It isn’t a case of the Democrats now going off soul searching, it case of total revamp from top to bottom after Trump’s win last Tuesday. The Amazing Democrats’ advice very early on to the Clinton Campaign (and some of those comments were posted on our social media platforms as far back as the late summer  of 2015) went unheard unlike when we worked for the Obama/Biden campaign in 2012. It is time DNC to fire all your overpaid pollsters (who got it so wrong), consultants and the like. The DNC should of known in their hearts of hearts that after Bernie Sanders won twenty-two states with so little money against Hillary Clinton, their candidate of choice would be in serious trouble if the Republicans got a candidate who could storm the mainstream and social media which Trump did and of  course got a bit of luck along the way with that first letter released by the FBI Director that certainly damaged Hillary in early voting and gave a huge boast for Trump with his base. Yes, a lot of questions will be asked as to how the FBI were allowed to influence an election so openly. But this was far from the only reason Hillary lost even if the DNC die hards believe it to be so. The DNC and Democrats have lost their way and have been now for a long time. Their obsession only seems to be with fundraising not the core principles of what the party was founded on, Trump was able to tap into that huge hole in the DNC. It was a party that once cared for the low income, the homeless, our veterans, the poor people of America and not the massive billions of dollars in fundraising which was totally wasted trying to take Trump down. Just think today how many homeless people that billion of dollars plus would do to help house the homeless crisis in our major cities which should have been a top issue for Hillary.

 

Hillary campaign interviewed myself and members of The Amazing Democrats, for the record we call ourselves The Amazing Democrats as we not die hard Democrats, we wouldn’t have followed Hillary in to the fires of hell if she was wrong and we wouldn’t be silent either even if it meant we were fired from the campaign, that’s the way worked in the Obama/Biden 2012 reelection campaign and we were amazed how we survived not to be fired (nearly maybe once or twice when we really  overstepped our mark and criticized some of the President’s polices publicly). The interviewing process went back as far as January 2016 to join her campaign. We were subjected to rounds and rounds of interviews, back ground checks, etc. Months would go by and we heard nothing and then it would start all over again. It was by late August this Editor  got interviewed for the sixth time, more back ground checks and then was offered four important positions in four different swing states and one of this offers came directly from  the DNC. All this was paid employment and not volunteer work. That last weekend in August for me was were I suffered so much turmoil as I had to give them a decision by the following Monday.  It meant dropping everything in my life and getting on a plane to Pennsylvania. What was most troubling in my mind was I could sense there was panic setting in for the Democrats and Hillary’s campaign. I didn’t sleep that weekend. I went back to the old formula that the Obama campaign thought me and even though I didn’t have access to data like we did when worked for Obama,  never the less, I ran the data all weekend long. It is a long and laborious process that you can see today that both the pollsters and media don’t do, why? Maybe they just are too lazy to do it, who knows? You have to run every state’s county’s data county by county, you have then figure in the data available from both the candidates’ primary wins or loses, a lot of mathematics but in the end you get a somewhat overview, be it very rough. Also you have to take into account that I had been tracking the swing states every week since  both primaries ended last year. Not good for Hillary and her team I could see, in fact the Wednesday before the election I was gloomy, I could predict Trump was going to win Ohio  by three percent (he won by five percent so I was only out by two percent) and as you know, no Presidential candidate can take their place in The White House if they don’t win Ohio. With all this, it was the hardiest email I ever sent, declining the positions to work on the Hillary Clinton campaign.

 

As we move into the Trump Presidency, it’s going to be a very dark lonely path for the Democrats. Yes, there is the mid-terms in 2018, but if the DNC works as it has for the last twenty years, they are a very slow climb back up on Capitol Hill as remember this Presidential election in 2016 had the lowest turn out of voters in years, which helped Trump but destroyed Hillary’s chances of winning, nearly 50% of the electorate didn’t bother to vote and historically mid-term voting has a very low voter turn-out. Also if Trump makes any small success of his first term and as everything  Trump touches turns to gold, whether you like his manner and process or not and as it very hard to unseat a sitting President, as we all know, Trump going for a second term, then the DNC and Democrats could be looking at the wildness for next eight years at least, that’s 2024, a very depressing thought I know, but maybe a fact unless the DNC make radically chances and that starts today, not six months before the 2018 mid-terms.

