Posted on 08/26/2024 8:50:17 AM PDT by Red Badger
A former Obama intern and lifelong Democrat who voted for Joe Biden in 2020 has taken to social media to blast the Democrat Party in a scathing video that exposes what conservatives have long suspected: the party is out of touch, elitist, and disconnected from the real struggles of everyday Americans.
The woman, who identifies herself as Evan, posted the video on X, where she shared her disillusionment with the Democrat Party after attending the Democratic National Convention (DNC) as a volunteer.
According to her, she left the convention early because “it sickened me.”
Evan, who has dedicated much of her career to working in ‘progressive politics,’ signed up to volunteer at this year’s DNC, expecting to find renewed faith in the Democrat Party. Instead, she found herself more disillusioned than ever before.
“Okay, I’m going to get real in this, and it’s probably going to piss some people off,” Evan begins, setting the tone for her no-holds-barred exposé.
She added:
“I just got back from the DNC, where I signed up to volunteer. When I initially signed up to volunteer, Joe Biden was still the nominee; it wasn’t yet Kamala Harris. I’ve worked in progressive politics for a long time.
I have worked for many different Democratic candidates—Senate candidates, House candidates, and even some Democratic organizations. As the years have gone by, I found myself getting more and more disillusioned with the Democratic Party, although until now, I’ve never said that out loud or anywhere public. I just want to say that by saying this, I’m not necessarily saying that the other party is better. I’m just giving you my experience working with the Democrats.”
Evan reveals the unvarnished reality of campaign fundraising, where candidates devote countless hours courting wealthy donors instead of engaging with everyday voters. This systemic flaw, according to Evan, undermines the very democracy that the party claims to champion.
“Throughout my career, I’ve mostly done campaign fundraising, so I’ve seen the way that it works behind the scenes. I know that candidates spend 8, 9, 10 hours a day just calling donors and begging rich people for money. It’s pretty much the only people that they talk to.
Of course, sometimes they have to talk to voters, but the majority of their time is spent calling and begging rich people to give them money for their campaigns. What this inevitably means is that we don’t actually live in a democracy; it’s just rich people calling the shots and having the access to talk to the politicians.
They’re the ones that basically get their ear all day. They’re the ones that can help shape and prioritize what the politician actually focuses on. Even the politicians that detest this, that want to get big money out of politics, still have to play this game. They still have to make these calls. They still spend the same amount of time just calling rich people and begging them for money.
Unfortunately, once they get into office—if they get into office—they soon realize that the money machine is so great and the seduction of power is so immense that they no longer adhere to these values. When I first got into politics, I thought that Democrats were the party of the people.
The convention atmosphere struck Evan as elitist and disconnected from the struggles of average Americans. The speeches, filled with vague promises rather than concrete plans for economic relief, left her feeling angry and betrayed.
“But at the DNC this week, I felt like I was in a building with the most elite and out-of-touch people in the entire world. It very much felt like, “Let’s just have a huge party and forget all of our problems because the vibes are good.”
When I was there, I didn’t feel any connection to real America or the place that I come from, which is the Midwest—Kansas City, Kansas, and Missouri. I didn’t feel any connection to the people that I know right now who are struggling to buy their groceries or pay their rent. The people who want to know what both candidates are going to do to materially affect change in their lives.”
Evan’s disillusionment reached a breaking point during Kamala Harris’s speech, which she found devoid of substance.
“When I was there listening to the speeches, I felt myself getting mad because I didn’t hear anything about the economy—definitely not in Kamala’s speech, and not very much in the others as well.
Instead, I heard generic platitudes, things like “joy,” “respect,” and “integrity.” What does that even mean? “Let’s make the military the most lethal in the world.” I thought I was part of the anti-war party. I thought I was part of the party that fought for the underdog, that championed working people. When and how did we just become the party of academia, anemia, and affluence? Because that’s what we are right now.
How can we ever say that we’re going to fight corporate power or give a voice back to those communities that have been left behind when, above the delegates on the floor, in levels and levels of suites, donors and corporations were literally looking down on the people below from above?
That’s what Chris Cuomo said, and he is absolutely right. I went to the DNC this year hoping that I would feel reconnected to the Democratic Party, that I would have more of a sense of understanding of Kamala and her candidacy and what she stood for. But instead, I ended up leaving feeling the opposite—more disconnected and alone than ever.”
In a final, gut-wrenching admission, Evan declared, “I don’t think I can support Kamala Harris for president. I don’t even know if I can call myself a Democrat anymore. I don’t know who I’m going to support, but I know it’s not her.”
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In the end she’ll still vote RAT!
looks like the event left a permanent scar on her psyche.
so is this obama’s big move?
In 2024 they are still the party of 3 A's but now they are academia, anemia and affluence.
She seems to think corporations are bad. Without corporations you won’t have iPhones cheap food, affordable gas or anything that makes up modern life. She’s heading more or less in the right direction but for misguided reasons.
Corporations in bed with government are bad.
I know Bernie Bros who eventually made it to our side.
She is halfway there.
DemonRAT wars:
Civil War
WW1
WW2
Korea
Vietnam
The nation’s worst bloodlettings since the Revolution.
Party of Peace my @$$.
“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. But in practice such a society could not long remain stable. For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.”
― George Orwell, 1984
What is wrong with having companies, corporations are soul less, and heartless machines. Corporations are what you get when they want protection from the wrongs they do, and influence in high places. They don’t need influence, if the elected officials go to jail for being influenced.
Maybe one of Comrade Bernie’s dachas has a crying room for her.
“And that’s government of BOTH parties.”
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True that. And that’s why the debt just keeps growing and growing and the government gets bigger and bigger no matter which party is in power.
Probably true of the GOP, as well. Neither party is connected to the people at this point (I'm excluding Trump from this), and frankly, neither party is connected to the Constitution, either.
Yes, if EITHER party cared one iota for the “little people” or the survival of the republic, they wouldn’t be bankrupting us decade after decade after decade. Or inviting tens of millions of illiterate, no-skill people from the south to waltz right in.
“they wouldn’t be bankrupting us decade after decade”
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Nor passing this monstrous debt onto our children and grandchildren. Generational theft. What they’re doing is despicable.
It has already happened here. Probably more than once.
Surprise, surprise...the empty pantsuit is “devoid of substance”
I knew a former board member of Honeywell. I asked him why companies hired former Democratic politicians to sit on the board, paid them, but those people never went to a meeting. He said, basically, that government preyed on companies to get money as do NGO’s like the Reverend Jessy Jackson. When that happened, you’d have someone like Mike Dukakis or Hillary Clinton call them up and “chat.” That generally made whatever the issue was go away. He said, “They’re crooks, but they don’t poach on each other’s territory.”
If a company isn’t involved in politics, then it will get picked apart with special assessments or expensive rules and regulations lobbied for by climate extremists. The system as it exists forces companies to be involved in politics for self-preservation. It’s the rare company, like Enron, that is actually evil. They’re generally run by fair, law abiding citizens. The exceptions...the “soulless” conglomerate is rare. Officers of corporations are required by law to look out for their investors first. What appears to be heartless is someone making a decision, as required by law, in favor of the company owners...stockholders...instead of, say giving money to save the whales or save us all from global warming.
I get it, the corporations buckle to the demands of the government grift. Why not stand up against it? Record what goes on and by whom. Throw the crooks under the bus, with full details of what is going on.
I’m seeing a lot of these type comments from Democrats on social media. A lot of them end with something along the lines of “I may lose friends, and I hate to say it, but I have to vote for Trump in November. The Democrat party doesn’t represent me anymore”.
The “Walk Away” videos are becoming more and more common.
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