The party that I am talking about is the democratic Party….in recent years it has become a neocon party of war policies.

I recently wrote a piece about the Biden legacy before the election…..

The Biden Legacy

The Party has proven that it is a pro-war party vote after vote in the Congress….and the legacy that it is leaving behind as it vacates the White House and Congress is strikingly horrible….

When a political party loses its legitimacy, its traditional priorities and moral compass, its candidates lose elections. Opting not to hold an open convention, which would have tested political viability, the DNC (acting on the President’s recommendation) invited Kamala Harris to replace Biden on the ticket.  For many Democrats, the lack of a competitive primary undermined the legitimacy of process.

In a misguided effort to attract anti-Trump Republicans, Harris  enlisted conservative Republican Liz Cheney  to join her on the campaign trail. This  strategy  failed.  The Republicans stuck with Trump or voted third party.  In the effort, Harris alienated many core supporters who saw her cave on such  issues as  fracking, immigration and health care.  Her policy backtracking was another blow to party legitimacy.

An even more delegitimizing strategy was to take for granted the support of working-class voters and labor unions. Both UAW President Shawn Fain and  Senator Bernie Sanders were noticeably absent from Harris’ campaign events, which included instead entertainment celebrities and Cheney.  Commenting on the election outcome, Bernie said it “should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.”

The possibly heaviest, blow to party legitimacy was the large defection of progressives and other Democrats who were horrified by the ongoing genocide in Gaza and by the continued transfer of U.S. weaponry to Israel for its wars in both Gaza and Lebanon. Harris lost the popular count by five million votes. At the same time, she finished 12 million votes below the 81.2 million votes Biden received in 2020. Where did those missing Democratic voters go?

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/11/20/the-democratic-war-party-and-its-loss-of-legitimacy/

I have watched the party slide into the clutches of the defense industry (the war cartel) for the last decades, pretty much since 1992, and now it is the paid agent of the industry of war.

Sadly I do not foresee any changes on the horizon.

Thoughts?

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“lego ergo scribo”