So...my disdain for centrist democrats is nothing new, and I never particularly hid it. But MAN these guys piss me off. It's like they TRY to be completely unlikeable.
So...this post is a culmination of a lot of things in the news as of late. The refusal to release the 2024 democratic party autopsy, the McMorrow/El Sayed mud slinging, and now, the Graham Platner thing. Lately graham platner appeared on Jon Stewart's podcast, and stewart referred to the democratic party as "lost." There's also a lot of talk of how the democrats havent reached out to Platner after Mills dropped out. And then led to discussion online, where centrist dems just kinda act in the same insufferable way they always do. They're STILL railing about 2016 and how people wouldnt vote for Hillary "because she's a woman." And they're pushing the same argument with Kamala Harris, making caustic comments about how voters didnt like her because she was a woman, or because of her laugh.
I mean...these people really ARE lost. I mean, I really dont think sexism had much of an impact in either race. In 2016, if clinton's gender played into it at all, it was her "vote for me, I'm a woman" attitude combined with accusing everyone who didnt find that an acceptable argument of being sexist. Hell, for all the talk of party unity and bernie bros, the reason most of us who didnt vote for her got so pissed was because these guys literally injected these toxic politics into the party and basically went after US for being white males who cared more about universal healthcare than if the president had a different set of genitalia than the rest. I mean, real talk, HRC being a woman doesnt make my life better. It doesnt pay my bills. It doesn't make anything easier. It doesnt ensure better work life balance. It's just some BS inspirational yay girlboss thing that doesnt resonate. And yeah yeah yeah, check your privilege, SHUT UP, no one cares.
Clinton lost because she had nothing going for her. She was a weak candidate. She leaned into idpol and appeals to party unity because she had so little else going for her. And she lost. That's why.
And then in 2024, Harris lost for similarish reasons. Biden was NEVER popular. He barely won in 2020 when Trump badly mismanaged COVID, which should have been a landslide for democrats. but to my surprise, Biden won basically by the skin of his teeth, and then things went downhill from there. ANd in 2024, he never had a shot. Some guy was acting like Biden was still popular and would have won, he wasn't gonna. We covered this.
And as far as Harris goes, she started out strong and ALMOST saved the party, but then turned into black female Biden who had no universal healthcare in her platform and wanted to add republicans to her cabinet. And thats why she lost in my estimation. It wasnt her laugh. It was the fact that her campaign was a whole lot of nothing and people wanted something.
But yeah, just....why are democrats like this? Why are they so toxic and unlikeable? It's like, they WANNA piss people off. Like, let's go back to the mcmorrow thing. I inherently dont dislike mcmorrow. She has a very good platform and given the direction my own politics go, i can tolerate slightly more moderate positions on healthcare and the like given they're more compatible with my UBI idea. BUT.....im gonna be blunt, I HATE her mudslinging against El Sayed. It's just so dishonest, and yeah. El Sayed is himself not a bad candidate. But painting him as a radical and single handedly creating the hasan erangement syndrome that is gripping the party when the guy just wants to make your life a bit better makes me wonder how serious mcmorrow is in wanting to make peoples' lives better yourself. because if youre not in politics to make peoples' lives better, why should we even vote for you?
Really i just have a visceral hate for establishment dems. Not only are they useless but they pick fights with the only people who aren't. They only exist to get in there and do nothing while acting like insufferable windbags for it the whole time. Like, i DESPISE these people.
And yes, they really are lost. You'd think after several losses they'd, you know, learn from their mistakes and wipe that smug look of their faces, but again, they just go on about how people dont like them because they're sexist without understanding that their very existence is like nails on a chalkboard to the rest of us. I wish they'd learn already so we can actually win. But I guess that would involve abandoning that bland tasteless brand of centrism that their donors want and that just aint gonna happen. Ugh...
