DEMOCRATS, RISE TO THIS OCCASION.

• Date: 01 June 2022
• Author: Hightower, Jim
• Published date: 01 June 2022
• Author: Hightower, Jim

It's time to state the obvious: The Republican Party has gone bull goose bonkers. Its leaders have turned the GOP brand into an unprincipled gaggle of corporate profiteers, hatemongers, and screwball conspiracy theorists. They're so far out that even the Hubble Space Telescope can't find them!

But where is the Democratic Party? Here's a prime opportunity to forge a solid political coalition--a multiracial, urban-rural, farm-labor alliance based on fundamental principles of fairness and opportunity for all. Isn't that what the party says it stands for? This is the time to prove it, to reach out and unite ordinary Americans behind a national agenda of lasting progressive change.

It's not like the party elders would have to start from scratch. An energized, feisty movement of grassroots battlers against corporate greed and government injustice is already organizing, winning, and growing in popular support all across the country. But the national party's old-line clique of big funders, paid consultants, and corporate politicos shun less...