Tell the DNC what you think of today's Democratic Party via this link!

[DailyGrind51]

The DNC wants to hear your candid opinions!


We need to hear from you as we shape the direction of the Democratic Party.

So we put together a survey to get your thoughts. It will only take a few minutes, and it's a great way to make your voice heard.

Can you take a second to share your feedback?

Your voice and commitment are part of how we elected President Obama. And they are the reason we'll be successful in making his vision a reality.

Click here to fill out the survey now:

http://my.democrats.org/DemSurvey

Thanks for your work and your feedback,

Jen

Jen O'Malley Dillon
Executive Director
Democratic National Committee

[City Lights]

1. I gave them an earful.

:evilgrin:

Thanks for the link.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

4. Me too. This needs to go viral.

[DailyGrind51]

65. I'm attempting to keep this one "alive" to give the DNC the DU "vote".

[DailyGrind51]

5. Thank you, I gave them an earful also, but they really need to hear it.

[FrenchieCat]

2. I told them to continue fighting the asshole Republicans,

and the media at every turn. Told them that the GOP/Media are the people's enemies,
and that the DNC and other Democratic organizations
are the only ones standing between our eventual serfdom
and the corporations, so they are gonnna have to stand for us.

Then I gave them a donation.....cause I know that I don't need
to cut off my nose to spite my face.....I'm frustrated,
but I'm not angry enough to have forgotten what Republicans winning will mean
to me....and it ain't close to good; in fact, the GOP stands for everything
I don't want to see happen.

Thanks for the Link! :hi:

[DailyGrind51]

54. Thank you for responding to it! I hope everyone visting DU takes the survey!

[Cleita]

3. Oh Gawd! You really don't want me to but I will.

I don't know why they bother because they don't listen to us regardless.

[DailyGrind51]

6. They need to receive as much criticism as they can stomach.

I gave it to 'em with "both barrels" and so should you!

[Cleita]

7. I did. I told them that I didn't like belonging to a

party that today is politically to the right of Eisenhower.

[DailyGrind51]

9. Thank you! (nt)

[me b zola]

15. That's it in a nutshell

Todays Democratic Party reflects yesterday's republican party.

[canoeist52]

8. I told them how I felt- but do the really read these polls?

I told them Democrats are fighting progressive agenda and passing Republican-lite legislation.

[DailyGrind51]

20. This survey should have gone out last summer, AND I should not have been the only one on this board

who seems to have received it in my "in-box". EVERYONE who ever signed a petition promoted on this board should have received this survey!

[Poboy]

10. Ah, that felt good.

Thats about the only reason to do this, to vent. It'll be ignored, which is why all my donations go to DFA, ActBlue, MoveOn, etc. these days.

[Buns_of_Fire]

11. I did it. I gave them my 1.6 centavos {adjusted for inflation)..

I asked why they didn't fight back (giving props to Alan Grayson). I told them that I know what the party USED to stand for -- but that I'm not so sure anymore.

And I'm just as sure that -- outside of my email address -- it'll all be ignored and consigned to the bitbucket.

[asdjrocky]

12. I told them-

How would you describe the current political climate?

The Democratic Party, along with President Obama have totally blown a lifetime opportunity. This survey is a perfect example of how far out of touch the party that I was a part of for 32 years has become. Where is the poor group for who people identify with? The homeless group? They don't exist, right?

I do see that you cater to Business Owners and young professionals. Good move Dems! The good Lord knows, business owners are not represented enough by both the Democratic Party and the Republicans. You do understand that I'm being sardonic, right?

Health CARE Reform, not Health Ins. Reform.

Real reform on Wall Street, not a slap on the wrist.

Real reform on NAFTA and the Patriot Act.

Real civil rights for all Americans, including the LGBT community.

This is not coming form just some angry 50 year old, I'm for real. I've volunteered, I've given money to Democratic candidates, I even traveled to Iowa in 2007 to support a Democratic candidate.

I considered myself a real political activist.

No more Dems. The way I see it, the election is in a couple of months, go ahead and wow me. If I don't see some real concrete action and change by November, I will no longer be a Democrat.

What do you believe the Democratic Party stands for?

I don't know any more. Slightly less assholish than the republicans?

[angels81]

13. I hope they listen

The Democratic party has done nothing but cave to the right wing on every issue this session of congress. I give the right credit, they may lie, cheat and steal to make their points, but they stick together and follow threw. Democrats are so weak, they can't even call the rethugs on their lies, let alone fight for what they know is right.

Democrats have almost done more to damage the President then rethugs could have done in their wildest dreams. Democrats have caved on, healthcare, wallstreet, jobs, bush tax cuts, DADT and that's just part of the list. Threw their lack to stand up to anything, they have thrown the base that got Obama elected under the bus. They had better wake up soon, before its to late, if it isn't already.

