Microblog Memes

waiting for a chance to elect the least shitty candidate every 4 years is how you got into this mess.

If we don't organize and start taking direct action then nothing will change.

People need to join organizations in their community or labor unions and begin to directly sabotage the conservative agenda. General strikes should be something that the American left are actively planning right now.

Don't sit down, stand up

wow I can't believe Republican voters preferred to vote Republican rather than Republican Lite. you can't expect even career politicians to see this coming.

Liz Cheney was a great get on their part. It's the rest of it that was the issue. They should have gone hard left and still had Liz up there, for the full-spectrum effect. "Even this crazy conservative woman thinks Kamala's great" but then everything else: left left left.

dnc had spent 1.6 billion on ads vs a billion by trump, so we don’t get to make that excuse.
there was plenty of pro-harris spam on insta, reddit and even my linkedin feed.

we are again not accepting that dnc is a corporate entity fooling us. they support lgbt, abortion etc because it cost their donors nothing. ask them to compromise on inflation, housing or even genocide and we are told “stfu, do you want to get trump elected ?”

they don’t care about america, bernie said it best here

"Will the big money interests and well-paid consultants who control the Democratic Party learn any real lessons from this disastrous campaign? Will they understand the pain and political alienation that tens of millions of Americans are experiencing? Do they have any ideas as to how we can take on the increasingly powerful Oligarchy which has so much economic and political power? Probably not,"

edit: source on media spend https://digiday.com/media-buying/presidential-ads-mark-a-divide-as-both-candidates-spend-big-in-battleground-states/

"meet me in the middle", says the unjust man.
you take a step towards him. he takes a step back.
"meet me in the middle", says the unjust man.

It's obvious that Liz Cheney wasn't enough. Next time we must revive Henry Kissenger to get his endorsement. Surely that'll win the moderates

It was time in 2016. Biden barely won in 2020 and somehow Dems took that as a mandate to be even more conservative. At this point I have no idea how progressive ideas ever get implemented.

It would have been. Now it's going to be...something else. Not something fundamentally similar to before. Not fun to think about.

The Democratic party is stuck on this idealistic platform of unity and appealing broadly to the American people.

That's the marketing for "moving right every chance they get."

I am 35.

My entire lifetime, the way Dems run presidential campaigns, the way they push the message is heavily, heavily reliant on mainstream legacy media outfits talking about and repeating their announcements and rallies.

Meanwhile, the Republicans do the same... but they also control the vast majority of talk radio stations, and since the internet came into wide use, the number of popular internet figures with overt right wing tendencies just vastly, vaaaastly outstrips similar figures on the left, in terms of viewership and funding.

Basically, the Dems still think that dying legacy media, with fewer and fewer readers/viewers, that increasingly has to sell out by running more bombastic, shocking news, and/or cowtowing to the whims of their corpo owners...

... they still think that this nearly dead legacy media will give them the same treatment as in the 70s, when there were only 3 fucking TV news channels and newspapers op eds were far more influential.

They should have learned that they needed a real way of pushing their message after 2015/16.

Trump dominated the media without paying anything for it simply by being bombastic and saying insane shit.

That should have set off a whole bunch of alarm bells that ... Dems can't rely on news stations giving roughly equal air time to them.

But it did not.

The Republicans, through their various think tanks and foundations, funded the hell out of every one willing to repeat their message on any medium for 35 years.

Dems have never had anything like this, even though the average Republican thinks George Soros is doing something like that.

Now, combine all of the above with another trend the Republicans have manifested into reality over 35 years:

Public Education has been decimated. The average American now has critical reading comprehension skills roughly equivalent to a 6th or 7th grader.

So even if huge numbers of people were still reading Op-Eds in papers... they would not understand any moderately complex discussions of policies, or history, or economics or anything anyway.

... And this is all just a critique of how the Democrats have been at distributing their messages.

The actual content of those messages is an entirely different failure.

The error would be expecting it to be any one thing. It’s a large large large combination of various factors.

We have always been at war with Eastasia

They need to come to terms!!

I've been coming to terms and I never see them there!

I dont think it is. If I understand the American election process right, the next step is in January, when democrats are allowed to violently assault their elected government, but I'm really not sure if the plan at that stage is supposed to be for Harris to move in or for Biden to stick around. How exactly does that part work again? I don't think other countries do this part.