A top Democrat, South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn, exposed a burgeoning split within the Democratic Party Wednesday, telling upstart &#8220;Democratic socialist&#8221; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that she should expect to &#8220;wait her turn&#8221; to be allowed into party leadership, if she makes it to Congress.
Clyburn seemed to suggest that, although Ocasio-Cortez claims to be reforming the Democratic Party from the inside, once she gets to the hallowed halls of Congress, any big changes she plans to make will have to wait for when she&#8217;s earned the right to make key decisions.
&#8220;I would ask her to remember how long I had to wait to get here,&#8221; <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/lissandravilla/a-top-democrat-says-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-would-need-to">Clyburn told Buzzfeed News</a>. He added that so-called &#8220;progressives&#8221; challenging mainstream Democratic leaders have only a skin-deep understanding of how Democrats have really contributed to social justice causes.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s not forget the history of all of this,&#8221; Clyburn continued. &#8220;And I think that all of the folks who have that mentality seem not to give much respect to those of us who sat in jails, as I did, so that they would have the kind of activities or the kinds of rights that they have today.&#8221;
Clyburn angrily added that he and his fellow Democratic leaders deserve more credit than they&#8217;re being given by a generation of &#8220;Democratic socialist&#8221; Millennials who seem to believe they invented caring about the poor, the infirm, and the oppressed.
&#8220;So do I get any credit for being on the cutting edge of all of that? Or should the credit go to my children and grandchildren who are the beneficiaries of it? I think that we have to balance this out,&#8221; Clyburn raved.
The answer is probably, no, Clyburn does not get credit. As far as Ocasio-Cortez and her colleagues are concerned, the mainstream Democratic Party has lagged in its sworn duty to expand government to an effective degree, and to shut out and shut down any opposition to a socialist agenda. Demanding respect for their &#8220;elders&#8221; doesn&#8217;t seem like a successful tactic in preserving the Democratic Party, either, from insurgent Millennials.
But Clyburn&#8217;s emotional plea for respect does seem to expose one true fact: that the Democratic Party is more seriously fractured than they care to publicly admit.

Top Democrat Panics, Says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Must ‘Wait Her Turn’ To Be Part Of Party Leadership

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Democratic Party

Democratic Socialism

New Democratic Party

The last victim of the French Revolution was the man who started it, and the American &#8220;progressive revolution&#8221; may also, in the wake of a debate over separating illegal immigrant families at the border, be declaring open war on the man who launched a thousand protest marches.
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders won&#8217;t join the left&#8217;s clarion call to &#8220;abolish&#8221; Immigrant and Customs Enforcement, and now leftists want him drummed out of the movement.
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/06/24/democratic-insurgents-want-to-abolish-ice-democrats-arent-there-yet/?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.ff3871ff549a">The Washington Post&#8217;s Dave Weigel hinted</a> at the coming chasm last week, after observing a growing call within progressive ranks to include &#8220;Abolish ICE&#8221; as part of the Democratic Party&#8217;s official platform. Probable 2020 presidential contender and Hillary Clinton protege, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) moved the topic into mainstream discussion after announcing, over the weekend, that she&#8217;d support a bill abolishing ICE as part of leftist&#8217;s efforts to end enforcement of America&#8217;s immigration laws.
But abolishing ICE is (1) probably unworkable and (2) a pie-in-the-sky idea, considering any legislation aimed at actually abolishing ICE would require the support of both Republicans and the president. Bernie Sanders, noted realist that he is, may not recognize that a socialist economy begets mass starvation, or that Venezuela is not a country to imitate, but even he gets that abolishing ICE is just a little too &#8220;out there.&#8221;
And for that, he has been officially excommunicated. His ceremonial notice came in the <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/149378/bernie-sanders-not-left">form of a New Republic screed</a>.
&#8220;Sanders could be a source of consistent, left-wing pressure on party leadership, whether or not he runs in 2020. If he intends to build a lasting political movement out of the remnants of his last presidential campaign, he&#8217;ll need to become an effective counterweight to the mainstream Democratic Party,&#8221; says writer Sarah Jones, forgetting that Sanders launched the progressive Renaissance. &#8220;But based on his ICE comments and the uneven results of his campaign efforts, Sanders no longer seems like such a sure figurehead for disgruntled Democratic voters.&#8221;
In fact, Jones says, perhaps Sanders&#8217; status a progressive figurehead and thought leader was misguided, because he&#8217;s just not far left enough: &#8220;[Sanders has never been a figurehead to everyone in the American left. &#8230; He does not occupy the left-most band of the spectrum.&#8221;
Jones then doubles down.
&#8220;But contrary to how he&#8217;s often portrayed in the media, he is not a doctrinaire leftist,&#8221; she adds, questioning the bona fides of the man who supposedly inspired a new generation of &#8220;socialist Democrats&#8221; to run for office. &#8220;Sanders is not a revolutionary. His views aren&#8217;t even entirely consistent with democratic socialism, the political tradition he claims. It&#8217;s one thing to call for breaking up the big banks, and quite another to call for the nationalization of private industries.&#8221;
Shockingly, Jones suggests that Sanders&#8217; position on ICE puts him decidedly in the political &#8220;mainstream.&#8221;
The &#8220;Sanders revolution&#8221; is coming, but Bernie Sanders probably won&#8217;t be part of it.

