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[–] the_post_of_tom_joad 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

While it's nice to dream, even the author of this piece acknowledges he is doing exactly that.

It’s unlikely that the insiders who built a system that enriches themselves—guaranteeing profits whether the party wins or loses—will willingly dismantle it. Yet that is exactly what is required.

If he knows it won't happen this way It kinda boggles me what exactly he's laying out here. He identifies the issue, then he hides from the implications of his own assertion.

He goes on.

Unfortunately, one of the first major tests of whether the Democratic Party was prepared to take progressives seriously—the vote on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s bid to be the ranking member of the Oversight Committee—revealed troubling signs of continued resistance to the grassroots wing of the party.

If he hadnt mentioned this, i woulda. This is a huge sign of the partys intentions, further indication he is right.The fact the Democratic party fresh offa loss this bad... changes nothing, in fact signals their intentions are to lose rather than changea thing.

Why does he then tell progressive to 'get the establishment to listen? Listen to what? Are progressives to assume, after author explicitly tells them otherwise, that merely talking to the establishment dems (who only care about enriching themselves) will do a 180 and help reform democracy?

Give me a break with this crap man! If he's gonna acknowledge the Democratic party is rotten to the point where they don't care to win, how can he write the rest of this daydream with a straight face? It feels like he lost the thesis he started with