10 thoughts on “Karma”

  1. I think you’re still not getting it. When Obama won the White House, he decimated OFA as a national organization that could work on the ground to do things other than get him elected. Moreover, he warned major contributors not to give money to groups other than OFA, crippling liberal organizers who could help get downticket D’s elected or address lefty causes, like Planned Parenthood, SPLC, Union organizing, or NAACP. HRC funneled state party money into her presidential campaign, strangling downticket D races and necessary party functions in state, county, and municipal races. Now we don’t even have an up-and-coming farm team system to give local community organizers in-office experience to go on to run for statewide offices like AG or Governor (which turn into US Senate seats) or even congresscritters. It’s devastating. To say nothing of the disastrous DSCC and DCCC, who have been foisting absolutely atrocious DINOs as candidates. Take Florida for instance. This year’s contestant against “little Marco Rubio” was Murphy, who until he ran for senate was a Republican. Or look at Debbie Wasserman Schultz: as head of DCCC she neglected to run D’s against fellow Florida R’s because they were her “friends.” So naturally she became head of the DNC, where she pulled out all the stops for a losing candidate. So look no further than the center-right weenies who have been ruining the Democratic party for the reason a the Republicans own the House, the Senate, the White House, and 2/3 of all the state houses and senates and governorships. Don’t gloat about how the R’s are going to hurt working people. That’s just wrong.

    It’s time to clear out the dead wood in the Democratic party. Their politics is wrong, and they lose elections. The era of triangulation is dead–they played that game once too often, and people recognized they really could go elsewhere or sit on their hands. Protecting civil rights is non-negotiable for everybody in the big D, but it’s time to identify popular policies and legislation that will lift up all Americans, rather than electing politicians who will sell out of their pants to Wall Street, or fail to prosecute individuals in the banking industry.

  3. If I may quote Mike Lumish, from a comment thread at the blog Driftglass:

    Being myself a rural white guy, with family all over the rural white guy parts of this continent, my fundamental problem with all this squawking about rural white guys and their alleged abandonment by the Democratic Party is the historical fact that the rural white guys could not run away fast enough from the Democratic Party in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Era.

    I am also non-elite white, from a rural-oriented state. My people are a stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears. They abandoned the Democratic Party long before the Bill Clinton era, because they would rather live without a safety net than have those N-people get any benefits from it.

    If Jay thinks economic populism would win back those moral degenerates to the D-Party, he knows less about my degenerate people than Elmer Fudd knows about proper diction.

    Selah.

  10. No, you should get out–of this blog. You belong under your bridge, waiting for the 3 Billy Goats Gruff.

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