Bears and Deacs
Bourbon Drinker
win?
I think more young organizers are taking the long view and don't feel as beholden to party politics. We shall see. Breaking away the progressive cause from the Democratic party is the type of work that many groups around here are focused on.
i'm with her!
If you truly back a candidate there isn't any reason why you shouldn't say so...if you don't have rebuttals to someone's "lecture" you might need to get a new candidate.
After a toxic election cycle and fully disheartening climax I hope most common sense peep take some time for good pizza tonight. Healing.
You just dilute power if the opposition is unwilling to divide.
Bernie was the strongest force for the kind of populism you're talking about and he failed.
What does the Democratic Party stand for in 2016?
Chicago is different because there is no opposition, but your post is pretty much #whytry.
If this doesn't lead us to the break of the two-party system we have then I don't really know what will.
I would argue that we just tried. I think the Sanders movement represented something close to that. My concern with young activists is that our generation's expectation of instant gratification leads to an unwillingness to compromise. You could argue that unwillingness is principled, but it's not how things get done. Now if you want to claim that the status quo is broken, I'm not going to disagree with you, but the alternative is backsliding on progress. We are getting that in places like NC.
The Sanders campaign operated within the Democratic party. It won't happen overnight, but it's gotta start local and then build coalition across municipalities and counties before it can reach anything nationally. I don't think President is the right platform for trying to effect these kind of changes, not in today's America.