Padawanbater2
Well-Known Member
I don't believe it's absurd at all. Obama has done some good things, but he's also done some bad things, and all we ever hear out of partisan establishment Democratic supporters are the good things, never the bad things. In fact, as you can plainly see, whenever anyone, even a progressive, criticizes any of his policies, they get labeled a racist (even if they voted for him!).
Accepting corporate money and super PAC money to win elections is not the rule. You simply believe it is because that's how the system has been working for so long and you've been bombarded by propaganda that tells you we have to take it to be able to compete. This is an opinion, not a fact. Sanders and Trump both utilized a populist message during the campaign and they were both extremely popular, especially Sanders amongst the grassroots. If the entire Democratic party came out tomorrow and signed a pledge that said they won't accept corporate money or super PAC money, and highlight the fact that Republicans do and that makes them beholden to their corporate interests, they would win in a landslide until they don't anymore. People are fed up with this shit, across the nation, both red and blue as Sanders has demonstrated by receiving standing ovations in deep red districts.
The current Democratic party is as much an obstacle to progress as the Republican party. Once enough of them are unseated by actual progressives, then we will build unity. I have no desire to unify with a party that doesn't support single payer healthcare or campaign finance reform. That party is already dead to me.
The people, progressives, are already there. They simply don't have a viable party to support. On every major issue except gun control, a majority of the country swings left. Every poll demonstrates this. Healthcare, education, minimum wage, the drug war, for profit prison, wars and the military industrial complex, the list is endless. The problem is we don't have a party that champions these issues because Democrats by and large are not beholden to their constituents, they're beholden to their corporate donors because they're the ones who fund their campaigns. If they're not happy with what Joe Politician does, they won't donate to him again. This ensures Joe does their bidding or gets primaried by someone who will.
