With Republicans running the White House and Congress, the person who wins the DNC chair race will take on a critical role in U.S. politics. They will serve as a national spokesperson for the Democratic Party while simultaneously leading a fundraising and campaign organization that received and disbursed over $450 million in campaign funds over the last two years.
In writing this piece, I reached out to 427 of the DNC’s 448 voting members and interviewed 19 of them. Those who spoke with me came from ideologically, geographically, and racially diverse backgrounds. They included Democrats from rural and urban communities, grassroots party members, elected officials, and party insiders and critics alike. Most agreed to speak on the condition their names wouldn’t be used.
What emerged from these conversations is a picture of a DNC that is built to be an undemocratic, top-down institution, unable to truly leverage the wisdom and guidance of the DNC members who hail from local and state networks across the country. This is especially true when those local and state members disagree with the DNC’s posture or strategic choices.
The 2024 elections were a case in point. President Joe Biden may have wanted to run for reelection, but America would have been better served if DNC members were empowered to publicly challenge that decision and force a national debate to happen much sooner. But Biden controlled the DNC through Harrison, his hand-picked chair, and the culture of the DNC is not one that rewards dissent.
They’re completely irredeemable and have been so since 2016, possibly earlier as they tried to force Hillary over Obama but couldn’t quite make it happen. The sooner the left abandons the democrats and coalesces around another party the sooner we can move forward if we’re gonna play this electoralism game.
They would rather lose to fascists than upset capitalists. Useless. Utterly useless. They fiddle while Rome burns.
The DNC needs to be burned to ashes. The Democratic Party needs to go the way of the whigs.
We’re caught in a coordinated action problem here. The DNC is terrible and is impossible to change. Yet, every 4 years, they trot out another shit candidate, and anyone left of the Nazis has to support them simply because they are the “only option.”
What we need to do is have a movement or petition that makes it abundantly clear that the Democratic Party is dead. We need Democratic voters, by the millions, to sign a pledge promising NOT to vote for whatever candidate the Dems nominate.
Imagine if we had 20 million people who voted for Kamala pledged to never support a Democratic presidential candidate ever again. They pledge this and pledge to support the Working Families Party or similar. That would be enough that it would doom any potential Democratic candidate in the future.
The only thing the DNC has going for it is the sense of inevitability. Every four years, they’re the only rational choice, so we have to support them. What we need to do now is to forever take away that ability from them. It needs to be made clear that the Democratic Party will never win an election again. America’s system means that two parties are inevitable, but that doesn’t mean we can’t swap out one party for another.
If enough people make clear that they will simply never support the Democratic Party ever again, then its spell is broken. If 20 million people pledged this, suddenly the “inevitability” would switch to the Working Families Party. Any presidential candidates on the left wanting any hope of winning the presidency would have to run in the Working Families primary.
The Republican Party, being even more right-wing, can afford to be more democratic, because their constituents are even less a threat to the capitalist class.
The “democratic” party has no democracy, and isn’t a political party, as there are no politics in it. The only way we defat the republicans is by getting rid of the DNC first. The GOP is the final boss, the DNC is the level 1 boss, and there are no warp pipes.
