Good questions and points. Bucking the establishment can be incredibly difficult, of course. The Democratic Party, as you know, is typically hostile to progressives. So much so that Ralph Nader steered clear of it for his Presidential runs - mistakenly so, in my view. And progressives were unable to mount a serious progressive threat even in this year's Presidential primary campaign - which ultimately led to the party's defeat, during these now intensely populist times. Jesse Jackson certainly had plenty of financial inducements not to run after his two remarkable campaigns. I assume there was a complex mix of reasons. I think one thing seems certain. Had the internet and social media - the people's media - existed during Jackson's runs, it seems that not only would he have been likely to run again but that he would have been the favorite to win. Despite Con Don Trump's recent win, the internet and the people's media is remaking the country and world as progressive populist, as opposed to pseudo populist. Chaotic populists are mixing in too. The way of the world, really. Only more so now. In a sane and humane world, the progressive populists will pervasively prevail, and transform life, revolutionize the peoples and the planet. Meanwhile, the world fights desperately for both its sanity and humanity in these ever more transparently vicious, genocidal, and terminal times.
What happened to Jessie Jackson after 1988? His success in 1988 looked like he was well on the way to using the Rainbow Coalition to drive a truly powerful progressive campaign to take over the Democratic Party from inside in 1992.
I will never understand why so many enthusiasts for third parties have learned nothing from the right-wing takeover of the Republican Party from inside. So I view Jackson's failure to continue as one of the great unexplained tragedies of U.S. political history.
Has anyone ever written a well-informed analysis of why Jackson left the field when he did? If so, please post a reply with a link to sources to this comment. And thanks!
Good questions and points. Bucking the establishment can be incredibly difficult, of course. The Democratic Party, as you know, is typically hostile to progressives. So much so that Ralph Nader steered clear of it for his Presidential runs - mistakenly so, in my view. And progressives were unable to mount a serious progressive threat even in this year's Presidential primary campaign - which ultimately led to the party's defeat, during these now intensely populist times. Jesse Jackson certainly had plenty of financial inducements not to run after his two remarkable campaigns. I assume there was a complex mix of reasons. I think one thing seems certain. Had the internet and social media - the people's media - existed during Jackson's runs, it seems that not only would he have been likely to run again but that he would have been the favorite to win. Despite Con Don Trump's recent win, the internet and the people's media is remaking the country and world as progressive populist, as opposed to pseudo populist. Chaotic populists are mixing in too. The way of the world, really. Only more so now. In a sane and humane world, the progressive populists will pervasively prevail, and transform life, revolutionize the peoples and the planet. Meanwhile, the world fights desperately for both its sanity and humanity in these ever more transparently vicious, genocidal, and terminal times.
What happened to Jessie Jackson after 1988? His success in 1988 looked like he was well on the way to using the Rainbow Coalition to drive a truly powerful progressive campaign to take over the Democratic Party from inside in 1992.
I will never understand why so many enthusiasts for third parties have learned nothing from the right-wing takeover of the Republican Party from inside. So I view Jackson's failure to continue as one of the great unexplained tragedies of U.S. political history.
Has anyone ever written a well-informed analysis of why Jackson left the field when he did? If so, please post a reply with a link to sources to this comment. And thanks!