A lot of attention has been given to the grassroots vs. establishment political battle in California this weekend, but an event that is more representative of the current state of the Democratic Party happened this week in Broward County, Florida.



Last night, the party's new second-in-command, Sally Boynton Brown, spoke in front of the Democratic Progressive Caucus of Broward County. And throughout the exchange, she steadfastly refused to commit to changing the party's economic or health-care messaging in any concrete way.

"This is not going to be popular, but this is my belief of the time and place we're in now: I believe that we're in a place where it's very hard to get voters excited about 'issues,' the type of voters that are not voting," Brown said...

How important is it for candidates to concentrate on "issues" like health care or economic equality, one audience member asked. Her answer? Not very. She said candidates moving forward should focus on "identity messages" instead, which she didn't actually define.

Later in the meeting, she then said that people who are struggling to make ends meet — and often decline to vote because they say it doesn't matter — do not vote based on "issues" they care about and instead vote because they are "emotional beings."

It's one thing to show contempt for Republican voters. It's another thing to show contempt for your own party base.

But telling your party's voters that they are emotional children who are too stupid to understand the issues right to their faces is taking elitism to a whole 'nuther level.

Is it any wonder why the Florida Democratic Party is so pathetic and useless?

Just in the past month polls have shown that 2/3rd of Americans believe the Democratic Party is out-of-touch.

Even the Dems own internal polls show that voters think Democrats’ economic policies will favor the wealthy.



While Brown was belittling the concerns of Florida progressives, purple state voters in seven cities in Iowa were protesting for Medicare-for-all. This mass protest was done outside of the Democratic Party, which has decided to fight for Obamacare even while it implodes rather than fight for a health care solution.

Is it any wonder why Democratic voters are walking away from the party since the election?





Those former Democratic voters are increasingly identifying as independents, who in turn are increasingly viewing the Democratic Party negatively.





Whatever the Dems have done since the catastrophic election, whether it is the McResistance, or the doubling-down on identity politics, while ignoring the issues of the struggling working class and white men in particular, it's making a bad political situation even worse.

At this rate the Dems will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in 2018 yet again.