re: #7 Unabogie

Can I use this thread for a general gripe about political discourse on the Left?

Every day, there’s a new outrage from some conservative. They have done something awful, said something awful, committed a crime, demanded that a Democrat be “executed” for something they just made up.

And the response on Twitter is always, “well don’t ask me to vote for Democrats if they don’t DO SOMETHING about this!”

I understand the frustration and I feel it too. But the anger is always directed the wrong way. Not at the people doing bad things, but at the only people standing between us and all-out authoritarianism. And these voices of apathy and despair are winning. They are loud. And they are the voices who will prevail in November when Democrats, as they did in 2016, opt out of the process and let the fascists back in.

A significant fraction of these supposed lefties are right wing ratfuckers. This doesn’t solve the problem, and the ones that aren’t ratfuckers are especially irritating.

But IMO there is a legit “DO SOMETHING” issue which the D party leadership does not appear to be getting. Where’s the coordinated messaging that 50R + Manchin and Sinema in the Senate means nothing gets done in Congress? Where’s the “give them hell, Harry” truth telling about Republicans? Where’s the 50 state strategy to try to ensure no Republican runs for Federal office unopposed? Where’s the sustained and visible effort to fight the Great Both Sides Lie of the mainstream media? Where’s the D institution-building that can hope to oppose Fox News? A pure heart and truth isn’t going to cut it.