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 think they already conclusively proved to themselves that we're under their boot in '20. Walz is literally the guy who called in the army to put down the center of the uprising in Minneapolis. Their ticket is one of America's highest ranking cops and a governor who proved he is willing to use military occupation to crush a black uprising against the police. They don't need to pretend on Palestine. If anyone tries anything they can send in the cops and army right away and crush the insurgency without much risk of public resistance. And they did. I wasn't watching the news at the time but from what I understand they quickly crushed student organizing earlier this summer using police squads and gangs of fascists. They did it, it worked, there's no organized opposition or resistance, this is their victory lap. Walz serves the same purpose as Biden - an old mean honky with a proven record of racial violence to ease the fears of the Klan voters. They're dominant. We'vr got nothing to fight them with. If they lose they can either do it again in four years or switch teams and join the gop.
The student encampments ended because everyone went home for the summer.
In my area there were local Palestinian families that wanted to stay. There were plans to keep the camps going in a reduced capacity during the summer. :(