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Heidi Jon Schmidt's avatar

I love Democrats in general and Sheldon Whitehouse in particular, and will write to thank him right now. Democrats are the party of human rights, civil rights, and voting rights, and we have faced the rise of a huge rightwing Christo-fascist billionaire funder machine in the last 30 years….a machine that has overtaken the Supreme Court and the Republican Party. (AOC has been speaking eloquently to this.) We need to be blasting our message everywhere….not easy with billionaires funding propaganda and foreign interests funding disinformation. And with the corporate media accepting Republican framing and attacking Democrats election after election. We need to be true to the Black women who have worked for Democrats for generations, to come together and fight together in every state. It’s the Right that needs to be rebuilt as an honorable, patriotic entity that really cares about families instead of just pretending to, and doesn’t need to sell its soul to billionaires to survive.

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Dr. Steven Quest's avatar

The DNC needs a new party chair. Ben Wikler may be the right choice.

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Shankar Narayan's avatar

Need a top down clean up.

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Alexandra Barcus's avatar

I think it may be too late for the Democratic establishment to do what needs to be done. Party overhaul or new party, I’d say.

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Shankar Narayan's avatar

Not workable right now. I wish there were more than two political parties, but sadly the infrastructure needed for the third one to rise is way too big. You also need a strong, established leader, to get that done. There are none.

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Alexandra Barcus's avatar

I know money is everything. I think there are people who could come to the fore pretty quickly. We need a real group force and individual personalities. I really wish for this.

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DCWASHING's avatar

Independent blue party

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Eric Morris's avatar

They don’t have a plan. That’s the problem. Their plan has been, “we’re not THAT guy”. That’s not a winning strategy. What’s their platform? Please don’t give me the 50 year old strategy of the “party of the people”. They’ve been MIA since Reagan.

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DCWASHING's avatar

There needs to be laws blocking and penalizing LIES to have that news station taken off air, and required to admit to their audience their lies and strategy.

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Jaime Ramirez's avatar

Definitely!

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Kristin Szwaj's avatar

I could not agree more. It’s time for dems to get in the mud. This is what their voters want. They have to learn to beat them at their own game. The time to go high when they go low is over.

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Dana Ciolfi's avatar

He is my senator and I couldn’t be prouder!

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