Should the DEM split? Wasn’t this the same questioning many had of the GOP this time last year?
Yes the DEM can be the Party of the working class and fossil fuel sector as well because poor states like West Virginia depend on Coal to keep them running, most poor States offer little outside of fossil fuels and agriculture, so yes DEM you need to fight for both- PB/TK
Meet the New Party: Just About the Same as the Old Party – By Howard Lisnoff / June 14 2017
The not-so-new Democratic Party had its claws on the People’s Summit this past weekend in Chicago. Readers might think that after so much greed and profit from war and after such loss of human resources, that someone would stand up and shout: “What’s the matter with you people… can’t you see the obvious… can’t you see the handwriting on the wall!”
Even Pharaoh could figure it out after an adept adviser pointed to the wall. But it goes on and on and there is no debate about this most important of issues. There is tinkering around the edges of policy… many good policies, but without paying attention to the elephant in the room, not much will change.
Bernie Sanders said at the summit that “The Democratic party needs fundamental change” (The Guardian, “Bernie Sanders lambasts ‘absolute failure’ of Democratic party’s strategy,” June 10, 2017). Sure, Bernie, we get it: bring working people into the equation… young people… older people… fight for “social and economic justice”… Sanders said that the Democratic Party “cannot be on the side of Wall Street, or the fossil fuel industry, or drug companies.” All of this is very accurate, but where is the pressing debate and political platform that call out the Democrats for voting and supporting nearly 16 years of endless wars and endless support of military contractors and war profiteering? Where’s the connection between this greed and profit and the gun and rifle massacres that happen with certain regularity on the streets of the U.S.?
Continue to counterpunch.org article: https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/14/meet-the-new-party-just-about-the-same-as-the-old-party/