CIVIL WAR: Progressives Scorch BERNIE SANDERS After He Refuses To Join Call To ‘Abolish ICE’

Bernie Sanders

Illegal Immigration

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Kirsten Gillibrand

Millennials

Socialism

Democracy Alliance, a far-left donor club embraced by the leadership of the Democratic Party, has a vision: The way to win in 2022 is reparations to blacks for slavery.
The Alliance hosted a reception &#8212; &#8220;Way to Win: 2022 Victory Party&#8221; &#8212; which offered an insight of things to come if Democrats can win. Why they picked 2022 no one knows, but apparently they&#8217;re thinking it&#8217;ll take two mid-term elections plus the 2020 presidential election to get in position to control the agenda.
&#8220;Take a ride in our time machine to hear from the true political geniuses who made this happen,&#8221; the group said in an invitation to the reception, which was held last week in the ritzy neighborhood of Buckhead outside Atlanta. &#8220;It&#8217;s 2022 and we are celebrating policy victories across the nation: Medicare for All and Free College, and next on the agenda is Reparations.&#8221;
The group has some other crazy predictions.
&#8220;Because we&#8217;re governing with gusto, we&#8217;re seeing victories up and down the ballot&#8212;including winning a governorship in Texas and putting 38 electoral votes in grasp by 2024,&#8221; the invite said. During a ride in that time machine, the group said to &#8220;Stop in 2020 and 2019 when local power builders turned Arizona and Florida solidly blue and established Virginia as a progressive governance juggernaut.&#8221;
Such Democratic leaders as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris &#8212; both of whom are expected to run for president in 2020 &#8212; have offered support for the group. Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez and former Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe, a longtime Clinton fundraiser who is also expected to run for president, attended the April 16 reception.
&#8220;The &#8216;2022 Victory Party&#8217; event was cohosted by a number of prominent liberal groups such as Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the Collective PAC &#8212; a collection of entities with a mission to build &#8216;black political power&#8217; &#8212; and the Women Donors Action Network, which seeks to leverage the power of progressive women donors,&#8221; The Free Beacon reported.
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The Center for Popular Democracy, a New York-based progressive advocacy group, was also a cohost. The Center for Popular Democracy&#8217;s sister organization, the Center for Popular Democracy Action Fund, leads a massive $80 million anti-Trump network that spans across 32 states. &#8230;
The Center for Popular Democracy, which has partnerships with more than 50 left-wing activist groups across the country, is also funded by the Democracy Alliance, whose members each vow to steer hundreds of thousands in funding to approved groups of the secretive donor network.
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In a 2014 article titled &#8220;The left&#8217;s secret club,&#8221; Politico laid out details of the Democracy Alliance group.
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Democracy Alliance partners, as the group calls its members, pay annual dues of $30,000 and are required to contribute a total of at least $200,000 a year to recommended groups. Since its inception in 2005, the DA has steered upward of $500 million to a range of groups, including pillars of the political left such as the conservative media watchdog Media Matters, the policy advocacy outfit Center for American Progress and the data firm Catalist &#8212; all of which are run by Clinton allies.
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Democratic Donor Network Wants Reparations On Agenda By 2022

