What will it take to rouse them from their stupor?
They only have some strength along the Left Coast and the NE.
45% of their House of Rep numbers come from 6 states. CA, OR, WA, NY, MA & IL
Any claim to a mythical popular vote is rooted in one state,... CA
They are facing a bitter fight over who leads the party.
The average age of the current Congressional Dem leadership is 72, the Repubs is 49
Not very broad appeal. Dems are in no position to say that they represent the people as a whole.
And in 2018 they are facing a near death experience.
They should immediately check in to political rehab but I think they are still in their disease, denial stage.
What will it take to rouse them from their stupor?
Democrats need to get rid of the Clinton faction of the party. Their influence should be dead. I have no confidence in Chuck Schumer leading the Senate Democrats.
As for marganilization, the Democratic Party has won the U.S. Popular Vote in 6 of the 7 presidential elections. That is not marganilizing. In fact, two consecutive Republican presidential pickup winners—George W. Bush (2000) and Donald Trump (2016)—failed to win the U.S. Popular Vote.
What the Democratic Party needs to do is become a uniformly, ideologically left wing political party with their policies for not just social but also economical. They are too much like the Republicans on national security and with the military industrial complex. Aligning closely on those issues makes the two major parties indistinguishable—and makes it too easily susceptible for losing party majority in both houses of Congress, to the Republican Party, while on the watch of a Democratic Party U.S. president. (Bill Clinton and Barack Obama lost the House in their Year #02. The two previous Republican U.S. presidents—Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush—waited until Year #06; there were unique circumstances with Bush Jr.)
Please please do this democrats. This is like all the nuts in my party who said Romeny lost because he wasn't conservative enough. Please go into the crazy far left wilderness with Corbyn and the Labour Party and give us our suburban rich folks back.
Yes, the Democrats should.
People—not including yourself—have it figured that the Republicans are completely owned by the oligarchs, like the Koch brothers and all their allies.
The Democrats should not be following the Republicans any further with any right-wing policies.
There isn’t any person with today’s Republican Party from whom the Democratic Party should be seeking advice. Whenever any of them try to give advice to the Democrats, like commonly suggesting not to go far left, those Republicans should be dismissed. (This includes you, St. Alphonso.)
Go ahead go far left your party will continue to lose elections. Its like the Republicans who weren't conservative enough from 2008-2016!
It is an insanely stupid thing to say about progressives losing election when that has been proven wrong - Shows your level of intellect.
The fact that a radical extremist like Trump wins who promises to ban religions & kill innocent people & steal oil vs a complete centrist moderate like Clinton shows how stupid this theory is.
Also the idea of far left is actually mainstream & centrist in every major party in the world. The current Republican party doesn't even fit in any left-right divide. It is an extremist political organization which is completely cut off from reality. Everyone in the world laughs at the stupidity of people who deny climate change.
I mean you radical Religious extremists like Ted Cruz winning elections & you have this idea that being progressive like every major country is unelectable. Who came up with this dumb idea?
