Where are the Democrats? – Community Alliance

“Where are the Democrats?” Everyone seems to ask this question – from experts like Ralph Nader and Robert Reich to activists of the base.

Nader called Trump’s March Presidential speech to the congress, “a declaration of war against the American people, including the Trump voters, in favor of the super and giant companies”. But what was the democratic reaction?

The top-class tour by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) And Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) pulled large crowds across the country, also in Bakersfield last month. Despite the enormous appetite among activists on commitment, the management of the Democratic Party seems to be at the top of the Trump government’s resistance at every level.

“I admit, I think the general reaction was slower overall than many,” says Rusty Hicks, chairman of the California Democratic party.

“I think there are two schools … in democratic circles: the first is that they come on the plate and vibrate on every field. This is the (US Senator) Chris Murphy (D -Conn.) View of the world.

“And then you have the (House Minority Guide) Hakeem Jeffries (D -ny) view of the world that get up to beat and choose your parking spaces, but you can’t swing everything. You have to be strategically about what you deal with at this specific moment.

“I think I’m probably more on my side to be strategic how you get involved.”

“It is always interesting to find out who people mean by” the party “when they complain or make suggestions about what the Democrats should do,” notes Daraka Larimore Hall, lecturer at UC Santa Barbara in working sciences and former deputy chairman of California Democratic Party.

“The ‘Democratic Party’ is a really diverse, diffuse, decentralized series of institutions and groups. At first it is not like a very uniform thing.

“There is a big desire out there, really requires a more uniform message and more visibility of people who are identified with the Democratic Party, more visibility on their part, either actively against Trump’s agenda or the mobilization of people who to slow down people for an alternative or in future elections.

“When people say: ‘I want to see the democrats who do something,” they often mean different things, but at the moment I think people don’t see enough of them.

Nader also notes: “We are dealing with a disturbed, unstable pathological liar who gets away with it” and asks how he gets through with it. His answer: “Because the democratic party basically collapsed.

Look back

To paraphrase David Byrne’s speaking heads: “How did we get here?”

In retrospect for the 2024 elections, Hicks says: “We won here in California, where we appeared.

“If you look at the difference in voter participation, the indiscriminately more of the polling station, between the areas in which targeted, committed, committed, organized and infrastructured all year round, especially around the congress seats, we have seen that in other parts of the state we were cut into significant figures in considerable figures.

“And we were able to achieve a victory in six out of eight targeted congress seats of the battlefield. In most sports, they bring six out of eight winnings to the Hall of Fame.

“There were many things,” explains Larimore-Hall. “One is that there is a longer process in which the Democratic Party supported the working Americans and who slowed down and flowed, but it has been a consistent trend since the 1970s. And we have never really expected the main reasons for this.

“This is a process that has accelerated since the 90s. The party has really given up its historical commitment to bring employees into business.

“We can concentrate on things that the Harris campaign would have if they should do the very short time frame they had better, but for me the more important problem is how the FDR party does not fall majority of union members, working families and how voters fall into the lies of a fascist buffoon.”

Look ahead

“We have to be strategic and concentrate on how we can effectively change the Democratic Party instead of just complaining about it,” we committed Larimore-Hall. “But there is no reason to pretend that we have no real leadership crisis.

He realizes that Jeffries and the Senate leader Chuck Schumer (D – NY) should be replaced. “You are not equipped at all for this moment.”

“We need a real alternative to the voters of the working class, which is important for their lives, which aims to improve their economic well-being and be brave,” adds Larimore-Hall. “That is the solution.

“We don’t have to go back in our commitment to civil rights, human rights and social progress in order to make this case.”

Hicks explains another strategy: “You have to enact laws; you have to argue; continue to push back the handing of the White House, and you have (Attorney General), Rob Bonna, and finally you have to organize yourself – really to draw attention to the voters and the public, which deals with these actions and influence on your everyday life and.

When Hicks joins his convention at the end of May, he says that the state party “is still in a kind of preparatory phase and knows that this is a two -year struggle” that “it is our job to use the organizing infrastructure that we have to remind you of what your member of the congress does.”

Larimore-Hall emphasizes the need to continue the work in order to “reform the structures of the party and find ways to really strengthen activists and basic stakeholders in the party.

“We have to appear; we can’t go away. That sounds banal, but it is really true. In times like these it is very easy to be demoralized.”

The importance of the inclusion of players outside the party was also found. “The party is only a meeting point for activists to join together to make political changes,” says Larimore-Hall. “The resistance must be directed by normal people, regardless of the hat they wear.

“The politicians are definitely not those who will do this. It will be ordinary people who take the time, develop leadership qualities, even take risks to American politics to an environmentally friendly project.

“The party cannot be afraid to be part of the pressure to move to democratic chosen civil servants. That does not mean that they cannot be friendly or have a good relationship or whatever, but our democratic civil servants should take a matter of course that the Democrats are on their eyes to ensure that people (for example) have clean drinking water.

“You should never expect the party to give you cover so as not to do it or do something bad.”

The California Democratic Party will hold its state convent on May 30, 19 May in Anaheim. Any democrat can take part as an observer (cdpconvention.org/ Register/). The elections are held for state officials and regional leaders. Let your voice hear.

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