The Only Way Democrats Might Win Back the White House

14 July 2025, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)

Right now, the net favorability of American voters regarding the Democratic Party (% favorable minus % unfavorable) is -21.6%, which indicates that the voters loathe it.

Right now, the net favorability of American voters regarding the Republican Party is -10.9%, which indicates that the voters dislike it.

The fact that all (in this case both) of a nation’s Parties are disliked indicates that the political system is no democracy, because in any authentic electoral democracy (if such a thing exists), the only Parties that are in serious contention to possibly win power would all have higher favorability than unfavorability (in other words: they’d have positive net-favorability), and the Party that is IN power (in this case the Republicans) would definitely have a net favorability that is considerably higher than zero. (Otherwise, what would such a ‘democratic’ political system even be about? If the net-favorability is below zero, then how would that Government actually be representing the public? It wouldn’t.) A country like that (below-zero net-favorability from its public) would be ruled by a Party that is overall disrespected by — opposed by — the citizenry. Furthermore, if that Party’s net favorability would be above zero but then go below zero, at least one of the competing Parties would have to have a positive net favorability, in order for there then to be a real democratic alternative to the in-power Party; and, so, such a political system would then provide authentic political competition, which is essential in order for an elections-based political system to BE a democracy. (Nobody else says any of this, but all of it is true.)

The Democratic Party came to be despised because (as would be expected in a fake democracy, a ’democracy’) it has long drastically failed its publicly-made electoral promises (which are NOT the secret promises it had made to its megadonors but are ONLY its publicly-made promises to the voters). In other words: the Democratic Party has been an extreme disappointment to its public. Regardless of whether that’s because its politicians were dishonest to the voters, or else were so stupid as to have believed that they would probably fulfill on those promises and that they knew how to fulfill on them (when they actually did not); decades of having promised but not delivered have made the Democratic Party extremely unwelcomed by the American people. Only that Party’s remaining “true believers” on the basis of faith NOT of performance, still approve of it, and still trust it (despite those many decades of non-performance on its publicly-made promises). That’s not enough to be able to win in a two-party ‘democracy’.

However, it MIGHT be enough to be able to win in a three-Party ‘democracy’; and this gives the Democratic Party — the Democratic National Committee or DNC — hope, because Elon Musk is now starting such a Third Party (“the America Party”), which could attract enough disaffected Republicans and disaffected Democrats so as to throw the coming elections either to the DNC representing its billionaire funders, or else to Musk and his group of billionaires (and away from the Republican Party’s other billionaires).

A brief history will therefore now be presented about how America’s billionaires first took over the U.S. Government (as now is the case) starting at around the year 1896: All Republican Presidents up till then had tried to do their best for the country; but, in 1896, William McKinley (Trump’s favorite President), who was led by the heir (through his marriage to the daughter of America’s largest independent producer of iron Daniel Pomeroy Rhodes) Marcus A. Hanna, who had been the longtime friend and protégé of John D. Rockefeller; and, so, that Party, the Republican Party, became taken over for Rockefeller and the other Republican billionaires, which it has remained ever since.

The Democratic Party, however, didn’t become taken over by its billionaires until its President Harry Truman on 25 July 1945 decided to start the Cold War (and America’s military-industrial complex) allegedly against communism, but actually for America’s billionaires to come ultimately to control the entire world; and that Party likewise has been controlled by its billionaires ever since (except for JFK).

It’s now essential, at this point, to document what a “political Party” legally IS in the United States:

On September 28th of 2023, America’s People’s Party headlined “Majority of Americans Support RFK Jr. Running as an Independent”, and reported:

The Democratic Party is a dead end for Kennedy’s campaign. An incumbent president has never lost a party primary. In 2017, the DNC stated in court that its presidential primaries are a charade and that it picks the nominees. It stated that, as a private corporation, it is under no obligation to be impartial or follow its own rules. The court upheld this argument.

Furthermore, the DNC and the Biden campaign are essentially the same entity. Biden appointed DNC Chair Jamie Harrison, who is shutting down debates and rearranging the primary schedule according to Biden’s wishes. In February, the entire DNC unanimously endorsed Biden. The president’s campaign dictates the rules of the primary and can change them at will. At the convention, the party can even choose a nominee who didn’t run in the primary, as it did in 1968. This means that even if Biden dropped out, the DNC would still install someone like Gavin Newsom [i.e., a Biden-clone — it turned out to have been Kamala Harris instead].

