So...I'm like addicted to this race now. It's stupid. I can't even vote in it. I'm not from Michigan, and honestly, the primary is like FOUR MONTHS AWAY. Seriously, why, in the everloving fudge, would you schedule a primary for AUGUST?! I thought this stuff wrapped up in June so people can focus on the general. If anything is gonna divide the party, it's this contentious primary going late into what I consider "general election territory" (I normally shift to that mode around July). But apparently someone thought it was a good idea to do this, and here we are. Messes with my models, and given how nasty this one is getting, it COULD lead to bitterness and infighting well into the final stretch of 2026. And given we need that senate seat, yeah...not good.
But, if anything, that bitterness and infighting is why I'm addicted to it. Because it's spilling out online in my online spaces, and it's your typical establishment vs progressive slugfest. And ironically, the main slugfest doesnt involve Stevens. It's actually all McMorrow vs El Sayed. A lot of the negative campaigning around El Sayed actually seems to be coming from the McMorrow camp. She's the one claiming that Hasan Piker is like the equivalent of Nick Fuentes and charging El Sayed of guilt by association. And most of the people expressing Hasan derangement syndrome seem to be McMorrow supporters. Normally I would attribute that to the Stevens type camp but she seems to largely be staying out of it. I think even the insiders know Stevens is toast so they're trying to back McMorrow.
But here's the thing. A lot of this negativity is making me sour on McMorrow. I'm hearing so much unhinged crazy crap coming out of the McMorrow supporters that it's alienating me big time. I mean, they say El Sayed supporters are obnoxious, I'm not seeing it. Sure, leftists can be obnoxious purity testy POSes at times, but I'm gonna be blunt, 90% of the negativity I see is coming from McMorrow supporters blasting him for NO REASON. Seriously, El Sayed is NOT a radical extremist, he's NOT nick fuentes, and Hasan Piker isn't Abdul El Sayed. Even if it were Hasan running the amount of character assassination is disproportionate to his actual character. Yeah, Hasan says crappy things online. Some of them are taken out of context. But you got this shrill OMG LOOK AT HOW OFFENSIVE THIS IS vibe to it and it's just...no. Over the top.
But then if El Sayed supporters say like 2 things questioning McMorrow's association to certain donors like AIPAC, they lose their their crap. Again, I know, leftists are annoying with it. McMorrow hasnt taken any money from them in 2026 to my knowledge, although has in the past, leftists are tearing her apart for past contributions though. And I'll actually defend McMorrow here. If you look at my blog, I was quite defensive of Israel in the 2024 election cycle. Mainly because I didn't care and my worldview on it was more neutral and nuanced, but I have evolved to take a harder line against them since. If I ran for office, leftists would be blasting me for it, just like her. And I'll say it. Grow tf up. Not everyone is gonna put your one single issue purity test first. But...sadly because of the nature of politics in the modern era, support for Israel is more of an issue. Just like with this, we're all dragged into it, and forced to take a side, and I side with the progressives. Take the W for what it is, FFS. And same with McMorrow.
So, I will SOMEWHAT concede that point. But I'll be honest if I had to choose between the palestine purity testers and the centrists who are giving me massive Hillary vibes, I choose the leftists.
And that's what's alienating me so much from McMorrow's campaign. Her campaign has MASSIVE Clinton 2016 vibes. Screaming El Sayed is an extremist for the crimes of wanting to give people healthcare and wanting to end a genocide in palestine. Screaming his supporters are so obnoxious, when from my angle its the McMorrow supporters who wont stfu going on about the most deranged unhinged #### for 5 seconds. Seriously, one sub I'm in literally has like 5 topics on this. And it's all establishment centrists tilting at fricking windmills. And then the second the left punches back at all, all of the sudden they're all screaming about how obnoxious El Sayed supporters are.
