In the last couple of days, I have read more election post-mortems than I care to count. In the end, for me at least, it comes down to something very simple: the Democratic Party has an existential choice to make. Since the mid 90s, the party has courted the big money donors to be found in the financial/corporate sector, while simultaneously purporting to continue to retain its historical identity as a populist party of common, working people. Those two sets of interests are fundamentally at odds with each other, and ultimately cannot coexist in the same party. Those big, corporate donors will always expect their pound of flesh in return, and as recent elections have been demonstrating, voters are no longer willing to buy into a faux populism that tries to serve two masters. So long as we continue to try to have it both ways, we will continue to lose.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 00:25:55 +0000
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