Search for the soul of the Democratic Party

With the White House gained and the House majority at least maintained, the Democratic Party has Georgia on its mind. A Senate majority would mean hands off for the Republican Party, but since this requires winning both runoff elections, it doesn’t figure to happen.

The right wing Republicans comically label the center-right Democrats “leftist radicals” while the Democrats, content to let Republicans define them, caution their office holders and aspirants to avoid progressive positions.

More than that, just recently the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee blacklisted and boycotted anyone doing business with left-leaning primary challengers to moderate and conservative sitting Democrats.

Nancy Pelosi reflexively places the blame for the poor down-slate results on progressives for being anti-police and pro-black Lives Matter and for their socialist positions.

Alexandria Ocasio-cortez can only point to social and economic justice positions that the majority of the country supports. For example, every single swing-state Democrat who endorsed Medicare for All won re-election, and every single swing-state Democrat who opposed Medicare for All lost re-election.

This is not a search for the soul of the Democratic Party. Where would you look? Location services were turned off long ago when the working class was betrayed.

Perhaps a lingering scent could be picked up in the pages of the Wall Street Journal.

AOC and the others that think like her are there because, things as they are, there is no viable anti-capitalist party. James Rothenberg

North Chatham