The Democrats' Project 2029 takes up the unique strategy of getting the very people who drove their party into the disastrous rut it is now stuck in to come up with the ideas that will get it out.
I feel ya. I also am very irritated by the tendency of people to say things that are “so brave” and seem to think that they’ve achieved something. It’s too bad I did a bit of that myself there. I don’t know what sort of plan there could be. I think the reality is that the situation is messed up in a way that only wealthy powerful people could effectively fix, and good luck getting them to do that.
I feel like supporting people like Mamdani, especially locally, is the best we’ve got. Yes, I realize the intense irony of the fact that he’s literally a member of the Democratic Party, but he’s far on the leftmost side of it. I was seeing some other good discussions about how parties can change over time. I think it may be possible to drag the Democratic Party kicking and screaming to the left over time, and the way to do it is to absolutely put a stop to “blue no matter who” voting mentalities. They may be the good cop, but they still want their personal money and power. There is some legitimate competition there between the parties: competition about who gets to rig the system most in the favor of their sponsors/companies/etc. As long as people vote “blue no matter who”, the party has literally no incentive to offer more liberal candidates.
I feel ya. I also am very irritated by the tendency of people to say things that are “so brave” and seem to think that they’ve achieved something. It’s too bad I did a bit of that myself there. I don’t know what sort of plan there could be. I think the reality is that the situation is messed up in a way that only wealthy powerful people could effectively fix, and good luck getting them to do that.
I feel like supporting people like Mamdani, especially locally, is the best we’ve got. Yes, I realize the intense irony of the fact that he’s literally a member of the Democratic Party, but he’s far on the leftmost side of it. I was seeing some other good discussions about how parties can change over time. I think it may be possible to drag the Democratic Party kicking and screaming to the left over time, and the way to do it is to absolutely put a stop to “blue no matter who” voting mentalities. They may be the good cop, but they still want their personal money and power. There is some legitimate competition there between the parties: competition about who gets to rig the system most in the favor of their sponsors/companies/etc. As long as people vote “blue no matter who”, the party has literally no incentive to offer more liberal candidates.