Yeah, no. Let’s hold the media accountable. For treating Trump like a serious candidate in the first place and giving him all the air time, the jester that he is. For harping on every single thing the Dem candidate did wrong while apologizing and making excuses for Orange Julius at every turn. Going on and on about Biden’s age and then never bringing up age again once Biden dropped out of the race. Let’s hold the oligarchs accountable for doing their best to stifle free speech, welcoming Russian and GOP astroturfing of the internet, and the last hundred years of slowly breaking down our democracy so they can have more money when they already have so much more than enough. No it’s all the Dems fault 🙄
The items you bring up are outside the control of the DNC and its members. How can the DNC change media ownership or block Russian astroturfing?
The press is motivated both by its oligarchic owners and also by popularity. We can’t change the former (certainly whole out of power), but we can make policy and targeting changes that make Democrats popular, and it follows that what the news reports will change.
Looks like the headline is just clickbait anyways, author doesn’t make any suggestions to hold anybody accountable. I’ve got a plan: lets get as many primary voters as we do general election voters.
The one silver lining here is that there will be a primary in 2028. And in 2026.
Get ready now. If you’re in a closed primary state, you need to register as a democrat to participate. If you don’t like voting for the lesser evil, getting off your ass and voting in every primary is the bare minimum you can do. You can do more by phone banking, volunteering, and educating your peers in real time as shit spirals in tangible ways over the next 2 years.
Trump plans to do this already, apparently. They did this to themselves.
No, we really don’t. We have to blame the people voting for trump or being apathetic about not voting. Throw in some Russian trolling, some Meta and X bullshit and we get a pretty shitty stew. Oh yeah, and the sexists and racists too.
A party that can’t win has no value.
The party’s job is to articulate a platform that appeals to apathetic voters.
The party’s job is to articulate a platform that energizes a large enough part of the population to vote them in.
If a party advances positions that can’t win elections, then the party has failed in its primary purpose.
I voted for Harris. I’m a progressive who has voted a straight blue ticket in every election.
That doesn’t change reality. I’ve donated thousands of dollars to this party and it is incapable of winning. A political party that can’t win, can’t make policy. That’s not me being a sour bastard, that’s just reality and also me being a sour bastard.
How fun I am or not doesn’t change the fact that this party has been on a losing streak for decades.
As the republicans have embraced less and less popular policy positions they’ve also won more governorships, state houses, the senate, the house, the White House, the Supreme Court. Even when democrats do manage to pull together a win they cobble it together with blue dogs and then use that fact to excuse not making progress.
The cornerstone piece of legislation we’ve gotten from them in my lifetime has been the ACA. And sure it’s better than what we had, but it’s literally romneycare. The best piece of legislation we can point to from our party was literally workshopped by the heritage foundation.
The thing I’m getting tired of is losing. Then being told, we lost because the voters voted wrong. Next time they should vote better even though the party is going to do everything the same way, money please!