 

In the 2006 mid-terms under George W. Bush, the Republicans got wiped out in the House and the Senate. All the media said at that time that Republican Party need to reinvent itself and stop been the “party of no”. Did they? Of course not, in fact under Obama as President and because of their hatred of him, they became the “party of no, no, no” on every bill he sent to the House and Senate. Now  look where they are ten years later. The power of Washington again with the Democrats hanging onto their coattails and the sad thing is, Trump gets to pick the next Supreme Court justice. If he gets two terms, who knows, with three more justices ready for retirement in the next few years, he might even hit the golden jackpot of nominating four Supreme Court justices, a very scary thought. The Democrats however can’t do as the Republicans did in 2006, which was nothing to change their image and beliefs but the Democrats aren’t so lucky. If the DNC go back to business as usual, it will be a very dark long road for the Democrats back to the shining lights of The White House. It is simply the base. The Republican base and the Democrat base is so so much different and as Trump said decades ago when he was a registered Democrat, pro-choice and donated a lot of money to Bill Clinton’s Presidential campaigns: “If I was to run as President, I would run as a Republican as their voters as so dumb and easy to fool, I would lie and lie to them until I got numbers”. That’s all he had to do for this Presidential campaign and he is the winner today not Hillary Clinton.

 

Which brings what fundamentally went south very early on in the Hillary Clinton campaign:

 

1. NEVER EVER underestimate your opponent.

2. If he/she gets down in the dirt, you go down there with them. Hillary taking the high road was her downfall as political correctness (PC) means nothing anymore in the world of social media as we saw with Trump, the King of Twitter and Obama/Biden in 2008 as the King of Facebook. PC has gone way too far in the US and the rest of the world and Trump, no matter what you think, turned PC on it’s head in this presidential election and as he said on 60 Minutes last night, “it was nasty, very nasty but I am the one sitting here today talking to you and not them”. In fact 2020 and 2024 will be so so much nastier. Rumors were that Trump using his own money, paid pockets of supporters all over America to flood the internet with lies about Hillary and Bill Clinton and the secret? They could never be traced back to him or his campaign. Why didn’t the Hillary Clinton campaign do the same with the rumors about Trump’s ties to the Mafia? Why was this never floated all over the internet? PC I guess but he won and Clinton lost. The new trend now with Presidential campaigns as Trump has lowered the bar, is to win 2020 or 2024 the candidates from both parties to win, will have to get down in the mud and get dirty. Sad? Of course but no cares about the loser, they only care about the winner.

3. Dump the negative ads. One billion dollars was such a waste of money by the Clinton campaign and Trump barely spent a faction of that. We kept telling the Obama/Biden campaign and the DNC in 2012, negative ads don’t work anymore and only turn all the voters off. Pity they didn’t listen.

 

The Amazing Democrats are not all about criticizing without offering the DNC suggestions for the road forward:

 

1. Fire all your overpaid pollsters, consultants, lobbyists, etc..

2. Allow the progressive members of the party to take over. (I do not mean the loony left), members who understand the issues of the day to day worries of the lower income Americans (who sadly are too many), the homeless crisis in our cities all over America, our veterans living on our streets.

3. Get back to what a community organizer really is. I used get so annoy with new volunteers who joined our team who tried to tell the person forcefully on the other side of the phone why they should vote for Obama or donate to Obama’s campaign and the DNC. A community organizer’s job is to listen and listen well and then send what they hear up the line and hope they are listening otherwise you get a result like Tuesday’s Presidential elections.

4. As the advice to Hillary Clinton’s campaign, get off the negative ads obsession (turns all voters off).

5. And please with every email you sent, stop looking for donations all the time. It makes us feel you don’t care about anything but money and donations which we know to be true.

