I want to see Kat get in office or become active in the party nationally.

Husband and I always talk about our top 3…
AOC, Jasmine Crockett and Melanie Stansbury.

We have some good ones that could really take our party forward.

There's a veteran I've always liked as well. Patty Murray. She's a solid, no frills, serious person. A true anchor in the Senate. I think she would have made a good Senate Leader if she had wanted it.

party establishment is dishwater

Somehow IQ47 being a nonstop braggart doesn't seem to hurt him, but we all know how he lives under a completely different standard than any Democrat when it comes to treatment by the media.

If Biden had appointed Jones as Atty General instead of that senile old what's-his-name, the whole world would be different.

If Doug Jones put Trump in jail, does Biden still initially run for reelection? Remember, he said that he ran for reelection because he thought that he was the only person who can beat Trump.

Who wins on the Republican side? DeSantis? Would he face? Harris? Ahh, so many hypothetical questions...

Republicans are going to lose their asses and so out comes stuff like this from their friends the Dems, who much prefer their meaner, older big brother stay in power doing the dirty work.

Ossoff, Talerico, and Cooper.... Why not just name Sherrod Brown or Mark Kelly, while he is at it?

Establishment, Establishment, Establishment - supply side economics, cruelty, Ayn Rand........something....something...

His whole policy stance, described as "market friendly" nibbles around the edges while leaving the corporate raiding of the middle class, racism, sexism, and hate in place. Baby bonds? Seriously? And for the childless seniors eating cat food? Pfft!

No. Hell no.

It's not being "doused". It's been going full throttle from the "bottom up". It's been happening here in Philly for awhile.

I.e. everyone has seen our D.A. Larry Krasner, who hails from the progressive side of the party and is in his 3rd term. And over 2 election cycles, except for a lone GOP Council member, Republicans have been completely removed from our 17-member City Council -notably from the 7 "At Large" seats, where there is a requirement for at least 2 seats set aside for a "minority party", that until recently was the GOP, but has been supplanted with the "Working Families Party", who won both "minority party" seats.

And now, less than a week ago, my own soon-to-be member of Congress, Chris Rabb, hails from the Bernie/AOC wing. He'll join Sunmer Lee (also a progressive and improbable during the 2022 election), hailing from the Pittsburgh area, and part of the PA delegation.

That strategy has brought our country to the brink of becoming a fascist dictatorship. To say it's time for a leadership change is an understatement beyond words. Bravo to Senator Booker for raising this important issue.

but is something that has been in existence since parties have existed centuries ago. It's all local fiefdoms that might interact with the state and national fiefdoms, to wield power that they believe will benefit party members, and hopefully society as a whole.

But the bigger issue is how to deal with "local/regional" concerns because there is no cookie cutter solution. That is why the struggle goes on and will continue that way for the foreseeable future, because there is no monolith of beliefs.

I've had many years of experience working in the political arena so I'm not a novice at this. There's clearly an effort at the Congressional level, particularly in the Senate to block younger leaders from taking their rightful place in leadership who want to take a much more aggressive stance than the leadership that's currently there.

with our election last week and its message about "change".

I found this article early this morning (published last week after the primary) -
District Attorney Larry Krasner calls on longtime chair of Philly Democrats to step down

Krasner, a strong progressive, is referencing Bob Brady, former Congressman here in Philly and ancient head of the party here for the past 40 years. He is LONG PAST needing to go. He should have been gone 30 years ago. He was integral in the fuck-up here associated with the 2024 election.

The "federal" (Congressional) primary here last week (that had some other positions on the ballot) was instructive as to where we are going.

The mayor went with the "establishment" candidate (Sharif Street whose father was mayor in the past), the member of Congress whose seat was contested (Dwight Evans, who is my Congressman, and whose seat is being replaced) went with Ala Stanford (who was never in elected office but had been an activist during COVID and I think was serving in the Gov. Shapiro's administration), and the progressive folks (including AOC and Bernie, etc) went with the ultimate winner - Chris Rabb (who was originally my state Rep. just as they redrew the lines, so I have someone else).

So there is rumbling going on where it should happen - BOTTOM UP. That will start to force changes at the top.

And as to this -

I think we'll see more change like in progressive Senator Chris Van Hollen challenging "play nice" Schumer for Majority leader. I certainly hope so. The grass roots are angry and want leaders who will stand up and fight.

in 2006 after 12 long years in the minority but about six months into 2007 .... I realized that we were not going to keep the House for very long.