everyone in the Democratic party is ignoring Kennedy's clarion call [View All]

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In case you DUers forgot, yesterday Teddy K called for Democrats to not be Republican clones and to support medicare for all Americans and no-tuition college for all qualified students.

And poll after poll show a majority of Americans support these ideas.

But his call to arms has gone almost unheard, it would seem. After the initial reports here on DU, zero discussion of it. Nothing on any of the other major Democratic party blogs, either.

Not a thing in the way of response from any of the other major Democratic party leaders. Silence. Kennedy's call to arms is being treated like a turd in the punch bowl, at least by the party leadership. And the major players in the online community are going along with the party response.

I think this pretty much confirms what I have been saying all along: the Democratic party leadership and the major activists (such as the major blog operators) are actually far more conservative than the Democratic voters and even more conservative than Americans in general, at least it comes to economic issues like welfare state, taxation and trade.

And this is why the party is in decline. The leadership and activists are more in tune with Republican values than with American values, at least when it comes to economic issues.