No Tooth Fairy. No Easter Bunny. No Count Dracula, no Bigfoot, no Santa Clause, no Loch Ness Monster.
And there is no progressive Democratic party.
I feel badly about breaking your hearts, but it's all a facade. It's not that they are incompetent, or wimpy, or disorganized, or unsophisticated. It's that it doesn't exist.
It's a shell game, a con. It's marketing noise, smoke and mirrors.
The party is still run by wealthy old white men who refer to black colleagues as "Negroes". It's still run by corporatists and lobbyists and prostitutes. It's still run by lying liars and the moneyed interests that write their scripts. And no one person, no matter how smart and how hard-working and how determined to create change will ever change the power dynamics of the republicratistocracy.
I am sorry to break this to you but after you elect them, they don't care about you and your volunteered hours or your donations or your letters to the editor or your calls to the office. They don't care about your lack of health care or your children fighting pointless wars or the fact that you cannot afford a decent education. Your unemployment sucks for you. They don't care about your civil rights or your human rights or what's right. They promise you things because you like to hear it, like to believe, it's so much easier to believe. Again and again against all evidence.
Sure, they'll put up a good front and make you think they care. And yes there are few of them who actually have convictions but they are marginalized and beaten down and "unelectable" and in the end those few just decide to give up and join the boys for martinis at the club.
And yes Democratic politicians have more compassion for humanity than the other side. But that's not saying much. And at least the other side is up front about who they represent.
They know they have you. Who else are you going to vote for?
Just this one more chance, this time I am really in your corner, I promise.
I don't know what we are waiting for. What more confirmation we still need when a super majority cannot and will not pass legislation to protect the basic needs of its people, when those people have elected them to do so.
It's time to build a new party that completes with the other two. This is supposed to be a representative democracy. Every day that passes the country continues to suffer and disintegrate and look less and less like what it was designed to be.