Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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To me it’s not just about changing the system from within; it’s about access to the levers of power, the ability to actually change policy. Change have to occur on the level of the culture and also on the level of legislation.
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Johnson did, but there were many Democrats opposing him. Eugene McCarthy, Bobby Kennedy, George McGovern were also Democrats.
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You apparently don’t realize that Social Security was an idea that came from the Socialist Party.
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There’s a huge divide within the Democratic Party between the corporate arm that doesn’t really want to, and the progressive arm that very much does. Unfortunately corporate Dems spend tens of millions of dollars suppressing progressive candidates in primaries around the country.
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I hear what you’re saying, because they’re averse to expertise in the traditional sense. Theirs is an economic elitism.
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I understand why you feel that way, but on the other hand there are progressive candidates running in the primaries who very much do represent you. Please check these out.
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4/ The Republican party has more elitist policies but an oddly more egalitarian relationship to its own constituency. The Democratic Party has more egalitarian policies but an oddly more elitist relationship to its own constituency. This needs to change.
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3/ That leaves too many people feeling they have no voice within the political system, and the Democratic Party frustrated that more people aren’t using electoral politics as a vehicle of change.
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2/ Today, in too many cases that’s changed. When right wing populists do their thing, the Republican party embraces them. But when left wing populists do their thing, corporate Democrats say “We don’t know those people.”
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