Earlier, addressing a plenary session titled "Building a New Majority," Pariser identified two roadblocks facing progressives. First, he said, the Democratic Party has developed a "compromising taste for big donors" and has "lost touch with its constituents." It needed the "courage to kick the corporate cash habit" and embark on a small donor revolution. Second, the party has "devolved into issue ghettos" wherein a kind of "check box politics" is practiced. A result is politicians with "the right positions but not the right principles," Pariser said.
