Told to resign from the vice chair or resign from calling out bad octogenarian DNC members. And then they made the decision for him.
Apparently DNC chair Ken Martin cried to Hogg that his chances of raising money and looking like a leader has been crushed by this, in a leaked call.
Ignoring that this is a projection and example of his leadership.
As a reminder 3 members of the DNC have died over the age of 70 this year already.
I’ll take the downvotes to point out the political reality:
Raising money is literally the DNC’s primary role. It is a coalition of people raising money collaboratively, with the understanding that agreeing to the party policy as a group is a requirement for being a member of the group.
So when he says that Hogg is stealing his spotlight and making it difficult to build the network he needs to raise funds, he’s not out of line.
He is INCREDIBLY shortsighted in failing to connect “supporting good candidates” with “ability to secure votes” which itself is a necessary component of long term fundraising. But let’s call a spade a spade: raising money is what the DNC is all about, by definition, and without those funds they have no purpose, let alone ability to promote candidates
Its what the modern DNC does. Historically they did a lot more, like developing the party platform, getting out the vote, campaign support, party leadership, candidate development and support (exactly what Hogg was doing), conventions. But besides that one convention, all they do anymore is fundraising. And its all Ken Martin will do too. Ever hear about the democratic party platform anymore? No, because it doesnt exist anymore.
With David Hogg with the DNC, I was considering donating, but I won’t now.
Hogg gets it. The Democratic party needs to defund the spineless weenies like Schumer, and focus on young, strong candidates that are willing to stand up to the traitors.
Wherever Hogg lands, that’s where I’ll be deploying my money.
I don’t think we really disagree given what you said about shortsightedness, but I feel like ranting.
The focus on corporate lobbyist and billionaire donations is the cancer that will kill the country. Fundraising through grassroots outreach and organization can be much more effective than spending billions in blood money on TV ads and landline phonecalls, but it requires a platform that taps into the zeitgeist and galvanizes the public to act. In our current moment that means earnestly fighting for social programs, civil rights, and democratic governance - all of which conflicts with the interests of the ruling class.
The DNC is too far gone at this point. They’ve ignored the popular will for so long and embraced corporatism so nakedly that they enabled fascism by granting its veneer of populism more luster.
They squandered any good will they could have gained from wholeheartedly supporting popular policies and any trust they could have engendered with a consistently progressive track record. They lost any respect they could have earned from fighting tooth and nail against oppression, and any momentum they could have raised within the institution from fostering a new generation of energetic idealists. Take all that away and what you’re left with is a staid orthodoxy that is begrudged, distrusted, spineless, and out of touch.
The only thing they have to fall back on at this point is ‘not being as bad as overt fascists’ and ‘being reasonably complement stewards of an economy designed to funnel money to the wealthy’. We’ve seen that this is not a good strategy for winning elections, but does a hell of a job at driving voter apathy, powerlessness, and resentment.
/rant