Democratic National Committee

Reparations

Thursday evening, as the new tax bill was being debated among the members of the Senate Finance Committee, Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) smacked Sherrod Brown (D-OH) when the Brown castigated the Republicans for allegedly only caring about the wealthy.
Here&#8217;s the exchange (video follows):
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BROWN: You always learn something in this world, and what I learned from that meeting was, I saw the playbook on how President Trump and majority Republicans were going to sell this tax cut because they know, they fundamentally, intuitively know &#8211; all of you do &#8211; that the public always knows that when Republicans are in power, the first thing they want to do is give tax cuts to the rich, that&#8217;s just what&#8217;s &#8211; it&#8217;s in their DNA, it&#8217;s what they&#8217;re gonna do. We know that.
So, they fundamentally &#8211; the chairman laughs, but he knows over 40 years it&#8217;s always true &#8211; but the public fundamentally, just intuitively, almost viscerally understands that that&#8217;s what they&#8217;re gonna do. So, the tax cuts are not going to really be for the middle class no matter how many times they sing that song. &#8230;
I just think it would be nice just tonight before we go home to just acknowledge, well this tax cut really is not for the middle-class, it&#8217;s for the rich. And that whole thing about higher wages, well, it&#8217;s a good selling point, but we know companies don&#8217;t just give away higher wages. They don&#8217;t just give away higher wages just because they have more money. Corporations are sitting on a lot of money now; they&#8217;re sitting on a lot of profits now. I don&#8217;t see wages going up. So, just spare us the bank shots, spare us the sarcasm and the satire, and let&#8217;s [move forward].
HATCH: I&#8217;m gonna just say to you that I come from the poor people. And I&#8217;ve been here working my whole stinkin&#8217; career for people who don&#8217;t have a chance, and I really resent anybody saying that I&#8217;m just doing this for the rich. Give me a break. I think you guys overplay that all the time, and it gets old. And frankly, you oughta quit it.
BROWN: Mr. Chairman, the public believes it &#8212;
HATCH: Wait a minute, I&#8217;m not through. I get kind of sick and tired of it. True, it&#8217;s a nice political play, but it&#8217;s not true.
BROWN: Well, Mr. Chairman, with all due respect, I get sick and tired of the richest people in this country [crosstalk] &#8230;
HATCH: Listen, I honored you by allowing you to spout off here. And what you said was not right, that&#8217;s all I&#8217;m saying. I come from the lower middle-class originally. We didn&#8217;t have anything. So don&#8217;t spew that stuff on me. I get a little tired of that crap. And let me just say something &#8211; if we work together, we could pull this country out of every mess it&#8217;s in, and we could do a lot of the things that you&#8217;re talking about, too. And I think I&#8217;ve got a reputation of having worked together with Democrats &#8230; I&#8217;ve got more bills passed than everybody on this committee put together. And they&#8217;ve been passed for the benefit of the people in this country. And all I can say is, I like you personally very much, but I&#8217;m tellin&#8217; ya this bull crap that you guys throw out here gets old after a while. To do it right at the end of this was just not right. It takes a lot to get me worked up like this.
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Republican Party

