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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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.
Jul 24, 2020 · 9:37 AM UTC
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