The real reason there are so many threads about alleged "Progressive vote suppression"

[winter is coming]

40. My favorite is the "Dem bashing is hurting us" meme.

Very few politicians on the national scene are willing to speak honestly about economic issues and how screwed the average American is. Pointing out that Dems are largely sidestepping an enormous issue is "bashing". Every time I see that, I think of dysfunctional families: the problem isn't that Dad's an alcoholic, the problem is that you told people that Dad's an alcoholic. Fuck that noise.

When Dems aren't even willing to speak honestly about a pressing issue--much less try to address it--they should be criticized, and failing to do so makes us look out of touch when we try to sell Dem candidates to our nonpolitical friends. If you give someone happy shiny talk when the world is blatantly not happy-shiny, you get written off as a propagandist and/or a fool.