There is no fairly permanent "Democratic Policy Institute" like the GOP has with its Hoover Institute (which sucks)
I am reposting this as an OP, since I feel it's the answer (I hope) to many posts and also very important.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=19820919
So it varies and has gaps between elections.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=19819790
Leadership changes constantly. It's happening right now
Our past presidents and leaders have not maintained a "permanent" presence guiding and coordinating the battle, no doubt because they don't want to seem "partisan" in primaries.
Many days, my commute to work was past the Lexington Green.
The Red, White and Blue owe a lot to the rag-tag rebels who repelled the well-equipped and well-organized permanent army of redcoats.
The red hats aim to replace the Red, White and Blue with one of their own.
So here's the challenge for Democrats.
Democrats represent all the people, and that permanent interest group varies.
Unlike claims by the "every accusation is a confession" party, no permanent group controls the party.
And the populace is affected by the great lie machine. That's why the oligarchs bought almost all of it.
So there's the problem and question. Democracies are fragile.
What are you and I going to do about it?
There are some organizations that have steadfastly supported Democracy and Justice.
SPLC is one. And there are others, but nothing like the Oligarch Army of media, institutions (like Hoover, which sucks), and other groups that are a constant presence.
Republican party leadership since roughly the breakup of the USSR has remained mostly unchanged in its goal and "capo".
But who leads our way, above the usual primary fray?
Is there a new Dr. Martin Luther King?
An American Gandhi, Nelson Mandela or Desmond Tutu?
Howard Zinn, Benjamin Spock, Daniel Berrigan, and others outside the political races are gone.
These were all visionaries more than organizers. (it varies, of course)
The party of Putin has more or less permanent organizers and propagandists and a "rotating racist" as a candidate.
How convenient!
Who has the skill with people and organizing/managing?
We have several. Look at the enormous skills of the Clintons, Barack Obama and Joe Biden
"but the primaries".
We need a more or less "permanent" leadership not swayed nor blown up by primary battles.
Change all you want. There is no solid foundation to keep the pressure on.
Think about it.
And .................
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Compare to the propaganda mills with social media bots and visceral appeal.
They may be wonderful but they don't move the needle.
That's my concern.
I quote Ibram X. Kendi:
from the epilogue of "Stamped From the Beginning
https://democraticunderground.com/100216524810
The best, the ONLY cure to WhiteChristianNationalism, race baiting, mysogyny, etc. is WINNING
Protesting against racist power and succeeding can never be mistaken for seizing power. Any effective solution to eradicating American racism must involve Americans committed to antiracist policies seizing and maintaining power over institutions, neighborhoods, counties, states, nations—the world. It makes no sense to sit back and put the future in the hands of people committed to racist policies, or people who regularly sail with the wind of self-interest, toward racism today, toward antiracism tomorrow. An antiracist America can only be guaranteed if principled antiracists are in power, and then antiracist policies become the law of the land, and then antiracist ideas become the common sense of the people, and then the antiracist common sense of the people holds those antiracist leaders and policies accountable.
And that day is sure to come. No power lasts forever. There will come a time when Americans will realize that the only thing wrong with Black people is that they think something is wrong with Black people. There will come a time when racist ideas will no longer obstruct us from seeing the complete and utter abnormality of racial disparities. There will come a time when we will love humanity, when we will gain the courage to fight for an equitable society for our beloved humanity, knowing , intelligently, that when we fight for humanity, we are fighting for ourselves. There will come a time. Maybe, just maybe, that time is now.
Meanwhile, the GOP turned from a party that supported civil rights to one that brutally opposes civil rights.
Their STINK TANKS brainwashed them (starting with Lee Atwater's "Southern Strategy"
into racist, white christian nationalists, loving Hitler and Putin.
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