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In reply to the discussion: The Democratic party needs to embrace open competition for leadership of the party. [View all]
LeftInTX
(34,008 posts)70. Good thought. Boots on the ground, instead of top ticket crazy top ticket obsession.
Focus more on local and down ballot. Hands on stuff. Yeah, it seemed 30 years or so, there much more emphasis on community activism as opposed to "staring at polls". Less obsessing over president. It's like a pyramid and needs a strong base.... I think the internet and cable news has contributed to myopia
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The Democratic party needs to embrace open competition for leadership of the party. [View all]
Yavin4
Jan 2025
OP
It's not always good. Hard to find the positives in Ted Kennedy's 1980 challenge to President Carter.
tritsofme
Jan 2025
#1
Right you are, and for those who are too young to remember, Carter's defeat led to the most Right Wing lurch with
msfiddlestix
Jan 2025
#57
I agree 100%. Just because he has gray hair and some years under his belt doesn't mean he's a dinosaur.
BComplex
Jan 2025
#14
Competition opens the soft underbelly to dilution of the brand and ideology
bucolic_frolic
Jan 2025
#3
LOL! I blame the ones who wanted to "punish" the party by not voting rather than voting for the BEST candidate.
Oopsie Daisy
Jan 2025
#8
I'm telling like it is. In addition to the "saboteurs" who chose self-harm to prove their piety...
Oopsie Daisy
Jan 2025
#15
It's incorrect to call it annointing. In the real world, WINNING and gaining the MAJORITY are of the utmost importance.
Oopsie Daisy
Jan 2025
#24
You keep talking as if the party hasn't been doing exactly what you're saying for years now.
Yavin4
Jan 2025
#41
So, more competition in primaries is akin to "Shitting on Democrats and bad-mouthing our party"
Yavin4
Jan 2025
#47
Any politician worth his or her salt should be able to easily defeat a primary challenger.
Yavin4
Jan 2025
#60
As I've said being "worth one's salt" does not mean endless supplies of cash.
Oopsie Daisy
Jan 2025
#62
You don't stand for anything by allowing the principles of the party to be destroyed.
bucolic_frolic
Jan 2025
#18
The strategy of "let's suppress younger leaders and then get mad when young people don't vote for us"
Yavin4
Jan 2025
#42
Nobody is doing that. That's nobody's "strategy" and saying it is only HURTS DEMOCRATS.
Oopsie Daisy
Jan 2025
#55
What principles would be destroyed by opening the leadership competition to younger Dems?
TheRickles
Jan 2025
#51
Good lord. Why spend time depleting the campaign funds of incumbents so that they can be out spent by Republicans?
Oopsie Daisy
Jan 2025
#6
Educating them DOES work. Why would anyone be opposed to educating the voting populace?
Oopsie Daisy
Jan 2025
#56
I feel like I need to get out my BINGO CARD when threads and posts like this one come around.
Oopsie Daisy
Jan 2025
#35
Awesome...I read the OP 3X - Don't see the word "Elites" in there at all?
Fix The Stupid
Jan 2025
#53
It may be worth considering the immediate future of the other party in the short term.
taxi
Jan 2025
#16
Relying on the Republican Party to screw up and consequently winning by default seems to have been the Democratic
Midwestern Democrat
Jan 2025
#74
The failure of your rationale here is believing that it was Schumer/Pelosi that prevented anyone else from running...
W_HAMILTON
Jan 2025
#43
The fact that Obama became the nominee in 2008 shows that the process is at least somewhat open
karynnj
Jan 2025
#32
The best way to get "people willing to do whatever it takes to fucking WIN" is through competitive primaries.
Yavin4
Jan 2025
#38
We need a leader who will take the leadership away from the left-wing media.
everyonematters
Jan 2025
#64
Good thought. Boots on the ground, instead of top ticket crazy top ticket obsession.
LeftInTX
Jan 2025
#70