Rising looks at the People's Party Convention

I appreciate Krystal's breaking it down to the various factions on the left. One of which is a segment that fights for progressive policies and thereby forces change within a Party. We saw it with the Tea Party movement on the right and we see it with Bernie, The Squad and the Progressive Caucus on the left. On the right we've seen how it has taken over a lot of their agenda. On the left we see how much influence they've had on both Biden's agenda and the Party Platform. They are, in a sense, the People's Party within the Dem Party and are gaining ground with each election.

Now Williamson said something interesting: 

 

"The Democratic Party sees all the suffering created by the corporate agenda and does in ways that it can try to ameliorate the suffering on the periphery. [... but they] will not challenge the underlying forces that make all that suffering inevitable."

 

At least she sees that even the establishment Dem Party tries to ameliorate that suffering. There is a real difference between them, Twit and the Repugnantans. So in this election they are far from equivalent and one must defeat the other.

 

Also, while the Party continues to support the corporate agenda that sustains it, the progressives in the Party most definitely challenge that corporate agenda and are making inroads in changing it. The Progressive Caucus is already about 45% of the Democratic Party in the House and will soon, in the next couple of elections, control it. To me that seems a better strategy than starting from scratch, dividing the progressive vote and continuing to lose for the foreseeable future.