The window for progressive change, to the extent that it may or may not have ever been truly open, is closing, and with it the hopes for holding onto or expanding Democrats’ electoral majorities are dimming. Providing concrete, material benefits to those nearer the bottom than the top of the economic hierarchy is the way to mobilize voters and save democracy. Too bad the mainstream Democrats are so ineffectual at achieving this.
Hepativore October 26, 2021 at 3:03 pm
If anybody has seen Brianna Joy Gray interview with Ro Khanna on Bad Faith, this explains a lot on why the progressive wing of the Democratic Party is so ineffectual.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4c_V4Ff6M90
Ro Khanna basically dodges every one of Gray’s questions and constantly makes excuses for folding in the face of the establishment. It exposes the rotating-villain strategy that the Democrats had all along for preventing the spending bill being anything but a corporate giveaway and privatization scheme.
As anything that could have been useful or beneficial for the general populace has either been stripped out or removed in a futile attempt to appease Manchin or Sinema, I think we can start writing the obituaries right now for the Democrats in the midterms and probably the 2024 presidential election.
Then again, by losing, it will take the spotlight off of the party so they can drop the illusion of doing anything besides appeasing their corporate donors and then the Democrats can go back to their actual goal which is fundraising from said donors.