#jerome segal

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gracefulness is not possible when life is frenetic, when we are harried, or suffer from overload

~jerome segal, graceful simplicity

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Politics | New party not the way to go

by WC Worker Staff

In response to: Baker, T. (2018, August 20). Former candidate requests sanction of socialist party. The Herald-Mail, pp. A1, A2.

You win some, you lose some as the saying goes. This past Democratic primary election was one of the losses for Jerome Segal of Montgomery County who ran for a Maryland U.S. Senate seat against incumbent Ben Cardin. Unfortunately, the retired UMD professor of philosophy is not letting his loss go.

Instead, Segal turned in a petition to Maryland Board of Elections with more than enough signatures to form a new party in the state—the Bread and Roses Party. One might think that a Democratic Socialist website would laud the emergence of a socialist party in its home state. However, the Washington County Worker believes that this is a step in the wrong direction for democratic socialism and for the poor and working class.

Despite Prof. Segal's loss, Democratic Socialists and progressives supporting Democratic Socialist policies have won major victories in primaries across America this year. Bernie Sanders continues to remain Vermont's go-to Democratic nominee despite running as an open Democratic Socialist. In New York, DSA member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez unseated longtime incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley and former Sex in the City star Cynthia Nixon won the party's nomination for governor. Here in Maryland, Ben Jealous—who is not a Democratic Socialist but supports many policies supported by Democratic Socialists—won to party's nomination for governor.

These are important victories for Democratic Socialism but, more importantly, these candidates are not going to be splitting the left's vote and paving the way for Republican wins. Given the structure of electoral politics in America being governed by the nation's two capitalist-controlled parties, independent political parties rarely gain offices and never receive platforms in the capitalist-controlled mass media. The result—symbolic votes that have the potential to sway an election in favor of a Republican Party that is drifting toward a more divisive and fascistic vision of America.

The Washington County Worker supports the idea of forming a Democratic Socialist Party. However, if that party is to go beyond the meager presence of other independent parties in the public eye, it must use strategies other than those failed methods used by those parties. Starting a party that will be taking votes away from Democratic Socialists and progressives working within the Democratic Party is not the way to go.

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Normalizing pedophilia & bestiality: Democrat Senate candidate Jerome Segal's campaign ad

Normalizing pedophilia & bestiality: Democrat Senate candidate Jerome Segal’s campaign ad

Jerome Segal, 74, is a Democratic primary candidate for the U.S. Senate in Maryland.

On June 22, 2018, Anna Masoglia, a writer for Lawyerist.com, tweeted that Segal paid at least $25,464 for a campaign ad in the Washington Post.

In the ad, Segal identifies himself as a socialist and begins by asking his potential voters a series of bizarre, politics-unrelated, non sequiturquestions on pedophilia…

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Israel squandered any chance for peace, years ago, for a phony "victory"

Israel squandered any chance for peace, years ago, for a phony “victory”

Never forget! — Michael Longari/AFP/Getty Images

Alongside the toll of death and broken lives, perhaps the saddest reality of the latest Gaza war, like the Gaza wars before it, is how easy it would have been to avoid. For the last eight years, Israel and the U.S. had repeated opportunities to opt for a diplomatic solution in Gaza. Each time, they have chosen war, with devastating consequences for…

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