I don’t say this to try and be a dick, I think its important to be able to have discussions around these topics, but a party’s platform document really is not important to me. Their voting record is. Their actions are. And the more I learn about politics the more their voting record and actions the last 10-20 years frustrate me.

I will 1000% give credit it to Lina Khan. She was a godsend and gave me hope that maybe the american political apparatus could actually be operated in good faith by someone who understands what it means to be a civil servant.

When we did last had a senate majority under Obama he failed to pass a more impactful healthcare reform bill. And we got a version that he said was essentially just Mitt Romney’s healthcare bill. I have personally benefited from obamacare. And, we had the opportunity to pass something much more meaningful. And we just didnt.

Democratic foreign policy is horrifying. One of my closest friends is part of an ethnic and religious minority group that was subjected to ethnic cleansing after Obama backed a militant group controlling Egypt because it was momentarily convenient to our interests. If I remember right the statistics she told me were that the population dropped from something like 15% to 5% in a matter of a few years. Because of it she went into intelligence research (as an academic, not working for the government) and now lives with the imagery of people (often her people) being executed burned into her head because she specialized in propaganda and recruitment materials made by radical Islamic terror groups, and lots of radical Islamic terrorist groups love using video of executions and beheadings as recruitment material. She left the field because she can’t do it anymore.

We outright refused to engage with the fact that Israel is intentionally killing an entire civilian population as an issue lots of people care about last election. We still aren’t even all on the same page about it.

It feels like they have done nothing but present themselves as progressive without actually doing any of the progressive shit that would fix people’s problems. Every time we’ve gotten a genuinely progressive candidate the party’s response has been to degrade them and try to undercut their efforts.

And frankly, I think we could have had a much stronger hold of the legislature if we actually put forward candidates that folks believed cared about their issues on any kind of regular basis, instead of just people taking lots of corporate campaign funding and posturing about how much we care about minorities without putting forward policies that would help said minorities in any meaningful way

There are probably meaningful accomplishments that the democratic party has accomplished that I’m blind or ignorant to, and you’re welcome to inform me of them. I’d like to have a more well rounded perspective. And at the same time, I don’t think its unreasonable of me to be angry with them. They have taken a frankly ungodly amount of corporate money. The DNC’s document outlining what went wrong last election was an actual joke, that blamed their loss on voters.

Sorry for the ridiculously long reply. A lot of my thoughts on this subject are still ill-formed and inconcrete enough to be difficult to communicate concisely.