There’s a whole bunch of blame to go around on the left for 2024, but arguing “the DNC is corrupt” doesn’t help anyone learn from the mistakes.
It does. Since the DNC is corrupt, they’ll need to be either coerced or sidestepped entirely for any real change to happen. “The DNC is corrupt” is a prelude to the much more important argument of “unity behind the DNC will never get us anywhere,” which I hope was made abundantly clear by the last nine years of American politics.
Ken Martin had his first real test in David Hogg and he failed it. He might be an improvement, but he seems to not be a radical change from what was there before. That said my point isn’t that the DNC should be reformed (though that would certainly be welcome), but that the American left needs to be willing to criticize and organize against the DNC. If that’s not necessary then all is good, but American progressives need to be willing to beat the Democratic Party with a stick when it misbehaves rather than make excuses about how every election is The Most Important Election Ever™. Around these parts in 2024 you couldn’t write anything criticizing the DNC or Biden (later Harris) without being called a Russian troll and that attitude needs to change.
It does. Since the DNC is corrupt, they’ll need to be either coerced or sidestepped entirely for any real change to happen. “The DNC is corrupt” is a prelude to the much more important argument of “unity behind the DNC will never get us anywhere,” which I hope was made abundantly clear by the last nine years of American politics.
THAT HAPPENED IN FEBRUARY 2025
you’re yelling that we need to have a fight that we’ve been having for decades and literally just won…
Ken Martin had his first real test in David Hogg and he failed it. He might be an improvement, but he seems to not be a radical change from what was there before. That said my point isn’t that the DNC should be reformed (though that would certainly be welcome), but that the American left needs to be willing to criticize and organize against the DNC. If that’s not necessary then all is good, but American progressives need to be willing to beat the Democratic Party with a stick when it misbehaves rather than make excuses about how every election is The Most Important Election Ever™. Around these parts in 2024 you couldn’t write anything criticizing the DNC or Biden (later Harris) without being called a Russian troll and that attitude needs to change.