[Political Party] The Democratic Party of the United States

Name of Party: The Democratic Party

Nickname(s): The Dems, the Demonrat Party, The Party of Jackson

What the Nickname(s) Should Be: The Confederacy of Dunces, The Coalition of Not Republicans, The Beige Alert Party

Symbol: The Donkey

What the Symbol Should Be: A Bucket of Cold Oatmeal

Lying Quotient: 50% Lying

Semantics Quotient: High (All members and factions will tango with words for broken promises or meaningless diatribe making them impossible to relate to)

Social Arc: Slightly Left of Center

Fiscal Arc: Slightly Right of Center

Actual Social Arc: Risk Averse Centrists

Actual Fiscal Arc: Schizophrenic Centrists

Actual Commitment to Democracy: Moderately High

Well Known Leaders: Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer

Well Known Attempted Leaders: Joe Biden

Factions: Progressives, Liberals, Leftists, Corporate Democrats, The Confederation of Identities, Unions, Exiled Republicans

Short: The Democratic Party is a big tent with a dozen patches slapped over it to keep the rain out that stands for the bare minimum to be viably elected and not replaced by another more functional party.

Medium: The Democratic Party is Inept where the Republicans are Psychotic; they never met a plan that they couldnt screw up and turn into a chance for more shallow commitments and meetings.  They are largely still around due to the faulty nature of the 1789 Constitution which makes America a default two party state.  The Party caters to the loudest special interests and in the last few years has turned into a genertocracy that completely ignores the value of the youth vote whilst utterly ignoring it in terms of actual policy.

Maximum Verbosity: Tribal Democrats will howl at attempts to tell the truth about the Republican Party and consider it a violation of the Holy Democratic Charter to dare to criticize a party in any way.  Their mantra is "Vote Blue No Matter Who" whilst never actually putting any pressure on the Holy Leaders.  These people secretly look at the Tribal Loyalty of the Republicans and Wish Democrats were more loyal to each other and firmly believe that the constitution is fine the way it is and by simply believing high enough in voter turn out that things will eventually work out and that the arc of justice will do their bidding due to positive thought and pixie dust.

Will Rogers once said, "I don't belong to an Organized Political party...I'm a democrat" and this was in the middle of the 20th century when the party had a mandate to reform America in the New Deal.  The last effective democrtatic progressive leader was Kennedy with a leftover of Johnson and since then has had well meaning but inept (Carter); well meaning but drone obsessed (Obama), not at all well meaning but charming (Clinton) and inept but better than fascism (Biden).  Half of the democratic presidents of the last 50 years have had no realistic understanding of politics or how to wield the political power they held and the other half were so wrapped up in their aversion to bad press that they were barely willing to execute it.

Rome is on fire, and the democratic leadership are having a meeting to have a meeting to plan a meeting about a violin concert to play music symbolically showing their concern for the death of Democracy in America.