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When will top Democratic party officials recognize that today’s electorate is not made up of moderate centrists? Rather, most Americans are anti-establishment rebels who’ve been knocked down, kicked out, and told that they don’t matter. Indeed, our country’s true political spectrum doesn’t run right to left, but top to bottom.Right-wing/left-wing is ideology. Top to bottom is life. And most people know that they’re no longer in shouting distance of the moneyed elites at the top. This cries out for a “little-d” democratic party that goes right at the billionaires, autocrats, and kleptocrats. Instead, we get Chuck Schumer. This Senate Democratic leader’s idea of battling right-wing extremism is to say, “I sent a letter” in protest. Worse, the corporatized hierarchy controlling the once-proud Party of the People reserve their aggressiveness for – guess what? – battling progressive Democratic activists and candidates! Yes, they keep blocking true Democrats who can win, nominating corporate-branded centrists instead – then wondering why voter turnout plummets and an angry electorate reaches for the Trump Hammer. They are trying to do it to us again right now in Maine, where a plain-spoken, working-class progressive is poised to defeat a Trump Republican for a U.S. Senate seat. Graham Platner, a maverick, 41-year-old combat veteran and oyster farmer is drawing huge crowds, enthusiasm, volunteers, money… and grassroots hope. He’s a winner – exactly what Democrats need to become relevant again. Yet, rather than embracing the grassroots enthusiasm to win the senate seat, Schumer is raising corporate cash to defeat Planter! The party’s leader is its own worst enemy. To learn more, go to: GrahamForSenate.com. Jim Hightower’s Lowdown is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Thanks again for being a paid subscriber to the Lowdown. If you like the work we do here, please consider referring your friends— you’ll earn credits towards your own subscription when they sign up. Or consider giving the gift of agitation! A Lowdown subscription makes a great gift:
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