And people wonder why I don't have faith in any politicians anymore.I just saw now where Dems now want to get rid DNC vice chair, David Hogg instead of getting the party together and getting a voice.
They want to fire recently elected DNC vice chair David Hogg because he's ruffling feathers. David Hoff is a loud activist of gun control and many other issues but is now getting the treatment like AOC and Bernie Saunders have gotten. Dems now want to fire him and another vice chair, Malcolm Kenyatta. While many would agree that our parties are getting too old and too main stay and the old "tried and true "ways, David's new blood should be the remedy. But Democrats do not want new blood, nor a house cleaning, nor to hear from anyone who admits this:
David Hogg: "I ran to be DNC Vice Chair to help make the Democratic Party better, not to defend an indefensible status quo that has caused voters in almost every demographic group to move away from us," and adding that he views the vote as a way for the party to "fast-track" an attempt to remove him from his position." Why would Democrats want to hear the truth? That in 2024, they almost destroyed their own coalition of voters, who sat home instead of voting. Democrats represent the status quo just as bad currently as the miserable old bastard republicans. Just like when Pelosi and Schummer and the house democratic committee would not endorse new blood into various election primaries, strangling the progressive candidates and threw support and money toward the middle Democratic candidate, many of whom had no problems voting with republicans in their states on bills and issues, and a few even on the NRA payroll taking donations. Well look where that got us?
And even a semi favorite of mine has me rethinking. Senator Amy Klobuchar now admits there should have been a primary instead of having Harris crammed down everyone's throat. It's all well and fine to say the Dem party would've been "better served" by having a primary. Why couldn't Mrs. Klobuchar find the balls to say this while the DNC shoved Harris down everyone's throats and lost. Harris would have been a great president I think had she more time to crave her own path and break off and away from Biden's path. Just like the DNC shoved Hillary down the throats, instead of campaigning more in states where she should have, so people could have gotten to know her.... only to have her put Trump in office the first time. If you repeatedly take these short cuts so that the loser gets the nomination against a bunch of "fillers", you can't act surprised when they lose. But the major point is that the Dem party does not respect its own voters enough for them to weigh in, while laughably claiming that they were "saving democracy" Well they did a great job of that. It's not only time for the Dem voter to wake up and vote, but the Dems need to start acting quickly, and end this licking wounds thing...and get a game plan together and start to let new blood in, war plans and an act might be nice. Right now, I'm still not seeing it. What happened to this once great party who was cutting edge with one-of-a-kind candidates, who were movers and shakers, and made change, and made differences for the better???? They best think twice before turning away the AOC'S, the Crocketts, and the David Hoggs, and stop embracing the same old "tried and true." Or else they will not reclaim the presidency next election. If we're still a country by then.
I need Dems to stop living in the past about Kamala Harris and what should have happened when they kept their effing mouths shut until we lost. Look toward the future and David Hogg and his co-vice chair Malcolm Kenyatta are trying to move the party forward. Ousting the two of them puts the Dems right back where there were, doing nothing until after something happens.
ReplyDeleteAnd, yes he's old, but we need Bernie, and AOC and Jasmine Crockett, Chris Murphy, Gallego and a few others who are the new blood.
That's just it. The party is being more reactive then proactive! We need all the ones you named and many more like them...and then they HAVE to PASS what they promise. Don't just keep the same promises over our heads and blackmail us for votes to get re-elected and then do nothing again. The Dem party doesn't need to fix the wheel, they need to smash it!!!!
DeleteI can agree with that comment too Maddie. I remember when Obama was in and had huge majorities, he was supposed to codify Roe versus Wade and didn't even though he had the numbers by huge numbers. It makes one wonder what else they could have passed and just didn't, just so they can run on the same issues yet again , just to get reelected.
DeleteOld blood dies slowly. Those party seniors don't want to be challenged. They don't understand you cannot freeze politics in time, like everything else in the world. Another part of this problem is that there are 5 vice chairs, three are held by men, two by women and there is a large contingent that believes those numbers need to be reversed. These people need to put their beliefs and feelings aside and work as a team rather than upset the apple cart. They don't seem to understand that once that cart is turned over, they're going to need to go out and gather up all those apples, and that's going to take their focus away from the Republicans and Trump.
ReplyDeleteI think term limits might be a start.......
