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It's pretty clear that Obama, Pelosi, Reid, DWS, and Brazile have dragged the previously center left Democrats further to the left. I’ve been observing for 4 years now (or there abouts) wondering if the Democrats are going to follow Obama off the cliff like lemmings.
This movement left has resulted in losing touch with, and credibility with, the left leaning middle class voters, both blue and white collar, and this can be seen in their federal congressional seat losses 2010, 2012 and 2016 (yes, 6 years of falling numbers of seats).
Without Obama on the ticket and campaigning, the Democrats lose representation in government. It appears the Obama coalition isn’t one that identifies with the Democratic party as much as it identified with the man alone. It’s also shown in the number of state legislatures and governorships firmly in the hands of the Republicans.
So yes, it seems the Democrats have indeed followed Obama over the cliff like lemmings.
With the Democrats in the house electing Pelosi to leadership, it doesn’t seem like the congressional seat losses for the Democrat party are going to subside or be turned back to gaining seats. Which 60-year-old (and plus) Democratic congressional leader is going to speak to, engage with, and earn the votes of, the millennials, who went for, supported and voted for Bernie, but not Hillary?
With Dr. Stein collecting money madly and quickly, allegedly for recount efforts (and make no mistake, separate accounts or not, those funds will end up in the Green campaign coffers for 2020). It seems that there is far more synergy between millennials and the Greens rather than the millennials and the now further left Democrats.
What do you think? Are the Greens going to be the new ‘Center-Left’ party? Taking this position from Democrat party which vacated it to move further left with Obama, et. al.?
If the Green party will become that party, this would put the Democratic party in a really bad spot, a self-inflicted one, fighting for the millennial votes which previously voted for Bernie.
Are we going to see the Green party as a viable 3rd party in the US?
This movement left has resulted in losing touch with, and credibility with, the left leaning middle class voters, both blue and white collar, and this can be seen in their federal congressional seat losses 2010, 2012 and 2016 (yes, 6 years of falling numbers of seats).
Without Obama on the ticket and campaigning, the Democrats lose representation in government. It appears the Obama coalition isn’t one that identifies with the Democratic party as much as it identified with the man alone. It’s also shown in the number of state legislatures and governorships firmly in the hands of the Republicans.
So yes, it seems the Democrats have indeed followed Obama over the cliff like lemmings.
With the Democrats in the house electing Pelosi to leadership, it doesn’t seem like the congressional seat losses for the Democrat party are going to subside or be turned back to gaining seats. Which 60-year-old (and plus) Democratic congressional leader is going to speak to, engage with, and earn the votes of, the millennials, who went for, supported and voted for Bernie, but not Hillary?
With Dr. Stein collecting money madly and quickly, allegedly for recount efforts (and make no mistake, separate accounts or not, those funds will end up in the Green campaign coffers for 2020). It seems that there is far more synergy between millennials and the Greens rather than the millennials and the now further left Democrats.
What do you think? Are the Greens going to be the new ‘Center-Left’ party? Taking this position from Democrat party which vacated it to move further left with Obama, et. al.?
If the Green party will become that party, this would put the Democratic party in a really bad spot, a self-inflicted one, fighting for the millennial votes which previously voted for Bernie.
Are we going to see the Green party as a viable 3rd party in the US?