&#8220;President Franklin D. Roosevelt ended the Great Depression of the 1930s.&#8221; At least, that is what I was told. It is a common trope that the Left loves to tell in order to heap praise on the president who gave us the New Deal. 
As <a href="https://www.prageru.com/courses/history/did-fdr-end-great-depression">Prager University</a> points out, there is just one problem. That story is not a historical fact, but a part of leftist revisionism. 
UCLA Economics Professor Lee Ohanian breaks down this myth and explains how Roosevelt&#8217;s policies did more to prolong the Great Depression than help it. 
&#8220;Did President Franklin Roosevelt&#8217;s New Deal economic policies pull the country out of the Great Depression,&#8221; asks Ohanian. &#8220;My research clearly suggests that the answer, contrary to popular belief, is no. In fact, the New Deal made matters worse.&#8221;
FDR created the National Industrial Recovery Act, or NIRA, through his New Deal policy. The legislation artificially raised the wages of laborers and the prices of goods and services. At first, it made businesses happy since the government was essentially subsidizing their profits. Unfortunately, the plan backfired.
Ohanian explains, &#8220;But here&#8217;s what FDR missed: Artificially raising wages also raises labor costs. And when labor costs go up, business hires fewer workers or no workers at all, especially in a difficult economic environment. Meanwhile, artificially raising prices reduces demand for the obvious reason that people buy less of something when its price goes higher.&#8221;
He adds, &#8220;FDR based his New Deal policy largely on what happened during World War I, which had ended only 15 years earlier, in 1918. During that war, the government established planning boards to set wages and prices, and economic activity increased. If it worked during wartime, FDR reasoned, it should work during peacetime. But Roosevelt confused the economic activity that was actually the result of inflated war demands as being due to government planning.&#8221;
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PragerU: Did FDR End The Great Depression?

American History

Conservatism

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)

Prager University

United States

Politicians are often far better at campaigning than governing. This is especially true for big-city politicians. Kept in office by loyal constituencies, big-city politicians turn to corruption and nepotism just because they can.
It&#8217;s no surprise that America&#8217;s metropolitan centers are run predominately by Democrats. Democratic city councilmembers, Democratic mayors, Democratic judges, Democratic prosecutors. You name it. The donkey party enjoys a virtual monopoly over densely-populated urban districts. Many of these urban centers are in dire need of infrastructure development due to years of neglect.
Here are the 5 worst-run major American cities:
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<li>Chicago.</li>
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Unless you&#8217;ve been living under a rock, you&#8217;re probably well-aware of the Windy City&#8217;s failures. From rampant gun homicide to gang violence to unprecedented high-school drop-out rates, Barack Obama&#8217;s hometown is a pit of devastation. The city is suffering as Democratic Mayor Rahm Emanuel pushes proposals to declare Chicago a &#8220;sanctuary city&#8221; for illegal immigrants. Perhaps city officials should worry about legal citizens of the city before opening its doors to illegals.
The city sits at the bottom of the ranking, according to an <a href="http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2017/01/09/EXCLUSIVE-Chicago-New-York-Worst-Financial-Shape-Among-Large-US-Cities">analysis of fiscal strength</a> issued by American cities countrywide. The Fiscal Times reports:
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The Windy City has become a poster child for financial mismanagement, having suffered a series of ratings downgrades in recent years. Aside from having thin reserves and large volumes of outstanding debt, Chicago is notorious for its underfunded pension plans.
