I don't think democrats will realize that subsidies to the military, private prisons, health insurance companies, etc... is a waste. They take campaign bribes from those industries and won't turn their backs on them.

The democratic party is a lost cause, it is corrupted beyond repair. A new socialist working class party is the way forward.

@RoboGraham Possibly, but we aren't there yet. I'm inclined to think that many diverse parties are more truly representative and would dilute the power of special interests more than any single party, even it is nominally the best. The maga cult is a convenient scapegoat for the Democrats as well as inherently problematic, (Voting for the lesser of two evils is the correct path if and only if you only have two choices) getting rid of them will force a split and I'm for it even though I don't know where it will lead.

Too old to be the candidate, but not too old to inspire and organize.

I sincerely hope you are right.

It's a strange setup there. 50 Senators on either side - two opposing parties. It seemed obvious from the beginning that he was going to be acquitted. It just wasn't realistic to get 17 votes from the Republicans. 7 votes from their side was good but not good enough to swing a guilty verdict as was on the previous impeachment. It's a strange setup to get a guilty verdict. This even though the Republicans and the rest of the world listened to all "his" utterances that lead to the horrific attack on your capitol hill building. That's a guilty verdict anywhere else.
Greece however was the first democracy

They use religion as a controlling front to vacuum support. Very few of those leaders follow their religion. It's just talk of unjustifiable convenience.

@TimeOutForMe l usually put "modern" democracy in that statement, but l forgot this time.

@TimeOutForMe Of course they don't follow their religions. Very few Christians follow the tenants of their religion.

That's a nice idea, but it will never work. The last two cycles proved that the Dem Party is beyond reform or redemption. Their leaders love that corporate money too much to allow progressive candidates to ever control the party or be nominated for prez.

We need to enact progressive ideas, but progressives themselves are unelectable. Even more so now. Demanding power is it's own litmus test, and insures the Republicans win.

I agree. The Dem Party will never allow progressives to have any real power in the party or get a prez nomination. If we don't establish a viable third party, the best we can hope for is the Repubs splitting, but I'm not optimistic that either will happen.