Okay, I'm tired of this nonsense. All the excuses, the people saying "why, why oh but why are the Democrats so weak?"
They're not weak. They're doing their job. They're playing their role.
And their job is to lose.
They play "good cop" to the Republican's "bad cop". It's theater. Our entire political system has been bought by corporate money and now works for them. Being a Congressman of a Senator is just an entry-level job to the Lucrative World of Lobbying.
Even the President has about as much power to run the country as the Student Body President of your high school had to run the damn school. I.e. none. The people who run things hedged their bets a long time ago and they run both parties. Why wouldn't they? Why, if you were a corporate Master of the Universe, would you take a chance with only supporting one party? Well, you wouldn't. You buy both and let them play their game, so you win either way. And that's exactly what they did.
If you want actual change in this country, and if you don't want to sound like a broken record (and believe me, almost everybody here does), you're gonna have to give up on the Democratic Party.
It cannot be changed from within or without. It doesn't want to change. It doesn't even want to HEAR from you. It's doing what it is supposed to do right now, and it's doing it very well.
If you try to change it from within, they will destroy you, like they did Howard Dean. That is if you're lucky to get that far. Chances are you won't.
If you try to change it from without, they simply won't let you. It's impossible.
So where does that leave us?
We have to create a whole new political structure in this country from the ground up.
"Oh, but we don't have time! Things are too urgent!" people whine.
Wrong: you've got nothing BUT time. Because you don't have representation now whatsoever. Democracy is dead in the United States, and until we actually re-create it, there's nothing there. Nothing.
You are 100% disenfranchised.
I'm talking new parties altogether. From scratch, from the bottom up.
It's not like you have a choice.
You don't.
That's what people don't get. They still think there's some choice involved but there most definitely is not.
The sooner everybody figures that out, the better.
In the meantime, sure, keep wondering "why are the Democrats so weak?" Keep wasting your time with that kind of stuff. Smacking yourself in the heads as to "why why why". I just told you why.
Everything that is happening now 100% out of your control.
Deal with it. Create something that you can control.. It might take the rest of your life. But you've got nothing to lose because, well, you've already lost everything.
And people with nothing to lose are the ones who change the world.