daSwami wrote:dckingsfan wrote:Chaos Revenant wrote:...White progressives need to take a HARD look at themselves given that this is the absolute best they can do.
I really think they need their own party. This would be very difficult to achieve but it needs to happen (IMO, for the good of the country). They need to be unchained with their ideas constantly in the forefront and not locked on the back burner.
If they started their party now, the would have Bernie and the gang as immediate members. If they voted with the Ds in this next election cycle (and actually tried to build coalitions) it would bode well for them long-term.
That would give us roughly equal splits of Rs, Ds, Ps and Is, IMO.
But this is a pipe dream....
I don't think it's a pipe dream, I think it's an inevitability. Since Citizens United, both parties have become utterly corrupted by corporate influence, which is antithetical to Democracy.
The Dems should (and do) have a big tent...and progressives shouldn't leave it to start their own party anymore than far-right conservatives should leave the Repubs to start their own party. Some progressives, particularly many of those that support Bernie, just need to be less obstinate and recognize that at the end of the day, like it or not, politics is the art of compromise.