I completely agree on all of that except “almost as bad as Republicans”.
They’re pretty much identical to the pre-Obama Republicans and a few of the Obama era Republicans, but as awful as neoliberals are, the GOP is currently literally a fascist party, which is much worse.
Don’t get me wrong, I still maintain that “not fascist” is nowhere near high enough for the bar and that neoliberalism is awful, but let’s not lose all sense of scale…
I don’t mean politically and I never said anything about their politics. I mean in terms of the tactics they use to win and the negative cult mentality they try to foster. I still voted for her ass because it was obvious Trump was a fascist from the start, but these people aren’t helping defeat fascism.
Every primary season they spend months playing divide and conquer and then make no effort at reconciliation or changing over to a proven positive campaign strategy. They’ve played no small part in weakening opposition to Republicans. They also drained the state parties of financial resources to help Clinton win and then never built them back up again. The Democrats are totally outclassed by GOP GOTV campaigns at the state and local level and their inept leadership does nothing about it.
I completely agree on all of that except “almost as bad as Republicans”.
They’re pretty much identical to the pre-Obama Republicans and a few of the Obama era Republicans, but as awful as neoliberals are, the GOP is currently literally a fascist party, which is much worse.
Don’t get me wrong, I still maintain that “not fascist” is nowhere near high enough for the bar and that neoliberalism is awful, but let’s not lose all sense of scale…
I don’t mean politically and I never said anything about their politics. I mean in terms of the tactics they use to win and the negative cult mentality they try to foster. I still voted for her ass because it was obvious Trump was a fascist from the start, but these people aren’t helping defeat fascism.
Every primary season they spend months playing divide and conquer and then make no effort at reconciliation or changing over to a proven positive campaign strategy. They’ve played no small part in weakening opposition to Republicans. They also drained the state parties of financial resources to help Clinton win and then never built them back up again. The Democrats are totally outclassed by GOP GOTV campaigns at the state and local level and their inept leadership does nothing about it.
Ah ok, we’re in full agreement then! 🤝