{"id":201367,"date":"2025-04-23T21:04:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T21:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/activist\/democrats-go-grassroots-disasters-reject-party-lines\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T21:04:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T21:04:49","slug":"democrats-go-grassroots-disasters-reject-party-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=201367","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Go Grassroots; Disasters Reject Party Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/progressive.org\/downloads\/21711\/download\/KenMartin20201.jpg?cb=9b364e05f3b7ef3a1cfe149deb7164e3\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<h3>Grassroots Democrats Pulling Party Back to the Grassroots<\/h3>\n<hr\/>\n<p class=\"lead\">Early in the Civil War, General George McClellan\u2019s Union Army was poised for a decisive victory over Confederate forces. But, inexplicably, McClellan wouldn\u2019t attack! For days, President Abraham Lincoln ordered and even begged the general to move\u2014but nothing. So the Confederates slipped away.<\/p>\n<p>Before firing McClellan, Lincoln\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thirteen.org\/wnet\/historyofus\/web06\/features\/bio\/B06.html#:~:text=Once%2C%20Lincoln%20was%20so%20frustrated,be%20made%20to%20do%20something.%22\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Link opens in new window (proclaimed)\">proclaimed<\/a>: \u201cIf General McClellan does not want to use the Army, I would like to borrow it for a time, provided I could see how it could be made to do something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what today\u2019s grassroots Democratic Party activists are saying to their aloof campaign generals, who remain ensconced in Washington, D.C., refusing to deploy their ground troops in the field of battle.<\/p>\n<p>The great strength of the Democratic Party is its army of volunteer door knockers across the country who have the local knowledge, connections, and lingo to relate to local voters. Yet, in the past thirty years, fat-cat donors and high-dollar consultants have taken over the \u201cPeople\u2019s Party\u201d and abandoned high-touch organizing for high-tech \u201cdigital outreach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the Democrats\u2019 passionate army of local campaigners is unused, only called upon in emails to send more donations to fund Beltway consultants and negative political ads. As a friend of mine recently said in exasperation, \u201cI wish the Democratic Party would stop asking for money and start asking me for ACTION.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, change is coming, because the grassroots Democratic army has been taking charge in many areas and mobilizing itself! In a huge advance, the party\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/01\/ken-martin-chair-democratic-national-committee\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Link opens in new window (new national chair)\">new national chair<\/a>\u2014Ken Martin, chair of the Minnesota Democratic\u2013Farmer\u2013Labor Party\u2014and its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskaexaminer.com\/briefs\/nebraskas-kleeb-elected-chair-of-state-chairs-for-democratic-national-committee\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Link opens in new window (new chair of state Democratic committees)\">new chair of state Democratic committees<\/a>\u2014Jane Kleeb, chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party\u2014were both elected in early February on a bold program to move the party\u2019s focus back to year-round, grassroots activism. After all, voters aren\u2019t mere consumers of politics; they should be valued as the whole purpose of politics and its primary producers.<\/p>\n<h3>Hurricanes and Wildfires Don\u2019t Have Political Preferences<\/h3>\n<hr\/>\n<p>May I just say that the stupidest, most despicable, and most self-defeating political \u201ctactic\u201d in our present hyperpartisan climate is the accusation that victims of today\u2019s horrific wildfires, floods, and the like are getting what they deserve because of their political views.<\/p>\n<p>Start with February\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/disasterphilanthropy.org\/disasters\/2025-appalachian-floods\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Link opens in new window (catastrophic floods)\">catastrophic floods<\/a>\u00a0in Appalachia. If you\u2019ve never had a river gushing into your home or town, you can\u2019t imagine the destruction, muck, stench, injuries, death, and despair. Yet, various numbskulls who profess to be progressive have posted taunts online, chortling that these devastated victims are red-state, small-government Trump voters who don\u2019t deserve the government\u2019s helping hand in their time of dire need.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, rightwing MAGA squads, including some GOP Congress critters, routinely jeer at wildfire victims in blue states and cities, gloating that hellfire is righteous punishment for \u201cungodly\u201d people who oppose Trump\u2019s \u201cdivine mission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hello! This is not politics; it\u2019s disgraceful inhumanity. And those who engage in it are skuzz and insult America\u2019s democratic ideals of the common good.<\/p>\n<p>Happily, though\u2014even as divisive and violent political rhetoric is being spewed by some of our highest officials\u2014the ingrained ethic in practically every community is to rush to the aid of anyone and everyone in times of disaster.<\/p>\n<p>I saw this up close when Hurricane Harvey\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/hgx\/hurricaneharvey\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Link opens in new window (slammed)\">slammed<\/a>\u00a0Houston, Texas, in 2017. Officials in Washington played politics for weeks as the city was drowning. But hundreds of working people showed up, even from far-away states, bringing their small boats and power tools to organize ad hoc rescue teams, not asking anyone their party affiliation.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s our truest selves\u2014and why it\u2019s essential to swat down the malignant ethic of anyone who tries to pervert fundamental humanity into their red-blue morass.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grassroots Democrats Pulling Party Back to the Grassroots Early in the Civil War, General George McClellan\u2019s Union Army was poised for a decisive victory over Confederate forces. But, inexplicably, McClellan wouldn\u2019t attack! For days, President Abraham Lincoln ordered and even begged the general to move\u2014but nothing. So the Confederates slipped away. Before firing McClellan, Lincoln\u00a0proclaimed: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":201368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12022],"tags":[67583,49082,13394,24073,18333,52137,4331,2083,577,34160,52134],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-201367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activist","tag-april-may-2025","tag-democratic-party","tag-democrats","tag-disasters","tag-grassroots","tag-jim-hightower","tag-lines","tag-magazine","tag-party","tag-reject","tag-vox-populist"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Democrats Go Grassroots; Disasters Reject Party Lines - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=201367\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Democrats Go Grassroots; Disasters Reject Party Lines - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Grassroots Democrats Pulling Party Back to the Grassroots Early in the Civil War, General George McClellan\u2019s Union Army was poised for a decisive victory over Confederate forces. 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