The Democratic Party’s failure has been ignoring the long-range step by step planning that the GOP think tanks have been doing for the last 70 or more years (2019, Tomasky, M. If We Can Keep It: How the Republic Collapsed and How it Might Be Saved. W.W. Norton/Liveright Publishing. ISBN 978-1-631-49408-6).
What the Democratic Party should have recognized in GOP work is developing it own long-range planning that was focused on step by step ways to:
1. Increase the Democratic humanist voice at ground level such as township trustees.
2. Secure the voting rights of all U.S. citizens by strong out-of-the-box manipulation (as the GOP has done) of constitutional rules to eliminate gerrymandering, eliminating the electoral college, preventing or eliminating corporations as citizens, removing corporate donations to political campaigns.
3. Creating easier avenues to amend the constitution … a document that is deemed to be “living” or in need to be modified and strengthened to best serve the people living in modern age.
Rather, the Democratic Party has tried to best serve various constituents, all good, but much of those efforts directed Democratic thinking away from broader problems with representation for all.
It’s likely too late for Democrats to redeem the dream given the destructive chaos in Washington, but cession is still a possible direction to carefully consider.
On the other hand, Mother Nature is betting long-term on the end of the human species.
Dr. Kathryn L. Edwards
Mount Vernon, Ohio