It's headlines like this one that make me want to start throwing stuff whenever someone makes the argument that the left is undermining the democrats by refusing to be satisfied with whatever crumbs they're throwing us this week. Everyone knows the Republicans suck, so criticizing the one party that still pretends to be accountable to its ostensible constituents for not doing enough to help those constituents should be a reasonable thing to do. The only rub here is that the Democratic leadership does not want to actually help, does not want to be held accountable, and doesn't want to be criticized, and so they've managed to convince their followers that reflecting on what's actually happening to society's most vulnerable is treasonous empowerment of the Republicans, who are the enemy but also reasonable people whom we still need to work with.

Nothing here is new, I'm just updating everyone on my slow slide into incoherence as I continue to gaze into the abyss.