All manner of excuses. Being unrealistic, being socialists, being, well, whatever. Meanwhile the Democratic party has moved ever rightward and evermore corporate friendly. They write off entire states, mostly rural, when they could win them if they would just champion family farmers and rural issues. Medicare, Medicaid and the ACA don't address the right to healthcare for all, only universal single payer does that.
The Democratic party only addresses some of these issues in fits and starts, but has never fully invested itself in championing these issues, generally accompanied by some excuse. Yet when you ask the public, we'll, they believe in these issues, but the Democratic party is so very tied to corporate money that they won't do much more than lip service. That's why wages haven't kept up with cost of living for over fifty years, that's why the price of higher education has risen to the point of economically crippling entire generations. That's why the poor are getting poorer, the middle class is disappearing, and the rich are getting richer.
Eighty two years since FDR spoke these words, yet only a modicum of progress has been made, even though in that time we had the power to achieve these rights. He understood all too well that in order to have a thriving society you have to mix a bit of socialism, and a strong social safety net into the capitalist mix. Yet time and again the Democrats react to that prospect like a vampire does to sunlight.
I'm not placing all the blame for where we find ourselves on the Democrats. What I am saying is that we've tried it the moderate, corporate friendly, inch by inch way for eighty plus years, yet here we are, far down the road to fascism, perhaps irrevocably so. Don't you think it's time to change course? I do.
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