For example, the city&#8217;s Municipal Employees&#8217; Annuity and Benefit Fund (MEABF) <a href="http://www.meabf.org/assets/pdfs/pubs/Actuarial_Valuation_12-31-2015.pdf">reported</a> $4.7 billion in assets and $14.7 billion of actuarially accrued liabilities at the end of 2015, representing a funded ratio of just 33 percent. The actuarial calculations rely on a controversial practice of discounting future benefits at a rate of 7.5 percent, which is the assumed return on the fund&#8217;s portfolio return. If a more conservative assumption was employed, MEABF&#8217;s liabilities would be higher and its funded ratio lower.
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 2. New York City.
 Liberals love to hold NYC up as a beacon of progressive values. But who knew financial turmoil was a progressive value? Headed by self-styled progressive hero (and former Sandinista-sympathizer) Mayor Bill de Blasio, the Big Apple is now riddled with debt.
 Despite a bull market and soaring real estate prices injecting massive tax revenue to the city&#8217;s coffers, de Blasio&#8217;s city government has been spending recklessly, drying up reserves at astoundingly rates.
 Heavy spending has landed the city just above Chicago in terms in terms of fiscal strength, according to a 2015 analysis.
 &#8220;At the end of its 2015 fiscal year, the city&#8217;s general fund reserves amounted to just 0.67 percent of expenditures &#8212; well below the Government Finance Officers Association recommendation of 16.67 percent (equivalent to two months of spending),&#8221; explains The Fiscal Times. &#8220;A city&#8217;s general fund is roughly analogous to an individual&#8217;s checking account.&#8221;
 3. Reno.
 This one may surprise a few folks. Eclipsed by the bright lights of Las Vegas, the Nevada city has been slow to diversify its economy, relying on gaming and entertainment to generate the bulk of revenue.
 As the recession hit and tourist dollars dried up, Reno was left struggling without a contingency plan. While the city&#8217;s non-partisan mayor appeared promising, she failed to broaden to scope of business activity and attract more home buyers. Property prices in the city are still stagnated and local businesses continue to board up their doors
 According to the 2015 analysis of fiscal strength, Reno landed in the 113th spot (out of 116). Long term obligations as a percentage of total revenues was a staggering 217.54%.
 4. St. Louis.
 Just a couple miles away from &#8220;Hands Up Don&#8217;t Shoot&#8221; epicenter Ferguson, the Missouri city has been ravaged by bleed over protests and a lack of stability. The city&#8217;s police has been questioned and harangued by racial agitators as the city sinks deeper into financial ruin. The stats are deeply worrying.
 Citing the PNC Bank 2015 forecast, the St. Louis Business Journal lists some of the challenges the city is up against:
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Employment in retail sales has declined for two years, another result of the slow recovery here.
 The St. Louis labor force is still 2.5 percent lower than it was before the recession.
 Incomes are mostly stagnant, though what little growth there is will likely stay ahead of inflation, for now.
 Home sales and building permits lag the national average. &#8220;It will take a return to job market equilibrium before buying and building activity pushes prices significantly higher, a condition that is unlikely to hit with any force until 2016,&#8221; the report states.
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<ol>
<li>Philadelphia.</li>
</ol>
The liberal enclave has long been plagued by financial turmoil. A revolving door for ambitious Democratic politicians with their eyes on state and federal office, the city has been utterly neglected over the years. The proliferation of government housing has done little to alleviate the plight of the city&#8217;s rising homeless population. Government housing, colloquially known as &#8220;the projects,&#8221; sits at the center of the city&#8217;s drug trade.
 According to the <a href="http://www.phillymag.com/citified/2015/03/02/philadelphia-economic-growth-among-lowest-worldwide/">PhillyMag.com</a>, &#8220;the Philadelphia metro area was ranked 250th for economic growth from 2013 to 2014 in a survey by the Brookings Institution of the world&#8217;s 300 biggest metropolitan economies.&#8221;
 Despite high public spending, the city has not yet fully recovered from the recession.

