A volunteer for the Democratic National Convention spoke out against her party in a viral TikTok post over the weekend, confessing she’d become disillusioned with the party and realized it had become the party of out-of-touch elites.
The campaign worker explained how she’d been deeply involved in “progressive politics” for years before volunteering at the 2024 DNC.
“I just got back from the DNC where I signed up to volunteer and when I initially signed up to volunteer, Joe Biden was still the nominee. It wasn’t yet Kamala Harris,” she said.
Democrat activist who volunteered at the DNC BLASTS the Democratic Party
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“I’ve worked in progressive politics for a long time. I worked for many different Democratic candidates, Senate candidates, House candidates, even some Democratic organizations, and as the years have gone by, I found myself more and more disillusioned with the Democratic Party.”
She explained how her experience working on Democratic campaigns has given her a look “behind the scenes” where she learned candidates spend the bulk of their time “begging rich people for money.”
“It’s pretty much the only people they talk to,” she said. “And what this inevitably means is that we don’t actually live in a democracy. It’s just rich people calling the shots and having the access to the politicians.”
She went on to explain how she realized that the DNC was filled with “the most elite and out of touch people in the entire world.”
“When I first got into politics, I thought the Democrats were the party of the people. And at the DNC this week I felt like I was in a building with the most elite and out-of-touch people in the entire world,” she said. “It very much felt like, ‘let’s just have a huge party and forget all our problems because the vibes are brat.’”
“I didn’t feel any connection to Real America or the place that I come from which is the Midwest, Kansas City, Missouri,” she continued. “I didn’t feel any connection to the people that I know right now who are struggling to buy their groceries or to pay their rent, the people who wanna know what both candidates are going to do to materially affect change in their lives.”
The volunteer also described how she realized through the DNC speeches that the party’s political priorities are far removed from what the average voter cares about.
“When I was there listening to the speeches, I felt myself feeling mad because I didn’t hear anything about the economy, definitely not in Kamala’s speech, and not very much in the others as well. Instead, I heard generic platitudes, things like ‘joy’ and ‘respect’ and ‘integrity,’ and what does that even mean?” she asked.
“‘Let’s make the military the most lethal in the world’? I thought I was part of the anti-war party,” she continued. “I thought I was part of the party that fought for the underdog, that championed working people. When and how did we just become the party of academia and affluence, because that’s what we are right now.”
By the time the DNC concluded, the campaign worker said she knew she wasn’t going to vote for Kamala Harris.
“I went to the DNC this year hoping that I would feel reconnected to the Democratic Party and I would have more of a sense of understanding of Kamala and her candidacy and what she stood for. But instead I ended up leaving and feeling the opposite, more disconnected and alone than ever,” she said.
“And I don’t think I can support Kamala Harris for president,” she added. “I don’t even know if I can call myself a Democrat anymore. I don’t know who I’m supporting but I know it’s not her, and for once I’m not afraid to say it.”
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