The electoral vote today showed why Democrats lose [View all]
After a month of a public campaign to get Republican electors to reject Trump, the only faithless electors turned out to be Democrats. Some 7-8 cast or tried to cast votes for Bernie Sanders, Colin Powell, and others.
Many Republicans despised Trump. The GOP bulit a movement around stopping him, but when push came to shove, on Election Day and today, they unified around their candidate. Meanwhile Democrats continue to nurture resentments from the primary and chose to allow an unstable narcissist with a cabinet full of billionaires take office because their guy didn't win the primary. That is why we lose.
Now people will respond to this thread insisting if the party weren't "corporatist," if only they picked the candidate I wanted, then they would be worthy of my support. That they don't do everything I want means they don't deserve MY vote. You aren't the only person on the planet, and if the party followed your exact demands, they would lose others. The problem isn't the politicians. It's us. It's the selfishness of people who insist if they don't get everything their way, they will throw the election to the GOP. It's PUMAs, BoBers, and idiots like me who voted for Nader in 2000. It's people who claim to be "real Democrats" but don't vote Democrat, who vote Third Party and then claim they bear no responsibility for the Democratic loss.
The party loses not because they don't make the perfect TV ads with the perfect messaging. We lose because ultimately too many Democrats or progressives care more about getting their way than the well-being of the country. As long as people continue to do so, the country will move increasingly to the right.
Faithless voters didn't teach the Democrats a lesson. They delivered the country to fascism. Everyone has the right to vote in an ultra right wing White Nationalist government if that is what they want. But don't for a second pretend it is because you're too "progressive" to vote for the Democrat the majority of the primary electorate voted for. Don't pretend it is because you care about money in politics, because if that were truly the concern those people would have voted for Clinton, who had specific policies to address those issues, rather than turning government directly over to billionaires.
The problem isn't messaging or campaign strategy. It's us. We act like losers, so we lose. And as long as we keep it up, we will keep on losing.
The only question now is do we wise up or stay losers?
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