I would like to add to my previous comment that it seems the party doesn't want to change it's direction and as you mentioned just try to sell you better the one they already have. If you allow me to being more jaded here, I would saw they are trying to craft their marketing for just a 51% win. This means no accountability to do what you say you would and when they're are real important issues that you say you would tackle but truly behind closed door don't really want to, you just need a couple of representative to cross party line and nothing happens and the illusion is maintained.
Addressing the real issues you mentioned could trigger a landslide win with an accountability to change things about where the power truly is.
I think there is a real hunger right now for approaches that move beyond simply managing existing systems toward genuinely rethinking how economic and political power are organized and whom those systems are ultimately meant to serve.
What stood out to me in the article and in your comment is the sense that many people no longer feel satisfied with symbolic victories or narrowly transactional politics. They want to see institutions become more accountable to human wellbeing, community stability, and everyday lived reality rather than primarily serving concentrated power and perpetual growth for its own sake.
At the same time, rebuilding trust likely requires more than critique. It requires tangible examples of cooperation, competence, and public-serving leadership that people can actually experience in their communities and daily lives.
Agree with you but in order to change something, the law has to change or be interpreted appropriately. It has to be written into concrete law that are effective and enforced. We are listening to you or we are hearing you is not enough. Never was. However, in the system as it is now, it's a catch 22, the people that can do this are not accountable to us anymore.
True. The citizenry is controlled by a mere handful of corrupt thieves of massive wealth and interconnected, manipulative influence. They buy all sides of any political conflict. They set up the conflicts to mask the toxic theft and destruction. They could really care less who wins, as long as those winners bend the knee. There are differences between these 'parties' for sure, but that occurs at the lower echelons of management, as well as withing th electorate. But the top decisions are the decisions of the oligarchs handed down to the sycophantic political class. The status quo is the only quo. This, of course, is the sure fire strategy of failure, and all of us read of it in history and watch it occur in real time. But the addictions to power are mental illnesses so massive and intrenched they resemble fentanyl. Hoarding on a scale that is innately illogical and bizarre. Only the creation of Envy via Propaganda keeps the hordes in check. Imagine if all the gun owners in 'murka blinked and allowed the scales to fall from their eyes? Mass murder of all pyramidal institutions and their power structures. Mayhem. Chaos. Degeneration at a massive scale. And then the pathos of Denial of Climate Catastrophe wipes out what is left. Ozymandus on steroids, catabolic steriods.
A dead party can't do its own autopsy any more than a dead person can. This autopsy was never going to yield insight. We are living in a nation of foxes and henhouses.
I, personally Cindy, do not believe that the Ds or Rs can be rehabilitated. They are over 90% owned by AIPAC, Big Pharma, Big Oil, Merchants of War etc. That's why we have 401K's replacing actual retirement accounts and Wall Street Healthcare.
I agree with you completely, Dav. They are zombie parties. We have only a single branch of federal government--the Corporate Branch. The legislative, executive, and judicial all work for them, not us.
I managed a Dem campaign for U.S. Senate in 2008. It was a deeply red state and we had no real chance of winning (though the Republican candidate had loads of dirty laundry and the personality of wallpaper paste so if we could have got a little traction, who knows?) Anyway, it became apparent to us from the reaction of people while we were out on the campaign trail and through our internal polling that people were able to be swayed by big ideas, e.g. high speed rail, a just energy transition (especially if tied to an aggressive "this is how you win the war on terror which is funded by oil" stance), and universal preschool. Unsurprisingly, people want to believe in something. It turns out that the country everyone says they want to take back is the one that built the interstate highway system, raced for the moon, and created the greatest system of public education in the history of the world.
Every campaign, even the ones dead in the water, gets at least one phone call with the DSCC. You get like ten minutes to share your elevator pitch with Chuck Schumer and Co. before they hang up on you. We were genuinely excited to share what we'd found. In the reddest of red states if we ran even the few ads we could afford about big picture/actual "make America great again" ideas we'd get a ten point swing. We believed that with a little help we could make our state at least competitive which the national Dems could tout as signs of a blue wave. At minimum, we hoped that the DSCC would hear about our findings (which were not unlike the results we were starting to see from Obama's "hope and change" message) and run with them. I cannot tell you how quickly Schumer, in the most condescending way possible, explained to us rubes that Dems had already thought of all of that and saying any of it just meant they'd get beaten to death with claims of being tax and spend liberals who wanted to waste money on expensive boondoggles. The focus had to be on wedge issues. That was it. Our time was up. A week later he was on TV and while pointing to how great Dems were doing nationwide he singled out our state as a lost cause. Our fundraising dried up overnight. We never had a snowball's chance of winning so he was correct. But you don't expect the leader of your own party to sink one of his own campaigns.
