As the midterms inch closer and closer…..the common thought is there will be a blue wave in November.
Will that change anything?
Nope just a few faces in Congress and the usual banter will stay and nothing will get done…..as usual.
Let’s be real….the Dems lose voters every time they open their mouths….this op-ed says it all….
The Dems have nothing to offer the voter at this time other than to replace some MAGA twats…
What will that accomplish for the next two years?
No seriously….what will that accomplish?
Even as Democratic party leaders retreat into caution, empty rhetoric and procedural theater amid the rise of fascism in the United States, many ordinary Americans have stopped waiting for them. Across the country, including in my Chicago neighborhood, people have begun organizing among themselves to protect our immigrant neighbors and friends from state violence enacted by ICE, with measures including rapid-response phone trees, volunteers monitoring ICE and vulnerable neighborhood areas, mutual aid funds for detained neighbors, and community groups sharing legal resources and safe shelter.
These efforts are emerging not because the Democratic party has suddenly discovered courage and principle, but precisely because it has not. People are stepping in where their political representatives have cowered, choosing to defend their neighbors directly rather than waiting for permission from institutions that have proven unwilling to act. These acts are small, improvised and often invisible outside the communities within which they occur, but they reveal something essential: democracy does not begin with politicians and institutions that promise to save us. It begins when people decide they will not abandon one another. Following that instinct – to build the care and protection we need ourselves rather than defer to a thoroughly corrupted two-party system – is essential for broader democratic renewal. If that spreads, if Americans insist that good government grows from the bottom up rather than the top down and refuse to let grassroots movements be co-opted for politicians’ careers that put party loyalties over care for people in need, then the possibility of a real democracy may yet live.
It is no secret that I have not found anything the Dems have done in the last few decades as good for the people they claim to represent…..yes there was ACA but Obama let the industry write that act so who do you think it would benefit the most?
There is the problem….special interests have the final say on most legislation….we are not the major concern just to keep them happy and the loot pouring in.
We need a change….PERIOD!
Change is NOT coming just more of the same hollow promises and the same corruption that infest DC.
The Dems problems are bigger than the local stories in the news these days….
It will be tempting for Democrats to blame the Graham Platner mess on the inept vetting of a single candidate. But the editorial board of the New York Times argues that the fiasco illustrates a larger problem for the party, and not just in Maine. Democrats keep pouring their hopes into compelling personalities instead of a clear governing agenda, the editors write. “The next charismatic outsider will struggle to succeed if there is nothing solid beneath the charisma,” they warn. “Personality is not a platform.” The editorial points to a pattern: a self-described “big tent” party with remarkably little open debate over what it actually wants to do on major issues.
On immigration, for example, Democrats oppose President Trump’s aggressive tactics, but what do they propose beyond that in terms of who should be allowed in, and how? The same lack of clarity is found on housing costs, public education, the coming disruption from artificial intelligence, and more. Voters, including many Democrats, see a party they describe as weak or ineffective, a notion reinforced by a vague post-2024 “autopsy” that dodged specifics. The Democratic Party, in short, needs a message more than a messenger. “It is a party still hoping a contender will spare it the harder work of deciding what it stands for.”
Read the full piece.
Your establishment Dems have a new plan for the party, Promise To America, and it is the same spineless crap they have been feeding the population for decades….
Centrist Democratic politicians, upset by the wins of Democratic Socialists in the recent primaries, have issued a statement of their convictions. Called “The Promise to America,” it sounds good, responding to many of the problems we face. But they are empty promises, even if well-meant.
How can I say that? First, Democrats have been saying similar things for years. Yet despite the rhetoric, the people are hurting. Why? It’s not just because of Trump and the Republicans; it’s because the government—Democrats as well as Republicans—have lost sight of the meaning and implications of our founding principles. It is to those principles that Democrats must dedicate themselves. See my article, “People are Hurting – The U.S. Must Return to Our Founding Principles.”
https://thefulcrum.us/democracy/democratic-party-reform-2677168767
It is a yawn! Do Not fall for the promise that is nothing more than an appeasement to try and counter the progressive trend.
But there is a glimmer of hope….
Progressive candidates have swept to victory against establishment opponents in Democratic primary races across the US, including on Tuesday, as voters turn out in support of working-class champions who have spurned corporate money and vowed to pursue transformative change at the national, state, and local levels.
The Working Families Party (WFP) celebrated a five-for-five sweep for the US House candidates it backed in California primaries, as Mai Vang, Connie Chan, Aisha Wahab, Randy Villegas, and Angela Gonzales-Torres each advanced to the November general election. As Common Dreams reported, Villegas—who is running to unseat incumbent Rep. David Valadao (R-Calif.)—advanced despite the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s intervention in support of his opponent Jasmeet Bains, a corporate Democrat.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/progressives-win-democratic-primaries
We can only hope that this trend continues and that voters are starting to wake up.
You will hear more about WFP in the near future.
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