Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen

Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen


Making The Democratic Party Democratic

June 27, 2019

We’ve all seen it in recent years: the leadership of the DNC and the DCCC dictating policy and acceptable “centrist” positions for their chosen candidates. And how well has that worked out? Toward correcting that hierarchy’s grip on the party candidates, a group of over a million called RootsAction.org has just released a report called BadBlues: Some of the House Democrats Who Deserve to be Primaried. Co-founder Norman Solomon explains who made their target list and why. It’s a question of serving corporate moneyed interests or constituents. So far they’ve met with remarkable success, electing progressives throughout the country. And 2020 has just begun