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In reply to the discussion: I am no longer a Democrat. [View all]dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)I went back and re-read the posts you referenced. I agree with them, and have seen the same dynamic in my own district (and fought and lost to it). But that doen't mean it isn't the right place to wage this battle. We will sometimes be up against Party money, but we need to take them on and win. People are waking up, some of them at least, and if we fight in the primaries we can wake up more of them.
What's a better alternative? Third party? Unless you have a specific need to register in another party (which in my mind might include running for office on another ticket, or voting in a different party's primary, neither of which would generally be the case for the average disaffected Democrat), why not support another party at the organizational level yet still work for progressives in the Democratic primary? Or just work for progressives in the Dem primary without working for a third party. Either way, I don't see a lot of upside to abandoning the Democratic Party to the corporations.