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you know the Democratic Party is the party of fairness, because whenever they have to decide who their leaders should be the question they ask is “whose turn is it?”
@interfluidity I remember when that was the joke about the GOP, until sometime after Newt and the Freedom™ Caucus and Tea Party crowd took over.
Dems need their own version of insurgents. The closest thing is The Squad, but they need more primary challengers
@jonathankoren but they punish primary challengers brutally.
@interfluidity there’s no other option besides waiting for people to die.
Of course when Dying Feinstein got reëlected at 88 over fellow Democrat Kevin de Leon I blame the electorate. Maybe he should have gone full on about how she was medically unfit, but he didn’t. I would have.
That election wasn’t even close either.
@jonathankoren there’s tremendous incumbency bias in the American system. it’s silly to blame the electorate (frankly it’s always silly to blame the electorate) for what is clearly a widespread institutional phenomenon. incumbents have rigged the game for themselves. health, even survival, of the republic depends on unrigging, really altering, that game into one that prizes flexibility over insiders’ stability.
deleon would not have won by highlighting feinstein’s dementia.
@interfluidity all this is true, but the gop managed to go around it for a time, and their voters certainly aren’t any smarter or less subjected to incumbency bias as dem voters
@jonathankoren yes. i’m not claiming some kind of breakthrough is impossible. Sanders almost overthrew incumbents’ grasp over the Democratic Party. he didn’t quite. but there was a real threat.
but time is of the essence. a Democratic Party whose insiders are comfortable despite their failures is not something we can really afford. (has anyone been held accountable for fumbling the fate of the republic 11/5?) 1/
@jonathankoren i’m for eg a lot of primarying. but i think that will require building alternative institutions, to which “mainstream Democrats” will be hostile, to counter their support for comfortable stasis. maybe the Working Families Party is an example of this. /fin