Political Rant /DCCC
I'm sort of bewildered that the #DCCC keeps sending me asks for money - texts and e-mails. I gave - a long time ago - and realized I was buying a defective political product. They are adamant in hteir support for the status quo, and have no message other than "The GOP (or MAGA, or #47) is bad"
It's that attitude that has lost the Democrats so many seats - at all levels.
People tell me "Look at the Platform. The D's have a great platform. Their message is good!" (And they say that in all sincerity despite the evidence of the 2024 elections.
If the platform and messaging is so inspiring, why do we have the POTUS running the #GOP Congress and bigoted billionaires running #SCOTUS?
Yes, in example after example the Democrats had the upper hand and could have made progress toward their platform, or at least blocked Republicans.
But they didn't.
Why not? That's the question. Did they have a longer strategy of letting Republicans do more damage now to get elected later? Were they simply preserving campaign slogans? Were they too damn ignorant or incompetent to succeed? They're certainly not going to tell us their inner strategy.
IMO it doesn't matter. I'm happy to assume they chose to fail because they saw that they received donations every time they did, just as you're experiencing.
**I'm adamant that we need to hold them accountable, refuse to reelect them because for whatever reason they're an ineffective opposition.**
The best platform in the world amounts to nothing if the politicians can't or won't implement it even though they had the tools to move in that direction.
@volkris @PaulWermer "Yes, in example after example the Democrats had the upper hand and could have made progress toward their platform, or at least blocked Republicans."
Name 'em.
The headline example is when Democrats lead the charge to oust McCarthy as Speaker of the House and kept the chamber seized for so long, only to have it reopen under Johnson. Instead,
Democrats should have used that position of high ground to gain advantage in rules if not speakership.
It was a powerful moment for them, but they used it for optics instead of taking real, substantive control in exchange for reopening under better terms.
@volkris @PaulWermer "The headline example is"
That shit's from when we still had a normal Republican Party. Got anything that happened while you were actually alive?