So this was covered by a few outlets, but TYT was the last one i watched so they get the citation. So...we gotta talk about Israel again. I know, I know, I hate discussing Israel, but they seem to be, for better or for worse, at the forefront of our politics, and have been burning bridges with democratic voters like myself in recent years. And this time, there was a vote among DNC people regarding accepting donations from PACS like AIPAC, and several potential 2028 contenders got it shot down because...well...they wanna take money from this people.
*inhales*
*sighs*
Look. I used to be pro Israel. I wasnt pro Israel because someone was paying me, it was because I legitimately thought that they were the one liberal democracy in the middle east, and they had the moral high ground against the genocidal maniacs in Hamas. But...then they outed themselves as genocidal maniacs themselves. And then they started manipulating our politics to disgusting degrees. And then we lost the 2024 election in part because the whole Palestinian genocide thing really does matter with voters. And as it turns out, like 80% of democrats HATE israel at this point, because of this manipulation, including myself. And...as it turns out, we're in this war in Iran, in part because of fricking Israel. So it seems like Israel is a big fricking problem right now. And they've burned their bridges with the American people. Especially the left. And the democratic voters HATE them. And then the politicians are like "nah, F the voters, they'll vote for us anyway, let's take their money and do their bidding."
This is the problem the democrats have had for ten years. And at this point, it's getting scary. Back in 2016, you could give the republicans the benefit of the doubt. Yeah, they suck, yeah, they're insane, but they still respect our democracy, rule of law, and constitutional rights mostly. I mean, remember when the republicans were the "constitutionalists" who cares so much about the constitution they would attempt to procedure police us on LITERALLY EVERYTHING that didnt align with their weird idea how things were in 1789? Whatever happened to that? The modern GOP is openly fascist. They're setting up the groundwork for undermining the midterm elections. They're forming databases on their political critics, including random people who criticize them online apparently (hello, FBI), and potentially might take action against them in the future. They're trying to consolidate power in the executive branch, destroy democracy, and the first amendment. These aren't normal times, and the modern republican party has reached a level of evil where they need to be stopped, period.
But...here's the thing. It's like the democrats don't care. They have this attitude of F the voters, they better vote for us or else. But at the end of the day, democracy, as long as it exists, still belongs to those voters. It is up to the voters whether politicians and parties get elected or reelected, and this isn't just a moral claim, but a pragmatic one. Most election cycles democrats lose in, are the ones where they fail to motivate their base. 2010, 2014, 2016, 2024. The democrats have a morale problem. And rather than meet the voters where they are, they ignore them, lecture them, berate them, and bully them, but never actually appeal to them.
At this point, the standards aren't even very high. They're literally in the fricking basement. Even I'm 'vote blue no matter who" and am willing to put up with rather mediocre dems just to stop the GOP. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'd LOVE to "hold their feet to the fire" in advocating for my political ideals, but honestly, it's like...gee....let's get rid of this fascist threat first, ya know? my own political strategy kinda relies on the continuation of democracy to be effective. if we're one election from just backsliding into full on authoritarianism where we lose our democracy, our freedom of speech, our constitutional rights, then all is fricking lost. And we're kinda at that threat level now. And I wish the democrats would take this threat as seriously as I am. Because at the end of the day these guys are gonna be sent to the same camps as the rest of us.
Israel is fundamentally unpopular with democratic voters. Seriously, this faction grew when Biden was still in office, and with Biden gone, and Israel's worst impulses just flat out being out in the open, support is virtually nonexistent. So why keep kissing up to them? Why insist on the same third way nonsense that's cost them every election they've lost since 2016? Seriously. No one likes this stuff, but it's like no matter how much voters make their view clear, these guys just conveniently act like they didn't get the memo. Like the video above mentioned them tabling the democratic autopsy. Gee, I wonder why? because it basically told them that they lost because of Israel, and because of all the crap I've been railing about on this blog for ten years now?
Look, the democrats are the opposition party to the republicans. It is up to them to stop these fascists trying to destroy our government and way of life. And history tells me a pretty consistent narrative on this. Strong liberalism is the antidote to fascism. If you wanna stop fascism before it becomes a stage 4 cancer that threatens the downfall of our free society, you need a strong unapologetic liberalism that listens to the people. FDR faced these same challenges 90 years ago. And he rose above them. I may not agree with him on everything he did, but he at least saved the country and restored peoples' trust in it again.
On the other hand, a common refrain is that weak liberalism causes fascism to happen. When the social democrats failed in Germany, it allowed Hitler's Nazi party to come in and break the system, ending democracy until a world war happened that liberates people from them. If the democrats fail here, the same thing is gonna happen. It might already be too late. Its possible that the real test was 2024, and we failed it and now all we can do is watch while the fascists take over. However, as long as our democracy still stands, and at this moment it still does, we can mount a comeback. And the democrats need to be using their time, and using it wisely to come up with a counter strategy to Trumpism. But that involves leaning into a strong vision of democratic leadership a la FDR, not this weak crap we got with Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, and fricking Elissa Slotkin, who the dems keep putting out there as if they're setting her up to be the next leader of the party for some reason.
And they need to stop doing stupid stuff, like letting neocons come into our "big tent", and then lecturing us telling us that "leftists" aren't welcome in said tent. No, republicans should go back to their own party and fix it, not come in and ruin ours. If they wanna temporarily join with democrats to beat trump and restore liberal democracy, I welcome that. BUT, in the long term, they gotta go back and pick up the pieces in the republican party, restoring it to its pre fascist state. Otherwise we're stuck with this crap for the next several decades. Someone sane has to lead those lunatics, or they're gonna run the asylum, which is how we got here in the first place.
Honestly, the democrats gotta shape up. They gotta cut ties with israel, they gotta stop listening to the donor class and start listening to the people. Or we're gonna lose our democracy to the MAGA faction. Even if we win in 2026 and 2028, if the democrats cannot keep power and restore the American peoples' faith in them to govern, then MAGA is just gonna be back in 2030 and 2032. Just as, just because we were successful in 2018 and 2020 doesnt mean that Biden saved democracy. In some ways, he might've condemned it. Democrats gotta get off their butts and govern properly, take the next few years seriously, and win over the will of the American people to an acceptable degree to stave off the fascist threat. or things are gonna keep going like this until the GOP breaks things enough that we CANT come back from this. Their choice.
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