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17. I'll say this
Wed Feb 12, 2025, 03:18 PM
Feb 2025

...Indivisible and MoveOn did their share of disrupting the last election campaign against either Biden or Harris with daily trolling about what the Israeli president was doing in Gaza, or that Biden was too old.

If any Democrat is turning them off, it's because they appear to believe representing the entire party as deficient or negligent is smart politics. I think they're just spreading cynicism for clicks, which turns people away from the party.

If someone is publicly complaining they haven't seen enough from Democrats, and haven't done a thing to promote what myriad of our elected officials have actually been advocating and protesting since the swearing-in, then they have no credibility to talk to anyone about not sufficiently promoting the party's interests.

I mean, they're really just talking out of their own heads, no? It's really poor advocacy to fail to do the minimum to amplify what actual elected Dems are doing and saying, and just malpractice to do things which turn folks away from the ones we managed to elect.

The ONLY thing that will block republicans is a Democratic majority. EVERY time we elect Democrats to a majority, we progress.

Every time we don't the nation falters and fails. I'd adjust my actions accordingly if actual opposition to republicans is what they're after.

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