These Are The 5 Worst-Run Major American Cities

Bill de Blasio

Chicago

New York City

Philadelphia

After running for president as a Democrat, socialist septuagenarian Bernie Sanders is choosing to remain in Congress as an Independent and finish out his term as Senator without assuming a leadership role in the Democratic Party.
&#8220;I was elected as an Independent and I will finish this term as an Independent,&#8221; Sanders <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/306528-sanders-wont-join-democratic-party">stated</a> Thursday morning during a breakfast event hosted by the Christian Science Monitor. &#8220;The real action to transform America won&#8217;t take place on Capitol Hill, it will be in the grassroots America among millions struggling economically and young people.&#8221;
Embracing his newly-minted populist stardom, Sanders can potentially leverage his political capital to move the party of Clinton further left.
Sanders&#8217; rise to fame came at the expense of his primary rival, Hillary Clinton. Compared to Sanders, Clinton looked like an establishment crony in the pocket of Goldman Sachs.
Sanders drew massive crowds at his rallies and riled up the base, creating an excitement around his candidacy the eventual nominee was never able to match. Appealing to low-information young voters and rural, anti-trade blue collar workers, the senator from Vermont was a thorn on the side of the Democratic Party, which had de facto anointed Clinton as its nominee before the primary season even began.
In fact, DNC emails leaked by WikiLeaks showed that Democratic Party operatives attempted to torpedo Sanders&#8217; campaign with unsavory antics reserved for only the most extreme political enemies.
In one email, party operatives consider using Sanders&#8217; faith (or lack thereof) against him.
&#8220;It might may [sic] no difference, but for KY and WA can we get someone to ask his belief,&#8221; Brad Marshall, Chief Financial Officer of the DNC, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/wikileaks-emails-show-dnc-favored-hillary-clinton-over_us_57930be0e4b0e002a3134b05">wrote</a> in an email dated May 5, 2016. &#8220;Does he believe in God. He had skated on saying he has a Jewish heritage. I read he is an <a data-beacon="{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;mnid&quot;:&quot;entry_text&quot;,&quot;lnid&quot;:&quot;citation&quot;,&quot;mpid&quot;:12,&quot;plid&quot;:&quot;https://abcnews.go.com/topics/lifestyle/atheism.htm&quot;}}" href="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/lifestyle/atheism.htm">atheist</a>. This could make several points difference with my peeps. My southern baptist peeps would draw a big difference between a Jew and an atheist.&#8221;
Amy Dacey, the CEO of the DNC, responded to Marshall&#8217;s email with a gleeful &#8220;AMEN.&#8221;
According to the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/wikileaks-emails-show-dnc-favored-hillary-clinton-over_us_57930be0e4b0e002a3134b05">Heavy.com</a>, &#8220;The emails [also] show the DNC working against Bernie Sanders during the primary, with some startling tidbits such as how the DNC considered denying a Bernie delegate admittance to a fundraiser because she supported Bernie.&#8221;
&#8220;Instead of treating Sanders with impartiality, the DNC exhibits resentful disdain toward him and the thousands of disenfranchised voters he could have brought into the party,&#8221; <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/wikileaks-emails-show-dnc-favored-hillary-clinton-over_us_57930be0e4b0e002a3134b05">adds</a> The Observer&#8217;s Michael Sainato, highlighting the fact that high-ranking party officials appear to have rigged the nomination process to favor Clinton.
The leaked emails, exposing incredible bias and foul play against a non-Clinton Democratic primary rival, ultimately led to DNC Chair&#8217;s Debbie Wasserman Schultz&#8217;s resignation.
In a series of emails released shortly before election day, Clinton&#8217;s own campaign is shown ridiculing Sanders and his populist movement. Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta even calls Sanders a &#8220;doofus,&#8221; before mocking the absurdity of his democratic-socialist policy prescriptions.
All in all, the Democratic Party, from the top-down, has left a sour taste in Sanders&#8217; mouth.
The party&#8217;s left-wing faction hoped for a Democratic Party that included Bernie Sanders. Some even openly called for Sanders to replace embattled DNC interim chair, Donna Brazille, a longtime party insider accused of using her influence as a former employee of CNN to funnel questions to Hillary Clinton before debates.
But Bernie is bitter, and rightfully so. Given the sheer level of corruption and back-door dealings, the rift between Sanders and establishment Democrats is unlikely to heal anytime soon.

Bernie Refuses to Join Democratic Party Following DNC Plot to Destroy Him

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Hillary Clinton

The president of Canada&#8217;s socialist New Democratic Party (NDP) said Canadian politics are &#8220;too white&#8221; in an interview on Saturday with the Great White North&#8217;s left-wing state broadcaster. Speaking with Chris Hall on CBC Radio&#8217;s The House, NDP president Rebecca Blaikie lamented what she described as a lack of racial and ethnic diversity within Canada&#8217;s political parties, advocating for informal racial and ethnic quotas to be implemented to address this shortcoming.

Asked about lessons learned by her party during Canada&#8217;s 2015 federal election, Blaikie called for her party to &#8220;diversify&#8221; its caucus and staff. A diligent left-wing host, Hall premised the question on the false axiom that &#8220;progressive&#8221; parties are inherently more diverse along racial and ethnic lines than their freedom and responsibility-oriented competitors.

 
You also talk about the need to diversify your staff and caucus. I&#8217;m struck by the because you&#8217;re a progressive party. Why has this bit come out as one of the things that you think needs to be done.

