Democratic base goes home

Here's an interesting recent poll by Research 2000.

Americans disapprove of congressional Republicans 65% to 18%. But they also disapprove of congressional Democrats - by a margin of 55% to 41%.

What does this say about the Democratic leadership?

If you abandon your base, your base goes home. The Democrats abandoned us, so we went home.

Not to the Republicans (where we can expect to be abandoned). But home.

We know the Republicans are a damaged brand. That's been established. The GOP digs itself in deeper in every cycle. But the Democrats aren't going to keep benefiting at the polls unless they make a concerted effort to make its officeholders stick to forward-thinking principles. If that means the party has to withhold support from incumbent senators, SO BE IT.

That means you, Harry Reid and Ron Wyden.

Since we know the Democrats don't have the guts to do this, we can expect the Greens to pick up the Democratic base.

I have a right to expect to see a Green candidate in every congressional district this year - unless the Democratic candidate is clearly dedicated to progressive populism.

Unless this happens, expect a repeat and rinse of the DLC's electoral failures - which the DLC has yet to learn one fucking thing from.

I feel like my high school biology teacher when he told the class, "Don't cry to me at the end of the quarter when you fail."