ive long held this view but the problem the post-clinton democratic party has is that it genuinely doesn't believe in anything. everything's negotiable, they're happy to veer rightward on crime, immigration, trans rights, fuck over labor, whatever they feel they need to roll over on they'll do it
But only sort of! They bizarrely want a 'strong Republican party', and it frequently seems like they prioritize that over advancing policy or being able to govern at all.
They need a boogeyman to point to so they never have to actually offer anything of substance in a campaign, they only need to point out they're not as overtly awful as the other genocidal freaks.
Why even boot Biden if this was the campaign strategy? A shambling neoliberal corpse who has no clue what decade it is the most accurate avatar for their current ideology
donors pissing their pants biden wasn't gonna win mostly. it is funny to call her the nominee, because it feels like you should have to win the nomination to be called that and not just the "fuck you we decided this" candidate
Well, it was a pretty unified front right from Biden dropping out so I wouldn’t say the convention was contested at all. Which I’m not mad abt. She was pretty clearly the only logical choice. But I definitely have serious qualms abt how she’s running the campaign
when the "working class whites" they're trying to win over sees them betray every other constituency they are smart enough to realize they're not special they're just another constituency that can be thrown aside when expedient
like waiting for him to dump his wife for you: he will cheat on you too
in the meantime, the republicans can credibly claim to believe in a lot of stuff: immigrants are rapists, it's fine for cops to execute people in the street if they're not white, being rich means you're better than other people. trump is, perversely, just a lot more genuine than his opponents
this seems exactly like what our current gov in the UK did to get into power, the prime minister is writing features in rupert murdochs paper every sunday about how they're cracking down on asylum seekers and not prioritsing net zero (rupert is a big climate change deinier,so his son left news corp)
This smrt analysis I was just thinking kind of the same things (minus the arriving at your coherent thought) about my city's supposedly left mayor. They rolled over on preserving a few of the city's landmarks without so much as a word against. It feels like they're pretty untrustworthy.
The problem is that a shitload of Harris voters believe all this too but just feel a little guilty about it, and Harris's team knows this so they don't really have any response except for "we'll do it nicer"
The most irritating thing about this is the constant smug insistence that this is the strategically correct, smart play for obtaining and holding political power. Maybe it was in 1992, but I feel like 30 years straight being nakedly cynical phonies might have damaged The Brand, just a little
Trashfuture articulated this pretty well. The Democratic party basically ascribes to a theory of politics analogous to marketing focus groups. They act like the population has set political attitudes on an issue and if they can triangulate a middle position they will win the most votes. This is in
Contrast to the GOP, which correctly recognizes they can create political attitudes in the population by just talking and agitating enough, even if the attitude is absurd, based on fantasy, or demonstrably evil.
Clinton himself also famously conveyed a passion for specific, value-driven solutions to a problem – the economy – that people were worried about. How full of shit he was notwithstanding, his pitch was “I already care about what you care about and I have principled a plan to fix it for good.”
a beat i've been on is that every time i hear what labour in the UK is up to is that it looks like what VBNMW dems will be doing in about 8 years or so
"Your guilty conscience may force you to vote Democratic. But deep down inside, you secretly long... for a coldhearted Republican to lower taxes, brutalize criminals... and rule you like a king! That's why I did this- to protect you from yourselves!"
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they're a bunch of moneyed up cowards
I'm sure some of them get payed but it's too ubiquitous on the feed
like waiting for him to dump his wife for you: he will cheat on you too
Sorry smart.
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