{"id":339055,"date":"2017-12-12T10:26:35","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T09:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/national-democrats-resist-reforms-consortiumnews\/"},"modified":"2017-12-12T10:26:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T09:26:35","slug":"national-democrats-resist-reforms-consortiumnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/national-democrats-resist-reforms-consortiumnews\/","title":{"rendered":"National Democrats Resist Reforms \u2013 Consortiumnews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Still refusing to face why Donald Trump and the Republicans won in 2016, the national Democratic Party rebuffs proposals from progressives to make the party more democratic and less corporate-dominated, writes Norman Solomon.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-25247\"\/>By Norman Solomon<\/p>\n<p>With the Democratic Party\u2019s \u201cUnity Reform Commission\u201d now history, major political forces are entering a new stage of contention over the future of the party. Seven months after the commission\u2019s first meeting \u2014 and nine months after Hillary Clinton backer Tom Perez won a close election over Bernie Sanders supporter Keith Ellison to become chair of the Democratic National Committee \u2014 the battle lines are coming into focus for next year.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17132\" style=\"max-width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/2016-01-18t12-04-30-766z-1280x720.nbcnews-ux-1080-600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2016-01-18t12-04-30-766z-1280x720.nbcnews-ux-1080-600-300x169.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17132\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\"  \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17132\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2016-01-18t12-04-30-766z-1280x720.nbcnews-ux-1080-600-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\"  \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders during a 2016 Democratic presidential debate . (NBC photo)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The commission\u2019s final meeting adjourned on Saturday after a few steps toward democratizing the party had won approval \u2014 due to the grassroots strength of progressives. But the recommendations from the commission will go to the Rules and Bylaws Committee, which was one of the DNC decision-making bodies that Perez subjected to a purge two months ago. Now, in the words of Jim Zogby (who was removed from the Executive Committee by Perez), \u201cThere are virtually no Bernie supporters on the Rules and Bylaws Committee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When the latest Unity Reform Commission meeting got underway, Perez talked a lot about unity. But kicking Sanders supporters off of key DNC committees is the ugly underside of an ongoing dual discourse. (Are we supposed to believe Perez\u2019s soothing words or our own eyes?) And party unity behind a failed approach \u2014 internally undemocratic and politically hitched to corporate wagons \u2014 would hardly be auspicious.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmerging sectors of the electorate are compelling the Democratic Party to come to terms with adamant grassroots rejection of economic injustice, institutionalized racism, gender inequality, environmental destruction and corporate domination,\u201d says the recent report \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.democraticautopsy.org\/\">Autopsy: The Democratic Party in Crisis<\/a>\u201d (which I co-authored). The report adds: \u201cSiding with the people who constitute the base isn\u2019t truly&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2017\/12\/11\/national-democrats-resist-reforms\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still refusing to face why Donald Trump and the Republicans won in 2016, the national Democratic Party rebuffs proposals from progressives to make the party more democratic and less corporate-dominated, writes Norman Solomon. By Norman Solomon With the Democratic Party\u2019s \u201cUnity Reform Commission\u201d now history, major political forces are entering a new stage of contention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-339055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}