[me b zola]

LOL, I guess maybe they have been getting an earful and wanted to quantify our dissatisfaction

The other day someone from the local Democratic Party called me and asked if I'd be willing to knock on doors for them. I told him no and he asked me why not. Well, there are things that I wished that I had told him but was fairly satisfied with my answer of "you guys are enacting policies first proposed by republicans a number of years ago. If, when I was coming of age, I had thought that the republicans had good ideas I would have become a republican." My rant went on for a few minutes telling them of how I was tired of them capitulating to the right and cowering from idiotic statements made by republicans instead of explaining why Democratic ideas have worked in the past and why they are the best way to go now.

I can't help but wonder how many other former foot soldiers are declining to work for them.

[me b zola]

14. Dupe/delete

[X_Digger]

16. Not that it"ll do any good..

but if anyone reads my comments, they better have asbestos gloves.

[LWolf]

27. They'll need them for mine, too. nt

[socialist_n_TN]

61. And mine......

I basically told them I was a Dem (in the past) because of the ideals of the Party Platform. Then I suggested that they READ the damn thing.

[Chan790]

17. I fear I'll be dismissed as a loon.

I mean advocating for them to actually stand up for the people, defend the civil rights of all Americans, stop kissing Wall St. ass and shipping jobs overseas. I'm a royal fruitcake.

Asking where all the street-fighting champions of the American people went? (Because they're not in our party leadership) Positing a philosophy of WWTKS. (What would Ted Kennedy Support?) I'm clearly some sort of dinosaur who thinks we're the party of the worker and the oppressed.

[me b zola]

18. There is a reason that they have put out this questionnaire

My guess is that they want to quantify--and qualify--all of the dissatisfaction among life-long Dems. You really should take the time to do it. :hi:

[DailyGrind51]

19. You're damn right, and thank you for reinforcing that point!

[Chan790]

21. I did do it.

Then I came back to DU and summarized what I told them. That they suck and have lost sight of their core constituency.

Edit: The post you referred to was posted after I answered their questionnaire. I was accusing them of likely dismissing my opinions because it's not what they want to hear.

[me b zola]

22. I really do understand

--and that was part of my response to them, alienating life-long DP voters by not only enacting republican policies, but by mocking & dismissing us. :hi:

[philly_bob]

23. Insulting questionnaire. Shows they still don't get it. We're just Sheeple.

Ranking vague categories like "Education reform." How do I mark questionaire when I think you guys are doing it all wrong.

Health care reform, eh? Perhaps you'd like to find out how many feel betrayed by your sell-out of Public Option promises. Doesn't appear on questionnaire.

This is just a way of getting email addresses for 2010 election fund-raising.

[Chan790]

24. That annoyed me too.

My email address was :[e-mail]

[EFerrari]

25. Yep. n/t

[DailyGrind51]

28. Maybe, I should have just given them the link to this board?

It appears they never read it.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

31. You noticed that too?

Also, the biggest issue completely missing from thet survey? The wars. Shows you how serious they aren't.

[Radical Activist]

37. It's only there to get people's email address

so they can mail crap and solicit donations.

[DireStrike]

40. No, not health care reform

It was health INSURANCE reform.

Gag.

[DailyGrind51]

63. It wasn't even that, since premiums are escalating NOW, while pre-existing exclusions will not cease

until 2014!

[mitchtv]

64. as usual ther was no mention of Gay rights

with homophobe Tim Kaine we don't exist

[Sebastian Doyle]

26. I was brutally honest with them.

Pretty much spelled out all the failure of this party in recent years. Except for the time that there was actual LEADERSHIP in charge. (Howard Dean, of course)

[DailyGrind51]

33. I told them that they had anemic leadership in Washington and self-serving leadership locally.

I live in Illinois where "we" are going bankrupt, while out House Speaker and Senate President enrich themselves and their friends.

[hobbit709]

29. I said that they need to move left back to the Republican platform of 1956.

I am a Democrat because there is no viable Socialist Party in the US.

[philly_bob]

53. You got me curious. Here's a link to article about Republican 1956 platform

http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2010/02/the_1956_republican_party_plat.php

Comments section include link to 1956 Democratic platform and a discussion among social scientists about party identity.

In those 1956 platforms, both parties called for passage of Equal Rights for Women -- but ERA failed!?!

[Hell Hath No Fury]

30. Oh boy that felt good!

I suspect this "survey" is really only about getting new emails addresses to solicit but it was nice to voice my disgust with where the Party has headed and the bad policies currently being implimented.

[hobbit709]

32. First begging email makes my spam list.

Amazing how that cuts down the size of your inbox.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

35. I flat out told them I would be deleting/unsubscribing ---

any emails the survey generated from them. :D

[DailyGrind51]

38. I received a solicitation letter from the DNC over the signature of a IL Party boss,

largely responsible for the financial mess this state is in, as well as shifting the property tax burden from large corporations to small home owners and store front businesses. And, I'm supposed to send a check to this guy?

