Source: Common Dreams
by Max Moran
“For as long as most of us have been alive, the Democratic [sic] Party of the United States has enjoyed a rare and extraordinary luxury: basic, unquestioned stability in its nation’s laws, values, and political processes. The United States has, of course, undergone extraordinary changes in the last 80 years or so — racial integration, deindustrialization, women’s liberation, suburbanization, television and the internet. But the basic ethos of what it meant to be an American was an unquestioned consensus, pure background noise to the game of day-to-day Congressional debates and electoral campaigns. There was no serious reason to fear for the country’s small-r republican government structure, its capital-L Liberal values of individualism and political equality, or its ability to peacefully transfer power from one regime to the next. This is no longer true.” [editor’s note: The insistence on adding “ic” to the party title tells it all, as if “demoncrazy” were the premise for the party – SAT] [additional editor’s note: Actually, it’s the insistence on omitting the “ic” that’s weird – TLK] (08/11/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/how-can-democrats-defeat-trump