Mike, Your points are well- taken. Many of necessitate an army of volunteers to do the job. The army of grassroots groups is ready, and capable, yet we continue to fight to get a seat at the table. As soon as all the great work you suggest gets started in one way or another, i would suggest that a seat be offered to the Grassroots Coalitions in every instance where you will be calling upon us to do the work. We are the ones most familiar with those who we need to reach.
The most important thing the Dem Party needs to do is to loudly and thoroughly renounce Neoliberalism, fess-up to the working and middle class about the Party’s complicity in signing-on to Trickle-down economics and Globalization without regard to their impact on the working and middle class, ‘repeal and replace’ the economic policies adopted and still functioning to deny workers a decent wage and a dignified way to make a living — including by restoring a progressive taxation system, restoring the Glass-Steagal banking/finance firewalls, and much, much more.
Neoliberalism as economic policy has basically left the working/middle class in the worst economic shape since the Great Depression. Nothing will win them back to the Dems so long as the Dems leave them as vulnerable and insecure financially as they have become over the last 40 years — since Reagan.
Trump has won middle America by declaring ‘a plague on both party’s houses.” He and the plutocrats who have jumped on his bandwagon will continue to dominate our politics until our Party makes clear that that bandwagon is fueled and driven by billionaire bandits.
I agree with all of this, and I hope the incoming chair of the Democratic Party reads this list.
I'd add that it's critical that we make it clear to the geriatric leadership of the party that their day is done. We need new candidates not vetted by people stuck in the distant past. Nancy Pelosi was great in her day, but that's over. She proved it by backing Gerry Conally, old and sick, instead of the brilliant AOC. It was a stunning combination of punching left and backing the geriatric set.
Nothing will change until people with out-of-date instincts go away.
Mike, Your points are well- taken. Many of necessitate an army of volunteers to do the job. The army of grassroots groups is ready, and capable, yet we continue to fight to get a seat at the table. As soon as all the great work you suggest gets started in one way or another, i would suggest that a seat be offered to the Grassroots Coalitions in every instance where you will be calling upon us to do the work. We are the ones most familiar with those who we need to reach.
The most important thing the Dem Party needs to do is to loudly and thoroughly renounce Neoliberalism, fess-up to the working and middle class about the Party’s complicity in signing-on to Trickle-down economics and Globalization without regard to their impact on the working and middle class, ‘repeal and replace’ the economic policies adopted and still functioning to deny workers a decent wage and a dignified way to make a living — including by restoring a progressive taxation system, restoring the Glass-Steagal banking/finance firewalls, and much, much more.
Neoliberalism as economic policy has basically left the working/middle class in the worst economic shape since the Great Depression. Nothing will win them back to the Dems so long as the Dems leave them as vulnerable and insecure financially as they have become over the last 40 years — since Reagan.
Trump has won middle America by declaring ‘a plague on both party’s houses.” He and the plutocrats who have jumped on his bandwagon will continue to dominate our politics until our Party makes clear that that bandwagon is fueled and driven by billionaire bandits.
I agree with all of this, and I hope the incoming chair of the Democratic Party reads this list.
I'd add that it's critical that we make it clear to the geriatric leadership of the party that their day is done. We need new candidates not vetted by people stuck in the distant past. Nancy Pelosi was great in her day, but that's over. She proved it by backing Gerry Conally, old and sick, instead of the brilliant AOC. It was a stunning combination of punching left and backing the geriatric set.
Nothing will change until people with out-of-date instincts go away.