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The US Democratic Party is a patronage network for political donations and jobs in the field. This operation is successful on its own terms.
Awareness of political realities will move the conversation away from the totally fake, very well reinforced narrative that they are an opposition political party in the business of opposing anything, much less anything risky.
We can expect that some of the bourgeois class are looking at the Republicans' destructiveness as not working in their best interest.
We should expect some of the forces capital to support more Democrats to take more decisive action.
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Yeah, yeah, we know all that. You're still stuck in the past, and have voluntarily surrendered to MAGA. Or perhaps, you're just a MAGA troll or bot, trying to discourage Democratic activism. I saw lots of that on Reddit, and I'm seeing it increase on Lemmy - "Both sides are against us, it's already over, there's nothing we can do but lie down and take it."
We have a two party system, like it or not. Both parties have been compromised, but that doesn't mean they have to stay that way. I've watched the Republicans spend 40 years morphing into MAGA, because their activists didn't just surrender to the status quo, they worked hard to take control of their party, and then turn it into the psychopathic race police they always wanted to be, and apparently pedophiles, too, as well as the opportunity to loot our government for personal gain.
They decided to go that direction, but there is no reason that Dems can't do the same thing with their party, and force them to reconfigure their operation to reflect the values and demands of their voters. Republicans accommodated the Racists and Pedophiles in their party, the Democratic Party can reconfigure to accommodate the Humanists in theirs.
Your right, we'll never get anywhere with the OLD Democratic Party, so let's make a new one that reflects the values of the good, decent, moral people of this country.
Respectfully, you don't know me. I am no MAGA and it's not over.
In the 50+ years since the Southern Strategy, do you see evidence that the Democratic Party is capable of systemic change, much less of leading the country toward it?
The two-party system has driven untold misery at home and abroad. What most Americans see as our past stability, many other humans see as looting the globe and driving its people into poverty and servitude.
The idea that change can only ever come through voting and elected representatives, around here, that's called electoralism. No shade, many people of goodwill thought that was the best they could do. The most casual reading of history shows clear alternative paths.
FYI the Indivisible campaign in the US has attempted your proposal, Tea Party strategy from the liberal "left"
You won't catch me defending the Democratic party, I've been an Unafilliated Independent since I first registered to vote in 1977. I hate both parties, and don't want to be a member of either club. Instead, I belong to the largest group of voters - Independents.
But I also recognize that it is a two party system, and right now, the party that would be the most likely to influence toward our side is the Democratic Party. That's just reality.
Throughout the 80s and 90s, I watched the Republicans totally reconfigure their party into a powerhouse, mostly through the careful growth and deployment of the Conservative Propaganda Machine, until they created the monster called the Tea Party, which eventually embraced MAGA. They played a long term game, and won.
The Dems need to do get in the game, and reconfigure their party for the future battle, and they don't have the luxury of decades to do it. They have to strike hard and fast, and WE have to force them to do it.
If they don't, if we allow them to lay back and take it once more, we are likely to lead to Civil War, Balkanization, perhaps worse.
I'm still trying to fight back while we still have legitimate legal options like elections to justify any later actions that need to be taken. I'm also still hoping that these Dumb Apes will be undone by their own virtuosic incompetence. Give them enough rope, and they'll hang themselves, and they're already trying to tie a noose, so there is progress on that front.
The only problem is how much damage they'll do along the way, so it's imperative to do anything we can to speed their downfall.