6. Find the soul of the Democrat Party again of FDR and John F. Kennedy.

7. And finally, listen. Never stop listening to those on the ground as we are the ones who can make the difference from the Democrats winning or losing an election.

 

Here is to the 2018 mid-terms, see you then and to 2020 Presidential election. Keep the faith and a sense of humor as The Amazing Democrats do and God Bless America,

 

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WARNING GRAPHIC: Video Shows Fatal Police Shooting In South Carolina.

There are no more words anymore that any of us can say or write when we watch this video over and over again. No, it is not because we are sick or bored with nothing to do, it is because, after all that has happened and being said and again today we witness what the African-American community have being saying for so long: that the White Police Officers are out to kill them given the right circumstances. We saw that in South Carolina today and how Police Officer Michael T. Slager murdered Walter L. Scott who fled because he hadn’t paid child support? You see here we go in American and its business as usual with the bullshit as Mr. Scott’s twenty year old history of a battery charge is brought up within hours of the video being leaked to the press. Where is the other side of the story? That Police Officer Slager who murdered Walter Scott in cold blood and then planted his Police Department issued taster gun beside Mr. Scott as he lay dying or possibly dead from the rounds of bullets fired from Slager’s handgun. Where was Officer’s Slager’s record played out to the media? Where were the media reports of the complaints made against him on previous occasions and that were dropped as they have their secret code and it can’t be broken and that is that one Police Officer can’t give evidence against another (or rat as they would call it against their brother or sister in uniform). Why can’t us lay people wake up to the truth and take our heads out of our asses and get away from these post 9/11 Hollywood movies that have mostly turned all our cops on screen into heroes.

South Carolina ’s Police Officer Slager actions as we all watched them in horror today makes LAPA Officer Dennis Peck (Richard Gere) from the movie “Internal Affairs” look like a boy scout.

For one as a voter I am tired of this and there is no other side to this story as the video shows us how coldly and inhuman those two Police Officers walked around the body of Mr. Scott for nine minutes and calmly planting evidence on Mr. Scott unaware of them being filmed doing such. A murder charge for Office Slager? Oh please, why does the US Justice System insult us time after time? We know Officer Slager will walk away a free man just like Officer Wilson did when he murdered Michael Brown in cold blood too. It is time Congress brought in new rules and guidelines for our Nation’s Police Officers and all their guns are removed from them until they learn to respect them and human life. If I hear the President open his big mouth again about the bravely and courage our fine Police Officers show in their daily duties which they are paid for, I will change over and vote for Jeb Bush in 2016. He should put up or shut up for his own people and stop turning his back on them all the time. No President has ever done this anytime in our turbulent history but President Obama and history will not be kind on him regarding this fact and his disastrous record on Civil Rights as his term as President of the United States of American comes to a close in 653 days.

To think those two Police Officers in South Carolina are paid to serve and protect when you would treat a dead animal kinder then these Police Officers treated Mr. Scott as we all saw on video. All I can honestly say and knowing how these individuals operate when threatened, that the person videoing that very sick behaviour of Officer Slager is lucky they weren’t seeing by Slager and they should count their blessings that they are alive today. It is the person who risked their life shooting that video of the cruel murder of Walter Scott in South Caroline for us all to witness who we should be invited to the Oval Office for a medal from the President and not another Police Officer that makes Obama look good and makes for nice press and pictures on the West Wing video clips series.

There are no two sides of the story any longer, we are all sick to our stomachs what we see now on a daily basis and it is time for Congress and The White House to wake up and bring in new rules and laws governing sworn Police Officers who are paid to serve and protect and it is about time the candidates for the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election started getting involved in this debate (including Hilary Clinton). All the Presidential candidates better not hide under the tails of their campaigns avoiding this issue as we will ensure (with the power of our pen and our blogs) to bring this issue right up to the top of the election pile and no matter how much they duck and run from it, we will be there to remind all 2016 Presidential candidates (including Hillary Clinton) of their civic duty. Please 2016 Presidential candidates bring this issue to the forefront of the discussion for the American people so we can vote accordingly as we only have 580 days left to the US Presidential election on Tuesday November 8^th, 2016.

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