $254,100 for his primary against Edwards.
Now, the 2 questions, he answered while I was putting on my socks. The anchor asked him if he is supporting Bernie's Medicare-For-All bill and he used every focus group-tested weasel word to avoid an honest answer. Slimy politicians are the reason why people absolutely despise career politicians. The closest he came to explaining his position was to assure MSNBC viewers that there would be "other proposals." He's so awful, it's no wonder Schumer picked him to run the DSCC and it's no wonder the DSCC's two first candidates are absolutely execrable conservative shiotheads from the House, Blue Dog Kyrsten Sinema (AZ) and worthless waste-of-a-seat Jacky Rosen (NV), each of whom is more comfortable voting with the GOP than with progressives.Then she put up a chart from a new poll that shows the millennials hate the GOP but don't much like the Democratic Party either and asked him why, with the Democrats having put so much energy into courting millennials, they have failed to get that demographic to think of them as anything other than just the lesser of two evils. Clueless as always, Van Hollen started babbling nonsense about taking the battle to the campuses. He literally started talking about the geography about where out-of-touch, corrupt Beltway politicians could physically find millennials. It made me want to throw up-- and I hadn't even had breakfast yet.People like Schumer and Van Hollen can't win in 2018. They can only be there if the Republicans self-destruct enough so that the lesser of two evils party is the only choice for distraught voters who may be forced to vote for unbelievable garbage candidates like Sinema and Rosen. Van Hollen, of course, is working to derail the Bernie-backing alternative to Rosen in Nevada, Jesse Sbaih. Tonight Jesse told us that "In the past 8 years, Democrats lost over 1,000 state and federal seats. The Democratic Party will continue to lose unless corporate money is rejected. Democrats must start putting the best interests of the people over greedy corporations."I actually stumbled upon the graphic MSNBC asked Van Hollen to explain. And an analysis of the poll. It starts with a bit of good news for the Democrats: "A majority of millennials, 64 percent, disapprove of Trump's job performance, while 58 percent said they have an unfavorable view of the Republican Party." And then a warning: "Millennials are a critical group for Democrats, and although they feel warmer toward the party than they do the GOP, they don’t feel overwhelmingly positive about either party."
Just 43 percent of millennials have a favorable view of the Democratic Party, and only a slight majority (53 percent) said the party cares about people like them.Similarly, millennials were more likely to say the Democratic Party cares about people like them than the Republican Party does. Only three in 10 millennials said the Republican Party cares about people like them. Still, nearly half (46 percent) of millennials said they don’t think the Democratic Party cares about them.In other words, millennials aren’t fully convinced that either party best represents their interests.Political uncertainty among millennials is also clear in terms of 2018 congressional election preference-- 41 percent of all millennials said they’re not sure if they will vote Democratic or Republican in the midterms next year. Another 37 percent said they plan to vote for the Democrat, and only 21 percent said they plan to vote for the Republican....[N]either party has convinced a majority of white millennials that their policies are sufficiently concerned with people like them-- 60 percent of white millennials said the GOP doesn’t care about people like them, and 55 percent said the Democratic Party doesn’t care about people like them.Overall, a third of millennials (33 percent) said that neither party cares about people like them-- a significant portion of young adults when considering the growth of the millennial electorate.