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In reply to the discussion: Is Our Revolution trying to unseat Al Franken? [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)his goal of taking over the Democratic Party. When they thought they were riding high, "revolutionaries" right here gloated over how they were going to purge the Democratic Party of its current leadership, and some did use that word. Since then every prominent name in the party has been strongly attacked by this organization and its offshoots, and by followers right here on this board.
But back to "Our Revolution," it's a struggle for power, not for cooperation. And they could't have it without taking out the mainstream, mainly liberal Democratic leadership. That's just the way it is. They are and always will be only one among a number of minority factions in the party, most of whom disagree with them, and their only path to power would be to smash their way to control.
And they can't do that without weakening the support of those who vote for their leaders, which is why too many Our Revolution types were unhappy and angry after all the Democratic victories on November 7 -- instead of being happy, as they would have been if I was wrong. And I would be extremely happy to be wrong on that, instead of shocked and appalled.
In these days of existential threats from the right, hoping and working for fewer Democrats to be elected to office, because then the few numbers of capital-P Progressives gain power in comparison, isn't just counterproductive to the progressive goals they claim, it's dangerously destructive of them.