The Democratic Party has been struggling for months with in-fighting and finding a message that resonates with its base, but the Democratic National Committee's summer meeting is proving to be more of the same virtue signaling from years past.
DNC Chair Ken Martin called the meeting into session and almost immediately introduced a speaker from the Saginaw nation to deliver a land acknowledgment speech.
'And, in many ways, we still live in a system built to suppress indigenous people's cultural and spiritual history.'
Lindy Sowmick, the treasurer for the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and self-described "indigenous queer woman," gave the land acknowledgment at the very beginning of the meeting.
"Good morning, DNC members, friends, and relatives. Let's talk about the land fo