The Biden campaign is also the biggest donor to the DNC. Donations to the Biden Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committee with the DNC, financially sustain the party. It brings in hundreds of millions of dollars from big donors that flow to the DNC, all fifty state party organizations, and their vast array of staff, consulting firms, and vendors. The entire party ecosystem and everyone who profits from it would collapse if the party nominated Kennedy. This is why the party rigged the election against Bernie twice and why it will never choose RFK Jr. The party would rather lose with an establishment candidate who keeps the corporate money flowing than win with a populist.

In short: the DNC and RNC are private clubs, which select their own members, and only very few people are members; and both the DNC and RNC are extremely secretive organizations. For example, if you click onto Wikipedia’s article about the Democratic National Committee, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_National_Committee, at the present time, it doesn’t even say how many members the DNC has. However it links to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Democratic_National_Committee_chairmanship_election, which at the present time does say that back in 2017, there were “447 voting members of the DNC”. Those were the individuals who had made the decision to sabotage the candidacy of Senator Bernie Sanders for the Party’s Presidential nomination, in favor of appointing Hillary Clinton instead, becuse she was funded by many billionaires and Sanders was funded by none.

That People’s Party article was referring to this lawsuit against the DNC by supporters of Bernie Sanders who documented that their candidate had been cheated by the DNC out of delegates that he had won in primaries, and that the DNC had even “violated its charter, with staffers talking openly about how to” get Clinton nominated regardless of how Democrats in primaries and caucuses voted. But the Republican Ronald-Reagan-appointed judge ruled in favor of the DNC’s argument “that the party wasn't really bound by the votes cast in primaries or caucuses.” In other words: the DNC is a private club, and, as such, represents ONLY its members, regardless of what its charter says. The judge ruled that “the plaintiffs did not have standing” to sue the DNC; so, the complainants’ case against the DNC couldn’t even be so much as considered by a court. His ruling said, “the Court finds that the named Plaintiffs have not presented a case that is cognizable in federal court.” Of course, every American who votes in elections would want to know that this is so; but, if they did know it, then how many people in America would vote at all? Anyone who votes in the United States for ANY candidate of any Party should know about this case, in order to know what “the law” in this country is, regarding such matters — since it is core to American ‘democracy’). Why shouldn’t every registered voter in America be informed that this is so? And if they all should be informed, then could a law be passed saying that each polling-place must prominently display there a large poster saying “No voter in this country has a right for his/her vote to even be counted.”? Why not? (Maybe because the political megadonors wouldn’t like that?)

Anyway, back in 2017, there were “447 voting members of the DNC”. How small is the membership of the RNC? That likewise is a secret. But, again, there are indications of the answer.

At present, Wikipedia’s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_National_Committee says “As of 2011, the RNC has 168 members.^[8]”

It is generally believed that each of a Party’s members selects new members when an existing one (for whatever reason) becomes gone, but my Google-search for "How does a member of the DNC become replaced?” produced “Your search did not match any documents”; and my search for “How does a member of the RNC become replaced?” produced “No results found for "How does a member of the RNC become replaced?” So: both Committees are entirely secretive about how they function. Nonetheless, it is virtually universally recognized that for each Party, the function of a Member is to maximize the dollar-value of the donations to both the Party and its various agencies, such as its propaganda-agencies such as the ‘news’-media (by slanting its ‘news’-stories and by endorsing or not endorsing given candidates) (and, of course, by their corporations, which advertise in and thus also fund them), and by speaking with the Party’s megadonors and their agents in order to determine what their policy-priorities (the mega-donors’ policy-priorities) are. The Parties don’t represent the public, but they do represent their megadonors. (This has actually been empirically proven.)

What is being kept secret is the important facts; all the rest is in the news, and virtually all of it is in service to the billionaires, NOT to the public (though each Party pretends to the contrary).

