Reply #31: The system simply will not work like that.

[K-W]

Our system is based on elections. The state of the party now is the result of the elections in the recent past. If you dont like the state of the party, you have to win elections, get your people in the party, and the party will change.

My point was that if the labor movement becomes a dominant force in our society again, it can get its people elected, and it can control a party. Unions should be active in the democratic party, they just need to rebuild thier power so that when they are active, it makes a difference.

The problem isnt the party, and isnt supporting politicians. The problem is that the right has taken over the media and then the government and has marginalized liberal values to the point that we lost alot of elections and the DLC was able to step in and supplant us as the power in the party.

We can do the same to them by simply winning elections.