NBC News slams Justice Democrats

[james_1957]

Quick! Someone get KO some water!

With Democrats facing tough prospects in the midterm elections, will they also have to worry about primary challenges from their left flank?

Another new group staffed by ex-Sanders aides, Justice Democrats, has less clear plans. While their audacious talk isn't backed up at the moment, they have an innovative model that could be used to run a large slate of candidates on the cheap against possibly dozens of incumbents.

But for Justice Democrats' founder, liberal media personality Cenk Uygur, what seems to matter most is inflicting damage on the Democratic Party.

Critics say Uygur's slash-and-burn approach to the Democratic Party is little more than an opportunist attempt to corner the media market for disaffected liberals, and that now he and his ilk are trying to do the same for politics.

There's not a great track record of similar media entrepreneurs moving into politics. Glenn Beck's 9/12 Project never amounted to much and former Daily Show host Jon Stewart's massive "Rally for Sanity" in Washington fizzled.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/de...eware-sanders-movement-turns-midterms-n735301

 

[Liar]

Weird comparison in the end there. The Rally for Sanity (and/or Fear) was just a comedy event. A live, slightly over the top Daily Show episode saying nothing that Stewart hadn't said on his show for years.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Weird comparison in the end there. The Rally for Sanity (and/or Fear) was just a comedy event.

And what was Beck's 9/12 project?

 

[KingOrfeo]

Here's what the "liberal" MSM doesn't seem to get: Trump won partly because the voters (with some justice) saw Clinton and the Dems as tools of the plutocracy, and plutocrat Trump as somehow an alternative. Believe it or not, early in the 2016 primary campaign cycle, many voters found themselves wavering between Trump and Sanders -- and an appearance (grounded in substance in Sanders' case, but not in Trump's) of anti-plutocracy is the one common factor the two shared.

The Democrats will start winning again if they become a left-populist progressive party, because that is a real anti-plutocratic alternative. That is what the Justice Democrats are trying to achieve.