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

[Hellbound Hellhound]

138. Alright, let's get into the nitty gritty of it.

This isn't going to be pretty (Rhymes with nitty gritty) but here goes.

"Why does your party base see our party only taking on 1% issues" is simply answered: Because that's what makes headlines. Even in liberal-leaning media like Bluesky, TikTok, Twitter/X, et cet, the core focal issues are things like "trans bathrooms". Not my phrasing, but that tends to be in the hashtags. Like it or not, our party trends older; Young people, while still dominantly Democratic, are increasingly identifying as neither party or as Republicans. While the young women vote is still trending, marginally, towards the Dems, there's a massively increasing pressure in social media towards right wing women; Tradwives, Counterculture women, and the newer phenomenon of "Pick-Me" influencers. I'm not a woman, so I can't speak truly on any of them, but there's an increasing contingent of women influencers that are increasingly pro-Conservative, if not overtly Republican. Likewise, there's a VERY dominant theme of black men also joining this rightward shift of influencers, black men and women opposing the Democratic platform as antagonistic to their cause and instead embracing right-wing populism, citing "Lack of leadership" from the Dems. This can also be seen in the Hispanic and Asian fields, though those two tend to be less actively prevalent.

In my opinion and the experience I have in real life, in THAT regard, these groups see what Democrats are -currently- doing, say with Newsom or Schumer or Pelosi or even AOC, and they see it as performative; Lip service tantamount to shameless, bare-minimum groveling to wrangle their vote and then forget about them for another four years until voting time comes around again. Because when Dems are in power, "We need to keep our powder dry" and when we're out of power, "We can't do anything because we didn't vote hard enough". We've essentially created an ecosystem where we alienate our own voters purely by existing, at least in their eyes.

As far as my thoughts on messaging, the pure and simple of it is this; We need a grassroots push. Not just Meidas, although they're at least a start; We need to push HARD. Not in terms of "outrage" or "OMG TRUMP IS TOAST" nonsense, but just getting our message out in areas that are stereotypically more rightward-leaning. We can say "Oh, fuck Rogan, he endorsed Trump", but he's backtracked and expressed regret/remorse/second thoughts; USE IT. Lean into it. Get on his podcast with every charismatic Dem we have. Fuck me, Rogan was a Dem up until fairly recently, mostly because we were "Too pure" to bother with him and after we gave him an enthusiastic "Fuck you" for talking to the wrong no-no people, he swapped to the right. It may not have been the morally or ethically correct thing for him to do, but it's an understandable position; "These people told me to fuck off, so off shall I fuck" is a natural reaction.

I see the Democratic party a bit like modern-day Veganism; There are degrees to it. You'll always have the diehards, you'll have the casuals, the fly-by-nighters, those who are "Vegan-er-than-thou" who won't eat anything that casts a shadow, but at the end of the day, they're all Vegan. This is the problem with the modern Dem party in my opinion. We're SO widespread that anything less than "perfect" to any given one of us is a point of division.

Do I agree with you, or those who say "Dems are doing all they can!"? Fuck no. But I'm not willing to say "You're not real Democrats you Godless Heathens!" (Sarcasm) because that sort of shit is part of what's wrong with our party.

Anyways, you asked. A bit of a long-winded stream-of-thought answer, but that's what's on my mind.

Thank you for inviting it, and I'm eager to hear your own response to it. Dialogue is always valued, especially with those who may disagree with me.

ON EDIT: Clarifying previous "popularism" with "populism".