DeleteThey're claiming there was a policy glitch. I don't buy that. I watched his interview with Maher, and Hogg made sense: New blood and old. The infighting (AGAIN) is going to make them lose focus and elections. While Noem's propaganda ads are all over TV and radio, where is the Dem response??? Why aren't they everywhere showing the country how the GOP is fucking the country into oblivion? It's sad, it's scary. I don't see a real election in '26...or beyond.
ReplyDeleteYour right Pat. It's bad when the Party of Rot has ads on- everywhere...telling of their plans and "accomplishments" Yes, where is their response???
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Both parties supporters deserve better than the same old, same old. What's wrong with David Hogg? He's a man with a mission. Get rid of the old fogies and bring in young blood with deias that will resonate with the whole nation. Don't get dragged down those rabbit holes that seem so alluring but turn out to be a dirty mess.
ReplyDeleteHere...here Helen! We all seem to be in on it and get it...BUT those in the political arena.
DeleteIf the Democratic party doesn't wake up and get their act together and embrace New Blood, their party is going to be over. I don't even live in that country and I never could stand Nancy Pelosi. She could have had a lot of new blood in that party but chose to support the same old person, many of who were not that far off from being a Republican.
ReplyDeleteIt's time for a new, third party. One is full of sociopaths while the other pretends all is well.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. All I can add is the problems may be systemic (needing money to run, the winner-take-all character of the Electoral College, the two-party oligopoly.)
ReplyDeleteI don't know why but the line Agnes Gooch used from Auntie Mame comes to mind: " How bleak is our future."
DeleteThis is excellent, and I don't care if Democrats don't like to hear it, they need to hear it. Do we need young Dems to get in there and get rid of the tire and old and burn out fossils that maintain the status quo? Absolutely. It's beyond me why they don't see it. I will still continue to vote dem but I will not like it. And the Dems also need to embrace the pissed off liberal Republicans who will not vote for Trump and do not like the current Administration. Why turn them away ? An alienate them further .. we should also embrace them for their numbers will only help at least the ones open to it. I have never seen the Democratic party more complacent and cowardly than they are now.
ReplyDeleteYou go girl!!
ReplyDeleteIt all comes down to money, doesn't it? Given the "status quo" that exists in politics today, a third party would have to attract not only disenchanted Dems, Republicans, and Independents, but serious money in order to be viable. I would support grassroots donations to fund THAT party! At some point the Boomer mentality that our generation knows best because we were "responsible for the end of the Vietnam war" and recognize we haven't done shit to change the system that oppresses us all! WTF happened to "Fight the Power"???? (damn, and it's only Wednesday!) xoxo
ReplyDeleteThat should have read "my generation" and not "our generation" for clarity and honesty. xoxo
DeleteBoth parties WILL NEVER let another party invade. Mind you, this use to be a land where anything was possible, anyone could run and win... and you didn't need a fortunate to make a difference.
DeleteJoan knows ! She knows the DNC needs to get its shit in order.
ReplyDeleteThis is the same DNC that long ago stopped financing Truman’s campaign in 1948 because they were sure the Republicans would win the presidency.
Truman was crossing the country by train when the DNC blocked his funding. More level heads got behind Truman and financed his campaign and his whistle stop train campaign continued despite and inspite of the DNC. What a shock when Truman won ! Truman did not let the DNC forget it. You think the damned DNC would learn by now, a mule has more sense.
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That is great! I never knew any of that, and that's is what needs to happen again. We get a party of bigoted, batshit crazy , conservatives who want to turn the clock back to 1900, and the other is filled with passive milk toasts.
DeleteI don’t understand what’s going on and it’s infuriating me. Who the fuck are we supposed to support if we can’t even count on the DNC?!?
ReplyDeleteMy thoughts exactly. And it's next election we have the same old names again, like ones who have already ran in the past they're probably going to lose again. The Only Exception might be Pete Buttigieg. After 4 years of this bullshit maybe he'll seem even more attractive with his sanity and well spokeness, not to mention visions. I'm not even sure if Galvin Newsome runs he would win.
DeleteI followed David Hogg for some time. He is smart, forwarding thinking, articulate with views and plans....what the Democrats need. Of they don't utilize him and the likes of Pete Buttigieg then they are fools.
ReplyDeleteI agree. If Pete Buttigeig doesn't run again Is be surprised. And I also like the governor Spitzer is also calling the Democrats out to wake the hell up.
