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In reply to the discussion: How to Save the Democratic Party [View all]Selatius
(20,441 posts)11. If the party went back to the New Deal and pushed economic populism, it may revive itself.
But quite a few politicians make a career out of catering to wealthy donors, and the wealthiest people tend to favor right wing economic policy over something Franklin Roosevelt would advocate. The rich hated Roosevelt for redistributing some of that wealth back to the working class.
I believe election reform would help the Democratic Party move away from Wall Street. As long as private donations are the mainstay of our election system, the rich will continue to have a competitive advantage. I think a push towards full federal funding of federal campaigns for office would level the playing field.
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Agreed. STOP trying to win over the completely delusional whackjobs who are destroying this
Nay
Jan 2013
#30
If the party went back to the New Deal and pushed economic populism, it may revive itself.
Selatius
Jan 2013
#11
Pass legislation proposed by Republicans five or ten years ago and declare victory!
Demo_Chris
Jan 2013
#14
Well, they want the optics of one and the cushy benefits of the other,
woo me with science
Jan 2013
#25
CU won’t be fixed anything soon but in the mean time we have to elect those who are
Lesmoderesstupides
Jan 2013
#28
There aren't any "Lefties". That's the problem. Nothing coherent, because what might pass for that
patrice
Jan 2013
#52
I don't dispute any of that, I know it intimately & first hand. The problem is HOW to develope
patrice
Jan 2013
#63
Anything "fundamentally different" has to be more than incremental. Centrists cannot
ancianita
Jan 2013
#57
I think the point of the OP is that if Democrats want to win more, they have
rhett o rick
Jan 2013
#70