And you know what? It's literally reminding me of 2016 again. It's the bernie bro strategy. Paint not just El Sayed but focus on how annoying his supporters are. But again, the mcmorrow people are literally worse. Oh, and there's even a lot of accusations of sexism. Like, they'll literally claim people are sexist against McMorrow. Uh...no? But...again thats an annoying thing dems do, they take their candidate's identity and make bad faith accusations of sexism to turn it into this obnoxious tribalistic thing. And it's not true. At least personally, I've been nothing but fair toward McMorrow. I originally gravitated toward her based on her platform. I thought her debate performance was reasonably solid. And...if we're gonna do INTERNAL biases, I'll be blunt. She's a cute girl in my age range. That actually makes me more POSITIVE toward her. Not that I'll simp for a female candidate because I think she's cute, that's weird, I mean, I am trying to be objective here. But if anything the gender dynamics go more positive for me. Consider it "beneviolent sexism", what have you, but yeah, to be blunt...yeah.
But again, I dont make political decisions based off of that kind of attraction, that's stupid, so yeah. Objectivity.
ANyway, if anything sours me on mcmorrow and her campaign, it IS all these bad faith tactics. Especially when I explore the el sayed side of things and it's just "I wanna do nice things for you and get money out of politics, and they want to stop me." Like, really, that's the real message el sayed is giving off, and that's positive. And, if anything, seeing the deranged crap coming from McMorrow and her campaign makes me think less of her. It's a character issue. El Sayed, say what else you have about him, he has unimpeachable character. However, if you're an establishment candidate letting these establishment ghouls run a cringey 90s style campaign that I find offputting and alienating, I do have to wonder....who is actually behind this, and what is their incentive here? Like, my own take on politics the past 10 years has been closer to el sayed's take. The good people who want to actually make things happen are relentlessly attacked by those who DONT want those things to happen. And when those guys run out of valid excuses, they turn to bad faith character assassination like this. We saw it with clinton 2016, and we're seeing it again here. The political establishment, the donors, the money people, I mean, McMorrow might reject their help directly, her donor record seems pretty decent from what I can see, but I really gotta ask....if all of these groups are helping her do all this mudslinging.....how is she going to actually govern? Like, push comes to shove, will she have the moral courage to do the right thing? Will she help pass universal healthcare? Get money out of politics? Defund Israel? Or will she just become another establishment democrat who makes more excuses about why they cant do things, than actually trying?
Seriously, the democrats in office sometimes seem like the people who are sitting in front of a red button that will solve all of our problems, and then they go on and on about why they cant just push it. Will McMorrow become another one of THOSE? She has a nice platform, BUT....if she answers to donors and establishment pressure, well, that's not gonna help, right? Because those people dont want candidates who actually do the right thing. Hell, the reason they spend so much money in politics is to ensure that the candidates who get in, they can control. They wont step out of line and push the button. Again, it's like democrats in congress are sitting in front of a red button to solve our issues and they wont push it. But when you think about why they won't, it's because behind them is an entire political infrastructure ensuring that they don't.
And that's why all this stuff is happening, and why there's so much character assassination coming from McMorrow's campaign. It's the political establishment weighing in, and trying to use their might to ensure the candidate who they CANT control el sayed, can't win. And they'll use every dirty trick in the book. It doesnt work on me.
And, the more I reason about this, the more I drifted toward El Sayed. Again, ironically, if the establishment dems just stfued or went off and idk, supported stevens more outright, I would probably think higher of mcmorrow. My first instinct, looking at political platforms, was to back mcmorrow. I'm not someone who always agrees with progressives on exact policies. I'm not die hard pro palestine, I'm not for a green new deal, I'm not for full blown single payer at this point. I actually fit more into that more liberal lane of politics mcmorrow speaks to in some ways. I mean, my big priority is UBI. The leftist lane of the party has priorities mutually exclusive with my ideal approach. By that I mean, their stuff cant really coexist with UBI as its very expensive. BUT....let's be frank. THe moderate lanes just exist to ensure that any of us more left than them can't do ANYTHING. Like, again, that's their whole point. To talk us down, make us accept more moderate solutions, and then walk THOSE back in office. And...if Mcmorrow is gonna allow that moderate establishment stink to permeate her campaign, I want nothing to do with it. I'm progressive at heart, I just have differences in how my progressivism manifests in terms of policy. So yeah.
Frankly, I like McMorrow enough where I wont be that disappointed if she wins. And honestly, this aint even my state to begin with. But yeah. I just wanted to get some thoughts out here.
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