The Democrats are dead, we need a new party

I get email from the Democratic party:

PZ,

In just a few weeks, Elon Musk has shown that he is the worst president America’s ever seen.

We have one message for Trump and Musk: We’re coming.

This is a new Democratic Party, and we’re taking the gloves off. We cannot and will not stand for their extreme, harmful agenda and efforts to drag our country back centuries.

We’re in this fight until the very end, but it’s going to take Democrats from every corner of the nation stepping up and joining this movement to defeat Trump and his MAGA cronies.

Then it asks me for money.

I hate it.

They’re going to be running forever on the “TRUMP BAD” idea, aren’t they? Not one specific, positive idea was anywhere in that message. Come on, come right out and tell me you’re going to rescue social security by raising the cap, you’re going to finally get around to a federal law allowing abortion, you’re going to build programs to help immigrants integrate, you’re going to give trans people respect and dignity, you’re going to fully fund the NIH and NSF, you’re going to stand up to Putin and give aid to Ukraine, you’re going to give everyone Medicare…I can think of so many things I want the American government to do, and the Democrats are afraid to push them. It’s convenient for them to have an undeniably horrible boogeyman in office so they can run against him, get elected, and not have to do anything.

Then I read this list of things a centrist group within the Democratic party calling itself “The Third Way” is proposing. This is coming from a bunch of Clintonesque, Blairite neoliberal stooges who fear socialism — wanna-be Republicans. (This comes from Politico, a conservative rag that is not at all friendly to progressive values, and even they are sneering at this list.)

• The party should “embrace patriotism, community, and traditional American imagery”;
• Democrats should “ban far-left candidate questionnaires and refuse to participate in forums that create ideological purity tests” and “move away from the dominance of small-dollar donors whose preferences may not align with the broader electorate”;
• They should “push back against far-left staffers and groups that exert a disproportionate influence on policy and messaging” ;
• Candidates should “get out of elite circles and into real communities (e.g., tailgates, gun shows, local restaurants, churches)”; and
• The party needs to “own the failures of Democratic governance in large cities and commit to improving local government.”

We’re gonna lose again and again and again, aren’t we?