Progressive Politics

The DNC is a direct and explicit enemy of leftism

They are also a direct opponent of themselves. The chaos and division in this community, its a direct result of the incompetence of Democrats and the limited range of responses we can have to it: criticism or denial. Republicans didn't "win" in November: The Democrats fucking blew it. They blew it HARD. Trump was as unpopular, as the incumbent who stepped down because he was so deeply unpopular. The DNC were' given one of the best second chances in the history of politics, the took the opportunity to assert their own agenda, frog marching the candidate to the right, and lost the fucking big game.

You had two choices, at the start of 2024, regarding how to deal with Democratic incompetence. You could deny it, or you could highlight it. The goal of denying it, I suppose, was to hope that voters wouldn't notice. Highlighters, our goal was to get these fucking incompetents to actually win. To get them to actually change their fucking strategy, their rhetoric, their approach. The denialists cost us our democracy by refusing to address or even acknowledge the real, legitimate criticisms people have of the DNC; how a party of half a loaf politics is simply not good enough for most people to show up for. Half-a-loaf, the compromising of ones values, loses to fascism, every time. And half-a-loaf is all we've gotten from Democrats for the past half century.

Learn the fucking lesson: Gaslighting voters loses elections. You can't fake being the "party of the people" when you never show up for them. Or if when you do its just a fucking corporate sellout like Obamacare or build-back-better. If you want to win elections you can't fake it.

If this is how the DNC is going to approach politics, the future of this country: **they will not win another election, ever.