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Because they are pursuing the agenda given to them by their corporate overlords, the same overlords that think fascism is good for business.
They're on the same team. That's why,
everyone is just paralyzed, coping on a "return to normal" (ie. unsustainable ratfucking) when trump finally croaks...
imo...when that doesn't happen is when shit goes from bad to worse real fucking quick
Truly.
Kissinger lived to be 100, so I wish that weren't the plan. Evil endures.
The Democratic party is run by a bunch of people 70+ years old who are compromised and stuck in their ways. They are out of touch with the country and are only focused on being elected and staying elected, not running a country. Get them out of politics and to the retirement home.
Well, there is a massive crowd of people, even here, who doggedly defend the Democrat leadership with some variant of other of "they're better than the Republicans".
That aged, compromised, out of touch and stuck in their ways leadership has pretty much zero pressure to change and over the years has even increasingly relied on "vote us to stop the other guys" a their main campaign strategy.
Everytime some Democrat Party tribalist blames non-voters for their own party's electoral defeat after having used the "vote for the lesser evil" strategy once again, they're displaying a complete total lack of mid or long term view (just ponder on what's the natural evolution of management style for people whose personality type is 'seeks power' when their only limit for 'doing bad things' is 'less than those other guys who sell Racism and Violence') and just keep on digging that specific hole for their party.
Looking from the outside, maybe there's hope for the future of the Democrat Party through people like Zandani in NY, but my own experience in Britain with Corbyn is that the well entrenched "establishment" will doggedly fight against such people and even shamelessly ally with their supposed adversaries from "the other party" in order to stop such internal challengers trying to change the direction of the party back towards left of center.
I would tell them to get real jobs, but they're old enough to retire.
They are also rich enough to retire, you can't take it with you fellas time to move along and spend some of those bribes.
If widespread and sustained, grassroots activism could force the Democratic party leadership to stop blocking policy proposals that offer major uplift to huge numbers of Americans in economic and social distress
People already tried with Bernie Sanders’ campaign, twice. And twice they were crushed by undemocratic practices designed to favor the preferred puppet. The capitalists have a stranglehold on the party machine. They will never let their interests be challenged.
The Democratic Party is the controlled opposition.
I don’t see the party being even able to achieve all the progressive goals federally any time soon, but I do think they could be implemented on a state by state level.
New Mexico for instance just rolled out a free/subsidized childcare program. So these progressive programs are possible to be rolled out to Blue states, and then we can try to tell these working programs to people living in purple and red states.
States should focus on trying to roll out universal healthcare and Universal Basic Income in their states, imo. Higher minimum wages as well. Make Blue states so good that people without those programs will be wanting to replace their leadership for one that will implement those programs.
Because they care more about upholding their privilege and serving their donors and class interests than "winning" of course its not a question.
I read the whole thing and found it very interesting and agreed with it. As many Democrats hate accepting it is a party for and by the rich.
Didn't read but came here to say this. It's not OUR party and I question whether it ever really has been.
The Democratic Party is the party of the wealthy people who don't like the policies of the wealthy people who run the Republican Party.
There is no way that we'll ever have a government for the people until we pass campaign finance reform, and the wealthy people who run the parties don't want that to happen.
If we can't get giant popular sentiment to do something like push for a constitutional amendment, then the best we can ever hope for is tiny baby steps.
There is no way that we’ll ever have a government for the people until we pass campaign finance reform, and the wealthy people who run the parties don’t want that to happen.
This exactly. They won't give that up by themselves. Simple greed.
Can this even be solved democratically, i.e. without some sort of revolution?
Theoretically? Maybe. If a critical mass of people started voting in primaries for candidates who promise that then followed through with voting in the general. Then primaried them the second they veered off the path.
In reality? That's not going to happen. Moneyed interests, entrenched systems, lying jackasses, and low information voters will stand in the way.
We need a recall method. No confidence mechanism.
The thing is, if you can't convince people to vote, you're not going to convince them to revolt. It's orders of magnitude easier to fill in a bubble sheet than it is to take up arms and risk your life.
Is that the only sort of revolution there is?
Is there a sort that requires less risk and effort than filling out a bubble sheet?
That's not what I meant.
What did you mean?
Because they're hooked on the corporate donations drip just like their counterpart - only slightly less.
They just do whatever the megadonors want. The party’s done. Incapable of change.
Democrats enabled Donald Trump to become president twice
I *knew* everything was the Democrats’ fault! Those lousy Democrats and their rich elitist ways.
Do you think the DNC running unpopular candidates with the branding of "I'm not as bad as the new Hitler" was a good idea?
I reject the premise. Harris was a good candidate.
That said, in a binary system between Hitler / Not Hitler, that should have been enough. Do you think not voting for Harris because she didn't give everyone a pony was a good idea?
The Democratic Party consistently over-estimates the intelligence of the average American.
Your party tried to convince people who were suffering that the economy was great, really.