First, let me say that, personally, I didn’t care that much about Ellison v. Perez. They’re both progressive; they outlined, essentially, the same battle plan for bringing the democrats back to power.
What I worried about, like many here, was that Perez’s election would send even more young, progressive folks scurrying away from the party. I am a professor and I am fb friends with many recent alums and many many of them are furiously posting their anger about the DNC. I don’t care whether their reasons were good ones. In the age of Trump, sending young energetic progressives away from the party is a mistake. Especially when nothing is at stake. Or is it?
Tonight’s vote on Resolution 33, the result of which was a repudiation not only of principles that all of us on the left ought to share, not only of Obama, but, again, on the same day, a confirmation of the greatest fears of many who are thinking of bolting the party, was either monumentally stupid, monumentally arrogant, or, a monumental confirmation that the party doesn’t give a flying fig about the interests of most of its loyal members.
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I’m in no way a ‘Bernie Bro’. I voted for Secretary Clinton. But this, this? I spent the election cycle making fun of the R’s and their pathetic clown car. The optics of this vote only make me think that the republicans aren’t the only ones run by incompetent fools.