How irrelevant some local Democrats are becoming was demonstrated in their unwillingness to pass a simple resolution urging that Donna Brazile, a former interim chair, be removed from the Democratic National Committee.

I attended the Feb. 28 meeting of the Jefferson County Democrats, and was wowed by the spectacle of a member calling the resolution “divisive” and likening it to capital punishment. The usual, evidence-free charge of blaming the Russians for Clinton’s defeat was also wheeled out.

It was claimed, too, that since Brazile had no current ties with the DNC, no action need be taken. I had never seen such passion coming from these Democrats. It was electric, and it was loud.

Pity that this enthusiasm, however romantic, or unromantic, was wasted on Brazile. Working families in the Rust Belt could have used the support.

It was important to pass the resolution because it’s important to make a clean, clear break with recent DNC corruption; even if Brazile has no current ties to the DNC, the words matter, the idea matters. Certain wrongs need to be addressed. The resolution represented a willingness to go forward, but only after first acknowledging that the DNC violated its own rules in the last Democratic presidential primary by failing to remain impartial.

Brazile was a big part of that problem. She passed debate questions, prior to the debates, to a certain candidate she supported. That was crooked. When is it ever wrong to stand up for what’s right?

Hats off to the numerous Democrats who supported the resolution, and to all the new members who remain committed to a transformation of the party. Only then will millions of Americans finally have a voice that is unafraid to resist the ruling neoliberal consensus that is impoverishing all aspects of our everyday living.

BOB DOMIN

Port Ludlow