2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I just read why 64 Bernie NV delegates had their credentials stripped--and I shed a tear or two [View all]mikehiggins
(5,614 posts)down, surrendering the Democratic Party is most likely the worst possible way to remedy anything. Those people who have a real commitment to our policies should emulate the right wing and start from the bottom up.
Long before the Tea Party was created by the 1% conservatives at all levels were winning local elections on school boards, county commissions and state representatives. When the PTB wanted a movement to oppose ACA and just about anything else the President proposed taking over the nascent Conservative movement was child's play.
Well, that is what the real Democratic members have to do (though without the support of the PTB). It won't be easy, and most of us won't really take part but there never were a huge number of people in the pre-Tea Party days, just enough in positions of influence to make a difference. If we can knock a couple of Congress-critters out of the box in 2018 the real Democratic Party can have a telling role to play in 2020.
The right wing was serious, if misled. They put the time and effort needed into putting their ideas into action. The fact that they are wrong didn't make much difference to the average voter but their actions were not aimed at them in the first place. How many people really care that men and dinosaurs shared the earth at the same time? Could that have any effect on those people who generally believe evolution (and science as a whole) is bogus?
We have to imitate their success, or accept endless defeat at the hands of the Quizling Democrats.
And remember: time is running out. The water is rising, even for the buffoons who don't accept any science not found in the pages of their scriptures.