I've watched Dems run out the same playlist for nearly twenty years now and it not only never changes, but also gets more stale over time. Their goal is to become the pro-life wing of the Republican party because they truly believe that if they're indistinguishable from Republicans that elections will be decided by the bare handful of issues in which they perceive an electoral edge. The number one goal is "Don't do anything or say anything they can hit us with later." That is the message that comes from the top. Try and pull away from that message and they will shut you down. So the Dem party has become the party of bland predictability. It's a feature, not a bug.
The so-called autopsy report also said nothing about Biden and the Dem’s support for genocide in Gaza, or anything about concerns around Biden’s age and acuity.
To paraphrase Principal Skinner, “Was it us? No, it’s the voters that were wrong.”
We have one political party that is now simply terrible. And the other often seems out of touch and even incompetent. What is missing is open competition. Competition has long been understood as necessary (but too often absent) for a capitalist economy to thrive, but that is also the case for democracy. We should make the effort to introduce more candidates to our politics; it is not impossible but it surely will require us to adopt a better voting system.
Capitalism is a big part of the problem. It is an exploitative system that has outlived its usefulness and needs to go. Competition is a relic of the past that we need to get beyond. Cooperation is a much better way. If we don’t learn how to do that, nothing will change.
I'm not at all opposed to ending capitalism as it is now practiced. But for years it did work reasonably well under the reforms of the New Deal and until its decline in the 1980's. Some would say that was not capitalism, however, but rather socialism. Whatever you call it, it did work well for us for a few decades. Keeping capitalism working well seems to require constant vigilence against the capitalists who want to kill the golden goose.
Capitalism as it is now practiced is the inevitable outcome. Constant vigilance will never win out over the cancer that is the profit paradigm. All capitalism did under your New Deal to the 1980s scenario was to hook people up to a consumer/buy stuff IV, as well as set in motion the privatize profit, socialize external costs playbook. It was always an illusion, put in place by propaganda and enforced by imperial militarism, to protect the raping of the earth’s resources.
But consider the question of how we can have such a reform of our economy without first reforming our politics. Personally, I do not see a path for that to happen.
Personally, I don’t think the reform of either is probable, absent the upheaval created by economic depression, climate chaos, or World War III, singularly or in combination. And I see plenty of paths for any of the aforementioned three to transpire.
The parties and polls do not ask questions which they already know they wouldn't like the answer. This is how we are handled and the conversation about what is important is defined. They are intentionally avoiding asking questions about what they are unwilling to do, not because of incompetence or being out of touch.
I too finally found this so called autopsy and as Corbin says it was bullshit! Every page was headed by a blurb saying that it was not DNC approved! Every page ended saying that there was no documentation of the facts. If that is true it is more proof that the DNC didn’t even take the time or energy to create it! The DNC does not want to admit they haven’t a clue to how to do anything or they simply want to continue sitting on their asses doing nothing. It must be nice to get paid all that money to do nothing!
It’s like the worker that tried a new method of doing their job which failed miserably. That’s not really the problem.. The real problem is that they are unwilling to say truthfully “Well that idea didn’t work.” Instead they spend all their time trying to prove that it really did work, or that there wasn’t really a problem, or that someone else sabotaged their plan.
The DNC does not know how to fix the problems they are facing but they don’t want to admit it or maybe they don’t truly want to change at all! Why can they not simply admit it and get the hell out of the way? Let people like Mamdani and AOC and the other young people take the lead for goodness sake.
"The Circumlocution Office was (as everybody knows without being told) the most important Department under Government. No public business of any kind could possibly be done at any time without the acquiescence of the Circumlocution Office. Its finger was in the largest public pie, and in the smallest public tart. It was equally impossible to do the plainest right and to undo the plainest wrong without the express authority of the Circumlocution Office. If another Gunpowder Plot had been discovered half an hour before the lighting of the match, nobody would have been justified in saving the parliament until there had been half a score of boards, half a bushel of minutes, several sacks of official memoranda, and a family-vault full of ungrammatical correspondence, on the part of the Circumlocution Office.