I have proposed a replacement for this political system — a replacement of the competitive, Parties-based, elections-by-the-public — election-based ‘democracies’; so as to produce instead a democracy: a government that has the same policy-priorities as the public does. In other words: this would replace the U.S.-and-allied system of Governments, by authentic democracies. It would be done one country at a time, so as to tweak the details in my proposal to improve the results over time, in order to approach ever-closer to the ideal: countries whose policy-priorities are the same as the public’s policy-priorities. In other words: authentic democracies. Of course, that would boost the per-capita GDP PPPs while depressing the wealth of billionaires. (especially those who benefit the most from the existing system, which is rife with corruption). So: the movement for it would need to come 100% from the public, not at all from any billionaire (because they’re all hostile toward it — they have already demonstrated this). No problem will solve itself, especially not a problem that has been going on already for thousands of years. The public doesn’t yet know about this problem, but I do everything I can to inform the public about it, so that maybe progress can finally start.

Now, back again to the question of what would be the only way that the Democratic Party MIGHT be able to take back the White House: it would have to be done by means of Elon Musk’s becoming the spoiler in favor of the Democratic Party against the Republican Party, in a three-Party contest. Musk is just as far right-wing as the Republican Party is, and proved this not ONLY by his Nazi salute but ALSO (and even more convincingly, in my opinion) by his infamous “We will coup whoever we want. Deal with it.” Although that was said by him in response to someone who had objected to his using the U.S. Government to get him to take over Bolivia’s lithium for his Tesla cars, it was a general principle, which principle ‘justifies’ ANY coup by the U.S. Government, such as Obama did to Ukraine in 2014 and which had started the war there.

Consequently: IFF the DNC will pursue that path — help Musk to become a significant factor in this country’s Party-politics — it will become dependent upon him. This would also mean that the DNC would need to assist him to draw away more Republican-Party voters than Democratic-Party voters. Musk would need to draw off some of Trump’s own base of voting-support. He would need to become the DNC’s savior. I believe that the system that I have proposed as a replacement for this political system would be vastly better for the people of America. Obviously, the DNC would not agree with me on that (if they even CARE about the American people), and they possess enormous power, whereas I have none. Consequently, I expect them to become dependent upon Musk — not ONLY on the billionaires whom they have relied upon till now.

On July 8th I headlined “The Trump-led Republican Party is crashing into a wall, which will probably end that Party.” and presented reasons why I believe that the favorability rating of the Republican Party wil soon start a plunge from which that Party might go below the Democratic Party. I didn’t even mention there that the effects of Trump’s tariffs are already starting to show up in America’s retail prices — inflation will thus be soaring in America. Only liars and fools say any longer that the U.S. is a democracy.

Both of the existing political Parties continue to pump the lie that they are essential institutions of American democracy. For example, ABC News reported, on the morning of July 2nd, that the leadership of the U.S. House of ‘Representatives’ — all of whom are Republicans — said, about the Republican U.S. President’s tax-and-spend bill for the coming year, that “The American people gave us a clear mandate, and after four years of Democrat failure, we intend to deliver without delay,” his “Big Beautiful Bill” onto his desk, to sign into law. By “a clear mandate,” they were referring to the American people’s having been given a choice between the billionaires-funded Democratic National Committee’s (DNC’s) choices for President and for Congress, versus the billionaires-funded Republican National Committee’s (RNC’s) choices for President and for Congress, and chose the Republican billionaires’ choices, versus the Democratic billionaires’ choices. That’s what they meant by saying “The American people gave us a clear mandate.” It’s blatantly fake ‘democracy’, neither of the two Parties had had any mandate from, or represented, America’s voters, but the voters in both Parties still don’t know that.

Musk’s new Party might therefore even replace today’s Republican Party. Would that be any better than the existing one? Maybe it would be so bad that the DNC will remain a viable alternative. The entire system needs to be replaced.

This is how power works in the real world. Not political ‘theory’ (speculations, mere hypotheses — other people’s mere opinions) based on philosophers, but actual scientific political theory, which is derived ONLY from the existing real-world empirical data — in other words: this is the currently scientific theory — in the subject-area of politics. This is the way that politics has actually been done, up till now. And that is the system I’ve proposed a method to replace. To replace all of that by a different reality: authentic democracy.

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.