The Democratic Party Is a Ghost

What we want to hear is not that the seas are rising (the Republicans!) and we’re gonna die alone (the Republicans!) and tumorous on the street because our chemo costs $50,000 every half hour and a hangnail is a preexisting condition (the Republicans!). What we want to hear is that there can be a better world, that through collective endeavor we can as a people feed our poor, care for our sick, and find at least some better balance between our rapacity and the health of our planet. Instead we get negation; we get Trump is a meanie and Paul Ryan wants to eat your kids, which does not get the 40 percent of people whose boss is a meanie and who can’t pay their deductibles to the polls.

Even after a stunning loss to Trump in November and the ensuing destruction of their dubious legislative accomplishments, the Democratic party seems unwilling to confront the fundamental flaws in it's thinking. Instead of attempting to build grassroots organizations around a positive agenda, Democrats continue to focus on opposition to the Republican agenda.

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