This criticism would have been better spent on American conservatives, surely they're the bigger threat? Or even better, making positive net change. I'll never understand people who choose target the lesser evil ..

The Democratic Party has a lot of garbage, and has certainly stopped a lot of reform, while portraying themselves as the only party for reasonable people. They have managed to tap the energies of good people who think this is the only path they can take to help.

They have spent over a century squashing small political parties who could be a threat later. In later years they have been so successful at this that any opposition at all is viewed as almost treasonous.

But the worst thing they have done is not the above, or OP article. Their worst sin is helping to move the country away from paper ballots counted in front of human witnesses. And while there are some states that have good participation from mail in ballots, which is good. And a precious few who do ballots properly. The Democratic Party, as a whole, is utterly silent on the majority of states. Including states where they are the minority party.

They could not do this without the willful ignorance, despondency, intransigence and pig headedness of the majority of Americans.

I think these few generations of American voters will not be looked at kindly in the histories; it will be seen as totally weird by future historians.

It's not a secret.

Appreciate that this was tagged as "conspiracy theories" because it partially is, but it's also making worthwhile points. Advisors to the democratic party leadership have their own motives, and it's all to do with dollar signs. Campaign finance was broken by moneyed interests, we let them create a world where half of all campaign spending comes from something like 0.1% of the electorate.

This is a thing I've been saying about the Democrats for eight years now, though from a somewhat different angle.

They're not only okay with losing elections - in ways they actually prefer it.

The worst case scenario for Democrats, and if you were paying attention, you saw it when it happened, is controlling both the presidency and a congessional majority. Then they have to go to ludicrous extremes to fail to accomplish anything, including still claiming to be obstructed by the Republican minority, even after spending the last however many years claiming that they couldn't do anything to stop the Republicsns bevause they were the minority.

Somehow, the Republicans can stop the Demicrats no matter who has the majority, while the Democrats cannot stop the Republicans, again no matter who has the majority.

But the key, in my opinion, and not really addressed in this otherwise excellent essay, is that the one and only thing that the Democratic party hierarchy really cares about is keeping the soft money flowing. That's it - nothing else matters to them.

And the way they keep the soft money flowing is to provide the appearance of opposition - to play the role of faces against the Republicsn heels - but to never quite manage to stop them, and certainly to never actually accomplish anything even vaguely leftist.

That provides a dual benefit for them - they keep their corporate sponsors happy by never doing anything that might actually lead to smaller executive pay packages or having to actually pay taxes and they can fundraise among the rank and file with their standard "Look at the horrible things the Republicans are doing and that's why we need your support!"

And it all hinges on not successfully opposing the Republicans, and far and away the easiest way to not successfully oppose the Republicans is to lose key elections.

Generally !anarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com is better for this sort of post

This makes an uncomfortable amount of sense.

America really needs an idealistic, grassroots, left-wing party that truly speaks for the people. Much like the NDP here in Canada.

The Democrats' Secret Plan to Destroy Democracy

How will they destroy something that has never existed?

Many people who identify as left wing, but who did not voice a position to the electors in the 2024 election, adopted a strategy of playing chicken with fascism. If we can get enough public outcry against Kamala, they said, then the Democrats will just have to replace her with a lefty like AOC.

Kek