Under normal circumstances with everyday people, I try to make generous assumptions and “never ascribe to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.”
But in the case of the Democratic party, I have a hard time believing that everybody in the Democratic leadership is that stupid, which leaves only the possibility that their continued failure is intentional
It looks to me like much of the DNC leadership, and worse, the long-time admin people who really run things, are deeply cynical and primarily interested in the preservation of their own meal tickets. The nominal party leadership (people like Biden and Harris) could clean house at the DNC if they were so inclined. But instead, loyalty to the institution and not the objectives is rewarded. In any other organization, non-performance like that would have led to wholesale replacement or shutdown.
Yeah, the corporate entity called the Democratic Party only cares about soliciting donations. Both parties are legally entrenched and moated from competition by difficult ballot-access standards they introduced themselves, propped up by subservient media institutions, who portray the two parties as inevitable and natural.
There are well-intentioned people (in both parties? Sure, let’s be kind) but they don’t hold power and must play by the rules of the corporate party leadership.
As long as donations come in, everyone has income. As long as democrats lose close elections, donations flow. As long as there’s some DINO or Blue Dog to ruin a Democrat majority, they can keep whipping up votes and donations (“We need a bigger majority next time! And please send cash”) As long as Republicans legislate unpopular policies when they’re in control, donations flow in on the promise to fight back.
I used to think they were just dumb but now I think it’s all by design
Under normal circumstances with everyday people, I try to make generous assumptions and “never ascribe to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.”
But in the case of the Democratic party, I have a hard time believing that everybody in the Democratic leadership is that stupid, which leaves only the possibility that their continued failure is intentional
It looks to me like much of the DNC leadership, and worse, the long-time admin people who really run things, are deeply cynical and primarily interested in the preservation of their own meal tickets. The nominal party leadership (people like Biden and Harris) could clean house at the DNC if they were so inclined. But instead, loyalty to the institution and not the objectives is rewarded. In any other organization, non-performance like that would have led to wholesale replacement or shutdown.
Yeah, the corporate entity called the Democratic Party only cares about soliciting donations. Both parties are legally entrenched and moated from competition by difficult ballot-access standards they introduced themselves, propped up by subservient media institutions, who portray the two parties as inevitable and natural.
There are well-intentioned people (in both parties? Sure, let’s be kind) but they don’t hold power and must play by the rules of the corporate party leadership.
As long as donations come in, everyone has income. As long as democrats lose close elections, donations flow. As long as there’s some DINO or Blue Dog to ruin a Democrat majority, they can keep whipping up votes and donations (“We need a bigger majority next time! And please send cash”) As long as Republicans legislate unpopular policies when they’re in control, donations flow in on the promise to fight back.
Designed by who?
Just a note to observers, I have this user tagged as, “nonvoter complains”
No one cares about your tags.
Wow this is the dorkiest comment I’ve ever encountered
“Attention everybody: This guy doesn’t vote! Don’t worry, your parents have been called and are coming to pick you up”
What’s more “dorky”? What I said, or the person who replies to it with this ^
We can let the reader decide…
Well, in prole’s estimation, this guy doesn’t vote.
LMAO thank you. What frontend are you using that has tags?
I use Boost on my phone as that was my preferred reddit app