Democrats: Move on

Identity politics still serves as the party’s glue, not out of principle, but as a default distraction from its unwillingness to challenge structural power.

The Democratic Party in 2025 is a coalition held together by habit and fear, technocratic elites, activist left, and suburban moderates sharing a tent with no shared vision. It talks like it’s solving problems but governs like it’s managing decline, too afraid to confront capital, and too practiced in pretending to champion workers. Identity politics still serves as the party’s glue, not out of principle, but as a default distraction from its unwillingness to challenge structural power.

Leadership cycles through the same revolving doors, foundations, consultancies, academia, speaking the language of equity while legislating in the language of stasis. At its core, the party no longer knows what it believes, beyond opposing Republicans and clinging to a thin moral superiority. Young voters see through the theater, but the machine holds, because there’s no alternative with real infrastructure or money.

Climate policy is branded, not bold. Labor support is reactive, not rooted. Foreign policy still carries the same imperial logic, just dressed in softer words and launched from the same drones. If the party has a soul left, it’s buried beneath donor spreadsheets and electoral math. And if it surfaces, it’ll be in spite of the system, not because of it.

The party is on a trajectory toward collapse unless it reorients, fast around economic and class solidarity. Its abandonment of working-class and blue-collar communities over the past two decades has left a lasting scar. What’s left of the base is mostly college-educated professionals, bolstered only by those who haven’t yet walked away.

Any serious movement toward justice, economic, environmental, bodily, digital, must reject the dead strategies that brought us here. Republicans are posturing as allies of the working poor while still funneling wealth upward. The danger is that the posture might stick, even if the policy doesn't.

Democrats need to respond with clarity and courage. That means fighting for the people who just want to be left alone, something the party has grown allergic to. Instead, it obsesses over tone-policing and punishes imperfect language, driving away those who value autonomy over performance.

If the GOP slashes bureaucracy, exports militarized growth, or opens new wealth frontiers through conquest, Democrats can’t counter with caution and committee hearings. They need to reject oligarchy outright. That means sidelining performative activists who confuse moral outrage for strategy. It also means confronting the Boomer liberal class still clogging the pipes; rigid, condescending, and allergic to new ideas. They’ve had their time. Throw them out.

Patriotism isn’t a sin. Prioritizing American citizens isn’t immoral, it’s pragmatic. Resources are tightening. The future will demand triage. The left must prepare accordingly.

Start with bold, structural policies: Universal Basic Income, AI as a public utility, A government built not just to regulate power, but to return it.