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VIDEO: The Democrats Taking Back the House in 2018 Isn’t Politics as Usual

September 18, 20178 commentsFrank Schaeffer

It’s a war for national survival. Here’s my first shot in that war for a sane, good, and decent America.

Photo credit: Nancy Pelosi

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David Woodruff
September 18, 2017 5:48 pm

Looking forward to your interviews. However, I have little hope for the Democrat Party as their establishment members continue to marginalize the true progressives within the party, who are the actual vox populi. They seemed to have learned nothing from their massive defeat last November.

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Dean Stevens
September 19, 2017 11:19 am

here here, David!

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gdd
September 19, 2017 7:40 pm

Dear David Woodruff:

Where you say, ‘little hope,’ I would say ‘no possibility …’ Moreover it was the refusal of the previous administration to address the crises bestriding the nation which prepared the way for the ascendancy of the most reactionary layer of society.

That said, I’m grateful to Mr. Trump for performing admirably what Marxists and Trotskyists have attempted for years: He has stripped off the facade to display the true face of Capitalism in all its hideous malfeasance.

Blessings!

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Ed Davis
September 19, 2017 5:34 am

Let’s get behind and help push The Fair Tax. It is the only thing that will save our economy . Mike Huckabee was one of the few that supported that plan. If a Democrat would endorse The Fair Tax, term limits and a health care system that did not exempt them as Representatives, that person could win any election no matter where they were running for office.

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Melody
September 19, 2017 11:30 am

The video doesn’t show up for me- just a blank space. I’m using the FF browser on a PC. Is/ will the video available elsewhere? It’s not up on YouTube, when I checked a few minutes ago.

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Melody
September 19, 2017 11:48 am

Heh! I’m not on Facebook, but I just figured out that I could access the new video that way.

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John Norris
September 19, 2017 5:37 pm

Hi, any other Chrome users getting zero sound from this video? (and others on the blog).

Youtube versions from Frank’s channel work fine…

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gdd
September 19, 2017 7:35 pm

Dear Frank Schaeffer:

Friday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi plus Reps. Barbara Lee and Jared Huffman [D-CA] were visited by some undocumented youth. They took exception to Democrat Party expropriation of their name for its political agenda.

Brandishing ‘DEMOCRATS ARE DEPORTERS’ signs, they flatly contradicted Ms. Pelosi at her own news conference. Said one leader, ‘we … will not be a bargaining chip …’ Another said, ‘Democrats are not the resistance of Trump – WE ARE!’

Little wonder Ms. Pelosi was visibly shaken. The greatest Democrat Party fear is the emergence of a broad, working-class movement of the 90% that the Party can’t corral because it refuses to be contained.

We get the election gig. The 1% and next 9% compete as best 90% champion pretender – both knowing the ruling class austerity/war agenda continues whoever ‘wins.’ Democrats would love broad, working class support. But without a clean break with the ruling class agenda and alignment with the 90% around a genuinely socialist program, that won’t be. Trouble is – the Democrat Party can’t! It IS the other 9%! My guess – more will refuse to vote with each election!

Under Republican or Democrat administration, orders of the day are for wholesale surveillance, lies, blacklists, false accusations of treason, heavy-handed censorship and soon enough – state violence. And state violence is coming.

Recognizing clearly the import of its austerity/war agenda, the ruling class is very aware of its precarious social position. It stands increasingly ready to turn guns on the US population. When militarized police arrogantly and aggressively march protesting loudly ‘WHOSE STREETS … OUT STREETS’ – they effectively declare police rule in the US.

Any agreement with the administration, and any attack on the administration from the political right by the Democrat Party is an act of betrayal of the 90%. Our condition is not ballot-redeemable. The only way to prevent WW III and/or the collapse of the republic is through the direct and massive intervention of the whole working class – the 90% – into the political process.

Blessings!

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