🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Democratic Party learns All The Wrong Lessons, pledges to differentiate from GOP by becoming identical to GOP. "Trying to win is hard and scary," says Dem staffer under conditions of anonymity. "It's so much easier and more lucrative to lose on purpose, then fundraise off resistance." - ThreadSky

thembo.bsky.social • 23 hours ago

🚨 BREAKING 🚨
Democratic Party learns All The Wrong Lessons, pledges to differentiate from GOP by becoming identical to GOP.

"Trying to win is hard and scary," says Dem staffer under conditions of anonymity. "It's so much easier and more lucrative to lose on purpose, then fundraise off resistance."

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New: Last month, a group of moderate Democratic consultants, campaign staffers, elected officials & party leaders gathered in Loudoun County, Virginia, for a retreat where they plotted their party’s comeback.

We got their takeaways. t.co/bEwlg4jbtM

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thembo.bsky.social•23 hours ago

The people who spent weeks yelling at me when I said "the Dems should earn more votes" will be applauding this like circus seals. That's the real bummer, here. I expect nothing from a secret cabal of "staffers and consultants", but I had higher hopes for the rank and file.

shoshiroll.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Dems be like "no more purity tests" and the purity tests are just shit like "don't hate minorities, don't be a sex pest, don't be be a corrupt loser"

stochasticooze.bsky.social•21 hours ago

I don't think they're losing on purpose; I think they're really this incompetent.

senorincognito69.bsky.social•21 hours ago

"ban far-left... but dont join forums with ideological purity tests"🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴

sixthmonth.bsky.social•21 hours ago

The next Dem white house will be to the right of Bush and we will be called purity obsessed woke scolds for suggesting that protecting gay marriage should be a line in the sand.

notinthewoods.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Honestly think they're dropping us sometime in the next four years they did it with immigrants and the death penalty, I just think its a matter of time.

tullyundead.bsky.social•22 hours ago

It's incredible how they learn absolutely nothing. Even their hero Obama knew that appealing to the left gets you victory, he just caved right as soon as her was signed in.

They're fucking terrified of actually having a candidate that is genuinely left of Pelosi.

jbshaftoe.bsky.social•14 hours ago

lydiascribe.bsky.social•20 hours ago

I don't remember which pundit said this, but I remember hearing someone say, "If all Democrats care about is winning and appealing to the Republican base, why didn't they just also run Donald Trump as their candidate? That would certainly get them a lot of right-wing votes!"

postbop3c.bsky.social•23 hours ago

chuki7861.bsky.social•18 hours ago

so... when do we start demanding an actual schism in the party so that actual progressives dont have to suck nazi staffer toes?

like im sick of this 1 party system bullshit.

angrynerdbird.bsky.social•21 hours ago

They really cannot learn, can they

walteralmendarez.bsky.social•17 hours ago

It's hard to deny they're controlled opposition.

johnbrownbread.bsky.social•21 hours ago

macmanius.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Go for it, guys. Show up en masse at tailgates and gun shows. See how that goes for you.

macmanius.bsky.social•20 hours ago

(Tbf, the last place I'd personally want to be bombarded by *any* group trying to sell me something is at a tailgate party. Like, just leave me alone, I'm already pissed that I'm about to watch the Giants lose again.)

moonstruckella.bsky.social•22 hours ago

The last bullet point being own our failures is the cherry on top

flowerfaun1322.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Oh cool, time to never vote democrat again.

kalina2hu.bsky.social•21 hours ago

https://bsky.app/profile/kalina2hu.bsky.social/post/3lix5ebpy2s2u THEY CAN'T EVEN FUNDRAISE OFF THE RESISTANCE ANYMORE THIS IS JUST PURE ANTI SOCIALIST SPITE

rasalhage.bsky.social•21 hours ago

PoS site. anyone know how to read these without doing "Image in new tab" on each one?

(that's what i'm doing, to be clear, but i'm mad about it)

epistemophagy.bsky.social•23 hours ago

They learn the lessons they want to. These are the lessons they wanted to learn. You know that, obviously

thembo.bsky.social•23 hours ago

It's exactly what I expect from them. The real disappointment will be when a bunch of ostensibly liberal people defend this because they're so thirsty for wins that they don't care if the party abandons every single policy and ideal it once used to hold, or at least pretend to hold.

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