But ultimately, the main power we have is in primary opposition.
So, we're going to be really targeting those districts, and ensuring that we have really solid primary challengers for the 2018 midterms. I think that's where you really start to apply pressure, is replacing people in the House, and the Senate, that aren't doing the people's work...TRNN
Democratic Party Resistance to Medicare for All Traceable to Campaign Funding
Aaron Maté interviews Corbin Trent
The failure of Democracy is my favorite topic but the well has run dry. I think we neee distance from elections for awhile because otherwise this is such fertile ground too.
ReplyDeleteDemocracy is an idea that has not yet been tried. It functioned for a while in ancient Athens but only because citizens had the leisure to participate in debate owing to the slave-based economy.
ReplyDeleteTechnology is just beginning to make real democracy possible — government of the people, by the people and for the people — as participatory democracy where issues are decided based on referenda rather than representation, which democratic republicanism that has been controlled historically by a ruling class.
However, direct democracy requires a context of sufficient culture and education to obviate it falling into rabble-rousing and mob rule.
The public heavily favors Medicare for all but it has no real voice in the political process to affect specific issues directly.