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BC Info Bot Oct 23, 2023

The Tyee: Ed Broadbent, the Best Prime Minister We Never Had https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/10/23/Ed-Broadbent-Best-Prime-Minister-We-Never-Had/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #SeekingSocialDemocracy:SevenDecadesintheFightforEquality #ThePoliticalTheoryofCooperativeIndividualism #patriationConstitution #SocialistInternational #EdBroadbentsocialism #HungarianRevolution #EllenMeiksinsWood #GreatRetrenchment #C.B.Macpherson #FrancesAbele #EdBroadbent #JonathanSas #JackLayton #LukeSavage

Ed Broadbent, the Best Prime Minister We Never Had | The Tyee

His co-written ‘Seeking Social Democracy’ looks back while calling us to action today. The book tour comes to Vancouver Nov. 1.

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Cory Doctorow Sep 21, 2023

Unsurprisingly, conservative message-discipline sucks. As #LukeSavage writes in *Jacobin*, for every mealymouthed #JoshHawley mouthing talking points that "support workers" by blaming China and Joe Biden for the Big Three's greed, there's a #TimScott, saying the quiet part aloud:

https://jacobin.com/2023/09/republicans-uaw-strike-hawley-trump-scott/

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The UAW Strike Is Bringing Out Republicans’ True Anti-Worker Colors

The UAW strike has put the GOP in a bind: keep pitching themselves as pro-worker or reveal their rhetoric as a masquerade. Yesterday, presidential candidate Tim Scott chose to say what Republicans actually think: “you strike, you’re fired.

Cory Doctorow Jun 30, 2023

"In the political cosmology of something that calls itself the '#DemocraticParty,' it is now a widespread belief that support is owed from below rather than earned from above. Instead of building popular coalitions by seeking to represent the hopes, dreams, and interests of a democratic majority, a posture of absolute, uncritical deference toward elite politicians is presumed to be axiomatic."

-#LukeSavage

https://jacobin.com/2023/06/voter-shaming-liberal-elite-biden-reelection-2024-third-parties/

#elections #PoliticalScience

Actually, Voter Shaming Doesn’t Work

Voter shaming has never been an effective tactic, but the fact that it’s being discussed as one by the likes of Pod Save America’s hosts speaks to the increasingly post-democratic sentiments that have become common among elite liberals.

Martin Böttger Jan 18, 2023

Best of 18. Januar 2023

Andrej Holm war – wohnungspolitisch betrachtet – zu klug für einen Berliner Senatsposten, aber leider zu doof, sich gegen Stasi-Vorwürfe zu wehren. Nun hat er für den Berliner Senat geforscht, und siehe, welch eine Überraschung, die Inkompatibilität von Wohnungsversorgung und asozialer Marktwirtschaft herausgefunden. Bemerkenswert für mich an seinem Junge-Welt-Interview, dass er in die Berliner Grünen-Spitzenkandidatin Bettina Jarasch etwas mehr Hoffnungen setzt als in Amtsinhaberin Giffey (SPD). Ich kenne Frau Jarasch nicht persönlich, und kann darum […]

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Best of 18. Januar 2023

Andrej Holm war - wohnungspolitisch betrachtet - zu klug für einen Berliner Senatsposten, aber leider zu doof, sich gegen Stasi-Vorwürfe zu wehren. Nun hat er für den Berliner Senat geforscht, und siehe, welch eine Überraschung, die Inkompatibilität von Wohnungsversorgung und asozialer Marktwir...

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