DeleteI've been very impressed by what I've seen of David Hogg's gun control activism on TV news from time to time. I didn't know he was now elected and acting as DNC vice-chair. I agree that the Democrats need new, fiery blood!
ReplyDeleteI've heard of him ....but what are his platform views? Running as a younger member isn't enough. But I do agree they need a new party. And them the Democrats wonder why they keep looking and voters sit home.
ReplyDeleteWhile I don't know all his stances yet ...at least he has the balls to call out the Democratic Party and tell them that it ain't working.
DeleteAnd as we know, speak up and over speak the party's message and they don't want you. If you can't get in line, then forget it. They are no different then what they blame the republicans of.
DeleteThis is another excellent post with some good points. And I have always loved David Hogg from what I've seen him on TV. But I don't get it the Democrats keep telling us how dangerous Trump is, which he is, and keep sounding the alarm. But when a solution shows up like David Hogg, they're the first ones to blow it we are so doomed. And I am sorry but I will have to disagree about Bernie and AOC who claim they are real Progressive and both made names for pushing the popular Medicare for all, yet they didn't endorse any Democrats or progressives running on it. Okay I got it! Right now most days I despise both parties equally. I don't know what we the people are supposed to do?
ReplyDeleteI can't with the Dems sometimes.
ReplyDeleteThey are like that 'good' kid in school who fucks things up because everything has to be just so. They need new blood. David Hogg is that new blood (same as AOC and Crockett) but they don't like it when they rock the boat. Ugh.
NOTHING and I mean nothing is going to be as fucked up as Jabba the Orange and his rubes. Nothing. So I don't know why they just can't relax and accept change.
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"So I don't know why they just can't relax and accept change."
DeleteBecause, they are greedy don't want to part with power either. Well guess what? It's time to pass the torch, because they aren't cutting it.
You know who should be fired? Jeffries and Schumer. And replaced with men and women like the ones you mention. Right now the GOP is wiping the floor with the bunch of them...and their taking it.
ReplyDeleteYou get a seasoned, on the ground activist capable of recapturing the lost youth and younger vote. What happens? He gets BERNIED 2016. So tired of hearing that a new party isn't possible. Many of them from Pelosi, Jefferies, Schummer, Warren, Klobuchar, Schiff, and many others.
ReplyDeleteThey need to get over it and do their job and with some backbone. This David Hogg is pushing the party to do the right things. Not just sit on their hands. I see no trace of resistance or outcry from them currently.
ReplyDeleteThis is why I disengaged in 2024. They don’t get it. Mind you I still vote 100% dem, mostly, but I will not donate or volunteer for them any longer. Not till a get another option!
ReplyDeleteLeave it to me to go there, but I wouldn't mind being Hogg tied.
ReplyDeleteI saw that interview with Hogg and I was like the party needs to do more with him!!!
ReplyDeleteAnd THANK YOU for calling out that Klobuchar statement. I thought it was weird that the party that is obsessed with the word democracy, didn’t even let the voters pick their candidate when they forced Joe out. When they pushed him out and put Harris in, I knew then it was cooked. I liked Harris, but one option???? I didn't like to be told there was one choice.
Bold of Senator Klobucar to say, especially after David Hogg — the newly elected DNC vice chair — said something similar and was immediately ousted from his seat. We just want candidates we can trust, and the DNC has repeatedly shown they don’t care.
ReplyDeletePREACH SISTA! If only all the team blue no matter who voters had enough sense to ever be ashamed of themselves and let the people who aren't burying their heads in the sand speak, and demand the things dems claim they want from the ones who repeatedly break promises to give them those things.. instead of just constantly pretending everything will be fine if they screech louder and louder. Voting blue no matter who has backfired henny.
ReplyDeleteAm I the only one who heard Joe Biden say, in 2019, that he only wanted to be a one-term president?
ReplyDeleteFor the moment, I have stopped donating to the DNC. I wish I could get the fucking robo-texts from the abstract congressional races to stop, as well. I've diverted all my donations to the ACLU and SPLC, along with regional food banks and community support organizations that got screwed over by SCROTUS.
If the DEMS want my donation - there needs to be one, unified voice of IMPEACH THE MOTHERFUCKER ALREADY! Every single, God damned thing he's done is an impeachable offense. Every. Single. Thing.
I agree completely with you. The donations that they're not getting have now been sent to the elephant Sanctuary that I donate to... the Shedrick Trust.
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