I often get blasted here for my frustration and criticisms of the Democratic Party.

[Chasstev365]

While I have never voted for a SINGLE Republican in my life, I have used terms such as weak, inept, poor messaging, and always playing defense to critic the party and it's leaders.

On Tuesday a man who in his 30's was banned from a Mall for harassing girls and credibly molested teenage girls will most likely be elected to the United States Senate. Meantime a man who caught the AG Jeff Sessions lying under oath 3 times about Russia was then subjected to a BS right wing hit job has resigned because his fellow Democrats refused to defend him.

John Conyers resigned immediately, yet Joe Barton will finish his term and Blake Farenthold, who used $84,000 of taxpayer money, is going nowhere.

If you think things are running well for our party, you are either delusional or in denial.

A younger aggressive, more politically savvy generation needs to replace a clueless older guard that keeps finding ways too lose. The Jr. Senator from NY disqualified herself to be part of the new guard this week.

PS: If I get banned, I think I have proven my point about delusional and in denial.

[ret5hd]

1. I agree.

[greeny2323]

2. New leadership is needed

I'm looking for a youthful, diverse and energetic leadership that connects with the ways of the modern world. And mostly a leadership that will actually FIGHT every single day.

[LakeArenal]

3. I usually coach it with....

..the Democrats in my state run weak or DINO candidates.

Sometimes you can address your frustrations, most times you can’t.

Still and all, DU is my safest spot to land.

[old guy]

4. If you get banned then there are others, including myself, that will surely go also,

as I agree with you.

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. I'm with you on this one.

We are totally screwed up.

[democratisphere]

6. Posting freely is one of the ways to improve the Democratic Party's

current situation. I agree with what you have said. We need new dynamic Democratic Candidates to lead our country out of this mess!

[flamingdem]

7. There should be no banning for telling the truth

when the Emporor has no clothes

* too lazy to look up the spelling of emperor .. oh that's it

[rzemanfl]

8. K&R n/t.

[Kaleva]

9. But what are you doing to change that?

[denvine]

10. Totally with you on this one!

Telling the truth should not get you or any of us banned.

[lark]

11. The Jr. Senator from NY disqualified herself from my help, forever.

I hope some dem primaries her and wins. She outted herself as a no loyalty backstabber with her heinous actions towards the clintons and now Franken. It's obvious that truth means nothing to her at all, she's just so fucking full of herself. Of course, she doesn't deign to press charges against drumpf or Moore, she only kills Dems. She really sickens me. I really liked Harris prior to this, but god-damn it, she was a prosecutor. Why didn't she uphold the rule of law and support an ethics committee hearing? Getting rid of competition and trying to win a purity contest is all she cared about, not the truth at all. She too will never see any of my dimes or get the benefit of multiple letters and calls. I will never vote Repug, just could not, but if any of these *((&^ get the general nomination, my vote in the primary is all they will get. They have killed our party to advance themselves. Disgusting!

[Demsrule86]

13. Me too...she is dead to me.

[Demsrule86]

12. We lost Conyers seat in what will be a close house with important votes...I have always respected

Nancy, but this was not her best moment.

[LisaL]

14. And it won't get filled for almost a year.

[byronius]

15. It was an enormous miscalculation on their part.

Talk about living in a bubble. Disingenuously noble.

It should be a turning point for the party. Life on earth is depending on us. We are at war. We should act like it.

[brooklynite]

16. So, you're unhappy about the Democratic Party

What are you going to do about it? Or is fixing it some else's problem?

Many of us work to change Party leadership and policy to meet our goals. Some people complain on anonymous blog sites.

[lark]

19. I have already written to Fanken.

Gillibrand, Harris and Sanders are next with the WTF do you think you are doing letters and where's the calls for drumpfs resignation, where's their calls against Moore? I will support with my time and $$ anyone who primaries them who is a progressive. I will fully support their opponents if they run for president

[brooklynite]

20. You left out Elizabeth Warren....Amy Klobuchar....Sherrod Brown....Keith Ellison

Who, in fact, do you have left?

[BlueWI]

36. Very few people are left with credibility that are part of this

circular firing squad called the national Democratic Party. That's the point in fact. Democrats are the only viable option for reasonably good government and they get punked by the right wing minority party on the regular. Then their most prominent challenger to the scourge of Trumpism gets railroaded out of town on flimsy heresay., BY THE DEM LEADERSHIP, in all their dysfunctional groupthink. The right doesn't even need to bother with running a campaign or calling their Russian enablers - the Dems unelect themselves! It's a sad and pathetic state of affairs in this party - THIS IS THE POINT. The more the collective denial continues, the bigger the hole to somehow climb out of.

[Arazi]

41. Fwiw Sanders has been blasting Moore non-stop, calling for Trump's resignation on social media

And in interviews

[lark]

46. Yeah, I did hear that.

I'm not as furious with him as I am Harris and Gillibrand. I saw Gilllibrand on Morning Joe and listened to her for awhile and didnt hear that from her and haven't heard Harris coming out strongly against Moore or drumpf for sex assault.

