How easily the people give up and accept the lies of the powerful [View all]

I keep hearing this asinine phrase "those jobs in the rust belt aren't coming back." And how do you know this? Think about where you heard it. Can you remember? That is exactly what powerful corporations, the ones democrats supposedly mistrust, want you all to believe and you've bought it hook line and sinker. All they have to do is spread it through certain media talking heads and voila, you swallow it.

I remember when Democrats used to fight for the powerless, question lies that are spread by the powerful, and fight for outcomes that help working class people. We get angry when our party negotiates from a place of defeat, like not asking first for single payer health care and then negotiating from there, and yet you are willing to just write off the rust belt because somewhere you once heard that the jobs aren't coming back.

Bernie Sanders and, gasp, Trump are about to fight for those jobs, and Sanders has ideas about how to get it done, and many people here are just saying fuck the rust belt? This is exactly why the Party is on the actual, real edge of extinction. This is why we get called elitists. We can't even give a shit about the concerns of the blue collar voters in the rust belt who, up until two weeks ago, used to vote for our party... You can't give a shit enough to even ponder solutions for them, to question the power structure that is destroying their way of life, and they know it and that's why they are following a maniac; because he's the only one who is actually saying he's going to fight for them.

This party needs to find it's soul again. It needs to wake up. This massive defeat still hasn't woken many of us up. I fear this may be the end of our party if we cannot find ourselves again.