the Democratic National Committee will begin a multi-round election to choose its new chair. Former President Joe Biden’s appointee, Jamie Harrison, is on his way out, and an array of party insiders and outsiders are competing to replace him.
The DNC’s 448 voting members include hundreds of Democrats elected and selected through state parties, along with smaller numbers of appointees, elected officials, and representatives from party groups like the Young Democrats of America. They will cast ballots for a new chair at a time when the Democratic Party itself is adrift, with no clear leader and no strategy for fighting the Trump agenda or regaining power. As one DNC member told me, “The DNC is not really talking about what went wrong and what we did wrong.”
In writing this piece, I reached out to 427 of the DNC’s 448 voting members and interviewed 19 of them. Those who spoke with me came from ideologically, geographically, and racially diverse backgrounds. They included Democrats from rural and urban communities, grassroots party members, elected officials, and party insiders and critics alike. Most agreed to speak on the condition their names wouldn’t be used.
What emerged from these conversations is a picture of a DNC that is built to be an undemocratic, top-down institution, unable to truly leverage the wisdom and guidance of the DNC members who hail from local and state networks across the country. This is especially true when those local and state members disagree with the DNC’s posture or strategic choices
Members said their meetings don’t feel like a place for participation or governance. They described these gatherings as a combination of party presentations and social time, as opposed to real debates or discussions. During Covid, for instance, one member said that meetings were held via web conference, with the chat function turned off. And while the potential for real decision-making can occur at the DNC committee level, “committees are completely rigged, with the chair appointing whoever they want,” one DNC member told me.
In some ways, the race for DNC chair has itself become a microcosm of this tension between money, transparency, and winning elections. Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party Chair Ken Martin and Wisconsin Democratic Party Chair Ben Wikler are considered the front-runners based on their declared, though likely inflated, DNC vote counts. But neither has disclosed how much money they have raised for their campaigns, who their donors are, or how much they have spent.
Nope, it's idiocy when the alternative is Trump
Your point hinges on the bankrupt idea that diet fascism and diet war crimes arent as bad as what trump will do. But so far the murders have declined and food is flowing to the Palestinians, so your wished for reality does not match actual reality. Your version of reality remains pure speculation designed to deflect accountability.
You know how you marked your ballot. You explicietly endorsed war crimes when you get right down to it. And now you're whining that other people didnt turn out to be as terrible ad personally immoral as you were in your vote. If the US dems had stood up and demanded of their candidate that the killings stop, they would have stopped. But your ilk didnt care enough to do the right thing-- because-- in my opinion, you're human trash, and doing the right thing was just too hard for you. And deep down you know exactly what you did. So you're mad. I get it.
I think Lemmy is sick of your tirades though, and its not really effective is it? can you please stop? Go find some other way to salve your conscience and convince yourself you're actually a decent human being. Read some Emmanuel Kant and do better next time.
That's a lot of words that don't make sense if your single premise "Gaza is doing better under Trump, and the genocide is no longer being committed" is false.
I admire your ideological purity and devotion to a single issue. I hope that makes you feel happy when you gaze out of your ivory tower at the fields of shit your actions have sown. I'm just going to continue doing EVERYTHING I can to help you repair the damage you are too good to stop.
The Democrats are not ideal, but until there is a viable option... I'd rather they be the leopards attempting to eat my face.
Well thank you for the compliment. I admire your moral flexibility and ability to do what you're told. Servants who would sell their souls for an purely tactical outcome in a situations thats manufactured by the buyer, and they know it can be hard to come by. People are so uppity with their illuiosns of free will in their voting, right?
Seriously though: You keep pretending that Harris had no ability or accountability to effect any change in ths election, so the outcome was the sole responsibility of the voters and not the canddiates making policy choices--why is that? all she had to do is utter a single phrase on camera in the week or two before the elction and she would have won. "I beleive whats going on is genocide". It would have cemented the party around a new direction and given people hope that she was going to buck Bidens deeply unpopular policies of all kinds.
But the outcome of her choice to adopt Bidens, "nothing will fundamentally change" mantra is somehow all my fault.
edit: and faced with the idea of Harris being accountable you silently downvote and run for the hills. shocker.
Anyone who voted for Trump or Nobody because of the Democratic party's stance on the ongoing genocide in Gaza made what can only be called an idiotic choice. It was clear what Trump would do and it was Genocide++. Your ballot didn't send a message to the democratic party, so it was an act of autoerotic solipsism.
As long as the protest is symbolic bullshit that's makes you feel better, nothing will fundamentally change. If this matters to you find an active way to solve the problem. Posting away on the Internet while waiting for America to dissolve into individual states is still not going to do shit. Fix the Democratic party instead of giggling at it while Republicans fuck us all
I could not have gotten a better response if I had been writing your response myself. Bravo. Rich irony, thank you. Oh and heres colbert roasting Biden for saying that. Always a good time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_q2LBA38NI
oh! but thats everyone else but Bidens fault now eh! A centrist classic line. Redirection via projection exactly the same as the republicans do. The apple doesnt fall very far, it seems.
Your assigning blame is the same as a child saying it. Its meaningless petulance and assigning everyone else centrisms failures. So please, assign away. Masturbate on the street corner for all I care. Past time to block your lame arse, so bu-bye.