It’s rant time because depression and racing thoughts are fun.
I’ve been thinking about all of the more blatant Dem actions lately to push the “left” away from the party as far as possible. Part of me is confused. Why push away a potential voting block? After all, aren’t you calling yourselves the “big tent” party?
Part of me wants to think that there is an ideological push from the centrist and Conservative Dems to get us out of their way. That they honestly did a 180 on the border and suddenly love cops, etc.
Maybe part of it is fear? Are Democrats getting enough credible death threats behind the scenes that they are running to the right out of fear?
A material analysis might come up with this: Democrats know how their bread is buttered and want to keep the money flowing. There is a large “industry” or NGOs, 501c3/4 orgs, party organizations, vendors, and other groups that make their money from donations or grants to push for this or that reform. If abortion becomes legal, Planned Parenthood Action Fund doesn’t need to exist. If elections stop being close Priorities USA PAC can go away.
Money comes from all of the bullshit PACs like the Lincoln Project getting funded by bazinga-brained dipshits from Silicon Valley that believe in “both sides”/“unity” crap. They have all of the money, so those are the PACs we get. Black Lives Matter doesn’t have money, so there are no orgs to sponsor it, which means no staffers needing to cover their asses.
Of course AIPAC is a huge part of this as well.
All the shitty Dem behavior kind of makes sense when you see it as a bunch of career staffers trying to protect their paychecks. They may not even be thinking about things this way, but they sure are acting like it.
What do you think?
Low key believe simple laziness and careerism plays a role. Dems believe they are doing innate good by simply being in power because they say the polite words. The left say that isn’t enough, and we make all these nasty demands and criticisms of them. If democrats can tell us to shut up and still win that means they don’t have to actually do any dirty political work, which is a really comfy situation for them
#1 priority is always going back to brunch
We’ve seen a similar phenomenon with UK Labour recently, and I think it’s down to a complex of all of the above, multiplied by the fact that these people really are just incredibly right wing ghouls who believe that the silent majority are on their side 🤷
In the case of UK Labour, they got fewer votes in absolute terms this time than under Corbyn, and only marginally improved on his vote share in 2019’s wipeout— what really got them into power was Conservative discipline collapsing as soon as Corbynism was dead and there was no longer any threat to the political consensus, combined with the quirks of a constituency-based fptp electoral system. Veering right is a ‘vote winner’ for a nominally left/centre party only in that it buys you the right to participate in the first place.
They’re disciplining us. Biden was forced out of the race so they need to make sure we don’t get the idea that we have any power to force the Party to capitulate to our demands.
They absolutely will not budge an inch on Palestine, the blood will flow. I don’t think they give us any more thought than they ever do. Its not about us, it’s about the project closest to their hearts and boy oh boy the things they’ll show us if it is actually resisted effectively…
I don’t think any of this is targeted at us, it’s all targeted at donors. The donors panicked when Biden fucked up the debate because they were worried that he wouldn’t be able to deliver enough votes to stay in office and pass their policies. The Harris campaign is trying to settle them down by loudly declaring her strength and proclaiming that she’s going to win. It’s entirely marketing.
They will probably be able to push this through all the way to the election (“we’re strong winners” is a popular message and Trump is washed) but then the marketing spend will drop off and we’ll be stuck with Harris in office pushing the same failing policies as the Biden admin.
I’m thinking more of the things that would have cost $0 that the Dems just didn’t do during their convention:
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Tell your delegates to ignore protestors. Don’t cover your ears, don’t say anything, no smirks. That was an optics fail and def cost them votes.
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Put a Palestinian on stage for five fucking minutes. Sherrif Porky can wait!
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Was there even anything positive about trans people at the convention? I didn’t watch it so IDK.
These are stupid simple mistakes for a PR event which tells me it’s deliberate.
Another theory: The liberal establishment (both parties) see the “left” gaining traction since Bernie ran in 2016 and are trying to burn us all out and discourage the movement from growing. Yes the left is very small in the US but there’s potential to grow. There’s some exciting stuff happening in my area that I can’t share because it would doxx me…
Their donors want the genocide against Palestine to continue so they can sell weapons, real estate developments in Gaza, and oil contracts. Putting a Palestinian on the stage would signal to them that they might not get what they want.
