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I agree, which is why I think the one working solution has critical issues and will not work.
The Democratic Party would have to be reformed from the ground up, which requires things and behaviors which are not possible in the USA right now
Then let me come from a different angle: we don’t need Democrats. Not as a group, anyway. I’m fine with individual members, like AOC, but the party as a whole hasn’t been on our side. That won’t change.
Instead, we should be looking to build solidarity with unions and community. If Democrats exist at all at that point, they’ll be forced to deal with a very different political reality.
Edit: fixed some wording.
I agree with you on your points except I do not see how it works. Americans lost the ability to form new parties or organizations at the local level . It will be a long hard road to learn it again. And I’m sure they will… eventually decades from now
The current situation will tend to sweep away a lot of institutions. The Republican Party almost certainly won’t survive Trump, and there’s a chance Democrats won’t either. Even if they do, it’s not like they could hold on to being a singularly dominant party forever. Not when there are so many people voting for them only to make sure Republicans don’t take power.
They’ll have to adapt to that situation or perish. New political parties can spring up quickly. We’re not used to that in the US, but it’s happened here before, and happens around the world all the time.
I don’t think this will happen soon in the USA.
This is because the USA is a complex web of non democratic institutions posing as the real deal, and most people seem fine with that.
Secondly, Americans as a group do not know how to recognize or understand when there is massive cheating by political parties, and seem incapable of applying standard checks or common sense. Whoever wins at the state or federal levels are incapable of changing the systems . Some states are actually real democracies but this is lost on the majority of people. As a group and culture this is set in stone and cannot change but slowly.
Thirdly, Americans went through two generations of mass migrations and job changes, local politics and grassroots are broken because of this. And will take years to recover. Political parties must be done at the local level.