That should lead to a groundswell of donations to the Democratic Party, which the leadership can use to primary AOC and The Squad with some well-picked AIPAC-endorsed corporate stuffed shirts. Then they can have a straight run for those who miss the old Republican party of the Reagan/Bush years
I love how reliably ever-present, under any type of news about something good or bad going on in the political world, is the little trickle of comments saying “YEAH FUCK THE DEMOCRATS WE ALL HATE DEMOCRATS.”
Didn’t people learn their lesson about this after the last election? You can hate the Democrats’ shitting fundraising consultants and geriatric leadership without needing to inject a conversation about it into some kind of random conversation about grassroots progress or literally any other thing.
The primary concern of the people in charge of the Democrats seems to be to keep the left contained where it can’t actually affect policy and threaten the interests of stakeholders. As such, any fightback will stop short of empowering grass-roots organisers, and prioritise ensuring that grass-roots enthusiasm can be safely diverted to the benefit of stakeholders.
Why are you depending on the Democrats to “empower” you? There’s your problem, right there. Yes, they’re mostly shit, with a small handful of exceptions. I think you mean “shareholders” instead of “stakeholders,” but what you’re saying is mostly true. The point that I’m making is that it barely matters anymore.
If the fire chief is a cokehead, and we’re trying to figure out how to get the fire to stop now that it’s in 5 buildings in our big wooden city, I think we should focus on “what the fuck to do” as the OP article is doing, not purely focus on how the fire chief is a cokehead and if we could just get rid of him, things would be okay at last.
That should lead to a groundswell of donations to the Democratic Party, which the leadership can use to primary AOC and The Squad with some well-picked AIPAC-endorsed corporate stuffed shirts. Then they can have a straight run for those who miss the old Republican party of the Reagan/Bush years
Very true… How could we intercept those donations and direct them towards something progressive?
I love how reliably ever-present, under any type of news about something good or bad going on in the political world, is the little trickle of comments saying “YEAH FUCK THE DEMOCRATS WE ALL HATE DEMOCRATS.”
Didn’t people learn their lesson about this after the last election? You can hate the Democrats’ shitting fundraising consultants and geriatric leadership without needing to inject a conversation about it into some kind of random conversation about grassroots progress or literally any other thing.
The primary concern of the people in charge of the Democrats seems to be to keep the left contained where it can’t actually affect policy and threaten the interests of stakeholders. As such, any fightback will stop short of empowering grass-roots organisers, and prioritise ensuring that grass-roots enthusiasm can be safely diverted to the benefit of stakeholders.
Why are you depending on the Democrats to “empower” you? There’s your problem, right there. Yes, they’re mostly shit, with a small handful of exceptions. I think you mean “shareholders” instead of “stakeholders,” but what you’re saying is mostly true. The point that I’m making is that it barely matters anymore.
If the fire chief is a cokehead, and we’re trying to figure out how to get the fire to stop now that it’s in 5 buildings in our big wooden city, I think we should focus on “what the fuck to do” as the OP article is doing, not purely focus on how the fire chief is a cokehead and if we could just get rid of him, things would be okay at last.
I feel like getting rid of the coke head is probably a pretty important step in the overall plan though.