Jason330 Fixes the World – Episode XXVI

I’ve been stewing about what is wrong with Democrats and the Democratic Party for a long time. What’s I’ve arrived as is a pretty simple realization. The American left, and the Democratic Party need to adopt a more explicitly parliamentary working relationship. They need to officially and formally cooperate in order to stop ceding political power to Republicans. I’m not sure what that official cooperation would look like. Perhaps like in some parliamentary systems, a fixed number of cabinet chairs would be reserved for the left. Whatever it is, both sides would have to give something and both sides would need to get something out of the deal. Who knows that the treaty of reconciliation would include, but one thing is clear. The left vs center bickering which cedes political power to the GOP is killing this country. That is simply an objective fact.

I realize that there are two big hurdles for this plan to overcome. 1) The Corporatist Democratic Party is enjoying the status quo immensely and doesn’t feel the need to “fix” anything – LEAST of all fix the non-broken system by giving power to environmentalist, peacniks and socialists vegans. 2) The Green Party and other left of center groups view the Democratic Party with utter contempt (for good reason), and wholly beneath doing business with.

Are these hurdles insurmountable? Maybe. But what if Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton got the ball rolling? The very idea of the two candidates that so well represent their type of politics getting their heads together gives me hope that there is a glimmer of a sliver of a shade of a chance that something like this could happen.