Leftwing Democrats Are a Dim Bunch

Look, I pretty much agree with the ideas of the left side of the Democrat Party. Defunding the police I never agreed with. Yes, a felon who thinks defunding the police was a bad idea. How itwas presented to the public was a disaster.

Anyway, I just read The Democrats’ Common Sense Problem from The Liberal Patriot. I suggest every Democrat read it - and every Democrat officeholder. It is too long to excerpt without undercutting its lessons.

For my part, the essay illustrates all the ways the leftwing activists are so certain of their righteousness they need not persuade voters. But persuasion is at the root of democratic politics. I was telling a friend a week or so ago that I wished the Indiana Democrats would bring Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez out here, to see the wider world and for the wider world to see her. Maybe she would learn her ways are not our ways and maybe we might learn she has some good ideas.

Years ago, after my arrest, I got thinking what the Indiana Democrats could do to improve its standing in the state. Here is the shorthand version: bring Lake County to Switzerland County and vice versa. Expanding a bit, the Dems would take their statewide candidates and their legislative experts on commerce, education, and agriculture on the road to explain their ideas and to hear the feedback from all the citizens. I thought along the lines of a Chautauqua. Go forth to educate their listeners, to learn the thoughts of possible voters, and an opportunity to persuade voters.

Now it appears one Democrat candidate has a similar idea: Indiana Democrats, Libertarians join together for town hall series ahead of November election.

The events, organized by the state Democratic Party, invite Hoosiers to ask questions of the candidates ahead of this fall’s elections. 

LOOKING TOWARD NOVEMBER: Democrats, Libertarians discuss issues at town hall reports on yhe first such town hall.

How odd a democratic movement ignoring the public. Except such thinking has historical precendence.

sch 5/13/22