You might be a ratfucker if you attack party brothers/sisters on the eve of an election

[DirkGently]

133. Good lord. No one thinks liberals are quashing the vote.

That is the hilarious fallacy here:

Step 1: Conservative, third-way Dems are right about everything.

Step 2: Therefore, critique from the left, by definition harms the party.

Step 3: Thus, when elections go badly, it is due to criticism of the right, by the left.

Step 4: Therefore, liberals are like Nixonian goons, killing the pragmatic, workable premise that the Democratic Party is center-right.

Except Nixonian goons are by definition conservative, but we're ignoring that like every other bit of logic or reason, in order to create the Liberals are Ratfuckers Thesis.

Jesus.

Of course, only works if you make the gigantic and rather unlikely assumption that liberal critique can only hurt the party and that any such talk therefore ... what was it again? Creates an "unwritten messsage not to vote?"



Nobody thinks that.