I think we need to, sometimes you just need to own things and say them out loud in order to do a better job at them. I think our politics around diversity are excellent, and it&#8217;s not always reflected in, you know, who&#8217;s at the table, so I just,&#8221; prevaricated Blaikie.

Blaikie&#8217;s tiptoeing prompted an interjection from Hall, getting down to the brass tacks of what &#8220;diversity&#8221; means to the left.

&#8220;Is the party too white?&#8221; asked Hall.

&#8220;I think the party&#8217;s too white,&#8221; said a relieved Blaikie, glad that Hall had opened the door for her. &#8220;I think all parties are too white, but, you know, so are we. Let&#8217;s say it out loud and start doing some better outreach in acknowledging that so that we can change the look of the look of the people around the table.&#8221;

Blaikie then praised the policies of her party pertaining to the recruitment of &#8220;candidates of color,&#8221; &#8220;indigenous candidates,&#8221; and &#8220;candidates living with disabilities.&#8221; She then called for the NDP&#8217;s consideration of racial and ethnic aspects of personhood to be expanded beyond mere candidate selection, and into all parts of her party.

Proceeding to examine policy changes to expand her party&#8217;s appeal, Blaikie <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkxPf-H3opM">spoke favorably</a> of a neo-Marxist policy platform dubbed &#8220;The Leap Manifesto&#8221; by socialist couple Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein. Promoting economic retraction via new age Ludditism under the guise of &#8220;environmentalism,&#8221; the manifesto calls for an end to the burning of fossil fuels and free markets.

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NDP President: Canada’s Politics Are ‘Too White’; Need ‘Diversity’

Canada

Leftism

Race

The Rebel Media, a Canadian conservative news outlet, has been banned from government press events in the province of Alberta. The reason? The sitting Premier of Alberta, Rachel Notley of the far-left, New Democratic Party, <a href="http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-politics/alberta-government-wont-allow-ezra-levants-rebel-media-into-news-conferences-and-events">does not consider</a> The Rebel a “journalistic source.”
This all began on January 29, when a Rebel Media journalist attended an Alberta Government briefing on the oil royalty review. Less than two hours into the event, the reporter was kicked out by Premier Notley’s staff. Moreover, Rebel Media’s Alberta bureau chief was also in attendance, though upon discovery, Notley’s cronies kicked her out as well.
There were reporters from a whole slew of news outlets present, and yet the only reporters kicked out were coincidentally from the only openly conservative network.
Fast forward to February 3. Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau held a press conference with Alberta Premier Rachel Notley. When Rebel Media’s Alberta reporter showed up to the event, she was immediately ejected by security on the grounds that she was on a “no go” list. This is a government press conference ejecting journalists – presumably the next step would’ve been a one-way ticket to the “gulag”.
Subsequently, on Friday, February 12, The Rebel Media received an email from a lawyer with the Department of Justice. The email read: &#8220;Our client’s position remains that your client and those who identify as being connected to your client are not journalists are not entitled to access media lock-ups or other such events.&#8221;
This is insane. The provincial government of Alberta has taken upon itself to deciding who is or isn’t a journalist, what new outlet is or isn’t legitimate.
And remember, this is the same radical left-wing provincial government that actually insisted boys be allowed to change in girl’s change rooms, <a href="http://www.therebel.media/protectourgirls">stating</a> &#8220;Self-identification is the sole measure of an individual’s sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.”
So a man gets to be a girl if he decides he’s a girl. But the government decides who is a “real journalist.”
This sets a dangerous precedent for free speech in Canada. If Alberta’s government is allowed to pick and choose their favorite news outlets as legitimate reporting entities, what stops this from extending to the federal government?
Who says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau can’t just take it upon himself to ban conservative news outlets from national government events wholesale?
Rebel Media founder Ezra Levant is a proud and unwavering advocate of free speech, and the freedom of the press – the hallmarks of a free society. Thus, Ezra plans to take the fight to Rachel Notley and her left-wing establishment cronies.
Here’s a petition you can sign telling Alberta Premier Rachel Notley that the government is not a weapon she can yield against our God-given freedoms.
<a href="http://www.therebel.media/notleyisabully">https://www.therebel.media/notleyisabully</a>
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