By Shaun King
March 9, 2017 |
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/poli...icle-1.2993659
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A troubling new poll was just released showing that the Democratic Party is significantly less popular than both Donald Trump and Mike Pence. My gut tells me that Democrats will ignore this poll, or blame it on bad polling, and continue down the same course they are currently on: being funded by lobbyists and the 1%, straddling the fence or outright ignoring many of most inspirational issues of the time, and blaming Bernie Sanders for why they arent in power right now.
The Democratic Party establishment has done this to the party.
They are led by the greed of Bill and Hillary Clinton and, with his recent presidency concluded and his controlling the DNC chair election outcome, Barack Obama. Shaun King has the details of the losses.
This party embraced Wall Street with Clintons presidency, during the 1990s, and Obama, whose administrations attorney general, Eric Holder, having not prosecuted criminals who brought us the economic meltdown of 2008.
Obamas 2008 first-term election was his peak: he was re-elected in 2012 with reduced electoral support, and his party lost majority control of the U.S. House in 2010 and the U.S. Senate in 2014. While Hillary Clinton is No. 1 responsible for having lost the presidency to Donald Trump, in 2016, Obama was pushing for the TPP while Clinton was campaigning (and was supposedly against it).
There was the DNCs rigging of the 2016 primaries for Clinton and against Bernie Sanderswhich also means they rigged against every person who voted the partys presidential nomination to Sandersand it should be no wonder this current Democratic Party is deeply unpopular.
How to change that? First thing is what theyre not doing: getting rid of people who have poisoned and taken down the party. Just after news of the WikiLeaks DNC e-mails hit, the weekend leading into the 2016 Democratic National Convention, and which forced the ouster of the DNC chair, Hillary Clinton actually brought disgraced Debbie Wasserman Schultz into her general-election campaign. Donna Brazile, revealed in those WikiLeaks e-mails for giving questions to Clinton, and then fired by CNN, still has presence in the DNC and even announced Tom Perezs bogus election. And Clinton and Obama (and Joe Biden and others) went to bat in Floridas 23rd congressional district to get Debbie Wasserman Schultz re-nominated when, giving this, she should have not seeked re-election at all.
This isnt a party that has become only unpopular. This is a party which is corrupt. And their leaders are telling everyone to kiss their assesand then turn around and vote for them.