The Democratic Party is laden with dead wood, people past their expiration date. I, an 80 year-old, don't think people of my age, or even several years younger, should be running important things. They might advice, they might use their influence to help (never to obstruct), but they might not direct.
Doing the latter demands a great deal of energy and strength, because to succeed, the necessary task is bound to be grueling. It's a younger generation's game.
With that out of the way: there is need for a Democratic Party political renovation through a definite shift to the left, as it happened with FDR and JFK.
It was not only who was the president, but who were those around this person, and on what were in agreement those in the majority of them and of the rest of the politically active part of society that wanted such a shift, that agreed there was a need for it. Under the pressure of circumstances, the question got more or less resolved by a compromise on what this "it" was. Then things started to move more steadily forward.
Such an agreement, this time, or the lack of it, will determine what the Democratic Party becomes, for better or worse.
But now, with the election still unresolved, days, weeks, from it finally being fully decided, it's not a good time to speculate with sufficient certainty on such things.
All the insider political mumbo jumbo aside, and as the midterm distress and fluff slowly recedes with some race results still trickling in, the thing progressives should be addressing right now is Biden's determination to move centrist-right and work hand in glove with a Republican party that he had just announced recently was all about driving a stake into democracy.
Biden and the corporate class ownership of the Democratic party are chomping at the bit to "work with colleagues across the isle." Presumably, with the very criminal election deniers who supported upholding the big MAGA election lie.
This deceit of leadership will further criminal legislation supporting the ownership class while creating further destruction of social programs and more austerity for the working class.
The Democratic Party is laden with dead wood, people past their expiration date. I, an 80 year-old, don't think people of my age, or even several years younger, should be running important things. They might advice, they might use their influence to help (never to obstruct), but they might not direct.
Doing the latter demands a great deal of energy and strength, because to succeed, the necessary task is bound to be grueling. It's a younger generation's game.
With that out of the way: there is need for a Democratic Party political renovation through a definite shift to the left, as it happened with FDR and JFK.
It was not only who was the president, but who were those around this person, and on what were in agreement those in the majority of them and of the rest of the politically active part of society that wanted such a shift, that agreed there was a need for it. Under the pressure of circumstances, the question got more or less resolved by a compromise on what this "it" was. Then things started to move more steadily forward.
Such an agreement, this time, or the lack of it, will determine what the Democratic Party becomes, for better or worse.
But now, with the election still unresolved, days, weeks, from it finally being fully decided, it's not a good time to speculate with sufficient certainty on such things.
All the insider political mumbo jumbo aside, and as the midterm distress and fluff slowly recedes with some race results still trickling in, the thing progressives should be addressing right now is Biden's determination to move centrist-right and work hand in glove with a Republican party that he had just announced recently was all about driving a stake into democracy.
Biden and the corporate class ownership of the Democratic party are chomping at the bit to "work with colleagues across the isle." Presumably, with the very criminal election deniers who supported upholding the big MAGA election lie.
This deceit of leadership will further criminal legislation supporting the ownership class while creating further destruction of social programs and more austerity for the working class.