[LakeArenal]

30. Just because we aren't patting ourselves on the back doesn't mean we aren't doing something..

Some use an anonymous blog to bully people.

[Amaryllis]

17. Based on the past few days, it looks like the majority agrees with you. Monday my two

senators, with whom I almost always agree, are going to hear from me again. I already called them Wed and asking them to push for investigation, not resignation. I will ask them again to do that - tell them it's not to late to turn this ship around before it hits the iceberg.

As well as send them this article:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=9953599
(And read and rec this thread if you haven't)
By Deserting Franken, Democrats Show They Don’t Understand Gender Politics, or Maybe Politics in General

Which I am also going to send to the jr senator from NY.

[Crunchy Frog]

18. I share these views

Just don't post much anymore because I don't like getting my posts deleted.

Sadly, it's looking like these views are now being vindicated.

Hope you don't get banned, as this party really needs voices like yours.

[Arazi]

40. Right here with you. Pretty much checked out here

[Susan Calvin]

21. Agree. nt

[DownriverDem]

22. Questions to you

Are you a member of the Democratic Party you attack? I am. Do you go to the monthly meetings for your congressional district Democratic Party? I do. Are you active in your local Democratic Party? I am. At our monthly meetings there are plenty of young folks wanting to make a difference.

Get involved and participate. Complaining and attacking your side does nothing to help without action.

[askyagerz]

25. Just proved their point

People who call simple criticism an attack by someone from their own side must think they really have it all figured out. I have always voted dem but the party is far from infallible...

[paleotn]

29. All parties are far from infallible.

All people, Sanders, Clinton, et al, are fallible. Many times we make the same mistakes the wing nuts do...we put our elected politicians on damn pedestals. It's stupid and unfair. We argue and fight over damn inches of policy, while our enemies...yes, they ARE our enemies...are light years away.

[kacekwl]

32. What is the vibe at these meetings ?

Is there a call to change , a call to toughen up against the many enemy voices spreading their views on media,radio,internet ? Or is a rah-rah now please donate. I admit I don't attend bit if you think it actually could help I will find one and attend.

[TNNurse]

23. I had a post hidden

I knew it would be, I just had to say what I thought.

[comradebillyboy]

39. Alert abuse is the bane of DU.

[NBachers]

24. They weren't satisfied with shooting themselves in the foot; now they've shot themselves in the ass.

They should change their name to The Washington Generals Party.

Or the Neville Chamberlain Party

[Motley13]

26. you are not alone, the repugs always go for the jugular

why not us? That is how they took away voting rights & were successful with gerrymandering.

[Demoiselle]

27. I agree with you, too, Chass.

[doc03]

28. I agree

[mwooldri]

31. Some people here took your post to be an attack on Democrats.

And alerted on it.

We need to get rid of the "it's ok if you are a Republican" meme...

[paleotn]

33. delusional or in denial? Time will tell....

Franken could have easily refused to resign and let the Senate Ethics Committee do its work. I would have supported him wholeheartedly in that, but he didn't. Is he taking one for the team? Possibly. I don't know. What I do know is we've cleaned our house. The Rethugs? They won't even try, and, insult to injury, a pedophile may join their ranks next week. Seems to me, with sexual harassment in the forefront of the public's psyche right now, painting the Rethugs as the party of abusers and pedophiles might be a good set of weapons for 2018. But first, it's better to get out of our own glass house before we start throwing stones...and we've got some boulders to throw if "teen beat" wins the AL Senate seat. Time will tell.

[Owl]

34. Agree

[jimmil]

35. The problem with Democrats is

they seem to think there are rules to this game and they, for some reason, have to follow them. There are no rules Dems! There is no moral high ground. The ONLY rule is there are no rules. Republicans figured that out when Nixon wimped out. It is war and nothing short of scorched earth is going to win. I just get so pissed at Dems whining about something is not fair when I never recall anyone saying anything in this life is fair. While Dems are crying great big crocodile tears and pointing fingers the Republicans are bending them over and singing, "Strangers in the Night," as they slip it in. The Dem leadership has to get it through their thick heads that Republicans will do anything to get what they want, ANYTHING!

[blueinredohio]

37. Yep

[Pepsidog]

38. If you get banned, I will quit DU in support. Dems are political doormats and Im sick of it

[Arazi]

42. Thanks for this. Agreed

[tavalon]

43. Agreed on all points

My posts about the problems at the DNC get removed. Only approved topics.

[RealityChik]

44. For me, the Dem party died last Thursday.

...December 7, 2017, the day Al Franken was forced to resign. That was the last straw for me. I'm numb and I'm completely spent. Am tempted to back away. At least give politics a rest for a while.

[Garrett78]

45. What I don't get it is how anyone can think the Democratic Party isn't in need of change.

Voter suppression and gerrymandering alone don't explain why the GOP has the White House, US House, US Senate, a clear majority of governorships and a clear majority of state legislatures.

Clearly, the party's approach is not working. For instance, do you hear Democrats - when they go on the air - raising hell over voter suppression and gerrymandering? I don't.