The Democratic Party is FAILING its first tests of leadership against Trump! Democratic senators voting for cabinet picks like Ben Carson and Mike Pompeo is abhorrent, regardless of whatever self-serving political justifications are trotted out. Our true champions fight for and with us, not collaborate with would-be fascists and regurgitate failed strategies and candidates.
We cannot take back our country with a party dominated by pro-corporate hacks unwilling to fight tooth and nail. Fierce determination is required, but where is it in evidence? The Trumplicans don't yield, but the supposed leaders of the peoples' party do almost every chance they can. It sickens me to see photos of senators like Schumer sitting with Trump and his extremist cohorts in congress as if he and the Democrats are partners rather than fools. Yes, there are some Democratic MOCs, mayors, and governors speaking out against Trump, but they must take their cues from the grassroots and neither blunt the edge of our militancy nor direct our fighting tactics to their own ends. The great poet Yeats could have been describing our current predicament when he wrote: "The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity".
With their utterly flawed strategy, poorly chosen presidential candidate, and ever pro-corporate vision, the undeniable fact is that the Democrats did lead us right over the cliff. After all the explanations (Russia, Comey, racist rural whites, Jill Stein, etc., etc., etc.) and "self-soothing" that Clinton won the popular vote by 3 million, the most fundamental fact is that Clinton LOST. What unbelievable hubris that she is even now contemplating a "political comeback".
She LOST to the most unqualified, corrupt, and offensive bully ever to take the political stage in this country! Clinton LOST and the DNC strategy LOST! After shutting down the influx of new voters excited by the Bernie Sanders campaign, Clinton and the Democratic establishment LOST! And now our country is in free fall and our population is being attacked from a hundred directions. And like the cartoon character whose legs are still pumping after running off the cliff, but thinks it won't fall if it just doesn't look, the Democratic Party continues to ignore reality.
I've been so hoping (since it would be a far easier proposition) that this party can be pushed to be a true fighting grassroots progressive party and yield the steering wheel to its large and mobilized progressive wing. Unfortunately, I am closing in on the conclusion that the Democratic Party may just not be reformable. It seems ever more likely that WE, the justifiably angry grassroots, will soon need to sue for divorce and create something new even if that new something (a true relentlessly fighting people's party, spurning corporate money, and taking its strength and direction from our burgeoning mass movement) must grow into its own.
Last chance, Democrats: HEAR THIS or so many of us are out of this abusive relationship! We must find a way to be our own champions and ORGANIZE as if our life depended on it. For it so does. Otherwise, our country will enter a long dark age against the backdrop of a planet starting to boil away.
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