Too many Democratic party leaders would rather be the captains on a sinking Titanic than change course

The Democratic party is at a crossroads.

It can continue to push policies that maintain a broken and rigged economic and political system and ignore the pain of the 60% of Americans who live paycheck to paycheck. It can turn its back on the dreams of a younger generation which, if we don’t change that system, will likely be worse off than their parents.

It can continue to depend upon billionaire donors and out-of-touch campaign consultants and spend huge amounts of money on dumb 30-second ads that fewer and fewer people respond to.

It can ignore the tragic reality that tens of millions of Americans are giving up on democracy because they don’t see their government understanding their struggles and the realities of their lives or doing anything about it.

Or it can learn the lesson that the Zohran Mamdani campaign taught us on Tuesday.And that is:

Have the courage to address the real economic and moral issues that face the majority of our people, take on the greed and power of the oligarchy and fight for an agenda that can improve life for working families.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    I think they know all these lessons. The Democrats, like the Republicans, face a choice every eletion: the 1% or the 99%, and they choose the 1% every single time. It’s why they let the Parliamentarian, or Manchin, or Sinema stand between a federal mandated living wage, or why so-called tax cuts and more war money sail through Congress.

    The question isn’t whether Democrats will learn or not, because we know they are in the pocket of the rich.

    The question is whether Mamdani will follow his mandate and actually do what he says, and I’m not sure I trust a Democrat to do that. I hope I’m wrong. This feels like ‘Hope and Change’ all over again, and we all remember how that turned out.

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      6 hours ago

      i was going to say something like this: the democrats are already aware of what they need to do, they just won’t since there’s no riches or power to be had in doing so and the people who think that the democrats will help in any meaningful way are wearing rose tinted glasses created from the past.