Sanders responds to Albright

See this article. He finds it unfortunate that Albright and Clinton are playing the gender card. Indeed he agrees it's time for a female President, but one who meets the standard in every other way besides her sex. And Clinton is not that woman. It may be, though, our only chance to elect a real defender of the people for a long time to come.

Sanders demographics in NH

See this article on his win there. He did well in all demos, including non-whites: he got 49% to Clinton's 50%. Granted NH, unlike many southern states, values and invests in education for all including minorities, so they tend to get good educations and hence the ability to think better. But Sanders even did well in NH with non-college degree voters. But again, even those with just a high school degree in NH get a better basic public education than other red states that have decimated that system.

Dick Morris on Clinton

See his piece here. Morris was Clinton I's adviser, so he knows this duo. And he thinks Clinton II's campaign is falling apart, calling in the smear squad who call Sanders names. Like that will work. It's a sign of desperation and is only turning more progressives off to Clinton's campaign. All Morris correctly concludes: "Voters looked at her and ran screaming."

This woman would rather go to hell than vote for Clinton

See this article. An excerpt:

"If I am alarmed, it is by the profound languor of the comfortable. What fresh hell must we find ourselves in before those who've appointed themselves to lead our thoughts admit that we are in flames? As I see it, to counsel realism when the reality is fucked is to counsel an adherence to fuckery. Under conditions as distressing as these, acquiescence is absurd. When your nation gets classified as a Class D structure fire, I believe the only wise course is to lose your shit.

"The reason Wall Street is dropping zillions of quarters into Hillary's Super PAC-Man machine isn't because it wants change — it's because Wall Street sees revenue in her promises of keeping things much the same. Under Hillary, our prisons will continue to punish for profit. Our schools will continue to be sold off to private contractors. And despite 87 percent of Democrats standing behind universal health care, Hillary insists it will 'never, ever come to pass.' Not from her, I guess, since she's taken over $13 million from the health care industry.

10 things about income inequality

What Clinton said to Wall Street

See Taibbi's scathing article on this. Some excerpts:

"Even more significant [...] is the account of what Hillary apparently told Goldman she 'thought' during those speeches. According to Politico, who spoke to several attendees, Hillary used the opportunity to tell the bankers in attendance that the 'banker-bashing so popular within both parties was unproductive and indeed foolish.' She added that the proper attitude should be, 'We all got into this mess together, and we're all going to have to work together to get out of it.'"

Clionton and the Wall Street paradigm

From this article, which ties Clinton to this very method of operation via her money from them. And which paradigm she will perpetuate.

"They call it 'unlocking value,' but it is cold, hard financial strip-mining that adds no value at all to the target firm while squeezing the livelihoods of the average employee. These Wall Street predators pressure corporation after corporation to use their revenues to buy back their own shares, thereby raising the share price, enriching CEOs and the largest Wall Street investors.

Dynamic systems theory in cognitive science

Following up on this earlier post, see "Dynamic Systems Theory in Cognitive Science: Major Elements, Applications, and Debates Surrounding a Revolutionary Meta-Theory."

"Dynamic Systems Theory (DST) is a broad theoretical framework imported from the physical sciences and used in psychology and cognitive science in the past several decades that provides an alternative to the computational and information-processing approach that has governed main stream cognitive science since the dawn of the cognitive revolution in the mid-twentieth century (Beer, 2000; van Gelder & Port, 1995; van Gelder, 1998; Spivey, 2007). DST views all psychological processes and capacities as dynamic systems which are best described as complex, non-linear, self-organizing and emergent and whereby cognition develops over the life-course and occurs over real-time as a probable description of many possible alternatives instead of linear assembly of symbolic processes (Spivey, 2007; van Gelder & Port, 1995).

The future of the Democratic Party

See this article on how the youth demographic is overwhelmingly for Sanders. It does though detail Sanders weaknesses which could trip him up in this campaign. In any event, he is providing the impetus for an ideological sea change in the future of the Democratic Party. I hope though that that future is now. The establishment Democratic Party could set back this transition for at least a generation. And it will if Clinton is its flag-bearer.

The ideological battle for the Democratic ideal

See this article for much more. An excerpt:

"So Bernie Sanders is not merely running to attempt to implement a set of idealistic policies that a republican-controlled congress is likely to block. He is running to take the Democratic Party back from an establishment that ignores the fundamental systemic economic problems that lead to wage stagnation and economic crisis. Those who say that the Democratic Party cannot be reclaimed by the FDR/LBJ types or that if it is reclaimed it will flounder in elections against the GOP are thinking too small. [...] 

"Hillary Clinton is a neoliberal building on the legacy of Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. She doesn’t understand the pivotal role inequality plays in creating economic crisis and reducing economic growth. She has been taken in by a fundamentally right wing paradigm, and if she is elected she will continue to lead the Democratic Party down that path.