Take a minute and reread this piece. Not so much as a word about the traditional, historic base of the Democratic Party, the working class. The working class, the reason why there is a "Left". There is no Left politics without a base in the working class and without an agenda that meets working class needs. Everybody else is here, immigrants, immigrant criminals, trans people, including Laverne Cox!, people who use "latinx", LGBTQ, women (!!!), woke, me too, Palestine, Palestine protestors, oh, yeah I don't see indigenous 2S, or queer vegans for Palestine, or queer vegans AGAINST climate action (remember them, sitting down in front of your climate action march because "trans people will bear the brunt of climate change disproportionately!") Um, what?. Anyway, yeah, everybody else. It's true that the Dems veer Right after every election, whether they win or lose. It's also, true that their undead, unaccountable zombie "professional leadership" of hacks, operatives, lawyers, fixers and errand boys trots out an entirely predictable, auto-pilot "blame the Left" narrative every time anybody questions anything about the hopeless, long extinct dinosaur DNC. Sure, all true. But look at this piece. It could have been written, ironically, by some Right wing snark meister, like Charlie Kirk or Chris Rufo. Jesus, dude, you sound like a parody of yourself! Look up from your Judith Butler. The world has moved on. Nobody outside of academia and a few "collective houses" in Seattle, Portland and Brooklyn even talks like this anymore. Well, oddly enough, except for the tepid Democratic leadership you are at pains to critique. Did you catch the video from the recent party meeting, with Jaime Harrison, the chair, trying gamely to explain the "gender balance" rules, getting hopelessly lost and handing it off to some nameless party insider who didn't do any better? All this so they could guarantee of a few participation slots for trans-identified men, but with the caveat that they had to be called "women". And since you are looking at AOC, note that her position re trans is exactly the same as Biden and Harris's. Not even a ray of daylight between them. And you wonder why the country collectively said, "um WTF is this?".
You bet your arse, my dude, that the Republican "they/them" ad, that saturated swing state PA on Musk's $200M donation, made a difference. Of course it did. And trans athletes a "non-issue"? Maybe, unless you are a girl athlete cheated out of sports scholarship $$$ by a confused man with lipstick and long hair, who is a mediocre athlete when he competes vs other men. The male pubertal advantage is now as well understood, documented and accepted in sports medicine, physiology and you know, common sense, as the idea that the runner with the fastest time wins. And no, a couple of years of doping (I mean, that's what it is) to lower testosterone does not remove the advantage. But why do you need to know that when you have a photo of William "Lia" Thomas towering over Riley Gains. You think height and arm length don't matter in a sport where victory is decided in micro-seconds?
I know what you are thinking. Who TF is this reactionary troll? Nope. Sorry, dude. Leftie for life. I vote with Dems, only because the alternative is a stampede towards fascism. I loath the party insiders and the vacuous pap they think we should content ourselves with. I was 100% with Bernie in 2016 and 2020. And I've been walking precincts, phoning and marching since before your parents met. And I am here to tell you, that this almost religious fixation with "identity" is killing the Left and all hope for the return of a progressive working class. The last election proved that you are right about the party leadership. They are a fkg joke (on us). But you are way off on the solutions. It's not a matter of tilting "Left" or "Right". And it is not a matter of ever more painstaking self-flagellation over "marginalized, othered" identity group "rights" and ever more infinitesimal measures of their representation and participation I would argue in fact that identity politics are reactionary and tribal by definition and fundamentally in opposition to the core values of the Left. We need to shift the commonalities between almost all of us and the drastic differences between us and the corrupt financial elite. We do not need to inventory and stack "oppressions" and identities. We need to share common hopes, a common sense of fairness, common concerns and common needs. Every intersectional identity needs housing, healthcare, education, good wages and salaries, meaningful work and a safe city park where we can let the kids run around. Nobody and I mean, nobody, needs "Drag Queen Reading Hour". We (the Dems and the Left as a whole) need to evolve, now, or go extinct. There is no going back to the comfortable, self-soothing Left, Liberal and Center pieties of the last few decades. That game is over. (not that I have strong feelings about all this...)
I'm hoping the (thin) silver lining here is these bum ass Democrats will get washed in 2026 & 28. With a proper primary, I think it'll be difficult for them to sell these positions to left leaning voters.
Why do people assume, given the declared intent of the faction now in control of the government, and which has been undermining the franchise for decades, and which is working with ALEC and the Koch network to call for an Article V convention to essentially compose a new Constitution, will even bother with elections going forward.
Everyone keeps howling about fascism and authoritarianism, but from where I sit it's mostly just people watching a horror movie and screaming at the parts that scare them while overlooking the more important thematic message it's sending. Trump and his plutocrat cronies aren't just ignoring the Constitution. They no longer believe it's relevant. They're running things the way they see fit; and the "opposition party", which stopped being one when Clinton sold it to Wall Street in '92, is mostly full of Blue Dogs who move happily over to the other side, sometimes by actually switching parties after they're elected.
Wake up, people! You still think you're living in a Constitutional republic that no longer exists in reality and may well end entirely as an official entity--they only need 6 more states to sign on.
There were 12 Democrats in the Senate who voted for this law according to the names listed as voters. I have already contacted five and will contact all even though they are not from my state. We all must speak out.
