Reply #34: Democratic Party Might Self-Destruct [View All]

[Itsthetruth]

The Democratic Party doesn't need much or any help from CounterPunch or other progressive journals to self-destruct. In reality, they haven't destroyed the Democratic Party, they have abandoned it.

Many progressives, including writers at CounterPunch, have just lost faith and hope in the Democratic Party. They don't think it's possible for progressives to take over and win control of the Democratic Party. They are very pessimistic about the chances of actually ending corporate financing and control over leaders of the Democratic Party. And in light of how progressives have been marginalized inside the Democratic Party, it's easy to understand their point of view.

So are they trying to "destroy" the Democratic Party? I suppose those who suggest we need a new mass political party that represents the working class majority, for example those who advocate a radical Labor Party, could be accused of that. But that term "destroy" is designed to cast them in a bad light, as if they are somehow opposed to progressive policies and ideals that most of us favor.

The only way the Democratic Party can be "destroyed" and be replaced with something better, a new viable mass party of the people, is if the Democratic Party fails to change and remains under the domination and control of corporate interests. And if the Democratic Party is "destroyed" because of corporate control and adoption of a corporate agenda and a new mass progressive political party emerged, would anybody here shed a tear?

I don't think so. Every progressive and liberal here would abandon the Democratic Party and join the new mass party be it called the Populist Party, Labor Party, etc., I don't know if that will happen. Perhaps it will.