This glorious establishment had been early in the field, when the one sublime principle involving the difficult art of governing a country, was first distinctly revealed to statesmen. It had been foremost to study that bright revelation and to carry its shining influence through the whole of the official proceedings. Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving—HOW NOT TO DO IT." Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, Ch X, 1853.
I generally like and agree with everything Corbin has stated. What is missing for me is a recognition of the failure of dialogue. There is an enormous focus on the "message" with very few really listening to what people really say. We rely on "pollsters" today instead of getting out with the people and really getting the whole picture. "Sound bites" might seem wonderful but a "bite" isn't the whole picture. The US is constantly passing from one management fad to the next. Our current fad feels a lot like "management by marketing". The Japanese term is "Genchi Genbutsu" or as taught by a long successful firm, Toyota, get off your ass and go and see for yourself. We seem also to be in the midst or end of "cross promotion" within health insurance and other industries where rewards (kickbacks) hinge on selling something for somebody else.
If that is hard to understand, just ask any merchant how those "cash back" rewards credit cards really work. Everything for money, management by marketing that is hiding behind lawyers, etc. simply aren't practices that really contribute to humanity.
There's no mention of "Gaza" or "genocide" in the report either. What's happening there is a moral red line. And vapid statements that ignore it don't compel people to join the "Party".
Searingly cogent Corbin, as always. The entire facade of politics and business and capitalism is the same as that for religions -- spin the top until dizziness feels stable. Rapture via a thousand placebos. Somerset Maughm wrote a brilliant novel long ago, The Painted Veil. The illusions of the charlatan are as thin as rice paper, but if the spin is potent, the finger never finds the paper canvass, and entropy roars downward on the other side until the entire Kabuki burns to the ground. As always, FEAR writes the lines and transfixes the chemistry in the human brain, wired directly to the adrena-sphere, where the reptile brain still holds sway. We are all victims of Fast Brain, Slow Brain. Spin the Top, Never Let It Stop.
The post-Clinton national party, beholden to corporate donors aka Republicans special interests, can’t do anything about the economy, now with the worst inflation since ~1980 with worse to come. As a result of that obligation to business interests, the DNC ensures that any D congressional majority will disappoint by diluting any majorities with DINOs — see, those majorities in 2021-22: Senate majority crippled by Manchin and Sinema among others, Pelosi endorsing insider trading by her caucus.
Yes, we have to vote the GOP out of dominance but as we do that we have to brace for a tsunami of disappointment.
And work to take back the party so it serves *us*.
Yup. EVERYONE "loves" the status quo. Democrats are just as out of touch as 'publicans are. They've built themselves a whole different reality that suits them better.
Time for a healthy dose of Socialism to set things right. Except for the fact that the LEAST curious people in the world won't examine what it TRULY is and how OTHER countries benefit from it. It's just easier to listen to the same 80-year old lies about Socialism and stay stuck in place.
I agree. Not only is the report itself sloppy, incomplete, and missing the hard truths, but the fact that they would put this out there at all is further example of their incompetence. All this does is give the right-wingers fodder for further attacks and gives progressives further reason to be turned off by Democrat party leadership. This also shifts some of the news cycle off the rolling corruption and incompetence of the Trump/Project 2025 regime. Another ridiculous, self-blind, self-destructive move by the DNC.
And here I was, naively hoping when I saw the initial headlines yesterday about the release of the DNC's study, that they were referring to research put out by Election Truth Alliance! I know, as if. *sigh* And I get really nervous with all the talk about Democrats winning big in November, knowing how easily they can grab defeat from the jaws of victory, to coin a phrase. Am I too old (at 72) to hope I see universal democratic socialist policies enacted and enforced in the USA in my lifetime?
I sure do hope neither of us is too old to see something like that (at 88)!
And frankly, the current Dem establishment has done just that - grab defeat etc over and over. They need to go and, I agree with Corbin, this Dem "thing" is broken and has been.
I would like to add to my previous comment that it seems the party doesn't want to change it's direction and as you mentioned just try to sell you better the one they already have. If you allow me to being more jaded here, I would saw they are trying to craft their marketing for just a 51% win. This means no accountability to do what you say you would and when they're are real important issues that you say you would tackle but truly behind closed door don't really want to, you just need a couple of representative to cross party line and nothing happens and the illusion is maintained.
