I believe I’ve figured out why the Democratic Party, my party, has become so markedly out of touch over the course of the last decade. After being unfriended and castigated on social media by more than a dozen of you the other day, for a) voting for Cornel West instead of our party’s candidate b) predicting Donald Trump would win the election and c) expressing my opinions about why, after 22 years of unprecedented levels of global mass slaughter via illegal invasions, genocide, blatant misreporting, economic gaslighting and overt censorship carried out by both neocon dominated establishment “blue” and “red” political parties (the “Uniparty“), that it would be better not to vote for a donor owned, neocon directed Harris/Walz ticket, I realized something: A fair portion of us disconnect from/unfriend/push away/throw out everyone and everything that conflicts with our particular ideas and with the narrative that we’ve taken in and unconsciously revolved our view of reality around. A narrative that has been curated, to a large extent, by corporately owned media and its tight affiliations with the Military Industrial Complex and Big Pharma.
In my humble opinion, this is a large part of the reason the working class in this country now sees our party, in 2024, as the party of war, the party of disconnected elites and the party of (more) duplicity and dishonesty. The Working Class spoke quite loudly this week. Democracy functioned. Whether we like the results or not.
Despite all of this, I’ve decided, for now, to remain a member of the Democratic Party. I’ve decided to remain, with many others who concur with what I’ve said here so far, as a stand and as a symbol of/for what our party used to and still could represent. I, and others like myself, will remain here, as babies in this filthy Democratic Party bathwater, until we’re no longer able to withstand the lack of air, the sound of tired, tuneless music and the smell of bad faith.