Summary
Parkland shooting survivor and activist David Hogg is running for a vice-chair position on the Democratic National Committee, advocating for bolder leadership to reconnect with young voters and working Americans.
Citing frustration with Democratic losses, Hogg argues the party must move away from establishment politics and address pressing issues like healthcare and economic struggles.
He highlights declining youth support as a crisis and criticizes party leaders for ignoring voter concerns.
Hogg aims to bring fresh perspectives to the DNC as the party prepares to counter a resurgent Donald Trump and GOP-controlled Congress.
We can’t win when we keep letting 70 years olds run the party.
They’re out of touch with regular voters, and are openly antagonizing them with the whole fucking “if you’re not voting for me then fuck you” attitude.
They don’t do any voter outreach, they won’t do any work. They want to go to fancy fundraisers with celebs and be told they’re great and the only chance of salvation America has, simply because they’re not named trump.
It’s not fucking working, when it does it’s in spite of party leadership, they’re not helping anything.
But with “blue no matter who” we’re stuck with them till they die in office like Feinstein. They’ll never do the right thing on their own.
Hogg is completely right.
They will never get the youth vote back. The DNC abandoned every aspect of the working class and have now been abandoned themselves
Pushing an anti-gun kid with no other background is not going to win you shit. A large and growing portion of the left are now gun owners and now that the turnip is back in power and pushing some seriously fascist policies, don’t expect people to jump on board with disarming them.
I get why he’s doing it, but we must move away from the Democratic Party.
I’ll start by saying I agree with you in principle. But if we’re going to do that, we need a new party. Like it or not, ours is a two party system. Replacing a party has to be done right now, between elections, when there is time to build the infrastructure, donor network, and candidates at every level of government. So are we starting a new progressive party, or are we glomming onto an existing third party? Your call to action is half a thought.
The best model is the tea party caucus of the GOP. They were able to completely hijack the party while keeping the structure in tact.
The original tea party were ron Paul supporters, who the GOP did a Bernie on. Then the crazies took over and now they’re magats. The reason the GOP wins people over is because the majority of Americans are not smart enough for politics, they go with sound bites and feel goods.
You are correct. Simple inertia will keep most voters right where they are in the Democratic party no matter what. There is no way to generate a massive movement to a new party or to an existing 3rd party. It’s not going to happen. Millions of voters are not going to suddenly jump ship and go to another party.
On the other hand, it might take only thousands of young people to take over enough local and state Democratic parties so that the corruption at the higher levels of the party can be rooted out and the party can be changed into a legitimate party of the working class.
If it’s gonna be done in 4 then we should probably glom onto an existing party. Hogg apparently thinks so too, but i disagree with him that the DNC can be “saved”.
Like he’s not wrong to try but there’s lots of examples of the DNC working against Dem reps who aren’t neoliberal enough. We should recall the ruling in 2017 against Sanders, essentially:
“the DNC is a private entity and is this not required to have a Democratic process. It can select any candidate for the general it wants”
So i wish this guy the best but he (and we) would be better off trying to join a smaller yet already existing party like the Greens or PSL. Hell even if ya didn’t agree with one a them party’s whole platform, it’s still a better idea, a more likely chance to join them and change them from within… The Ds and Rs would be a much more difficult battle.
