I live in California so my vote rarely matters, we vote so late, and it is safely blue for POTUS. So I'm not too worried about the TOS. I won't advocate for anyone to not vote for Dems, which as far as I can tell should keep me on the right side of the admins enough to let me post here.
But I fully agree, and I've also been a Democrat for a long long time. I kept thinking the party wanted to do better but didn't have better candidates, or couldn't do better because of Republicans.
Now it is way too obvious to ignore. It's about the money. The party is addicted to and entirely consumed by corporate money and the interests that come with it. That does not represent me.
Where do we go from here? I'm still working to get this party to elect candidates who refuse corporate money, but the rise of Bernie has shown exactly to what degree the party will go to oppose this, it seems they'll do anything to stop him. They work for their donors, not for us. And in my own very progressive district, same story, amazing progressive candidate lost to a so-so corporate-funded candidate in the Democratic primary.
Can it be fixed? We'll see. I doubt it but for the moment I will continue to work to reform the Democratic Party rather than work on starting something new.
I actually envision something like the congressional progressive caucus, but one that has a rule that its members swear off corporate funding, and provides alternative clean funding mechanisms (crowd funding) to allow them and their ideas to comepete with the corporatists. We have to defeat corporate Democrats in primaries to get anywhere, not easliy done when the party establishment is dead set against it.
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