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

[Hellbound Hellhound]

133. I agree with you in principle.

That said, it's one thing to say "Dems Suck" and give no context, but that's not what Velshi has done, or what any serious pundit has done since at least 2016; What they're saying is that leadership is out of touch with the base, and here in deep, sapphire-blue New York, that sentiment is true. The party apparatus is disintigrating up here, and while it's great your "No Kings" rally had 1000 people, New York has more of a chance going Red than Florida does of going Blue. There's a reason for that and it's not just because people say "Dems Suck".

The messaging is awful. The party base sees our party taking on 1% issues and dying on hills that never even need to be defended. They want clear, effective, meaningful messaging, not change; they want to talk economy, politics, policies and ways we can move forward, not "TRUMP BAD" or "NO KINGS" or other variable soundbytes; Those are distractions at best and actively harmful at worst outside of maybe a few dozen percentage points of the most die-hard of our party. I mean hell, a local "No Kings" protest near me in pure blue territory mustered 11 people in a town of 29,000. So it's great you can swing a 1k pull, but elsewhere there's a 28k loss in what should reliably be blue territory.

I don't have answers. I don't profess to. And simply expressing a sentiment, that leadership isn't doing enough, isn't "Dem Bashing" but an expressing of a personal truth. To me, they AREN'T doing enough; I find Schumer lackluster and uninspiring at best. Pelosi, for all her love here on DU, I find a worthy ally but a tired one with little real power. AOC is leading a charge but she's not "leadership", and Newsom is just playing "Neener Neener" with Trump, none of which does anything to advance the Democratic cause outside of feel-good "Yeah, make fun of them!" playground nonsense. These aren't "Truths" or "Bashing", just my personal opinion of the leadership we have, and a mild echo of the people around me voicing the same thing before they abandon the local Dem chapters.

Like I said, I don't have answers. I likely never will. But I'm not getting paid by a national party apparatus to do so, yet it seems I'm on equal footing with current party leadership as far as "Ideas" go.