We need a new Democratic Party

[TheKentuckian]

71. Almost all our institutions are a complete wreck. I agree that there has to be some beachhead.

There is no foundation to work from, no place where the battle is not in full frey at the very best.

However, there is a real issue that sanity may not be operative in this environment and when I say "may", I mean almost certainly not. How do you negate to a serious degree the toxic and all pervasive influence of money and the tight circle of connections everything is now controlled by?

Something very powerful has to be in place to provide enough opposite force to break from that gravity. There won't be room for a party to represent the people until there is space created. As is, we'd be pretty much praying for better angels just as we are now. They still have to come from the same circles and be resourced enough to take the field. They still have to get on ballots and play the media in a way to not be turned into a joke. Have to have offices and materials. Sure as hell have to be heard without complete distortion.

The Roosevelt's only had impact because they were there to diffuse a much greater real and present threat of upheaval to the existing ruling order. A "middle way" product of the establishment, in no small part to protect the establishment in response to competition to the paradigm.

Our current spectrum of ideas is too tight to move the direction much, the natural difference splitting never gets you there. That is if there is enough threat in play to force negotiation, which there isn't. No consequences for business as usual and no actual alternative that stands to disrupt power centers.

There is no conduit for chaos, all energy is tied up in a doomed effort to fend off entropy in existing orders to the active exclusion of any others. It ends up an exercise in rearranging the deck chairs and crafting fine solutions to problems one wishes they could put on the front burner but bigger and more devious gremlins have taken over the works and new environments created that solid solutions no longer have the same traction in.