Addressing the real issues you mentioned could trigger a landslide win with an accountability to change things about where the power truly is.
I think there is a real hunger right now for approaches that move beyond simply managing existing systems toward genuinely rethinking how economic and political power are organized and whom those systems are ultimately meant to serve.
What stood out to me in the article and in your comment is the sense that many people no longer feel satisfied with symbolic victories or narrowly transactional politics. They want to see institutions become more accountable to human wellbeing, community stability, and everyday lived reality rather than primarily serving concentrated power and perpetual growth for its own sake.
At the same time, rebuilding trust likely requires more than critique. It requires tangible examples of cooperation, competence, and public-serving leadership that people can actually experience in their communities and daily lives.
Agree with you but in order to change something, the law has to change or be interpreted appropriately. It has to be written into concrete law that are effective and enforced. We are listening to you or we are hearing you is not enough. Never was. However, in the system as it is now, it's a catch 22, the people that can do this are not accountable to us anymore.
True. The citizenry is controlled by a mere handful of corrupt thieves of massive wealth and interconnected, manipulative influence. They buy all sides of any political conflict. They set up the conflicts to mask the toxic theft and destruction. They could really care less who wins, as long as those winners bend the knee. There are differences between these 'parties' for sure, but that occurs at the lower echelons of management, as well as withing th electorate. But the top decisions are the decisions of the oligarchs handed down to the sycophantic political class. The status quo is the only quo. This, of course, is the sure fire strategy of failure, and all of us read of it in history and watch it occur in real time. But the addictions to power are mental illnesses so massive and intrenched they resemble fentanyl. Hoarding on a scale that is innately illogical and bizarre. Only the creation of Envy via Propaganda keeps the hordes in check. Imagine if all the gun owners in 'murka blinked and allowed the scales to fall from their eyes? Mass murder of all pyramidal institutions and their power structures. Mayhem. Chaos. Degeneration at a massive scale. And then the pathos of Denial of Climate Catastrophe wipes out what is left. Ozymandus on steroids, catabolic steriods.
I am hopeful we can change things without violence but recapturing the power in a legal peaceful way before it's too late.
Yaaasssss! Well said, brother.
Thank you.
A dead party can't do its own autopsy any more than a dead person can. This autopsy was never going to yield insight. We are living in a nation of foxes and henhouses.
I, personally Cindy, do not believe that the Ds or Rs can be rehabilitated. They are over 90% owned by AIPAC, Big Pharma, Big Oil, Merchants of War etc. That's why we have 401K's replacing actual retirement accounts and Wall Street Healthcare.
I agree with you completely, Dav. They are zombie parties. We have only a single branch of federal government--the Corporate Branch. The legislative, executive, and judicial all work for them, not us.
Yep, our system is a sick bird with a broken left wing and a broken right wing.
I managed a Dem campaign for U.S. Senate in 2008. It was a deeply red state and we had no real chance of winning (though the Republican candidate had loads of dirty laundry and the personality of wallpaper paste so if we could have got a little traction, who knows?) Anyway, it became apparent to us from the reaction of people while we were out on the campaign trail and through our internal polling that people were able to be swayed by big ideas, e.g. high speed rail, a just energy transition (especially if tied to an aggressive "this is how you win the war on terror which is funded by oil" stance), and universal preschool. Unsurprisingly, people want to believe in something. It turns out that the country everyone says they want to take back is the one that built the interstate highway system, raced for the moon, and created the greatest system of public education in the history of the world.
Every campaign, even the ones dead in the water, gets at least one phone call with the DSCC. You get like ten minutes to share your elevator pitch with Chuck Schumer and Co. before they hang up on you. We were genuinely excited to share what we'd found. In the reddest of red states if we ran even the few ads we could afford about big picture/actual "make America great again" ideas we'd get a ten point swing. We believed that with a little help we could make our state at least competitive which the national Dems could tout as signs of a blue wave. At minimum, we hoped that the DSCC would hear about our findings (which were not unlike the results we were starting to see from Obama's "hope and change" message) and run with them. I cannot tell you how quickly Schumer, in the most condescending way possible, explained to us rubes that Dems had already thought of all of that and saying any of it just meant they'd get beaten to death with claims of being tax and spend liberals who wanted to waste money on expensive boondoggles. The focus had to be on wedge issues. That was it. Our time was up. A week later he was on TV and while pointing to how great Dems were doing nationwide he singled out our state as a lost cause. Our fundraising dried up overnight. We never had a snowball's chance of winning so he was correct. But you don't expect the leader of your own party to sink one of his own campaigns.
