College of Political Knowledge

DNC/Democratic Party

Paper #2

I have been warning people since the 1990s about the direction the Democratic Party has taken….in essence they have become the left wing of the conservatives.

Then in the last election when the Dems were handed their asses on a platter the word came out that they would change course and become the true party of the people. (Doubtful in my mind)

Dems have given this country all the major social successes since FDR…..then why are they so impotent?

As opposition to Donald Trump’s autocratic regime has intensified — with a majority of Americans now seeing him as a dictator — it’s been widely noted that the most important difference between elected Democrats isn’t whether they’re “progressive” or “moderate,” but whether they’re willing to fight.

But behind these two distinctions there’s a more important one, the distinction between present-oriented and future-oriented behavior, which provides insight into the Democrats’ longstanding problems and how conservative Republicans have exploited them for decades — a dynamic that ultimately brought us Trump.

I’ve been perplexed for decades by this paradox: The Democratic Party has brought us every major policy advance since at least the New Deal, but is now the party most firmly wedded to status-quo, poll-tested politics. The Republican Party, while growing  increasingly radical and backward-looking, is far more focused on creating fundamental change, if only to return America to an imaginary past golden age.

https://www.salon.com/2025/05/10/why-the-democrats-are-still-stuck-in-the-past/

This is an open letter by Richard Falk to Dems and their direction….

Ever since Trump’s electoral victory in November 2024 I have been receiving multiple daily solicitations for funds to support the Democratic Party, individual Democratic candidates for Congress or State Offices, and notification of worthy campaigns on public issues such as the protection of Social Security, Medicare, and reproductive rights, as well as on voter protection in various forms. I am personally sympathetic with resistance to this perverse Republican effort to dismantle democracy and constitutional governance in the United States by taking giant steps toward legitimating autocratic rule with fascist features.

I expect many will be critical of what I write here as a diversion from attacking the main targets of concern: a White House dangerously out of control, a subjugated Republican Congressional presence, and a Supreme Court that subscribes to the subversive Trump ethos 90% of the time and is due to be further ‘packed’ in coming years. My response: failure calls for self-criticism, and criticism from an ally can be restorative, at least indirectly.

Against this background, I find myself increasingly alienated by procedural and substantive aspects of the chosen approach being taken by the Democratic Party leadership to oppose such an undesirable and dangerous set of developments in the governance of the country. On procedural issues, besides crudely reducing electoral politics to matters of raising money for electoral campaigns, giving the impression that democratic politics is little more than a continuous funding appeal. This is the overt posture of the Democratic Party establishment. I find this turn from ideas to money deeply distressing.

(Please read on very telling of Dem politics)

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/06/a-perspective-of-discontent-an-open-letter-to-democrats/

After their epic failure in the last election a poll was taken of dem voters and their desire….

Democratic voters overwhelmingly prefer a populist program that takes on oligarchy and corporate power over the so-called “abundance agenda” that’s all the rage among many liberals as party leaders examine why they lost the White House and Congress in 2024 and strategize about how to win them back.

That’s according to a new Demand Progress poll of 1,200 registered voters “to test the resonance of the ‘abundance agenda’ being promoted as a potential policy and political refocus for the Democratic Party.”

The poll revealed that 55.6% of all surveyed voters said they were somewhat or much more likely “to vote for a candidate for Congress or president who made the populist argument,” compared with 43.5% who said they were likelier to cast their ballot for a candidate promoting the abundance agenda.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/abundance-agenda

Those results are not overwhelmingly in favor of what they think….plus there is a lot of time for this to swing in the other direction before the next election.

Their promise of changing their evil ways were just fodder for the media and those with half a brain….they are going nuts deep into the world of dark money mimicking the GOP….the return of ‘Blue Dog democrats’….that conservative, oh my bad…centrist…Democrats that love the status quo./…they were around with Clinton ….they are the big money Dems that are just as corruptible as any Repub….

The Blue Dog Coalition, a caucus of centrist House Democrats who have repeatedly blocked their party’s major legislation, will form a new super PAC to accept donations of unlimited size, as well as a new nonprofit group that will not be required to disclose its funders. The coalition’s plans were first reported by the New York Times in an article last week about their appearance at a centrist event, dubbed WelcomeFest.

The Times said that the Blue Dogs have never previously had an independent entity that could take unlimited donations, but the Blue Dogs have long been linked to a group called Center Forward that has a “dark money” advocacy group and a super PAC that has spent millions of dollars to help elect its members. Center Forward was founded in 2010 as the think tank Blue Dog Research Forum, run by a Blue Dog Coalition co-founder, former Rep. Bud Cramer of Alabama, who still chairs Center Forward’s board. The centrist group changed its name in 2012. The Blue Dog PAC has donated at least half a million dollars to Center Forward’s super PAC over the years, according to Federal Election Commission records.

