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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That belief has killed off every Populist movement in the country's history. The Democrats are not now and never have been anything but a slightly less conservative version of the parties it's claimed to oppose. The only difference is & was method.
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❤🖤💚💪🏿🇺🇸⚓
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Very apt.
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I remember.
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Young and naive
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Was this during Nixon? Because before that . . . 🤔
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It's one party, the Corporate Party
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I'm tired of hearing this party this, this party that. Sometimes I feel a Non-Partisan Democracy might be better than this circus... People are way to attached to their institutions
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The Vietnam war was started and escalated by Democratic administrations. What are you even on about?
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We need a Department of Peace.
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