What Makes the Working Families Party Work?

Now, so you've probably been following all the The hand wringing about the state of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.

God knows what's what's happened over there.

But Democratic Party feels like, well, you know, we should do better.

We're Democrats.

And there's been this botched autopsy report.

So When you read the news about the foibles and failures of the Democratic Party, how do you react? How do you think about the Democratic Party? Is it just a lost cause or can it be saved? And how should we think about the state of our political parties more broadly?

Well, you know, Lee, I really like your metaphor about parties as like the infrastructure of democracy.

And I think at the moment, I think the Democratic Party is like a road with a lot of potholes.

So it's not really working great.

And for me, I think, well, it's increasing democracy.

struggling to get into office.

That might be a little unfair since it also has some disadvantages in that regard.

And it is failing to deliver in important ways that I'm sure people on this podcast have heard at length, but from healthcare and wages and Gas prices, although that's not their problem.

No, not their problem now, but it will be when we have the next turn.

But it's got a last mile problem, as many roads do, if it's just all potholes.

But

roads can be repaired.

You know, like we could have repair season for our Democratic Party.

Yeah, but that's work.

We could just send out fundraising texts, right, to help us repair the roads.

We need your $5 before midnight.

So there are a lot of people who say everything, what's wrong with parties, parties are hollow, parties are broken.

And we sort of take this model of our broken parties as just sort of, oh, that's just how parties are.

They're awful.

But you have a different model of what a political party can be.