Coming up on my first year in Delaware, I’ve periodically visited the DelDems website and Facebook page. I’ve been looking for signs of life. I’ve called the Executive Director, who now appears to be gone, trying to get an appointment to learn what his going on, and come up with what we called in Texas, a dry hole. I’ve made fairly desperate attempts to contact Ward leadership to learn of meeting schedules and contacts. Nothing. Nada.
So, can anybody tell me what is going on, Democratic Party-wise? After working in Texas to breath life into our State Party there since about 2000, with local success in helping turn Houston Blue and but so much Blue statewide, you can only imagine how thrilled I was to move into a really Blue state here. I anticipated finding a vibrant, organizing and progressive and populist messaging Delaware Party. What I’ve found is pretty much nothing. And I’m wondering how Delaware turned Blue under these circumstances? Is there some genetic or innate Blueness I’ve just not figured out yet?
What appears to be happening is a tail wagging the dog; candidates and Dem officeholders driving the process, rather than a Party leading them, helping them, funding them, scolding stray dogs and speaking for the people telling leaders what we want and need from them. Now in Texas, what the tail wagging paradigm led to were elected leaders leading us into Republican Lite land, marching us off into oblivion and minority political status. Standing for nothing. No Party discipline, no Party organizing and money leaving Texas for far off places in search of better leadership for someone else, but not us.
I’m wondering if that is Delaware’s fate down the road? Is a dead DelDems web site and Facebook page conveying an underlying rot of apathy and absence of passion to improve our lot in life?