The Democratic National Committee and more than three dozen groups are planning events across 20 states on Saturday, according to details first shared with NBC News.
Dozens of liberal groups unveiled plans Tuesday to hold around 50 events across 20 states to protest Republican redistricting efforts in Texas backed by President Donald Trump.
The demonstrations scheduled for Saturday — branded as “Fight the Trump Takeover” — are being organized by more than three dozen groups, including the Democratic National Committee, according to plans shared first with NBC News.
“Trump knows the only way he can hold the majority after his budget betrayal is by changing the rules in the middle of the game to avoid accountability for ripping health care and food away from millions of Americans,” said DNC Chair Ken Martin in a statement, referring to Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill that he signed into law last month.
Yeah, we’re at the point where the main party platform needs to be:
Do what we can till we get the numbers, but the end goal of the Dem party should be a complete overhaul and something like a parliamentaey system.
With that logic, we should be taking every advantage we can.
I think when you get down to it tho, it’s not just that Republicans are being biased in redistricting, they were already as biased as they could be legally. What’s going on in Texas is that they want to blow past laws against racial bias in redistricting.
Which frankly, blue states wouldn’t need to do. They could just be the current Republican level of bias and still capture a lot of seats.
But yeah, ultimately we’re past the point of playing fair. We need to try everything that might work. If there’s a shot, try it. If it fails it doesn’t matter cuz we’re trying everything at once.
On the one hand, absolutely yes. Trump has solid control of one of the political parties, but in general, is a very unpopular politician. Yet our political systems have become so dysfunctional that we run a serious risk of him destroying the rule of law and creating an authoritarian presidency. There’s no authoritarian-proof political system, but we can do a lot better than this.
On the other hand, I think any reform that sufficiently addressed our current problems would be the end of the Democratic party as well. Getting a political party to sacrifice itself for the greater good is a tough sell. Not impossible, but I think it would look more like a popular takeover of the Democratic party to be used as a disposable vehicle. The Democratic leadership and their donor class will absolutely be opposed.
The tea party and Trump have shown that seizing a party from its current leadership is not impossible.
It could absolutely stay in a parliamentary system, although it would be better if it fractured.
But yeah, that’s been what’s stopping it.
To be able to do this, you would need a party in complete control… And willing to tear down the very system they dominate.
Neoliberals would never do that, but they don’t control the party anymore.
They are…
It’s not a hypothetical, the donor class got kicked out of DNC leadership about 6 months ago, and since they control the media, they’re not telling people it happened. They’re hoping enough voters stay ingorant and angry that they skip the Dem presidential primary so a neoliberals can make it to the general.
We can not allow that to happen.
No matter what happens, we need to get as many people to vote in the Dem primary as possible.
It bares mentioning that the Tea Party movement involved a lot of campaign funding is useful idiots by the Koch brothers, with their plan being to shift enough state legislatures under their tent to call a constitutional convention. Trump just happened to come along and up-end it by capturing their voting bloc.