The goal isn’t, and shouldn’t be, to block Hillary Clinton. The goal is to make sure a potential President Clinton is beholden to a better Congress and a better Democratic Party. Alex Pareene Read Quote
There’s no good reason that reliably liberal states should be electing senators as friendly to Wall Street as Cory Booker. Alex Pareene Read Quote
Programs aimed strictly at the poorest Americans are always and forever under assault from a Republican Party that still has not dared to cut spending on programs – like Medicare and crop insurance – that also benefit the rich. Alex Pareene Read Quote
Co-opting the conservative line on anti-poverty programs did nothing to halt conservative attacks on anti-poverty programs. Alex Pareene Read Quote
For the most part, congressional Republicans represent people who are whiter, older and richer than most Americans, and our creaky old political system gives those Americans disproportionate influence over public policy. Alex Pareene Read Quote
CNN will always be the channel people turn on when wars and horrible disasters happen. The ‘trick’ is getting people to also want to watch it when there aren’t hundreds or thousands of people somewhere in the world currently in mortal peril. Alex Pareene Read Quote
It’s easy for the thought-leader and executive classes to embrace a ‘do what you love and love what you do’ philosophy when they are wealthy enough to work hard only voluntarily, and when their jobs grant them status. Alex Pareene Read Quote
Only a small rich fringe hates Social Security for disincentivizing 80-year-olds from seeking full-time employment. Alex Pareene Read Quote
FreedomWorks, which is funded primarily by very rich people, solicits donations from non-rich conservative people. More than 80,000 people donated money to FreedomWorks in 2012, and it seems likely that only a small minority of those people were hedge fund millionaires. Alex Pareene Read Quote