I've watched Dems run out the same playlist for nearly twenty years now and it not only never changes, but also gets more stale over time. Their goal is to become the pro-life wing of the Republican party because they truly believe that if they're indistinguishable from Republicans that elections will be decided by the bare handful of issues in which they perceive an electoral edge. The number one goal is "Don't do anything or say anything they can hit us with later." That is the message that comes from the top. Try and pull away from that message and they will shut you down. So the Dem party has become the party of bland predictability. It's a feature, not a bug.
On point as usual.
The so-called autopsy report also said nothing about Biden and the Dem’s support for genocide in Gaza, or anything about concerns around Biden’s age and acuity.
To paraphrase Principal Skinner, “Was it us? No, it’s the voters that were wrong.”
We have one political party that is now simply terrible. And the other often seems out of touch and even incompetent. What is missing is open competition. Competition has long been understood as necessary (but too often absent) for a capitalist economy to thrive, but that is also the case for democracy. We should make the effort to introduce more candidates to our politics; it is not impossible but it surely will require us to adopt a better voting system.
https://www.opednews.com/articles/Are-More-Political-Parties-by-Paul-Cohen-Change_Political-Parties_Political-Science_Politics-140522-528.html
Capitalism is a big part of the problem. It is an exploitative system that has outlived its usefulness and needs to go. Competition is a relic of the past that we need to get beyond. Cooperation is a much better way. If we don’t learn how to do that, nothing will change.
I'm not at all opposed to ending capitalism as it is now practiced. But for years it did work reasonably well under the reforms of the New Deal and until its decline in the 1980's. Some would say that was not capitalism, however, but rather socialism. Whatever you call it, it did work well for us for a few decades. Keeping capitalism working well seems to require constant vigilence against the capitalists who want to kill the golden goose.
Capitalism as it is now practiced is the inevitable outcome. Constant vigilance will never win out over the cancer that is the profit paradigm. All capitalism did under your New Deal to the 1980s scenario was to hook people up to a consumer/buy stuff IV, as well as set in motion the privatize profit, socialize external costs playbook. It was always an illusion, put in place by propaganda and enforced by imperial militarism, to protect the raping of the earth’s resources.
But consider the question of how we can have such a reform of our economy without first reforming our politics. Personally, I do not see a path for that to happen.
Personally, I don’t think the reform of either is probable, absent the upheaval created by economic depression, climate chaos, or World War III, singularly or in combination. And I see plenty of paths for any of the aforementioned three to transpire.
https://davcer.substack.com/p/so-you-want-to-run-for-office
The parties and polls do not ask questions which they already know they wouldn't like the answer. This is how we are handled and the conversation about what is important is defined. They are intentionally avoiding asking questions about what they are unwilling to do, not because of incompetence or being out of touch.
I too finally found this so called autopsy and as Corbin says it was bullshit! Every page was headed by a blurb saying that it was not DNC approved! Every page ended saying that there was no documentation of the facts. If that is true it is more proof that the DNC didn’t even take the time or energy to create it! The DNC does not want to admit they haven’t a clue to how to do anything or they simply want to continue sitting on their asses doing nothing. It must be nice to get paid all that money to do nothing!
It’s like the worker that tried a new method of doing their job which failed miserably. That’s not really the problem.. The real problem is that they are unwilling to say truthfully “Well that idea didn’t work.” Instead they spend all their time trying to prove that it really did work, or that there wasn’t really a problem, or that someone else sabotaged their plan.
The DNC does not know how to fix the problems they are facing but they don’t want to admit it or maybe they don’t truly want to change at all! Why can they not simply admit it and get the hell out of the way? Let people like Mamdani and AOC and the other young people take the lead for goodness sake.
"The Circumlocution Office was (as everybody knows without being told) the most important Department under Government. No public business of any kind could possibly be done at any time without the acquiescence of the Circumlocution Office. Its finger was in the largest public pie, and in the smallest public tart. It was equally impossible to do the plainest right and to undo the plainest wrong without the express authority of the Circumlocution Office. If another Gunpowder Plot had been discovered half an hour before the lighting of the match, nobody would have been justified in saving the parliament until there had been half a score of boards, half a bushel of minutes, several sacks of official memoranda, and a family-vault full of ungrammatical correspondence, on the part of the Circumlocution Office.
