A word of advice about controlling the Democratic Party message

[JCanete]

23. Winning with our current party is fan-fiction that our leaders keep regurgitating and fawning over.

You are right about what seems to be what Democrats on this board want, which for the most part is more of the same. More of the same is playing nice with a media and corporate machine that will always keep us around as a back-up, and will never ever cede us the reins of power. Obama got a paltry two years of a semi-favorable senate and house, and you know he had to be superhuman to even get that. That was as good as its ever going to get until we actually start calling out the people who broker elections through their propaganda arm--our main-stream media.

Changing the message to something that speaks to more economic success for everybody, as Bernie tried to do, is nice, but that got as far as its ever going to get, and for those who think that is the path to success forward, there's no reason for us to try to adjust our message to fit some demographic if we have no way of controlling the message that the American people hear.

The most significant cornerstone about Bernie's campaign was that he was saying the system is bought and paid for by big money, and it is. Which is why Clinton came within inches of the White House and was denied. She's a good back-up player for the corporations. She keeps nudging them to make concessions to the American people, and they're like, "here's some money, get into office and we'll talk." And then they fund her opponent and republicans in down-ticket races so that even if she wins he wings are clipped, and totally destroy her in the media while puffing up a buffoon who wears their preferred colors.

I'll say it again, the fantasy is thinking we can win by playing nice...by not calling out our mainstream media as the corporate propaganda wing that it is. Why we on these boards are predominantly preoccupied with vilifying liberals or in rare cases, attempting to downplay social justice in favor of "jobs," I have no idea. Either the DNC starts taking aim at the media as a whole, or we are going to continue to play out this kabuki theater we call elections.