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Populist Reform of the Democratic Party

Fumesucker

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1. Very Serious People are very serious

Reply to robertpaulsen (Original post)

Thu Sep 10, 2015, 07:46 PM

Sep 2015

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Very_Serious_People

"Very Serious People" is a mocking title given to "inside the Beltway"[1] pundits whose views remain "respectable" among centrist politicians — or vice versa — despite either:

being dishonest and self-serving,
presenting facile common sense analyses as Great Wisdom, and
consistently getting political predictions or policy recommendations wrong.

While the term originated from the irreverent blogger Duncan Black (Atrios), it was picked up and popularized by Paul Krugman.[2]

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This is what really pisses me off about the "party leaders." [View all] robertpaulsen Sep 2015 OP

Very Serious People are very serious Fumesucker Sep 2015 #1

Ranks right up there with the Tom Tomorrow adjective 'sensible.' robertpaulsen Sep 2015 #3

they're worried he'll be so popular he won't get any votes? am I reading that right? MisterP Sep 2015 #2

Sounds like the very logic they're employing. robertpaulsen Sep 2015 #4

like when they said DWS should stay in after 2014 because her campaign was perfect MisterP Sep 2015 #5

Perfection is in the eye of the beholder. zeemike Sep 2015 #7

Her 2014 campaign was perfect? Christ, this time Obama was lip synching, not Beyonce. merrily Sep 2015 #10

Well, you can't trust democracy to the people. (nt) jeff47 Sep 2015 #6

"Party leaders" need to get outside the Beltway more often Warpy Sep 2015 #8

Snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory is CharlotteVale Sep 2015 #9