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D is For Drift
Where to now, Democrats?
November 6, 2024
What matters for democracy and for America’s future as one is what response the ‘minority party’ will take in the next two perhaps, but four probable years, until the next national election.
Did the Democrats let America down? Once again?
The Democratic Party’s decade drift to the right presumably in synch with the country resulted in a drift away from democracy to a xenophobic, racist, misogynistic ‘second-class’ democracy, the kind that places us on a par more with Hungary than Canada.
America — not for the first time in its history — will have ceded a vision for a fair and just society to a band of oligarchs and power brokers. Corruption will have full flight. The marginalized will be stigmatized, uprooted and scattered.
If there was a tipping point, where one seeks confirmation, it was when the Biden campaign team passed on a New York Times editorial board interview with the President for a friendlier one with CBS. This was back before the deleterious Presidential debate, when questions about Biden’s age were the nexus of public deliberation about Biden’s readiness for four more years.
Not the stuff an 81 year old candidate for President likes to shoulder midway through the campaign.
