I’ve been working in Democratic politics for a decade and now I find myself barely grasping to the notion that I’m still a Democrat.
Every issue becomes dogma to the blind, every election the party picks between geriatrics or mentally unstable activists as their torchbearers, as long as they never commit the heresy of disagreement.
Cities that we govern have turned to community sized mental health clinics, because it’s immoral to police people who come in and drive peoples livelihoods into the ground. Every policy that gets through turns into the "continuum of care” pipeline of permanent projects that will keep people addicted and sleeping on the streets. All so the progressive activist can be employed and constantly get told about how they do “good work”, even when the job is prolonging the problem.
The thing is, we can build hospitals for people that need care. We can build shelters, housing for people who have gotten down on their luck, and we can have businesses thrive without vagrants in crevices. That is not an immoral thing to believe.
To do that would mean closing the book on permanent activism and prioritizing problem solving. That means ending the always temporary appeasement of flaky coalition members.
Shutting down the perpetual “expert” crowd that will shout at anyone who questions anything, unless you’ve gained a title to divinely raise your opinion.
Our academics will denounce sequential thoughts, if they don’t have empirical data to prove a theory, forgetting that in society problems only ever get solved if rhetoric is strong enough to craft popular will.
Name me one thing that the Democratic party has accomplished in the 21st century?
If you’re a party member, your answer was most likely marriage equality & Obamacare.
Marriage equality was set into law by the Supreme Court, not a Democratic elected official.
And I’m happy Obamacare was a thought and I overcome myself with joy knowing that the Democratic supermajority solved the healthcare crisis in America (I’m glaring at you).
Infrastructure & Clean energy? The vast majority of that money is still sitting in government accounts, without a clear actionable plan to get it deployed outside of the companies that already have strong government relationships and lobbyists.
Not one issue has been resolved. Blame the other side for acting like bad actors, but the authority, the numbers have been there multiple times, and nothing got done.
The right throws shit at the wall knowing that when it slides off Democrats will pick it up and fingerpaint with it, while shouting “those horrible people threw it at us, now we love shit.”