The economically-conservative Blue Dogs, whose numbers have dwindled to 10 members out of 213 House Democrats, have been feeling feisty of late. At WelcomeFest, held in D.C. on June 4 and co-sponsored by the Blue Dog PAC, three Blue Dogs appeared, including co-chair Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington, with Reps. Jared Golden of Maine, who was one of its prior co-chairs, and Adam Gray of California. WelcomeFest speakers argued that centrists should have even more control over the Democratic Party’s messaging and budgets, and made the case to sideline progressive groups like Indivisible.

https://readsludge.com/2025/06/11/corporate-funded-blue-dog-dems-plan-new-super-pac-and-dark-money-group/

The Dems have not changed from their evil ways that began with Clinton and his band of thugs.

The Progressives that are attempting to put the party back on their original intent are few and far between…..the one bright spot was when David Hogg became vice chair of the DNC and he made waves immediately calling for a change and for a challenge to the rich incumbents …..well the ‘Good Ol’ Boys Club’ within the party have successfully rid themselves of the only commonsense voice the DNC had for the coming fight.

David Hogg, the 25-year-old activist who stirred controversy within the Democratic National Committee over his plans to challenge party incumbents, has announced his resignation as vice chair after weeks of internal strife and a forced re-election vote. Hogg, a survivor of the 2018 Parkland school shooting, had been planning to use his outside group, Leaders We Deserve, to fund primary challenges against sitting Democratic lawmakers, reports the New York Times. He said he aimed to raise up to $20 million to push for “generational change” within the party, per the Times.

Hogg’s moves drew criticism from party officials, with the Hill reporting earlier this week that frustration with him had reached a “boiling point.” DNC chairman Ken Martin had tried to bar Hogg from engaging in primaries and pushed for new bylaws to prevent party leaders from such involvement. Hogg was the only officer who refused to sign a neutrality pledge regarding primaries. The situation was further complicated by a leaked audio recording from a DNC meeting, for which multiple officials blamed Hogg. A complaint about the February election that initially seated Hogg and another vice chair, Malcolm Kenyatta, led to the call for a new vote. Hogg, citing ongoing disagreements and a desire to avoid further distraction, chose not to run again.

“It’s clear that there is a fundamental disagreement about the role of a Vice Chair,” he wrote in his resignation letter, adding that the party should focus on more important matters. Party leaders, including Martin, expressed respect for Hogg’s decision. Kenyatta is now running unopposed for the male vice chair role, with new elections beginning Thursday, per Politico. Hogg’s outside group endorsed a candidate in a Virginia Democratic primary earlier this week but has not yet targeted any incumbents. The episode illustrates the internal divisions at the DNC as it tries to regroup ahead of the next election cycle.

A shame that a voice for progress has been silenced within the DNC….but that was expected since the status quo must remain….why?  Easy Dems are stuck in the past….

As opposition to Donald Trump’s autocratic regime has intensified — with a majority of Americans now seeing him as a dictator — it’s been widely noted that the most important difference between elected Democrats isn’t whether they’re “progressive” or “moderate,” but whether they’re willing to fight.

But behind these two distinctions there’s a more important one, the distinction between present-oriented and future-oriented behavior, which provides insight into the Democrats’ longstanding problems and how conservative Republicans have exploited them for decades — a dynamic that ultimately brought us Trump.

I’ve been perplexed for decades by this paradox: The Democratic Party has brought us every major policy advance since at least the New Deal, but is now the party most firmly wedded to status-quo, poll-tested politics. The Republican Party, while growing  increasingly radical and backward-looking, is far more focused on creating fundamental change, if only to return America to an imaginary past golden age.

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The party as an organization is almost entirely focused on the first three levels, with no coherent focus on the future, and thus no experienced need to reconcile present- and future-orientations. I’m not saying Democrats don’t have ideas about the future; they do. But they are forever putting new wine in old bottles, and that’s the fundamental source of the Democrats’ recurring problems, from high-level failures of issue-framing and communication to nitty-gritty organizing failures typified by the feckless abandonment of the 50-state strategy. I’ll cite some examples of how this manifests.

https://www.salon.com/2025/05/10/why-the-democrats-are-still-stuck-in-the-past/

The Dems will continue their spineless approach to government and the people they claim to represent….the winners will be the bank accounts of the candidates and the losers will be their supporters….that would be you and me.

We have enough of spectators in our system….the only thing the Dems have accomplished is their wallets have grown and they have become fat and lazy.

It is definitely time for a new Progressive Party to actually go after the challenges of the nation….but will they ever come around and see the errors of their ways?

Doubtful in my lifetime.

Any thoughts?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

 

+++ Today I start more doctors and such so this will be all I have for today….after spending hours at the hospital I just want to relax and try to forget all the crap to come from these cancers.+++