So...while the country burns under the flames of fascism, establishment democrats sit there like the "this is fine" dog. Elissa Slotkin gave the response. Now, given the GOP responses over the years, this is pretty mild in terms of failures, as the last thing Slotkin did was come off as "unhinged", but that's the problem, she came off as boringly tepid.
Seriously, watching her speech, I'm reminded why the average voter can't really tell the difference between the two parties, and cant understand why the democrats are the good guys. They dont feel like the good guys. They come off as boring and uninspiring. Again, floater water, remember that analogy? Not just bland and tepid but also has a slightly nasty aftertaste. Like, you DONT wanna drink it, even if the alternative is some sort of poison. And to some, the poison literally seems more attractive. While trump is bombastic, takes the reins of power for himself even when he doesn't have an actual mandate, and manages to be successful by sheer virtue of forcing his message into reality whether we like it or not, the democrats come off as weak and pathetic. No one likes these guys. No one. Not even most democrats. I wanna see Al Green give the response. He has something to say, Slotkin? Not so much.
It was just blah blah blah, American dream, if you work hard you should make it, as if that is some grand profound statement, it's the absolute bare minimum. Ugh. I really hate the work worship. Here's the thing. These guys just reflect conservative values. The hard work thing is a right wing American civil religion thing and the left tries to appeal to those values. She also spent a lot of time going on about how Reagan wouldnt be tolerated in today's GOP because they kiss up to russia. Now, to be fair, she has a point, and I would also make that point, but she made it in the weird "vote for me moderate neocon" way, not a strong repudiation of the right.
It wasn't all bad. She did kinda try to appeal to peoples' needs like inflation and the obvious elephant in the room, but again, we dont need boring soft spoken people saying this, we need our own firebrands pushing their own vision. Democrats need to step out of the shadow of ronald reagan and the 6th party system, and stop being pathetic little #####es. There, I said it. I'm sick and tired of us being the moon party. We lose because we have no real agenda, we just cede control of the right where they set the dominant narrative and then they have this soft timid voice that reflects it, with no real agenda or vision of their own. Maybe that was what we needed in the 1990s to counter the juggernaut that was Reagan, but that was thirty years ago. Eisenhower made the same leftward turn after FDR and Truman, but then they organized and fought back.
Slotkin mentions organizing and stuff. Yeah, we do need organizing, but, what we really need is a plan to sieze power. I was thinking of writing an article on this but given my lack of motivation lately, I never got around to it. Democrats are super ineffective at taking control of institutions and wielding power. The GOP has a simple strategy, they have a vision, and they have an objective: WIN! PUSH AGENDA. And here we talk about joining groups and blah blah blah. Like, it just comes off as so lecturey. it's like when HRC was telling hecklers to run for office themselves. Never mind the fact that if you do run these same establishment dems will fight you like they SHOULD fight the republicans, theyll fight to keep any progressive with balls out of government, but then when it comes to the right it's like, let's just roll over. I really feel like these people are paid to lose.
Pathetic. Just pathetic. Can a real progressive please stand up and give a proper response? or do i have to do it myself like in previous years lately?
EDIT: okay, listening to it again, it's a little stronger than I thought. A lot of hammering of trump and how he's doing giveaways for billionaires, but still kind of weak. We could do better. We NEED to do better.
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