This could be a fatal mistake for DemocratsIf the Democrats expect to successfully defend all those seats they won in deep red territory in 2020, there are two ways to go about it:
Have you known many people like Trump? Hustlers and grifters like him are a dime a dozen in New York. I once worked for one who was a firm believer that if you went around hissing your poison in enough peoples' ears, you would create a new reality of your own. Trump tried it Tuesday with his China trade-war bullshit (above)-- but all he created was the 4th biggest stock market collapse in U.S.
I watch Stephanie Kelton videos on YouTube and I talk with her on the phone but one of the reasons I ventured out of balmy Los Angeles for the frozen shores of Lake Champlain was because I knew Stephanie would be speaking at Berniepalooza. She didn’t disappoint and speaking with her and watching her on the Green New Deal panels were highlights of my rare trip back east.
When I was at Stony Brook, I was the head of the Student Activities Board for several years. I booked Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding, The Doors, the Grateful Dead, the Jefferson Airplane, Muddy Waters, The Who, The Temptations, Joni Mitchell, Ravi Shankar, Jackson Browne, Pink Floyd, The Fugs, The Byrds, Tim Buckley... to play there. I would have booked Stephanie Kelton for sure. But she was in kindergarten then.
A few days ago, we saw how Ohio's top Republican donor, Leslie Wexner, has grown so fed up with the GOP-- primarily Trump but also the congressional enablers-- that all it took was hearing an Obama speech for him to quit the GOP!Yesterday Heather Long, in a report for the Washington Post,
A Washington Post headline-- The Deficit Hawks Are Dead-- And Few In Washington Muster Any Outrage-- points a finger at Washington's most dedicated Ayn Rand disciple, Speaker Ryan and his GOP zombies "who had, wrote Paul Kane, railed against deficits in the first years of the Obama administration pushed through a massive tax cut despite CBO projections of a surge in federal borrowing." But what the Post isn't counting
When Blue America endorses a candidate, there are several ways we can be helpful to their campaigns, the most obvious being to help them raise campaign funds by connecting them to small dollar campaign contributors. This cycle one of the most valuable other ways we've helped candidates is by connecting them to Stephanie Kelton, America's most brilliant economist. She has been very patient and very helpful with any candidate who wanted to take up he offer.
