Contributor: Democrats are drifting dangerously out of sync with the American people

[rangerrebew]

Contributor: Democrats are drifting dangerously out of sync with the American people
Opinion by Josh Hammer • 18h

Yogi Berra, the mid-century New York Yankees Hall of Fame catcher known for his pithy and often-humorous life observations, once famously quipped: “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” It was sound advice, perhaps, for a traveler on the go and in search of a quick meal. But the modern Democratic Party, rudderless and confused and reeling from a pitiful collective performance during Tuesday evening’s presidential joint address to Congress, now confronts a decision that’s no joke.
 
One the one hand lies the path of least resistance: doubling down on the status quo — the progressive culture-warring, woke/identity politics-driven agenda that has dominated the party ever since Barack Obama upset Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary. On the other hand lies the more difficult, but ultimately more promising path: a conscientious return to a politics of the prudential center. Which path Democrats choose from here will go a long way toward determining their relevance as a national political party for the foreseeable future.

Obama’s shocking upset over the madam-president-in-waiting was an inflection point for the trajectory of the Democratic Party. Voters rejected the cultural centrism that was a President Clinton-era hallmark in favor of the “hope” and “change” promised by Obama’s “coalition of the ascendant.” Initially, perhaps, that may have looked like a smart bet: Obama trounced John McCain in the 2008 presidential general election. But the one-time “coalition of the ascendant” transmogrified into an identitarian and deeply off-putting “coalition of aggrieved interests.” Culturally militant wokeism eventually reached its pernicious apex during the Biden presidency — which saw the first explicitly “DEI” Supreme Court justice selection (Ketanji Brown Jackson, after Biden vowed to nominate a Black woman) and a seemingly DEI vice presidential running mate (Kamala Harris, after Biden was pressured to choose a Black woman).

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[rangerrebew]

This is nothing new.  Its taken this long for the sycophant media and "moderate" democrats to see it.

[jafo2010]

Your wrong.  The Democommies don't see a damn thing.  The Democommie Party has actually become the Degenerate Party in function and thought.  They are allowing a narrow sliver of big mouthed degenerates run the party, and I do not see that changing soon.

Gov Walz was saying the other day he did not see the need for someone charismatic to rise up in the party.  Well, this clown couldn't be more wrong.  That is exactly what they need, a charismatic LEADER who steers them away from their present degenerate ways.

As long as they embrace men/boy in women/girls' sports, they are on the wrong road and in the weeds.  As long as they push for mutilating children with this transgender nonsense, they will not be taken seriously.  And as long as they insist on normalizing the alphabet soup folks, they will continue to fail with the majority of people in the USA.  There is tolerance, and then there is endorsement, and I say most Americans are tolerant, but the very last thing they want to see is the normalization of the alphabet folks.

Personally, I consider it a criminal act for any school teacher, administrator to encourage a child down the path of being transgender and keeping it secret from the parents.  Frankly, I consider it the worst form of child abuse.  And it needs to be criminalized as a federal crime yesterday.

My kids are grown, but if I had a child where a teacher or administrator pulled that sh*t, they would get the Luca Brazzi warning.  Cease or swim with the fish.  The notion that the state has control of the children is right out of the soviet playbook.  And I keep saying, we need to criminalize anything that remotely smells of communism.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Drifting?  The Dems have already run aground.