Vox wonders if Obama's personal success is covering up that the Democratic Party as a whole is really fucked up right now:
http://www.vox.com/2015/10/19/9565119/democrats-in-deep-trouble
70% of state legislators are Republican :/
This is what happens when you have land vote and not people.
The country has more democrats, more people tend to vote for democrats. But we have a system that mandates that we draw districts that overlap. This allows voter disenfranchisement, and outsized influence. Economic liberalism isn't coming back in a major way unless the country changes its voting or districting system (multimember districts, at-large) there's not much the party can do.
That being said he also ignores how Dems run pretty much every major city which can set a progressive agenda. Look at the places raising minimum wage. Or New York's expansion of family leave.
Of course because they control the states, they try to role this back which is disgusting. Because it further highlights this disproportionate control rural interests have.
Dems more than creating some grand electoral plan should start but building coherent policy proposals on the local and state level, its got to be more than just raise taxes and spending. They need to really start to find ways for spending to, in Machiavellian terms, capture local interests.
Unlike what many on the internet think the GOPs electoral power has been their capture of local and regional interests, not really just wall street and billionares. The people who own car dealerships, who have a few restaurants, own small businesses. This is who their state level policies are targeting, the dems need to steal this support base and not just the urban elite. These are the people who respond to the regulation stuff. Dems need to be in the business of not getting out of the way but actively supporting these businesses.
