By Donald H.
On Thursday, members of the Democratic National Committee will meet. By Sunday, they will have chosen a brand new chair to lead their party. Currently- there are nine candidates.
· Sally Boynton Brown, Executive Director of the Idaho Democratic Party
· Robert Brannum, Veterans Committee chair for the NAACP’s DC branch
· Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Indiana
· Keith Ellison, US Representative from Minnesota
· Jehmu Green, Democratic strategist from Texas
· Jaime Harrison, Chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party
· Peter Peckarsky, attorney from Wisconsin
· Thomas Perez, former US Secretary of Labor (from Maryland)
· Sam Ronan, activist from Ohio
Of them, DNC endorsements currently sit as such:
Sally Boynton Brown: 1
Robert Brannum: 0
Pete Buttigieg: 0
Keith Ellison: 19
Jehmu Green: 0
Jaime Harrison: 3
Peter Peckarsky: 0
Thomas Perez: 3
Sam Ronan: 0
Ellison is, undoubtedly, the favorite. But of course- it’s only 19 people, and in order to win the race, you need 224. Perez joins Ellison in the favorite race, and it’ll likely come down to them.
However, this is where I point out some obvious stuff…
If Democrats were smart about this, they’d look at what caused them massive losses in 2016 and before. What I came up with:
· Democrats have lost touch with working class whites in favor of pandering to non-whites. And it isn’t even a hidden pandering anymore.
· Democrats ran the worst Presidential candidate of all time- handpicked to be her party’s nominee, and she barely beat a 75 year old Socialist who thinks we have too much deodorant.
· Democrats have paraded on things that increase taxes massively- such as Obamacare. This is something many can’t afford.
· Democrats have become synonymous with Social Justice Warriors, and proceed to call ANYTHING they don’t like racist, sexist, or bigoted.
· Democratic hypocrisy is extremely obvious (see the reaction between their reaction to Ferguson and Baltimore, and their reaction to the daily shootings in Chicago).
· Democrats have lost touch with the military- making it easier for veterans to support the GOP by basically trashing everything that vets stand on and for.
· Democratic pandering to Millennials is idiotic and extremely cringeworthy.
This is just from thinking for a few seconds. We’re not even getting into the state-by-state basis here…
Democrats have seen massive losses at the state levels, and it’s becoming obvious in the House and Senate. 29 of the 46 Democratic Senators are from the West/Pacific or the North East. 113 of the 194 Democratic Representatives join them. Meaning that of the 240 Democrats in Congress- a grand total of 98 (or 41%) are from outside the West/Pacific and North East. That isn’t a bad number- until you begin factoring in the fact that it’s becoming a trend. Outside of these regions, Democrats are losing more often. The state levels of government are growing redder and redder. And it’ll only be a matter of time before the Senate begins resembling this. The House is already beginning to take shape- with many formerly deep blue areas seeing red takeovers.
If the Democrats were smart- they’d try to patch these holes. The ship is going down, and if they don’t patch them- it’ll be stuck alongside the Whigs and Democratic-Republicans in Davy Jones’ political locker (which smells much worse than his shipwreck one).
So how would the Democrats fix this? Well, voting for someone who isn’t like the above would be a good start. Pete Buttigieg is a great choice to start over. He actually advocates for starting from the bottom up, and leaving it to the people. Not the elites. He’s also an advocate of the 50 state strategy. Adding on his military experience, and his coming from a Midwestern state- he’s a perfect fit.
So of course, Democrats are going to go with the anti-Semite or the Obama/Clinton carry over. Hooray.
Of course, there’s also something else coming up that’s going to show how bad the Democratic shape is: the 2020 Presidential election. I’ll write more about that at a later date, but I’ll simply say this: if Democrats were smart, they’d nominate a young Governor (someone not from the Pacific Region or the North East, according to the US Census Bureau), running with a businessman or a rising US Representative as his Vice President (from any region). So they’re probably going to nominate Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
Regions of the United States, as presented by the US Census Bureau.
(NOTE- I don’t agree in many ways with this map, but it at least gives a basic synopsis of what everything is defined as)
