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The redirection of the Democratic Party from a BOTTOM-UP organization that listens to its people, to a TOP-DOWN organizational structure that is modeled after the Republican Party's structure. Where gatekeepers and upper-elite control the party and its direction, instead of the people.
The illegitimacy of the voting process, when voter suppression, voter exclusion and restriction of same-day voter registration curtails new members of the party or suppresses those in it. It is revolting that some on his board actually cheer thousands of people being disenfranchised, mock people who desire same-day registration, and other institutional constructs to shape outcome.
I am a staunch Democrat who is uncommitted, since I am involved in college Poli-Sci research as a continuing ed student, now in my fifties. I do not sit with a form of candidate myopia on these boards, as quite a few here do. The Democratic Party did change over the past three presidential election cycles, and it is no longer the party that saw W. J. Clinton into the White House on his first term.
There are serious legitimacy issues in this party that rise above SBS or HRC, so a short-term victory might not produce a strong party four or eight years from now, when the seniors fall off the ranks. Older people do vote more conservatively, whether they are Democrats or Republicans and there is a institutionally devised toxic brew slathering the Millennial crowd that needs to be addressed.
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