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(5,210 posts)I didn't "run to Jill Stein" -- and yet I'm quite upset about this. I believe -- STRONGLY -- that the DNC needs to embrace its grassroots activists everywhere, and eschew everything that smacks in any way of the DNC's corporatist recent past.
I say "recent past." I mean since the DLC corporatists took over the party way back when.
Prior to that the party got its money the old-fashioned way: they earned it. They earned it from its rank and file base, its grassroots. Then they learned they could quit working so damned hard, and embrace corporate donations instead. And it's been downhill ever since.
They need to get back to the people, and they need to do it NOW.
And oh -- I've been part of "the base" for nearly 50 years now. I have some actual understanding of whereof I speak.