Malcolm Kenyatta says David Hogg is distorting DNC decision

Fuck that. Hogg is trying to shake up the DNC and make them relevant and responsive to constituents, and the party apparatchik is trying to resist. Fuck them.
- National parties shouldn't exist. National parties will never represent local interests. Which is what these Representatives should be representing.
  
  How do you stop them from existing? "Hey, how about the [x+1] of us work together on the things we can agree on so we can outvote the people who don't agree with us" is a winning strategy people are going to pursue if there isn't a rule against it, but it's hard to create effective rules against that sort of thing without blowing up the whole right to free association.
- Hogg isn't trying to shake up the DNC, he's trying to get anti-gun candidates to win primaries. That's the end of it. He has no real interest outside that, and when those candidates lose the general election to Republican opponents he will get real quiet all of a sudden.
  
  His plan was to run progressives, progressives that value and are willing to talk about and advance for gun control, which again correct me if I'm wrong, something that Democrats I thought was also for, in those gerrymandered Democratic safe areas so are you implying that Democrats wouldn't vote for a progressive?
  
  He's trying to get younger candidates in to replace the fossils who can barely check a ballot box with their arthritic, cancer-ridden fingers.
  
  I don't think anti-gun candidates have had much trouble winning Democratic party primaries before now or that there wouldn't be the votes for some kind of gun control measure in any Democratic congressional majority

The DNC is corrupt af.
You can tell because they're pushing out the new blood who actually wanted to win elections, not just collect cash.

I never understood the problem with what Hogg is doing. No politician should ever think their seat is safe. Every primary should be contested. If the incumbant is doing a good job, they will win, and the party gets behind them. But if the incumbent loses a primary, then they were probably not doing a good job to begin with.
What's wrong with that?
- The problem is that the human trash in the Democratic Party want to sit on their fat asses and take bribes while doing nothing for the people.
- Running for local, state, or congress sucks balls. You're basically a beggar, you have almost no power, you are beholden to your sponsors and party leadership, and you're expected to work long hours campaigning for shit you barely care about while pet issues get lost in the shuffle. Most of your time is on the phone making promises you won't keep to people who don't believe you. The rest of your time is spent in transit. Everyone hates you, you're surrounded by morons, and if you can't even sneeze on camera without your opponents posting the ugly sneeze face photo on twitter.
  Basically, the DNC has to beg candidates to keep them around. One reward they like to dangle is support from the national committee. Blocking primary challengers helps the candidate save some cash make makes their re-election seem inevitable. It's a massive weight off, especially for younger politicians with few fonnections and fewer leverage options.
  Is it right? Fuck no. I agree with you completely. But I can certainly understand why, if I were st the top of that ant hill, I wouldn't want climbers to get a foothold, either.
- I could see the logic being that you'd end up spending a lot of money and resources on primaries that could be used in the general, but that's obviously only a problem because money in politics is a huge issue to begin with.
  I'd still argue that the upsides (candidates that better represent the electorate, keeping the incumbents on their toes, ...) outweigh the downsides in that regard.

My cynical take.
If we are to take this at face value that the complaint was filled in February, then I believe they were not taking it seriously until after Hogg's move.
It should not take two and a half months to decide to address flaws in an election unless the organization is completely dysfunctional.
- I have bad news about the DNC being a functional organization. There’s a reason Obama setup a whole separate organization and actually won. Neera Tanden runs the Center for American Progress again despite fucking it up last time and everyone they put on TV is somehow the least charismatic 75 year-old centrist in the entire caucus who just says whatever.
  The DNC and entire Democrat establishment could just not exist and more Democrats would get elected. Their learned helplessness expired in like 2003 and they’re still putting it in their coffee as if nothing went sour.

I find Kenyatta’s comments to be pretty disingenuous, to be honest. He talks about how important it is that everything have the same source of truth, but then says shit like this:
“We’re not for the incumbents; we’re also not for the challengers,” he said. “We are for listening to our voters who make the decisions about who they want our nominees to be.”
That’s just laughably untrue. The DNC has almost always favored incumbents and establishment candidates, that’s why it’s so incredibly unpopular and why most Democrats don’t believe it represents their actual values.
“You look at every story that’s written about this, and it’s, ‘Oh, my gosh, the party is doing this to David.’”
No, I haven’t seen that narrative anywhere. What I have seen is a lot of disillusioned leftists pissed off on Hoggs’s behalf because of the intra-party double standard he has helped expose. Kenyatta harps about how unhelpful all the infighting is while he contributes to the infighting.

“But what we’re not for is putting our finger on the scale.”
The absolute gall.

Dem's continue the infighting apace...
Rather than coalescing actions and messaging around the fucking important fight which is attempting to save what remains of US democracy.
Dems will not help/save us. We are on our own.
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As a life long democrat this is why I hate our party. They don’t want to change and would rather fight among themselves and wonder why tf they lost every time.
I hate saying it too but feel the right is more open to younger generations the DNC needs to step up their fucking game

This couldn’t be more predictable or more obviously bullshit. The DNC is insistent on being villains. That’s fine. I’m with Hogg, I have primary contests in my district, I will be beating my feet for true progressives and there’s nothing the fucking DNC can do to stop me.