The Democratic Party must fend off extremes and hold on to responsible, center-left politics.

View this email in your browser ([link removed])
[link removed]
[link removed]
[link removed]


** Can the Democrats Save Our Democracy? ([link removed])
The Democratic Party must fend off extremes and hold on to responsible, center-left politics.
by Will Marshall, PPI President
for American Purpose ([link removed])
------------------------------------------------------------

Ideologues of all stripes are perennially frustrated with America’s two-party “duopoly.” They say it stifles voices of radical reform, fails to offer voters meaningful choices, and delivers only tepid incrementalism. Many yearn for the doctrinal coherence and discipline shown by parties in Europe, where multiparty systems are the rule.

Whatever the merits of these complaints, it’s true that America’s two-party system seems immutably entrenched. Third parties come and go; but except for the Republicans in the 1850s, none has succeeded in supplanting either of the two major parties—and it took the Civil War to make that happen.

Most U.S. voters reasonably figure that if they want their vote to count, they’d better line up with Democrats or Republicans. As duopoly critics note, that arrangement doesn’t give the public an ideological choice, since both parties normally offer variations on America’s classically liberal creed. But party allegiance isn’t strictly a matter of intellectual conviction; it’s also influenced by sectional, family, ethnic, class, and religious ties.
READ THE FULL PIECE ([link removed])
[link removed] Share ([link removed])
[link removed]: https%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanpurpose.com%2Farticles%2Fcan-the-democrats-save-our-democracy%2F Tweet ([link removed]: https%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanpurpose.com%2Farticles%2Fcan-the-democrats-save-our-democracy%2F)
[link removed] Forward ([link removed])

============================================================
** Facebook ([link removed])
** Twitter ([link removed])
** Website ([link removed])
** Medium ([link removed])
** LinkedIn ([link removed])
Copyright © 2021 Progressive Policy Institute, All rights reserved.
You are receiving this email because you opted in to programming.

Our mailing address is:
Progressive Policy Institute
1156 15th Street NW
Ste 400
Washington, DC xxxxxx
USA
Want to change how you receive these emails?
You can ** update your preferences ([link removed])
or ** unsubscribe from this list ([link removed])
.
Email Marketing Powered by Mailchimp
[link removed]