2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDNC: "We have suffered devastating losses at all levels" but "know how to win elections." WTF?!?!?
Sorry, but these DNC "Victory Task Force Preliminary Findings" (http://www.bluevirginia.us/showComment.do?commentId=46121) are just a complete and utter #FAIL. See http://www.bluevirginia.us/showComment.do?commentId=46122 for a few thoughts on that.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)There really aren't that many possibilities. When you lose elections, you either A) Don't know how to win elections, B) Failed at trying to implement the steps necessary to win those elections, or C) Chose not to implement those steps for whatever reason.
djean111
(14,255 posts)I am sure the DNC will use the losses to justify moving even further to the right. (Starting to think "as planned".)
fredamae
(4,458 posts)to the Base....because they "don't like the message"...could be a problem
Perhaps the Dem Party has run into a base that finally drew a line in the sand...refused to go with the status quo as "leadership" continue to drag the party "Right".
Democratic Leadership is in denial if they're still asking questions that have already been answered, imo
Then this pops up:
http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2015/02/democrat-exodus-from-democrat-party-begins-no-surprise/
Dwight42
(43 posts)Thanks to Clinton, and his ''Centrist'' policies threw the Democrat's base, the poor and middle-class under the bus. Unfortunately his idea of the "centre" is so far to the right that Reagan and Nixon couldn't get elected today.
The majority of American want a government of, by and for the people, not this Plutocracy that benefits the very few and whose only goal is to be control of the world through military might.
I am sorry but the America of my youth has become the largest empire in history created by the same mentality that gave us fascism a century ago.
Unfortunately this can not continue as the US is broke and only keeps going because the leaders keep printing worthless dollars.
History has shown, Empires do not end well. And considering the group that has full control of the US government Nuclear War seems a very real probability.
And as history has also shown, anyone who speaks against these wars Dr. King or anyone with the ability to become president and doesn't go along with the plan, remember the Kennedy brothers; leaving the prospects of real change dubious at best.
An interesting sideline, John Kennedy was contemplating a political career after his successful Convention speech by running for the Senate from New York and clearly was a front runner when his untimely death unfortunately allowed Hillary Clinton, not from New York to begin her "centrist" political career.
RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)Cal33
(7,018 posts)hungry for money and power over people, get more and more involved in
bribery and corruption, let money play a larger and larger role in elections,
take more money from the barely surviving to feed the already super-rich,
letting them die early deaths -- in short, Democrats should become more
and more Republican?
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)success. It validates their insistence on corporatizing the party. Many duers agree.
RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)ACA - corporate written, corporate blessed => corporate windfall. TPP - "NAFTA on steroids". Cuba - New casinos and Walmarts. School profitization. Offshore drilling. Pipeline (HRC). Immunity to all of the banksters.
How many examples do you need? And why is it that the Turd way alternates between bragging about Obama's "centrism" and denying it? Is it confusion or multiple personality disorder? Pick a personality and stick with it.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)Regards,
TWM
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)And how the Republicans have leveraged high money at every level?
MisterP
(23,730 posts)so we need to be more like them
it's like a bad boyfriend--he's always right, and that goes DOUBLE when he's wrong
RiverLover
(7,830 posts)The Democratic candidate for Governor didn't have enough money to run a single TV ad.
dsc
(52,163 posts)but it wouldn't have mattered. He was a very flawed candidate.