2 Silicon Valley Billionaires Want to Reinvent the Democratic Party

These guys are about as out of touch with reality as the Democratic party is. "Making engineering degrees free for everyone"? That question is of little interest to a 45 year old of average or below intelligence who struggles to earn his living by low-skilled, manual labor. And those are the people the Democratic party has driven into the arms of the Republicans by their desire to flood the country with low-skilled, low-educated immigrants who will compete for the shrinking number of jobs available to that person.

Looking from the outside, the US needs more than two mainstream parties. The Republicans-Democrats play is nothing more than Good cop/Bad cop with changing roles of who is the good and who is the bad cop. Instead of reinventing a major party to work better in a broken system, fix (or replace) the broken system.

Good luck. It appears to me these people don't take kindly to outsiders. Look at how both sides have treated Trump. Anyone from the outside is going to get the same treatment no matter what side you are on.

Why reinvent it? Let it die like the whigs, when republicans came on the scene and represented new ideals in liberalism (not to be confused with republicans of present day).

We're on the verge of a tectonic shift in the way people identify and if you cling to the past you'll be left behind. Look at who now represents the poor, rural, working class? Look who represents the urban intelligentsia?

These are interesting times indeed.

I can't speak to Hoffman, but Pincus sounds like a poor fit for the Democratic party. A former coworker went to work for Zynga pre-IPO and I got the gist that the leadership/organization values and DEM values are a very thin venn diagram overall.

Personally, I vote for decentralizing power a little bit. Got a problem getting red and blue states to agree on healthcare? Fine. Let the states decide.