‘They roll right over’: Many Democrats call their party weak and ineffective, AP-NORC poll finds
Best Wishes and Hugs,
Scottie
‘They roll right over’: Many Democrats call their party weak and ineffective, AP-NORC poll f inds
‘They roll right over’: Many Democrats call their party weak and ineffective, AP-NORC poll finds
Best Wishes and Hugs,
Scottie
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Maybe if the Dems worked harder at what they do, it would be less ‘weak”. Just a thought.
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Hi Judy. True, but the senior leadership oof the Democratic Party are worried about offending the wealthy donor class. Most of what the people want are against what the donor class want. The younger Democratic Party members follow the small donor model of AOC and Bernie along with Warren I think. The senior members are addicted to the big corporate money just as the Republican Party are. Hugs
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The Party’s response to the Republicans has been somewhat lacklustre and disappointment is understandable. It is however important not to give up on the voting system. Not to vote means gains for the Republicans.
There are times when you find yourself gritting your teeth and going for the least worst alternative, in the hope that it will in turn improve.
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Hi Roger. Yes it is important to vote. But as the Democratic Party ahas moved further and further right as the senior party members chased ever more corporate and wealthy donor support, it got much harder for the progressive left wing to grit our teeth and vote for the democrat. We keep getting told by the party leadership to “vote blue no matter who” repeatedly. Yet when Zohran Mamdani won the democratic nominee with the largest ever democratic turn out by young people the party leadership won’t endorse him. Why because off the record they are telling people that they fear it will hurt their midterm fundraising. So ignoring the voters the party has worked hard to reach out to because they want to please the wealthy is more important to the party leadership than winning elections. Because that still brings in the money which is what they want more than making the people happy. And by party leadership I am including all the strategist and campaign people who keep losing elections but demand to be listened too for the next election and hired by the candidates. Hugs
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Hopefully Scottie one of two things will happen:
1. A new party will arise, mostly from the wreckage. Something along the lines of the old Whig Party of the early 19th century being replaced by the Republican Party OF Abraham Lincoln.
2. A grass roots activist movement will take hold of the Democrat Party. appealing to the angry, the dispossessed, the disillusioned and folk who care about democracy.
The current Republican Party and its wealthy backers may think they can keep hold. They may seem to in the short term. Their structure however cannot hold not without them showing their true colours, and that will not sit well with a substantial portion of American.
If all goes well it will be a peaceful, albeit messy realignment.
This is what I hope.
Take care
Roger & Sheila
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Hi Roger. You are a wonderful source of information and history for me. I hope you are correct. I really do. I have seen and been posting graphs of how bad the economy has gotten for the lower incomes as the huge money shift to the upper incomes after Reagan’s famous “trickle down economy” bull. The only thing that trickled down was pain and suffering while the public flow of money shortened by the huge siphon up to the upper incomes of all the money in the economy. Hugs
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Thank you Scottie for your kind words. I do like History it’s a great teacher, although hard work at times, particularly when sources or historians conflict 😄.
It is an historical fact that in the words of the old song ‘An’t We Got Fun’
‘There’s nothin’ surer
The rich get rich
And the poor get poorer’
And in the UK, there’s an older take on the subject:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_Was_Poor_but_She_Was_Honest
Things don’t change do they?
And yet folk fall for this ‘tax cuts’ con, all the time.
Take care you guys.
Roger & Sheila.
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Hi Roger. The phrase that sticks with me that can be used for so many situations is the one below. Hugs
It’s the same the whole world over,
It’s the poor what gets the blame,
It’s the rich what gets the pleasure,
Isn’t it a blooming shame?
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Quite so.
The folk at the bottom of the heap can often see quite clearly what is going on.
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