538: What the rise of Kamala Harris tells us about the Democratic Party

[Hortensis]

46. It's not a new model at all. It IS the Democratic Party.

Icaria, the Democratic Party is already made up of the many cooperating factions you describe. Our party membership represents every interest in our highly diverse nation -- except wealthy anti-progressive/anti-liberal forces and those white people who are opposed to diversity itself.

-- And except those who are politically involved but reject the grand coalition that is the Democratic Party. Inability to respect the views of others enough to cooperate and compromise is a defining characteristic of most of these people. They don't recognize compromise as admirable but rather see it as proof of lack of principle, weakness of purpose, and of course corruption.

Thus they reject at the party level the cooperation between many groups with competing goals that is the very essence of democracy. That's the #1 reason most are outside the coalition.

(Btw, Icaria, your first sentence ("The two party system is horrible." ) seems to be in direct conflict with your rosy picture of persuading third party people to join one of the two parties. Perhaps you need to reconcile your beliefs with your goal or choose a new goal?)