Thoughts on the Democratic Party

Lately there's been a lot of huffing and puffing from many in the Democratic Party leadership about the victories of Democratic Socialists. Some are even telling those unwilling to vote for the "centrists" they want to leave. I hate to inform them, that they're not in control. The voters of the Democratic Party are.

Many of us who are left leaning are angry at the state of the country, and as much as we're angry at how Trump and the GOP are stomping on everything that makes us America, we're also angry at the leadership of the Democrats for their failures to recognize the moment we're in and fight back accordingly. Between the "sternly written letters" and continuing to vote for Trump's judicial picks, we've had enough. If Mitch McConnell was able to be so successful delaying and stymying Obama and Biden, certainly Schumer can do something other than throwing his hands up in the air after another clueless sternly written letter.

We want a party who is willing to fight for the little man. Someone who is willing to make sure that the issues the average household are facing are addressed. I believe that's one of the reasons that Zohran Mamdani was elected. He saw what many New Yorkers were dealing with and campaigned on doing what he could to help fix and address what many would call the "dinner table issues", and since taking office, has continued to push for and fulfill. We want candidates who listen to us the voters rather than somehow thinking the status quo is good enough. We're in a different time now. The rules of politics that might have worked when Schumer et al entered office, no longer apply today. We must adapt accordingly.

Democratic voters are looking at their primary ballots and seeing names of the incumbents and mainline Democrats, then those like Chris Rabb, Melat Kiros, Darializa Avila Chevalier and others who are promising more for the working class, and to actually promote policies that help the average American. Time will of course tell if and what they do, but so many of us see the status quo, and recognize it's broken.

And we now have groups forming pushing back against what their voters want. Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader even says that Mamdani is going to have to smooth things out with the congressional Democrats after the candidates he backed won their primary races. I'm sure this will end well.

It should also be fully noted that the Democratic Party is the voters, not the elected officials. We vote for who we want, and if that means that candidates the current leaders don't like, that should tell them something. The party members don't want the status quo. They want change, they want a better America. The party leaders should listen.

At the end of the day, what Schumer, Jeffries, and the rest of those in the Democratic Party need to recognize is that we're all fighting the same fight. We're pushing to restore the democratic norms and promises that this country was founded on. America has of course always had a ways to go and it still does; but over the course of Trump's second term, we have taken a much larger step back. Schumer, Jeffries, Bernie Sanders, AOC, Mamdani and everyone else in the Democratic Party, no matter which wing they reside on should all be in this together.

I just hope that Schumer, Jeffries, and the rest of the leadership get the memo.