bourgeois reformist bingo card playbook

• rotating villain in party to prevent reforms from passing (sinema, manchin)
• give up leverage at critical moment to "compromise" with reactionary colleagues
• get rugpulled at the last minute on purpose and play dumb about it
• constantly "worry" about appearing "too extreme" for the "centrist voter" and punch left as a "solution"
• combine bills/motions/clauses/provisions that ought not to be combined
• separate bills/motions/clauses/provisions that ought not to be separated
• always talk about your intentions
• block party movement to the left
• allow party movement to the right
• tell marginalized/powerless groups that you "feel their pain"
• tell marginalized/powerless groups that "now is not the right time for reform"
• tell marginalized/powerless groups to not be violent because it will ruin the reputation and electoral potential of the party
• tell marginalized/powerless groups to "be patient"
• denounce human rights abuses (of dubious authencity) in a foreign country
• advocate for military intervention to fix those human rights abuses (of dubious authenticity)
• ignore/downplay those same human rights abuses going on in the home country
• accept donations from the private sector
• fulfill the wishes of donors under any circumstances because their donations are large and tend to repeat
• accept donations from voters
• do not under any circumstances fulfill the wishes of voters because their donations are too small and tend not to repeat
• privatize the public sector
• push private costs of doing business onto the public
• deregulate industry
• push for austerity
• crush organized labor
• distract from class consciousness
• if you "solve" a problem make sure to solve it in an impermanent way so they can come back before the election cycle
• never purge your "enemies" (colleagues) because you need the threat of them winning to keep your voters in line
• never under any circumstances change the mode of production