2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]MisterP
(23,730 posts)after 1988 the DLC insisted that party's problem was lack of money and we should be more corporate-friendly (this actually matched a neoliberal wave that made numerous parties--British Labour, French Socialists, every president south of the border)
now they get the same funding at most levels whether they win or lose, that's why Wasserman-Schultz is still in (after their insistence that "winning isn't everything, it's the only thing" : in fact, their attitude is that she did GREAT and it's not HER fault the unwashed hordes didn't respond to her brilliant campaigns
voters are just obstacles to getting into power for them--they even set up a literal "veal pen" system in the party to reduce how many policies that Democrats wanted/needed got promoted: they demanded more and more loyalty all while deliberately stringing everyone along indefinitely