1/ When I was young and we were protesting the Vietnam war etc., there was a sense that the Democratic Party was the establishment arm of the counterculture.

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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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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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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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I know. And that’s what’s very sad.
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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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Johnson did, but there were many Democrats opposing him. Eugene McCarthy, Bobby Kennedy, George McGovern were also Democrats.
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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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The Democrats were then, as they are still today, the moderate wing of the corporatist party.
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Thank Bill Clinton for selling out the party
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Took Nixon to get us out of Nam though.
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The Preamble to The Constitution states among other obligations, “to ensure domestic tranquillity & to promote the general welfare”. Health, education, a living wage, infrastructure & safe environment are general welfare. Democrats should exemplify & honor the Founders’ vision.
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Read the 1st 4 words of this tweet in a Celine Dion singing voice
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