All I see is the same old Dems shitting on progressives and refusing to stand up to republicans.
Well…
It sounds like you’re looking at elected representatives and for some reason you think they’re the DNC…
Neoliberals have been blurring that line for decades, so it’s a common misunderstanding of how our government works, specifically the party system.
The chair runs the party. And is accountable to no one. They don’t even have to show the books to anyone.
Neoliberals in office, prior DNC chairs, and state party chairs ran a corrupt system.
We got a non biased DNC chair now. But that didn’t fix the neoliberals in office, and while it helps the honest state parties and hurts the corrupt ones, fixing the state parties and replacing shitty incumbents still need done.
If you need reassurances about Ken Martin personally, look at how he ran Minnesota for a decade.
Spoiler: it turned a purple state we were losing ground in, to solid blue and home to some of our most progressive House reps. That’s because Martin legitimately doesn’t care who wins a Dem primary. He sees a primary as a chance for voters to pick the candidate most likely to win the general, and just goes with who voters pick
A neoliberal just can’t win a fair primary like that. So the result is progressive gains.
That will allow a progressive to win the primary, and they’d be a slam dunk in the general.
When a Dem is elected president, they nominate a new DNC chair for a four year term. So Martin could very well just be a stepping stone if that hypothetical progressive president wanted to seat a chair who is biased for progressives, but honestly I hope we stick with a fair chair, secure in the knowledge that neoliberals can’t win a fair primary.
As such, the only danger to neoliberals taking the DNC back, is if idiots fall for Pritzker or Newsom and let a neoliberal thru the primary, because they’ll sure as shit nominate a biased neoliberal to run the DNC.
So…
He doesn’t need “structural changes” to stop neoliberals, he just isn’t doing all the bullshit they did.
Like, even talking about “structural changes” means you still don’t understand how powerful the chair is. They’re literally a dictator accountable to no one. If Martin wanted to he could just name a candidate for 2028, and it would be totally legally, but definitely not cool.
He can do whatever the fuck he wants, but so can whoever the next chair is. There’s nothing that can be changed today, that the next chair can’t change day 1.
It’s an incredibly fucked up and undemocratic system. But before we can replace it, we have to have control of it. And we just did the hardest part of that process, billionaire owned media just dont want people to know.
Edit:
But we’re currently in the middle of the largest reinvestment from DNC to state parties. After almost a decade of the DNC robbing state parties thru the “victory fund” bullshit.
That’s why Republicans got the House.
Martin redistributing that stolen wealth back to red/purple state parties is letting them operate at campaign levels already, laying the groundwork for midterms.
It’s not glamours, but it’s what the party should be doing.
Well…
It sounds like you’re looking at elected representatives and for some reason you think they’re the DNC…
Neoliberals have been blurring that line for decades, so it’s a common misunderstanding of how our government works, specifically the party system.
The chair runs the party. And is accountable to no one. They don’t even have to show the books to anyone.
Neoliberals in office, prior DNC chairs, and state party chairs ran a corrupt system.
We got a non biased DNC chair now. But that didn’t fix the neoliberals in office, and while it helps the honest state parties and hurts the corrupt ones, fixing the state parties and replacing shitty incumbents still need done.
If you need reassurances about Ken Martin personally, look at how he ran Minnesota for a decade.
Spoiler: it turned a purple state we were losing ground in, to solid blue and home to some of our most progressive House reps. That’s because Martin legitimately doesn’t care who wins a Dem primary. He sees a primary as a chance for voters to pick the candidate most likely to win the general, and just goes with who voters pick
A neoliberal just can’t win a fair primary like that. So the result is progressive gains.
Well that sounds good. What structural changes has Martin instituted in the DNC to make sure the neoliberals can’t hijack the party again?
He’s running fair primaries…
That will allow a progressive to win the primary, and they’d be a slam dunk in the general.
When a Dem is elected president, they nominate a new DNC chair for a four year term. So Martin could very well just be a stepping stone if that hypothetical progressive president wanted to seat a chair who is biased for progressives, but honestly I hope we stick with a fair chair, secure in the knowledge that neoliberals can’t win a fair primary.
As such, the only danger to neoliberals taking the DNC back, is if idiots fall for Pritzker or Newsom and let a neoliberal thru the primary, because they’ll sure as shit nominate a biased neoliberal to run the DNC.
So…
He doesn’t need “structural changes” to stop neoliberals, he just isn’t doing all the bullshit they did.
Like, even talking about “structural changes” means you still don’t understand how powerful the chair is. They’re literally a dictator accountable to no one. If Martin wanted to he could just name a candidate for 2028, and it would be totally legally, but definitely not cool.
He can do whatever the fuck he wants, but so can whoever the next chair is. There’s nothing that can be changed today, that the next chair can’t change day 1.
It’s an incredibly fucked up and undemocratic system. But before we can replace it, we have to have control of it. And we just did the hardest part of that process, billionaire owned media just dont want people to know.
Edit:
But we’re currently in the middle of the largest reinvestment from DNC to state parties. After almost a decade of the DNC robbing state parties thru the “victory fund” bullshit.
That’s why Republicans got the House.
Martin redistributing that stolen wealth back to red/purple state parties is letting them operate at campaign levels already, laying the groundwork for midterms.
It’s not glamours, but it’s what the party should be doing.