[tbyg52]

66. Do what I do - send it back with a piece of your mind. nt

[donco6]

34. Agent Mike should be showing up on my door any minute. n/t

[laylah]

36. Done and they aren't going to like it.

When asked why am I a democrat, I responded with I no longer know. It's true, I don't recognize the party of my family for generations. Maybe, just MAYBE, if they even read the responses, they will get a clue.

Jenn

[DireStrike]

39. "What do you believe the democratic party stands for?"

My reply: Victory in elections.

[laylah]

41. I responded that I USED to know

what it stood for, anymore, I haven't a clue.

[progressoid]

57. Corporate reach arounds?

[bluethruandthru]

42. Thanks for the link. We should all do this.

They may or may not take notice, but it doesn't hurt to try!

[UTUSN]

43. Fwiw, did it but don't expect to be heard

As I said in the Progressives' thread that complained they are only courted now for votes in an election year: Heck, I'm a Big Umbrella/moderate-Left type who has NEVER been listened to!1

So in this survey I said:

* That what the party stands for is more like, what DID it USED TO stand for: Social justice, civil right, voting equality, civil liberties, taking care of the poor and incapacitated.

* That TODAY it seems to stand for Money about as much as the Rethugs do.

* That I don't feel listened to.


So. Yawn.

[gizmonic]

46. Not listening to us is what they do best. nt

:shrug:

[ibegurpard]

44. this is just a way to get emails to solicit donations

they aren't going to pay any attention to what you have to say.

[progressoid]

58. Yep - I got the same "survey" in the mail a couple months ago.

Of course it came with a big denotation request.

I vented my spleen and sent it back but I doubt it will make any difference.

[gizmonic]

45. FWIW, I went ahead and answered but it'll probably be ignored

:shrug:

Here's what I wrote:

"What do you believe the Democratic Party stands for?"

I know what it *used* to stand for but not anymore. The Democrats have done nothing but capitulate to the Republicans time and again.

There are a some Democrats who are actually fighting for us (Betty Sutton, Sherrod Brown, Al Franken, Anthony Weiner, Alan Grayson, Dennis Kucinich, Howard Dean), to name a few, but they are few and far between. The rest of the party, including its leadership, is just shameful and embarrassing.

I'm angry because I've spent the better part of 20 years supporting, volunteering, GOTV, donating and voting for the Democrats, even becoming a US citizen so I could vote for Bill Clinton, and it got me nowhere.

Honestly, if I had known 20 years ago that the Democrats would be spineless, toothless and ineffectual with a majority in ALL THREE branches of government, I would not have wasted my time and money on them. A bad investment indeed.

"Why are you a Democrat?"

I'm not anymore. The Democratic party left me. I live in a state where I have to identify party affiliation and I'm sure as hell not going to vote or identify myself as Republican. So I'm stuck with the lesser of two evils.

Don't bother contacting me for any donations, volunteering, etc., those days are in the past for me. Why should I work for you when you don't even work for us? I'd rather donate my time and money towards promoting real progressive ideals and candidates, not the hollow promises made to me by the Democratic party.

[ccinamon]

48. +1 .....n/t

[mod mom]

47. Got an ear full from me as well. I let them know I refused

my usual party based volunteering & support and have decided to put my efforts/financial support towards my children's schools & environmental causes.

[DailyGrind51]

49. Your specific response is more powerful than you might realize!

You let them know that you are attending to your priorities because they are either unwilling or unable to address them. Time is too precious to waste on people who fail to support the platform that got them elected.

[mod mom]

62. My guess is they won't even read it but I did let let know more directly

because I got a request to volunteer directly from my state's director of voter protection, whom I had volunteered with before and after I let her know with specific reasons as too why, she said she understood.

[DailyGrind51]

67. The DNC seems clueless about what is happening locally!

The guy chairing the Party in IL, for example, has spent 40 years in the State legislature, exacerbating the financial mess the State is in.

[Lugnut]

50. K&R n/t

[DailyGrind51]

68. What do people think, post Gibbs' statement?

[Safetykitten]

51. Love the "Issues" thing. Gay Rights is under "other" I guess.

[DailyGrind51]

52. They needed to hear your frustration.

[Catherina]

59. No mention of the wars either. n/t

[Catherina]

55. Oh they heard from me. They're not going to like it but I said what I had to say

and gave them an earful for their push poll explaining that even though I care about those issues, they manipulate the results to support whatever corrupt corporate agenda they're pursuing because they put profit over people and stab progressives in the back every single time. I angrily pointed out that they need to "END THE FUCKING WARS" before I ever again entertain lifting a single finger for them.

I also told them that I'd been very foolish to let Obama fool me once and I won't fooled again.

My comments ended with "Shame on you".

Shame on them.

[DailyGrind51]

56. Exactly! If the DNC had been willing to lead, "we" would have been willing to support them.

[Catherina]

60. I was more elaborate in my reply

I brought that up too. They stab us in the back at every turn and then send out a push poll they can post on their "how best to support the corporations we love" wall.