DNC Chair Race: PEREZ WINS (DNC asks all staffers to resign)
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whyanother
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Deregulation, reducing states rights on the economy and eliminating price controls doesn't have anything to do with the Democrats of today though...That's basically Republican/libertarian principles.
Waiting on them to die or running away won't get anything solved either.
JahFocus CS
Get It How You Get It
Have you even been paying attention to policies under Democrats since the 1970s/1980s, and particularly under Clinton?
It's not "running away." It is building an alternative that actually serves the interests of the working class. It's been time for the working class to stop hitching its fortunes to a bourgeois party anyway and become a class for itself. I don't even think that will be achieved through the Democratic Party but if the party can be reformed to move in a more social democratic direction and create space for more radical developments, that would be a positive.
whyanother
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Wait...I was talking about Democrats of today and not 20 years ago. That neoliberal stuff does not apply today. Our platform is far more progressive than anything we've ever had, but we don't have enough people in the office to get things done. And they'll never get to be in office if we continue to give up and try to do something else.
The issue is tactics
They don't want to get rid of corporate money as they've grown so fat off it
The Dems have the most money they've ever had but can't win state seats
Yup.
There was also push for Perez to run for Governor of Maryland
RIP.
whyanother
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Corporate PACs can only donate $5K and they are donations made from actual people. DNC does not take big corporate checks because that's illegal. DLCC is responsible for those state seats and not DNC. They, along with the DCCC, are not funded well and that's a problem. It would be nice if there was more structure there with the DNC funneling the money to all levels all the time instead of just during presidential elections.
I don't know about all of that. It's sad that people are so quick to just write off Perez's achievements.
the next guy
Superstar
Can't wait for trump to win 400 electoral votes in 2020.
Thats not the job of DNC chair.
the next guy
Superstar
These fools are going to push Hillary on us again and lose all the midwest to the Orange one.
Elections are not won in NY and CA you dolts.
Elections are not won in NY and CA you dolts.
whyanother
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Democrats are on the verge of collapsing like the republicans did in 2010.