I know, I know, another Hasan article, but I really wanna drive this point home. I want to discuss why he's such a target and why he's public enemy number one. It's because he's campaigning for progressive candidates. In a vacuum, the democrats don't care about Hasan. He's a two bit streamer on twitch and youtube, and if he was really that useless, they wouldn't care. But he's not useless. He's advocating for change, and that is a threat to the system as it exists. Currently, we have two parties. As we know, the republicans are unhinged psychopaths. But the democrats are useless. And they're not useless in a benign, well meaning way, but in their own evil, malignant way. The democrats are controlled opposition of interest groups that represent wealthy special interests. They prefer republicans, but will accept democrats, because democrats have controlled and captured the left in a way where it stops actual lefties who want to actually fix things from getting power.
We are in a populist alignment of politics. Since 2016, populist elements on the left and right have risen up. The right wing populists are scary and dangerous. They're represented by Trump, MAGA, and the "America first" movement, and are a right wing xenophobic, christian nationalist, and authoritarian movement. They're fascist. Let's call them fascist. The definition fits close enough. The right wing populists are a bit more on the mark. They see the problem with society as these special interests, and want to actually change society to make it more responsive to the people. They want working class movements that have higher pay, and better working conditions, and stronger safety nets. And the wealthy and powerful don't want that.
These democrats will do anything they can to ensure that the populist left never gains power. THey fight us harder than MAGA, and see us as a bigger threat to the system than MAGA. So they'll push all of this unhinged crap about Hasan to try to damage those movements by poisoning the well. They'll start screaming about the worst things he's ever said or done, and with a man like hasan who does hours long streams every day, can be numerous, even if 99% of the time, he says stuff that makes sense. Anyone can cherrypick someone's worst takes and take them out of context, but honestly, that shouldnt discredit the individual. But your average voter is stupid, and they know that. So they do this hoping it hurts the campaigns of those who he campaigns for, and to some extent it does. Every topic I come across is flooded with centrist democrats calling him a dog abuser, and going on about whatever unhinged stuff he said 7 years ago.
Some of the arguments seem largely contradictory. Like they'll say he doesn't do anything and he doesn't advocate for any change, he just attacks democrats. Except....he's being attacked because he IS doing something, he's campaigning for progressive candidates. And if you tune into the rallies he participates in, it's standard fare progressivism. it's just, "I wanna make your lives better, vote for me." What's so bad about that? I'll tell you what, it upsets the special interests who rely on the system sucking and being oppressive to make their money. it upsets Israel who floods the US political system to make our country subservient to their interests. And Hasan is a very harsh critic of Israel.
They'll say Hasan doesn't attack republicans, but then like three hours before I read this, he posted a video about some BS Trump was doing.
But yeah, the big sin a lot of centrists hate him for is he doesnt blindly push "blue no matter who" and attacks centrist democrats. Except, and here's the thing that pisses ME off about centrist democrats, those centrists dont do anything. And it seems like they have this idea that politics is a "team sport", and you're just supposed to blindly support your team. You're not supposed to have "purity tests" like wanting universal healthcare, or to want Israel to stop committing genocide. You're just supposed to vote for who the nominee is.
...but never forget, the nominee will always be a centrist. Progressives can't win, blah blah blah, incremental change, moderation is key, F progressives. Yeah. And that's what turned me against them back in 2016. Because they talk a big game about blue no matter who, but they HATE progressives, they DESPISE them. They expect US to mindlessly fall in line, but they won't fall in line behind our candidates. They struggled to support Mamdani, and Cuomo even ran a third party bid against him. They struggle to support Grahm Platner, who just BTFOed Janet Mills, who was the Schumer approved candidate. And they HATE, HATE Abdul El Sayed for some reason.
Honestly, again, here's the thing. If the campaigns between more moderate progressives and the hard left ones were a bit more cordial, I'd probably be more supportive of the moderate candidates. Again, I actually liked McMorrow over El Sayed initially. But when that brand of establishment politics gets control over a campaign like that and started launching deranged and unhinged attacks against El Sayed, it makes you wonder, what are they fighting so hard to prevent here? Someone who wants universal healthcare? And if McMorrow wins, what's she gonna do? Will she actually be for a public option or will she just start catering to the health insurance industry? Who is bankrolling this stuff? What interests are being served by McMorrow winning? Is she compromised? is she controllable? I mean thats how I start thinking.
