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In reply to the discussion: Wake up folks: nobody with power gives a fuck about you. [View all]MrScorpio
(73,630 posts)The party is really a reflection of whoever gets them elected. Sure, it's convenient to blame the party for not owning up to whatever we envision it to be, but the fact is that it's an amalgam of all who support it whenever it gets any support.
If it's schizophrenic, that's because its supporters are all over the place and yet, not everywhere.
The biggest reason why is because not enough Americans are taking a deep and informed interest in politics and governance. We're supposed to represent the majority. Yet, most people just don't know what to think of Democrats at any given time. The general image is that we're the big labor, anti-war, lunatic fringe, dope smoker, gay, immigrant minority party.
Instead, our image should be that of the Default American Party.
That's why Republicans can get away with their crap, by defining themselves as the default position. America reverts backs to them after we take away some of the pain that the Republicans have inflicted.
The problem here is that you should be mad at both the Democrats and the Republicans for completely different reasons: The Republicans for being so greedy and evil and appealing to the very worst in the American soul, and against the Democrats for only seeking to woo support for themselves in small, isolated ways and just during election time.
They are not the same