The Party of the Damned

Forget the "Democrats!" Nothing less than a revolutionary party will do at this point

It would be comic, if it were not tragic, that so many educated Americans are expecting the Democratic Party to raise itself up from the grave and score some sort of zombie comeback in the imagined midterm elections. The entire system is falling apart and there will not be any room for a meaningful opposition party, even in the most symbolic sense, from now on. If the judges that rule against the White House can be threatened with impeachment, if critics can be put into detention by unmarked paramilitary forces, and the Democratic Party remains silent, then it is not worth much at all—except, perhaps, as a bit of nostalgic memorabilia about the Kennedy administration for those who still remember.

But the Democratic Party came to power as the graveyard of movements. The twisted alliance between segregationists in the south and union organizers in Northern cities was a deal with the devil in the 19th century that the Democratic Party never really moved beyond. Of course, there were a few great moments for some individual Democrats, but let us face facts. The time had come to bury the dead and to move on. We need no more of the corporate-sponsored “Move On” hypocrisy of the damned; we need rather to go back to the drawing board, and do so but fast (before all those low-orbit satellites are up) so as to create something which is truly revolutionary, and not branded as “revolutionary” by marketing experts.