Chaos in the Democrat party as leaders scream and threaten Democrats not marching in their usual lockstep

[trobesmom]

Originally Posted by TCHP

IMO, Democratic leadership, as well as Republican leadership, needs to get off the mantra of party first, constituents later. I believe there is a very large moderate population out here that wants their elected leaders to drop the extreme policy approach and figure out what works best for the majority of the people the majority of the time, figure out a way to work across the aisle to implement those changes, and then make it happen.

Agreed. Extremism on either side is not what the majority wants.

[BOS2IAD]

It's amusing to watch the dems eating their own. That's not going to go well for them --- and I say "good!"

[TCHP]

Originally Posted by mountainrose

Those moderates have all jumped party and are now Independents or unaffiliated. Both parties are extremely corrupt and so bought off by special interests and party loyalty that more people are registered as independent than either party now......

According to Gallup, in Oct 2017, 31% of Americans identified as Democrat, 24% identified as Republican, and 42% as Independent. Among those independents, Gallup further found that 46% are either "Democrats or Democratic leaners" and 39% are either "Republicans or Republican leaners". So it seems that we have a large enough independent percentage that we could demand the extremist policies be dropped. However, moderate politics don't make newsworthy copy.


Despite this, the US national political system is not and has never been receptive to a 3rd party. The closest to this ever happening was probably the Bull Moose party of 1912 under the leadership of T. Roosevelt. If he couldn't make it work out, no way in H, E, double hockey sticks will anyone today pull this off. Shockingly, 100 years ago they were trying to deal with a similar situation of corrupt business coupled with corrupt politics inside run away political finance and dealings that were creating huge monopolies impacting daily life of nearly all in the nation. Unlike then, we have implemented laws allowing women to vote and limiting mandatory work hours and child labor.

So the more things have changed, the more they have stayed the same, and the collective we really haven't learned much at all.