Are Democrats making a mistake?

[watoos]

68 Chapters of College Democrats are urging voters not to donate to the DCCC. These young people are some of the party's key organizers and activists, these people helped flip 40 House seats in 2018.

To make a long story short, the DCCC has changed its policy regarding incumbent Democrats. The DCCC is going to help incumbent Democrats in safe Democratic districts while shunning any challengers to them. We're talking about safe Democratic districts where a Democrat is going to get elected regardless.

My opinion is that if an incumbent is doing a good job and working hard he/she shouldn't fear a primary challenge. My opinion is that the DCCC is wasting money supporting incumbents in safe districts instead of spending that money in swing districts. JMO.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/05/college-democrats-protest-new-dccc-vendor-policy/588715/

[manor321]

1. IMHO, voters should only contribute directly to candidates

[lunatica]

2. If the author wants to eschew progressive agendas by going

backwards then by all means he should support the DCCC. Baby Boomers are the leaders of yesterday. Let’s show some gracefulness by acknowledging that the future demands a different kind of leadership. One that will have to live with the bad effects of global warming and the myriad of issues related to it long after we Boomers are dead and gone.

[Jake Stern]

4. Heard a boomer once tell a youngin' who was whining his vote didn't matter

"I'm gonna be dead in a few years so climate change won't effect me. I'm out here donating money and time for YOUR future".

[lunatica]

6. Exactly!

For me I have no descendants who will have to suffer because of climate change, yet I still care just as deeply as if I did have them.

[Jake Stern]

3. Always donate directly to the candidates and campaigns I support

That way I know the money is going to the candidate of my choice, not of theirs.

[PufPuf23]

5. +1 nt

[lunatica]

7. Me too

And they don’t have to be from my state only.

All the great candidates raising millions so fast aren’t getting that money from the DCCC. They don’t need to either.