This glorious establishment had been early in the field, when the one sublime principle involving the difficult art of governing a country, was first distinctly revealed to statesmen. It had been foremost to study that bright revelation and to carry its shining influence through the whole of the official proceedings. Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving—HOW NOT TO DO IT." Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, Ch X, 1853.
I generally like and agree with everything Corbin has stated. What is missing for me is a recognition of the failure of dialogue. There is an enormous focus on the "message" with very few really listening to what people really say. We rely on "pollsters" today instead of getting out with the people and really getting the whole picture. "Sound bites" might seem wonderful but a "bite" isn't the whole picture. The US is constantly passing from one management fad to the next. Our current fad feels a lot like "management by marketing". The Japanese term is "Genchi Genbutsu" or as taught by a long successful firm, Toyota, get off your ass and go and see for yourself. We seem also to be in the midst or end of "cross promotion" within health insurance and other industries where rewards (kickbacks) hinge on selling something for somebody else.
If that is hard to understand, just ask any merchant how those "cash back" rewards credit cards really work. Everything for money, management by marketing that is hiding behind lawyers, etc. simply aren't practices that really contribute to humanity.
These people are apologists. They fit the facts to the narrative. Dialog does not exist to an apologist.
There's no mention of "Gaza" or "genocide" in the report either. What's happening there is a moral red line. And vapid statements that ignore it don't compel people to join the "Party".
Paid to lose, the dems are collaborators. gop are the abusers, dems are their enablers.
Searingly cogent Corbin, as always. The entire facade of politics and business and capitalism is the same as that for religions -- spin the top until dizziness feels stable. Rapture via a thousand placebos. Somerset Maughm wrote a brilliant novel long ago, The Painted Veil. The illusions of the charlatan are as thin as rice paper, but if the spin is potent, the finger never finds the paper canvass, and entropy roars downward on the other side until the entire Kabuki burns to the ground. As always, FEAR writes the lines and transfixes the chemistry in the human brain, wired directly to the adrena-sphere, where the reptile brain still holds sway. We are all victims of Fast Brain, Slow Brain. Spin the Top, Never Let It Stop.
The post-Clinton national party, beholden to corporate donors aka Republicans special interests, can’t do anything about the economy, now with the worst inflation since ~1980 with worse to come. As a result of that obligation to business interests, the DNC ensures that any D congressional majority will disappoint by diluting any majorities with DINOs — see, those majorities in 2021-22: Senate majority crippled by Manchin and Sinema among others, Pelosi endorsing insider trading by her caucus.
Yes, we have to vote the GOP out of dominance but as we do that we have to brace for a tsunami of disappointment.
And work to take back the party so it serves *us*.
Yup. EVERYONE "loves" the status quo. Democrats are just as out of touch as 'publicans are. They've built themselves a whole different reality that suits them better.
Time for a healthy dose of Socialism to set things right. Except for the fact that the LEAST curious people in the world won't examine what it TRULY is and how OTHER countries benefit from it. It's just easier to listen to the same 80-year old lies about Socialism and stay stuck in place.
I agree. Not only is the report itself sloppy, incomplete, and missing the hard truths, but the fact that they would put this out there at all is further example of their incompetence. All this does is give the right-wingers fodder for further attacks and gives progressives further reason to be turned off by Democrat party leadership. This also shifts some of the news cycle off the rolling corruption and incompetence of the Trump/Project 2025 regime. Another ridiculous, self-blind, self-destructive move by the DNC.
And here I was, naively hoping when I saw the initial headlines yesterday about the release of the DNC's study, that they were referring to research put out by Election Truth Alliance! I know, as if. *sigh* And I get really nervous with all the talk about Democrats winning big in November, knowing how easily they can grab defeat from the jaws of victory, to coin a phrase. Am I too old (at 72) to hope I see universal democratic socialist policies enacted and enforced in the USA in my lifetime?
I sure do hope neither of us is too old to see something like that (at 88)!
And frankly, the current Dem establishment has done just that - grab defeat etc over and over. They need to go and, I agree with Corbin, this Dem "thing" is broken and has been.