It's the same crap that pissed me off in 2016. Like...the primary between Clinton and Sanders didn't have to be as nasty as it was either. If it were more cordial, I might have voted for Clinton. I didn't love stein, I even debated stein vs clinton on this blog. But...I just had too much pride to support Clinton, given how I was treated. Because it was the same toxic BS we're seeing now. It was the Clinton people who launched the first shot against the Sanders people. The reason the "Bernie Bros" was because some of us just refused to support clinton after we were treated like absolute garbage and were bullied online by the clinton people. because they basically came in, told us we cant have nice things, talked down to us, condescended to us, and told us we had to vote for them, and after over a year of that treatment, some of us (like me) were in a mood to just tell these people to go F ourselves. And quite frankly, I do think we were significant enough to throw 2016. And the dems will blame us, but you know what? They should blame themselves. Again, like, I'm NOT an irrational actor here. These people DROVE me to act as I did. Had they not pissed me off, I probably would've voted for clinton. It's not that I liked clinton, I didn't, but if I felt like the primary was significantly less nasty and the dems didn't spend so much time slinging crap at us for daring to disagree with them, ya know, I probably would've freely given them my vote. I just wasn't gonna gonna take their crap lying down.
I still feel the same way, btw. I mean, I know I cave to them more, but that's really just a Donald Trump issue. Like, yeah, I REALLY hate these MFers in the democratic party, yeah, sure. BUT....when you're dealing with an outright fascist who is a literal threat to democracy and is creating the biggest constitutional crisis we've arguably seen since the civil war, even I have to be like "okay, you win, I HATE you MFers, but I'll vote for you for the good of the country."
Still....I will trash them on my blog, and online elsewhere. I will still remind them that their caustic attitudes are why they currently have a -22% net approval rating, which, btw, is WORSE than Trump's and the republican party's, because at least the GOP LIKES their psychos in charge, the dems aren't really pleasing anyone. The only reason I dont protest vote them any more is because Trump just IS that dangerous. Protest voting is a great strategy when you can count on the continued existence of our democratic system. Like back in 2016 and 2020, honestly, pre Jan 6th in general, I basically assumed that the continued existence of our democratic system was a given. Even if trump was a wannabe dictatorship, I understood that there were enough people in all the right places to ensure that he couldn't functionally do anything to overthrow that. BUT....he made a serious pass at it, almost succeeded, and then came back with an army of yes people that he's filling the government with who will go along with whatever insane stuff he wants. And he's consolidating power.
So...sadly, we need to hope those worthless dems are just competent enough to not fricking just surrender the country to trump on a silver platter. Which is an awfully low bar, and I'm honestly not even sure the dems can clear it, that's how bad they are. Like seriously. I do feel like the dems should be fighting trump harder. They seem to be slow walking us into fascism themselves by just being that freaking complacent and incompetent. And that's the thing that's really terrifying me. Even in the face of an obvious fascist threat, these guys are STILL more preoccupied with fighting hasan piker than Donald trump. And then they complain that WE'RE not dedicated to combatting donald trump because we dont join the blue no matter who brigade. it's ridiculous. We want someone who will fight trump, the problem is, the dems don't fight him hard enough. They make stupid nonsense bills condemning hasan piker. Why not spend that same energy offering condemnations of trump? And I wanna go back to what I wrote back in January. Just how bad to do you have to mess up to lose me as a voter? Well as it turns out you just stop fighting the opposition and end up being a diet version of them.
And that's where I'll leave this. Establishment democrats are diet maga, except no one likes them. because MAGA thinks they're radical communists, and actual progressives just see them as diet republicans who have more in common with 2008 me than 2026 me. Seriously. We ARE getting to the point where Bush era republicans are functionally democrats now. And those of us who are REAL progressives fricking HATE them for it.
But yeah. Always remember, this is why they hate Hasan. Because he's an actual progressive who, yeah, maybe he has some crap takes from time to time. I do wanna make sure I point out I dont endorse literally every bad thing he's ever said. I'm my own guy, with my own views. And sometimes I disagree with Hasan in significant ways. BUT....and this is important. I'll defend hasan against a centrist craplib who wants to attack him because they want the dems to remain a hugbox of uselessness. I'll defend them from the HRC types, the mcmorrow types. The types who think actually doing something with power to help the people is a bad thing, and we should just mindlessly elect worthless dems who don't wanna actually do anything useful with their lives. And that's why I'm writing so much about this.
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