Former liberal here. I always felt I had a more wonkish bent, that pragmatism needs to be more front and center in politics.
But if I’m now in the leftist camp, it’s not like Dems are going to go anywhere but the way of the whigs if they don’t take some actual stances. They’ve lost all imagination. You can’t win on damage control.
A percentage of Democrat voters didn’t even know Biden dropped out so had no idea who Harris was. I think asking that kind of person to be engaged with politics more readily leading a horse to water.
Former liberal here. I always felt I had a more wonkish bent, that pragmatism needs to be more front and center in politics.
But if I’m now in the leftist camp, it’s not like Dems are going to go anywhere but the way of the whigs if they don’t take some actual stances. They’ve lost all imagination. You can’t win on damage control.
No you can’t, but you can lose the fuck out of refusing to do damage control. That’s where we are right now.
Stand up a real left candidate. Get greater than 50% of the vote’s worth of people engaged enough to go vote and write in.
Refusing the DNC without putting in something that works is no different than voting RNC.
SO PUT SOMETHING IN THAT WORKS.
A percentage of Democrat voters didn’t even know Biden dropped out so had no idea who Harris was. I think asking that kind of person to be engaged with politics more readily leading a horse to water.
At this point the wonkish pragmatism is that they need to be more progressive and actually take stances on shit. It’s clearly what works.
It’s just that at this point the DNC doesn’t care about winning anymore