Excellent takedown of Velshi's "WTF are the Dems!!11" rant yesterday

[Hellbound Hellhound]

131. Who is this person and why should we put any credence in what they say?

"I put in so much work" ... That's great. Like what? Who are you? What have you done? All I know is they have "over 5,000 followers" as per their blog, apparently, but shit I've got more than that and I'm not any sort of activist (on social media) at all.

Great that whoever they are did something (apparently), but so are millions of the rest of us rank and file Dems, and more than a few of us believe that Dem leadership ISN'T doing enough. Are we worth less than this one random person?

Velshi is right, and there's no harm in admitting it. It's not a case of "DEMS BAD" but purely a matter of optics and effectivity. Hell, how many times are people told here "If you want change, run for office", but then you have cases like David Hogg who DO want change, who DO run for office, then the Party mechanism ousts them on a technicality because they're "not the right kind of Democrat". Or in Hogg's case, he had the wrong set of genitals at birth (which is its own completely different set of nonsense that flies in the face of the declared Party platform)

We run and we try to change, we're shut down. We try to speak up within the system, we're told "YOUR OPINION IS WRONG". We try to effect change independently, we're met with "HOW DARE YOU SAY DEMS BAD".

I mean fuck me, what options are left? I've run out of shit to tell my local Dem group, and we've lost 90%+ of our membership in the past year. That's not just disheartening, it's proof that what we're doing isn't working, yet I'm sure that truth would be met with "Well they were never REAL Democrats!!1!"

There's no harm in genuine constructive criticism yet the second anyone says anything that isn't glowing praise of the "D", it's considered "Bashing Dems". What the hell can we do?