there is no reason to give up on the Democratic Party, because the Democratic Party has shown itself capable of becoming a ship of theseus over civil rights and jettisoning its own president to avert disaster, and no alternatives exist that are not the preserves of charlatans and grifters
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Obama passed a law that required us to purchase health insurance from for profit corporations that would go on to dental coverage
Biden handed public health policy to corporate executive boards
Schumer is running across the aisle to give republicans what they want
and eight, yes eight democrats, rejected a $15 minimum wage
(take a look at that last chart)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/12/us-health-insurance-coverage-healthcare-system-problems-medical-debt-profits-data-charts/
https://www.cbpp.org/research/health/entering-their-second-decade-affordable-care-act-coverage-expansions-have-helped#:~:text=Today%2C%20roughly%2040%20million%20people,to%20employer%2Dbased%20health%20insurance.
condescending prick
read this
https://www.kff.org/private-insurance/issue-brief/claims-denials-and-appeals-in-aca-marketplace-plans-in-2023/#:~:text=Insurers%20reported%20receiving%20425%20million,19%25%20(Figure%201).
there will always be a broad leftlib coalition party in the two party american system, if the existing party sucks, you have to overwhelm it in the primaries NOT JUST at pres level, theres no alternative
And I have volunteered on too many Democratic Party campaigns to count.
To pretend is an ideologically indifferent coalition is inaccurate.
People beyond those edges are not going to be welcome in the party.
There is no Democratic Party.
Then you will see, it is not the Democratic Party that bends. It is only yourself.
No rotten fruit from the poison tree.
Takeovers can be done.
1 We don't have proportional representation (PR) in the US. People always point to European countries which have multiple viable parties. Those countries have PR.
(And hey, if anyone is mad enough at the Dems to pass PR ballot initiatives in NY or CA, do it. I'm begging you.)
If you have the spoons to make a third party, just use those spoons to take over an existing party. That's literally what Russia and the broligarchs did to the GOP.
So long as the current system remains, we have to hang on to the truth that OP highlights.
The middle of the last century was a tug of war between white supremacy and progress as the spirit of the Democratic Party. Progress mostly won, and it can again.