It doesn’t matter how many DSA activists you elect. It doesn’t even really matter how many of them meant it and how many just saw the DSA as an easy career boost. Because the party is controlled by the Clintons and their Third Way Foundation. No one will ever get one tiny iota of actual power in the party without proving to all the Neoliberal ghouls that they’re willing to join in on the ghoulishness.

Love how the headline seems to imply that the blame is misplaced…

If the rest of your ideas are as trash as your politics I can see why.

See ya in a few months when I come back with your award!

Lol, the ShitLib with his head in the sand thinks he’s worth a new zinger.

You’re not even worth a Certified Refurbished ™ zinger.

“Anyone who questions my precious narratives (that I take from billionaire owned media and a center-right political party) is obviously a dirty foreigner” and other fairy tales Liberals tell themselves to explain why reality keeps running counter to their belief system

that work you put in helped get us in a more progressive space today.

But it didn’t, because we haven’t. All that’s happened is the same old party machine has revamped its branding a bit. Half that crop of DSA freshmen are Third Way plants or other dissembling opportunists using the current zeitgeist to further their careers, and the other half will never be allowed to be anything but the bait that keeps dragging left-leaning Liberals back to the center right party.

I hope that in a decade, I do not end up as pessimistic and sapped of hope as you are currently.

As long as you never look under the hood of the party to see how its power structures work and never question any party narratives about why policy keeps moving right no matter how much the voters want it to move left, then you probably won’t. But you’ll also never see the world you think you’re voting for.

I spent a decade as a campaign staffer for progressive Dem candidates. I know whereof I speak when I say that’s all a waste of time if your phone calls, door knocks, and organizing are running through the Democratic Party, because the people who control the levers of power inside the party will never allow anyone to the left of Kissinger to touch them. They’ve created all the rules to guarantee no body can stop them or take away their ability to gatekeep.all the meaningful power in the party.

But don’t take my word for it, take your own advice, bust your ass for progressive campaigns and see how far it gets you. Once you see it for yourself, you’ll basically be me.

Pretending that DSA Blue is in any way meaningfully different than Third Way Blue is an exercise in idealism and a refusal to learn anything at all from history. Your Fell For It Again Award will be along in 6-12 months when the fig leaf falls off and the naked neoliberalism is back on display.

Lol, ShitLibs are always convinced their idealism will pan out this time. It’d be funny if the rest of us didn’t have to live with the consequences of your inaction.

I’ll swing back by in 6 mths to a year, once the exceedingly likely has become exceedingly obvious, to give you your Fell For It Again Award.

And the Democrats will once again ignore any mandate from voters that conflicts with the orders they get from their donors.

There’s a warehouse full of shiny new Fell For It Again awards waiting to be handed out to all the optimistic ShitLibs who saw the returns Tuesday night and are already checked out and back at brunch.

“progressive” is a meaningless marketing term intended to fool Leftists into voting for Liberals.

There were actually more Democrats in the House and Senate than have actually been certified so far in this Blue Wave, and (briefly) a filibuster proof Supermajority in the Senate.

And just like we’ll see them do again over the next two years, they whined and hid behind procedure and started all negotiations with the GOP from an already compromised position and generally helped the country continue slouching rightward so efficiently that a naked fascist started getting traction in the next GOP primary.

So you’re not old enough to remember the Obama administration then. Cool. Bye, kiddo.

Lol, you’re either very young or you have the memory of a goldfish.

Call it a prophecy. Come back in 2 years and review the accuracy.

Photo Ops and Soaring Rhetoric: increase 1000%

Actual changes to policy that will meaningfully change the status quo: nothing changed.

Your mistake is on believing the Dems are The Left. They’re center right.

They’re also beholden to the same donors as the GOP, so the comment you’re replying to is far more grounded in reality than your optimism about the Dems actually doing anything at all except continuing the process of wealth transfer from the working class to the investor/donor class.

Well. I’m certainly always persuaded when employees investigate their employers…

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