Democratic voters express intense dissatisfaction with party leadership, calling them spineless, sellouts, and incompetent. They praise progressive leaders like Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders for clear messaging and action. Voters overwhelmingly choose progressive over moderate candidates. How can Democratic leaders ignore this anger and continue to cling to power? #ProgressiveLeadership #DemocraticParty #PoliticalChange

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/43473370

Feb 18, 2026

The newspaper spoke to 13 Democratic and independent voters including retirees from Indiana and Michigan, working people from states such as North Carolina and Nevada, and an unemployed voter from Iowa. The topic of discussion was the participants’ frustrations with the Democratic Party as it faces the Trump administration and the president’s aggressive deployment of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) across the country.

“Spineless” was one word a participant had for the Democratic Party when asked to describe it. Another said the party appears “paralyzed” while a 46-year-old Latina woman from Nevada said Democrats in Congress are “sellouts and suckers.”

  • AmidFuror@fedia.io
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    13 hours ago

    I was looking for information about how the group was selected. It’s not in the Common Dreams article.

    Common Dreams seems to be right up there with Jacobin and WSWS for unbiased news reporting. It’s one of the most commonly cited on Pravda News.

    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      Ditto. That was my first question as well. Who was recruited?

      Then I realized, that question is irrelevant, because little qualitative studies like this are not supposed to answer broad questions like this.

      I imagine there is no malicious intent here. The author likely doesn’t have a background in research and doesn’t understand what information you can reliably pull from a focus group.

      • AmidFuror@fedia.io
        2·
        2 hours ago

        The author may be ignorant, but they probably spend a lot of time looking for stories that support the narrative they’re trying to push, and this is just another example.