It's rant time because depression and racing thoughts are fun.
I've been thinking about all of the more blatant Dem actions lately to push the "left" away from the party as far as possible. Part of me is confused. Why push away a potential voting block? After all, aren't you calling yourselves the "big tent" party?
Part of me wants to think that there is an ideological push from the centrist and Conservative Dems to get us out of their way. That they honestly did a 180 on the border and suddenly love cops, etc.
Maybe part of it is fear? Are Democrats getting enough credible death threats behind the scenes that they are running to the right out of fear?
A material analysis might come up with this: Democrats know how their bread is buttered and want to keep the money flowing. There is a large "industry" or NGOs, 501c3/4 orgs, party organizations, vendors, and other groups that make their money from donations or grants to push for this or that reform. If abortion becomes legal, Planned Parenthood Action Fund doesn't need to exist. If elections stop being close Priorities USA PAC can go away.
Money comes from all of the bullshit PACs like the Lincoln Project getting funded by bazinga-brained dipshits from Silicon Valley that believe in "both sides"/"unity" crap. They have all of the money, so those are the PACs we get. Black Lives Matter doesn't have money, so there are no orgs to sponsor it, which means no staffers needing to cover their asses.
Of course AIPAC is a huge part of this as well.
All the shitty Dem behavior kind of makes sense when you see it as a bunch of career staffers trying to protect their paychecks. They may not even be thinking about things this way, but they sure are acting like it.
What do you think?
I don't think any of this is targeted at us, it's all targeted at donors. The donors panicked when Biden fucked up the debate because they were worried that he wouldn't be able to deliver enough votes to stay in office and pass their policies. The Harris campaign is trying to settle them down by loudly declaring her strength and proclaiming that she's going to win. It's entirely marketing.
They will probably be able to push this through all the way to the election ("we're strong winners" is a popular message and Trump is washed) but then the marketing spend will drop off and we'll be stuck with Harris in office pushing the same failing policies as the Biden admin.
I'm thinking more of the things that would have cost $0 that the Dems just didn't do during their convention:
Tell your delegates to ignore protestors. Don't cover your ears, don't say anything, no smirks. That was an optics fail and def cost them votes.
Put a Palestinian on stage for five fucking minutes. Sherrif Porky can wait!
Was there even anything positive about trans people at the convention? I didn't watch it so IDK.
These are stupid simple mistakes for a PR event which tells me it's deliberate.
Another theory: The liberal establishment (both parties) see the "left" gaining traction since Bernie ran in 2016 and are trying to burn us all out and discourage the movement from growing. Yes the left is very small in the US but there's potential to grow. There's some exciting stuff happening in my area that I can't share because it would doxx me...
Their donors want the genocide against Palestine to continue so they can sell weapons, real estate developments in Gaza, and oil contracts. Putting a Palestinian on the stage would signal to them that they might not get what they want.
Signaling to a Zionist that they might not get what they want is akin to murder and a hate crime.