If this isn’t the “full send” era for Democrats, then we have to be done with Democrats. We are well past the point where the degree and extent of their incompetence can put on the next election cycles tab, as a the party of “better luck next time” or “voter harderer”; the party of “this is the very most important election of our times ever part II, the remix; but we’re going to campaign like its 1994”.
Democrats have repeatedly shown themselves to be utterly incompetent stewards of the power we give them, and their argument for their mismanagement has consistently been “its the voters fault”. We are assuredly in the “too little, too late” part of finding out, and I don’t know what the future holds. I caught a lot of flack for trying to intone the severity of the stories and articles around voting rights this week and took many downvotes for the suggestion that where we are at is largely a function of how Democrats choose to govern. We aren’t going to be able to “cheer-lead” democrats to victory; its simply not enough. We not only need long term structural reform (which Democrats need to be expressing, in lockstep, as a unified party), but we also need short-term, interim stop gaps to survive this November, because with maps like these, its not gonna matter how many blue voters pokemon go to the poles.
What happened today probably puts the house out of reach, if we can expect Democratic legislatures to continue to do business as they’ve historically done so. There simply isn’t enough play in the system and peoples extreme dissatisfaction with the system can only get you so far when these structural barriers are being entrenched even more deeply than they already were. At least in elections.
The DNC would rather loose the black vote than loose the AIPAC dollar. The only hope now is state level democrats who might still have some fight left in them.
If this isn’t the “full send” era for Democrats, then we have to be done with Democrats. We are well past the point where the degree and extent of their incompetence can put on the next election cycles tab, as a the party of “better luck next time” or “voter harderer”; the party of “this is the very most important election of our times ever part II, the remix; but we’re going to campaign like its 1994”.
Democrats have repeatedly shown themselves to be utterly incompetent stewards of the power we give them, and their argument for their mismanagement has consistently been “its the voters fault”. We are assuredly in the “too little, too late” part of finding out, and I don’t know what the future holds. I caught a lot of flack for trying to intone the severity of the stories and articles around voting rights this week and took many downvotes for the suggestion that where we are at is largely a function of how Democrats choose to govern. We aren’t going to be able to “cheer-lead” democrats to victory; its simply not enough. We not only need long term structural reform (which Democrats need to be expressing, in lockstep, as a unified party), but we also need short-term, interim stop gaps to survive this November, because with maps like these, its not gonna matter how many blue voters pokemon go to the poles.
What happened today probably puts the house out of reach, if we can expect Democratic legislatures to continue to do business as they’ve historically done so. There simply isn’t enough play in the system and peoples extreme dissatisfaction with the system can only get you so far when these structural barriers are being entrenched even more deeply than they already were. At least in elections.
The DNC would rather loose the black vote than loose the AIPAC dollar. The only hope now is state level democrats who might still have some fight left in them.