Nope. I think both should be replaced. Pelosi being leader for 15 years is reason enough. But I don't have a preconceived loathing of them, which is what's required to think Dore is funny or insightful in those clips.
Why would you replace them? Pelosi is a master legislator who is well on her way to raising 1 billion dollars from the donor class. She's a natural leader, because she hands out so much money to everyone, even those against her! Feinstein is a true patriot, doing her bit for the endless wars and surveillance of you and all your countrymen (and mine probably too). As for medicare: If it means a government take-over, she's not quite there yet. She will never be there.
Unity in the land of the brave and the free! We put our values on the ballot, and strive for the double-penetration-bipartisanship all those poor deplorables so obviously long for. Or should. Because they have nowhere else to go. God shed his grace on America! And justice for all! Good things! We want good things!
His main ethos (which you obviously share) seems to be that running on progressive ideas like medicare for all and free college tuition will win elections. I support those positions, but assuming that corporate democrats, independents, and conservatives are going to suddenly come to their senses is magical thinking. 78 Justice Democrats tried that, and less than 10% were elected to office. American ideas are deeply entrenched.
Conditioned propaganda is deeply entrenched, you mean, to the point that you obligingly regurgitate it, like a good pupil who will do everything to get a pat on the head from the teacher. But it has always been wrong, and it's more wrong now than ever. Have you been following polling on these issues? Even a majority of Republican voters are favourable to many of these policies.
Or like stupid, pontificating, petty, shitty Jimmy Dore says in the video below:
People's attitudes are progressive in the country. They just don't know it. And they're caught up in this Republican-Democrat... They can't, cause they hate... For instance, you go to a Red State, they just hate the Democrats, and they see all the negatives about them. And even if they're for a good thing, they can't bring themselves a lot of times to vote for them.
But many of them are for things like a living wage, ending the wars, ending student debt, medicare for all. They're just brainwashed to think they're against it because of corporate
hypocrites like the Clintons, Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, and so on. That's the whole idea. Republicans and Corporate Democrats, they both play their respective roles in keeping the status quo, so that concentrated wealth continues to grow at exponential rates.
Unless you want to murder the over 55 white population, socialism has a very steep path to gain a majority.
You're making that path even steeper with your conditioned nonsense. Yes, we see the over 55 population on this forum too, making sure that the radicals are fought every inch of the way, just so their standard of living, their conditioned consumerist addiction, isn't compromised. They're aware of the serious risks AGW is posing, but still they can't bring themselves to step one foot outside of their incrementalism bubble. Because subconsciously they're afraid of losing even 1% of the comfort they have.
Tolstoy has explained all this 150 years ago, as have many other before and after him. I thought climate risk deniers were the big problem, but it's actually the people who think they are liberal and green, while actually being conservative, reactionary, and authoritarian with their mechanistic, materialistic, heavily conditioned way of thinking, who are an even bigger hurdle to take.
That's the number 1 thing I've learned on this forum. That even the smartest of people are actually dumb because they have zero insight into themselves. They cling to their identity and conditioning, to their need of an enemy, to their little socio-economic bubble, oblivious of universal principles and the needs and feelings of people who have it worse than them.
But there are many, many other people, younger people, poorer people, wiser people, who want the system to change, and change fast.
There are too many American-exceptionalist theocrats. Progressive ideas will grow mostly through demographic change, which will take time. Some pieces will come sooner, probably medicare for all. Someone like Bernie may win the presidency, but socialists won't get control of government without help from Democrats in red states. We should promote socialism, but pontificating like Dore is a waste of time.
Time is irrelevant if you're going to take it slow like you propose. You've already lost, you're already dead if you think that way. Do you even take something like AGW seriously? Or are just here to please the mommy and daddy in your head? Don't be so weak and wishy-washy, sounding all moderate and rational. I don't care if it's 'socialism' or whatever stupid label you want to put on it, it's time for a radical vision to save what can still be saved.
It is you who is making the path steep, with your inability to even explain the real reasons for why people like Pelosi and Feinstein should be shoved aside. "Because the Republicans! Because Trump!" Stop being so afraid and weak, and actually stand for what is right! You only have this one life!