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In the 2018 cycle, not a single Democratic incumbent has yet been defeated by a primary challenge. As The Intercept’s political reporting team has spent the year documenting, the entire party apparatus is designed to ensure that only rich, establishment candidates can win, while doing everything possible to block and destroy the chances of outsider, insurgent candidates (see the superb reporting from my colleague Aída Chávez on Sunday about the obstacles put in front of working-class Democratic primary challenges, often by their own party’s structures).

It’s a party that lacks any vibrancy or movement. It’s stilted, stifled, and ossified. They don’t even allow primary challenges to rotted incumbents who have oozed a suffocating stench of corruption during almost three decades of incumbency in Congress, even if that incumbent has repeatedly blocked the party’s own agenda. As was also demonstrated by Hillary Clinton’s recent endorsement of the corruption-tainted Andrew Cuomo over his progressive primary challenger, Cynthia Nixon, seeking to become New York state’s first female governor: All that matters to them is closing ranks around one another, clinging as tightly as they can to their own prerogatives, preventing anyone from disrupting their ability to greedily feed at the corporate-fueled trough which keeps them fat and satiated.

Ibanez wrote:The Democrat Party. It hasn't been Democratic for a while...

kalm wrote:no longer represents the middle class or average americans.

CAA Flagship wrote:

kalm wrote:no longer represents the middle class or average americans.

And I no longer can dunk a basketball.

kalm wrote:

Ibanez wrote:The Democrat Party. It hasn't been Democratic for a while...

Was parroting right wing talking points really necessary here?

GannonFan wrote:Certainly a huge factor that keeps me being an Independent moderate - both major political parties are embarrassments. Arguing the minutia (sp?) over which one is somehow worse is pointless. It's like both parties have had porta-potties dumped on them and then working out which one smells worse.

kalm wrote:

CAA Flagship wrote: And I no longer can dunk a basketball.

History is your friend.

CAA Flagship wrote:

GannonFan wrote:Certainly a huge factor that keeps me being an Independent moderate - both major political parties are embarrassments. Arguing the minutia (sp?) over which one is somehow worse is pointless. It's like both parties have had porta-potties dumped on them and then working out which one smells worse.

I don't believe that there are many people who align 100% with either party. It's a matter of weighting your issues.
If anyone is in search of finding a platform that aligns perfectly with their personal desires, they better start a new planet.

Ibanez wrote:

kalm wrote:
Was parroting right wing talking points really necessary here?

Actually, I heard it from a young Democrat running for Congress in Charlotte.

kalm wrote:

Ibanez wrote: Actually, I heard it from a young Democrat running for Congress in Charlotte.

Well good for you. I apologize, then.

kalm wrote:no longer represents the middle class or average americans.

They have zero principles, subvert democracy, and embrace corruption. They are every bit as bad, if not worse than the Republicans. Here's a great example:

In the 2018 cycle, not a single Democratic incumbent has yet been defeated by a primary challenge. As The Intercept’s political reporting team has spent the year documenting, the entire party apparatus is designed to ensure that only rich, establishment candidates can win, while doing everything possible to block and destroy the chances of outsider, insurgent candidates (see the superb reporting from my colleague Aída Chávez on Sunday about the obstacles put in front of working-class Democratic primary challenges, often by their own party’s structures).

It’s a party that lacks any vibrancy or movement. It’s stilted, stifled, and ossified. They don’t even allow primary challenges to rotted incumbents who have oozed a suffocating stench of corruption during almost three decades of incumbency in Congress, even if that incumbent has repeatedly blocked the party’s own agenda. As was also demonstrated by Hillary Clinton’s recent endorsement of the corruption-tainted Andrew Cuomo over his progressive primary challenger, Cynthia Nixon, seeking to become New York state’s first female governor: All that matters to them is closing ranks around one another, clinging as tightly as they can to their own prerogatives, preventing anyone from disrupting their ability to greedily feed at the corporate-fueled trough which keeps them fat and satiated.

https://theintercept.com/2018/06/04/dem ... -party-is/

CAA Flagship wrote:

kalm wrote:no longer represents the middle class or average americans.

And I no longer can dunk a basketball.

kalm wrote:

Ibanez wrote:The Democrat Party. It hasn't been Democratic for a while...

Was parroting right wing talking points really necessary here?

CID1990 wrote:

kalm wrote:
Was parroting right wing talking points really necessary here?

Oh please

This is exactly what you were trolling for

Spare us the faux middle of the road schtick... nobody buys it

Chizzang wrote:It's strange how I feel like right now in America there are more "Straight Ticket" voters than ever
when right now is probably the worst time in American history to be a straight ticket voter

Strange days

Chizzang wrote:It's strange how I feel like right now in America there are more "Straight Ticket" voters than ever
when right now is probably the worst time in American history to be a straight ticket voter

Strange days

∞∞∞ wrote:

Chizzang wrote:It's strange how I feel like right now in America there are more "Straight Ticket" voters than ever
when right now is probably the worst time in American history to be a straight ticket voter

Strange days

Well Kim Kardashian just convinced President Donald Trump to commute a great-grandmother serving a life sentence for a non-violent drug charge. That's awesome, but read what I wrote again.

Strange indeed.

∞∞∞ wrote:

Chizzang wrote:It's strange how I feel like right now in America there are more "Straight Ticket" voters than ever
when right now is probably the worst time in American history to be a straight ticket voter

Strange days

Well Kim Kardashian just convinced President Donald Trump to commute a great-grandmother serving a life sentence for a non-violent drug charge. That's awesome, but read what I wrote again.

Strange indeed.

CAA Flagship wrote:

kalm wrote:
History is your friend.

I chose this beach-reading book one summer in the late 80's.