(Congress Report) – A campaign operative within the Democratic Party announced that she would be making an exit from the party after volunteering to serve at the DNC last month, which she says left her feeling “disenchanted” with current leadership. You know, this sort of thing has been happening a whole lot lately. It’s almost like people are having their eyes opened to what the left really believes and what their end goals actually are.
A report from Fox News revealed that Evan Barker published an op-ed in Newsweek that describes her journey from helping Democrats raise “tens of millions of dollars” to putting major distance between herself and the party that she’s now convinced is “totally out of touch” with regular people.
At first, Barker said she was “thrilled” to volunteer for the DNC, which is where Vice President Kamala Harris accepted the presidential nomination.
“But once there, wandering amidst the glitz and glam, imbibing the gloss and schmaltz of it all, I couldn’t escape a sinking feeling. I felt submersed in a hollow chamber whose mottos were ‘Brat summer’ and ‘Joy’—totally out of touch with regular, every-day Americans and their pressing needs; instead, the most elite people in the world chanted in unison that ‘We’re not going back,'” Barker went on to say in the op-ed. “I found myself feeling disenchanted, lost, sad, and alone. As someone who has given her life to Democratic politics, it was devastating. But if I’m being honest, it wasn’t totally surprising.”
The campaign operative then gave a little detail about her backstory, saying she was raised in a family of blue-collar union Democrats that lived near Kansas City, which is a “long ways away from the glitz, glamor, and ostentatious wealth I’d become accustomed to seeing in and around Democratic politics.”
“Fast forward to today, and many of those same family members are no longer Democrats. They feel the party has changed, left them behind,” she remarked. “At the DNC, I couldn’t help but think about my family. Every time the elites chanted ‘We’re not going back,’ what I heard was, ‘We’re not going back to the party your union family members used to vote for.'”
This wasn’t something that just sort of happened out of the blue. Barker wrote that she had been feeling a growing sense of dissatisfaction with the Democratic Party for a while, but what she witnessed at the convention pushed her over the edge.
“When I went to the DNC last month, I was truly hoping to be re-inspired, to feel the same love for the party I felt as a teenager when I pounded the pavement for Barack Obama. I can still recall the immense joy I felt after he won, running into the street with hundreds of other people to dance to ‘Thriller,’” she noted in the article. “But instead of giving me back that feeling, the DNC was where it finally hit me: It’s impossible to unsee what I’ve seen. I can only go forward.”
With her work as a fundraising consultant for both Senate and House candidates, Barker received a close-up look at how things work deep inside the realm of politics. She got an eyeful of the darkness that dwells within that world, where she learned how to coddle high profile doors in order to get a fat check — trading money for influence in the government. We know this corruption goes on in Washington, and yet there is never any accountability for it.
“Here’s the thing about donors: They have niche policy issues they care about that seldom reflect the needs of people back home. Democrats love to decry money in politics when it comes to the Koch brothers or Elon Musk, but the billionaires who support Democrats are given a total pass and have a huge influence over policy,” Barker explained. “At first, I naively thought the system was broken. But now I realize, it isn’t broken; it’s doing what it was designed to do, which is to keep working-class people from true representation. That is the point, a feature, not a bug.”
“Perhaps the most shocking of all is how the Democrats have embraced Bush-era foreign policy to become the party of war. Instead of rebuilding the working class communities that have been hit hardest by their neoliberal trade policies, they’ve spent $175 billion funding the war in Ukraine,” Barker stated in her piece.
Barker concluded her op-ed by writing, “Here’s the sad truth: The Democratic Party has lost its way entirely. They mostly speak to the college educated, the urban and affluent, in their language. Their tone is condescending and paternalistic,” she penned. “They peddle giveaways to the college-educated like student loan forgiveness plans that disproportionately help their base, snubbing the majority of the country without a four-year degree, and then offer no tangible plans for true reform.”
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Too bad no one on MSNBC, ABC, NBC and maybe CBS and CNN, will not show this. So, the people that have been lying and hiding to the Democrat voters (their viewers) will continue their march towards Marxist Tyranny.
I doubt very much if she is the only Democrat supporter who is having 2nd thoughts.