Take a minute and reread this piece. Not so much as a word about the traditional, historic base of the Democratic Party, the working class. The working class, the reason why there is a "Left". There is no Left politics without a base in the working class and without an agenda that meets working class needs. Everybody else is here, immigrants, immigrant criminals, trans people, including Laverne Cox!, people who use "latinx", LGBTQ, women (!!!), woke, me too, Palestine, Palestine protestors, oh, yeah I don't see indigenous 2S, or queer vegans for Palestine, or queer vegans AGAINST climate action (remember them, sitting down in front of your climate action march because "trans people will bear the brunt of climate change disproportionately!") Um, what?. Anyway, yeah, everybody else. It's true that the Dems veer Right after every election, whether they win or lose. It's also, true that their undead, unaccountable zombie "professional leadership" of hacks, operatives, lawyers, fixers and errand boys trots out an entirely predictable, auto-pilot "blame the Left" narrative every time anybody questions anything about the hopeless, long extinct dinosaur DNC. Sure, all true. But look at this piece. It could have been written, ironically, by some Right wing snark meister, like Charlie Kirk or Chris Rufo. Jesus, dude, you sound like a parody of yourself! Look up from your Judith Butler. The world has moved on. Nobody outside of academia and a few "collective houses" in Seattle, Portland and Brooklyn even talks like this anymore. Well, oddly enough, except for the tepid Democratic leadership you are at pains to critique. Did you catch the video from the recent party meeting, with Jaime Harrison, the chair, trying gamely to explain the "gender balance" rules, getting hopelessly lost and handing it off to some nameless party insider who didn't do any better? All this so they could guarantee of a few participation slots for trans-identified men, but with the caveat that they had to be called "women". And since you are looking at AOC, note that her position re trans is exactly the same as Biden and Harris's. Not even a ray of daylight between them. And you wonder why the country collectively said, "um WTF is this?".
You bet your arse, my dude, that the Republican "they/them" ad, that saturated swing state PA on Musk's $200M donation, made a difference. Of course it did. And trans athletes a "non-issue"? Maybe, unless you are a girl athlete cheated out of sports scholarship $$$ by a confused man with lipstick and long hair, who is a mediocre athlete when he competes vs other men. The male pubertal advantage is now as well understood, documented and accepted in sports medicine, physiology and you know, common sense, as the idea that the runner with the fastest time wins. And no, a couple of years of doping (I mean, that's what it is) to lower testosterone does not remove the advantage. But why do you need to know that when you have a photo of William "Lia" Thomas towering over Riley Gains. You think height and arm length don't matter in a sport where victory is decided in micro-seconds?
I know what you are thinking. Who TF is this reactionary troll? Nope. Sorry, dude. Leftie for life. I vote with Dems, only because the alternative is a stampede towards fascism. I loath the party insiders and the vacuous pap they think we should content ourselves with. I was 100% with Bernie in 2016 and 2020. And I've been walking precincts, phoning and marching since before your parents met. And I am here to tell you, that this almost religious fixation with "identity" is killing the Left and all hope for the return of a progressive working class. The last election proved that you are right about the party leadership. They are a fkg joke (on us). But you are way off on the solutions. It's not a matter of tilting "Left" or "Right". And it is not a matter of ever more painstaking self-flagellation over "marginalized, othered" identity group "rights" and ever more infinitesimal measures of their representation and participation I would argue in fact that identity politics are reactionary and tribal by definition and fundamentally in opposition to the core values of the Left. We need to shift the commonalities between almost all of us and the drastic differences between us and the corrupt financial elite. We do not need to inventory and stack "oppressions" and identities. We need to share common hopes, a common sense of fairness, common concerns and common needs. Every intersectional identity needs housing, healthcare, education, good wages and salaries, meaningful work and a safe city park where we can let the kids run around. Nobody and I mean, nobody, needs "Drag Queen Reading Hour". We (the Dems and the Left as a whole) need to evolve, now, or go extinct. There is no going back to the comfortable, self-soothing Left, Liberal and Center pieties of the last few decades. That game is over. (not that I have strong feelings about all this...)
What then is the real goal ..(THE one all along): of The DNC???:
A Clue??:
It ain’t pretty.
I’m sick. Of all the times for democrats to hang tough together, it’s now.
💯 you and me both, Harriet, you and me both.
I'm hoping the (thin) silver lining here is these bum ass Democrats will get washed in 2026 & 28. With a proper primary, I think it'll be difficult for them to sell these positions to left leaning voters.
Very well said, Liz
Why do people assume, given the declared intent of the faction now in control of the government, and which has been undermining the franchise for decades, and which is working with ALEC and the Koch network to call for an Article V convention to essentially compose a new Constitution, will even bother with elections going forward.
Everyone keeps howling about fascism and authoritarianism, but from where I sit it's mostly just people watching a horror movie and screaming at the parts that scare them while overlooking the more important thematic message it's sending. Trump and his plutocrat cronies aren't just ignoring the Constitution. They no longer believe it's relevant. They're running things the way they see fit; and the "opposition party", which stopped being one when Clinton sold it to Wall Street in '92, is mostly full of Blue Dogs who move happily over to the other side, sometimes by actually switching parties after they're elected.
Wake up, people! You still think you're living in a Constitutional republic that no longer exists in reality and may well end entirely as an official entity--they only need 6 more states to sign on.
Thank you Liz. You make several salient points and ominously valid arguments.
Straight ON.
There were 12 Democrats in the Senate who voted for this law according to the names listed as voters. I have already contacted five and will contact all even though they are not from my state. We all must speak out.