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- politics@lemmy.world
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- politics@lemmy.world
A closed-door meeting for House Democrats this week included a gripe-fest directed at liberal grassroots organizations, sources tell Axios.
A closed-door meeting for House Democrats this week included a gripe-fest directed at liberal grassroots organizations, sources tell Axios.
So first you said they only handle primaries. Nowhere did I even see the word primary, but the list of responsibilities went far beyond handling elections. You ignored section D entirely, which I posit is a leadership role. You have no understanding that people can function as leaders and exhibit leadership skills regardless of official hierarchies, titles, and positions.
And finally, you are making my point for me. The party has laughable unity and leadership. If the DNC is responsible for the candidates that comprise the party, why shouldn’t I blame them for building a headless party?
Did you not know that “issuing the Call to the National Convention” is the final result of the primary?
Did you not know that “filling vacancies in the nominations for the office of President and Vice President” would only happen if there was some problem after the primary?
Did you not know that “providing for the election or appointment of a Chairperson, five Vice Chairpersons…” all has to do with the internal private organization of the DNC and nothing at all to do with the US congress?
Did you not know that “formulating and disseminating statements of Party policy” refers to the party platform of the presidential elections and are made right before the national convention and then pretty much ignored for the next 4 years and are never used by congressmen and senators to guide their votes? I doubt that any congressmen who is not a DNC member could quote a single sentence in the party platform.
A leadership role of a private organization that holds a big event every 4 years. It is not a government leadership role for people who are work for the government, like congressmen and senators.
They are NOT responsible for the candidates that comprise the party. The VOTERS and candidate themselves are 100% responsible for that. Those same voters are ALSO responsible for electing the membership of the DNC. That is exactly why congressmen and senators couldn’t care less what anybody who works at the DNC thinks about anything. It’s because congressmen and senators are responsible for their own election and reelections, not the DNC.
Why would you even want a party where one guy, instead of millions of voters, decide who the candidates are? Or even way worse than that, how they vote?
You have no understanding the congressmen and senators already have completely different leaders and organizations who have infinitely more power than anybody at “the DNC”. A simple way to understand reality is to know that nobody who gets a government paycheck cares about what anybody at the DNC wants.
The whole reason why I push back against the trend of using “The DNC” as a magical shorthand for “whichever Dem I don’t like at the moment”, is become I was worried that eventually somebody would be foolish enough to think the DNC was some super powerful monolithic static group who is like an actual person. So far you are the only person I’ve found in that category. Everyone else simply admits they were falsely using “The DNC” to mean some random guy they didn’t like.