The Democratic Party seems to have no earthly idea why it is so damn unpopular

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46. Dems went all out for ACA and then lost the 1000 Dem seats across country

That first election after the ACA was critical because it in many states it gave the power of reapportionment to Republicans.That local strength does indirectly influence who wins the statewide and national elections. An almost decade long loss of seats not being addressed or addressed ineffectively has taken a toll. The strength of the party in 2008 was quite different from 2016-

There is no barrier to people who want to staff the Democratic Party. There is no barrier to telling people who attend rallies to bring their energy to the Democratic Party and to lead the way oneself.

In the old days the nuts and bolts work of the party was done by women-you know all the societal reasons that is no longer happening and is not going to happen.

I keep hearing reformers give analyses of what is wrong with the Democratic party. What I am seeing however is the unwillingness to build the party-nuts and bolts-and an unwillingness to focus opposition on the nationalistic white supremacist and anti-worker Republican Party.

White supremacism is a powerful movement and it is international , a good % of voters aligning themselves with it are authoritarians. If we waver on human rights we will only earn their contempt, not their votes. I don't see the point in fishing for their votes. They don't even want more equality of income. They approve of the concentration of wealth in the hands of the few.

We can get the non-authoritarian votes-but we won't get them by being Trump-lite. We still have to stand on principles of human rights-unapologetically.

Union strength was in steady decline way before the 1990s. Many union members seemed to vote "against their own economic interests" in the 1980s.

Maybe more unions needed to follow the runaway shops south in the sixties and confront the anti-union forces then-but they didn't and mainly kept fishing in the same pond, catering to the same voters who eventually decided that their interests were with corporate America and not with other workers.

The Democratic Party of the nineties was just reactive to the events of the 80s.