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.
@TagYourToe @volkris
Tag, go back to Biden supporting the Thomas SCOTUS nomination
The failure of the Obama administration to move beyond DACA
The repeal of Glass Steagall
The failure to support mixed income housing
The adoption of the neoliberal myth
All with Ds in the majority.
You know, it goes back to the compromises FDR had to make, excluding primarily Black and Hispanic job categories from benefits.
@PaulWermer @volkris Sorry you all have never chosen to vote to give them the margins they need to never compromise on anything ever, but that's not actually a problem with the party. 🤷♂️
One of the fundamental jobs of a US political party is to secure votes.
So YES, if a party isn't getting the margins they need to do whatever, then that IS a problem with the party as getting votes is their job!
@volkris @PaulWermer "One of the fundamental jobs of a US political party is to secure votes."
The fundamental job of a party is to enact policy.
Voting sensibly and rationally is the job of the voters, and you people are the most feckless, irresponsible, good-for-nothing excuses for voters in probably recorded history.
Seems to me that if you don't get elected your policy doesn't go anywhere.
And I actually have voted in every primary and general election since 1972, have donated and canvassed for candidates, and have almost always voted for the Democrat in the general, as a strategic vote to block a right wing candidate.
And since you choose to insult me, bye.
@PaulWermer @volkris "Seems to me that if you don't get elected your policy doesn't go anywhere."
Yes, you folks are clearly very sharp. So I'm assuming there must be a well-thought-out reason you aren't electing more Democrats for less compromise-tainted policies that I'm just not connecting the dots on. I'm sure you can help me understand, though! 🙂
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?
@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.