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Briahna Grey Joy
oh fuck she’s here to pillage the US for the glory of the drowned god
Yes, because everyone with the last name “Grey Joy” is a radical Drowned God militant out for Southron blood 🙄
I expect this sort of bigotry in the streets of Kings Landing and Winterfell but I didn’t think I’d have to deal with it on my favourite The Bear & The Maiden Fair theatre club.
“We need to not ever use the words ‘socialist’ or ‘socialism’ ever again
Communism, dictatorship of the proletariat etc
Meanwhile in a dimension where Biden really did win a landslide while still running the same campaign
“We won races no one thought we would win,” Rep. Abigail Spanberger, a moderate who overwhelmingly won her race in Virginia, said in a cheerful speech, confirmed a source on the call. “We now know to not ever ever use the words ‘socialist’ or ‘socialism’ ever again because while people think it doesn’t matter, it does matter. And we reelected good members because of that.”
Democrats would’ve interpreted any result as a repudiation of Socialism. Had Biden won overwhelmingly, it would’ve been because he carefully distanced himself from Socialism whenever possible. Now that they ate shit, it’s because he wasn’t a strong enough enemy to the left. Their conclusion is not shaped by the evidence, rather they’re working backwards to shape the evidence to fit the preordained conclusions
The CIA rep from not-quite-Langley VA doesn’t like socialism or defunding the police, go figure.
Democratic voter registration spiked during the BLM protests, making it hard to believe the “defund the police” message cost them votes:
When they thought they were winning, it’s cause Biden appealed to disaffected republicans (no attention is paid to the fact that Trump added on to his percentage of registered republicans compared to 2016).
When they thought they were losing, it’s cause they were painted with the same brush as AOC and Bernie in the minds of the public - some of the most popular politicians in the country.
Now we have the perfect synthesis of that in the DNC and dem donation base response to the election: all the races they won were because they’re willing to move to the right, and all the races they lost were because they’re too far left. Both positions are held simultaneously and the inevitable consequence of just becoming a version of the Republican party that is okay with LGBT, mostly, and when they have to do heinous shit they’ll feel bad about it in public.
When they thought they were winning, it’s cause Biden appealed to disaffected republicans (no attention is paid to the fact that Trump added on to his percentage of registered republicans compared to 2016).
Not only that, ALL the moderate Republicans running lost. All of them lost and now the GOP has more fascistic politicians and straight up QAnon people headed to congress.
What this really proves is that the GOP has truly moved so far to the right, that there isn’t going to be anymore quote on quote “moderate” Republicans for these centrists to work with. The Bush era style neo-cons barely survived the onslaught of the Tea Party after 2010 and you can see this with conservative voters and how much they hated McCain and Romney after 2012. Democrats didn’t seem to get the memo or pay attention to what conservatives were saying openly about how much they disliked these old ghouls back in the mid 2010s. Trump was treated as a whole different thing but in reality, he was the endgame result of the Tea Party. Imagine if they had Trump or someone similar in 2012 at the height of their movement and they probably beat Obama back then.
The Democratic party basically has reinvented itself as the smug, college educated rich people’s party under Biden. That’s the result after all their attempts of reaching out to suburban white people and moderate Republicans.
I agree with you entirely, but in this election they didn’t want poor working class votes. They advertised Biden as the “middle class president” and they made several comments that were in the vein of smugly mocking the poor, like Biden talking about the “uneducated” like they were subhuman. They didn’t even try to pretend to care about the working class this time around, they either ignored them or talked down to them.
That’s the future of the Democratic party. They no longer even pretend to care about the working man.
it turns out that what the American people want
has been banned from the ballot by a bunch of fucking Realtors, so it’s bourgeois and liberal af to make arrogant pronouncements about what the people want based on a single yes-or-no question. Your choice to work through electoralism doesn’t mean you need to drink their religion and see through the lens that facilitates the status quo’s ends.
Bernie was popular with Republicans too because he gave them material reasons to vote for him, and progressive policies remain some of the most popular with wide swathes of the public (M4A, GND). But yeah, the dems just arent the party to get those policies into legislation. This crop of Biden/GOP mightve easily gone Bernie/GOP, no reason to assume theyd switch their down ballot ticket - those Biden/GOP voters just wanted Trump out they didnt really care who was at the top of the ticket.
This showed that just getting people out to vote without actual policies wont result in neolib dem majorities, yes. It remains to be seen that backing even mild social-democratic policies wont get majorities. The main thing in the way of that is the massive amount of ratfucking they’ll do to anyone progressive in a primary.
But I also agree that going forward way more effort needs to put into building alternative institutions, unionizing, etc. I dont think theres any reason to concede electoralism completely, but it needs to be ratcheted back to like a 90/10 split of efforts.
