Reasonable Democrats are going to have to get off their couches, roll up their sleeves and start organizing real voters on the ground.
We can no longer rely only on TV ads, digital spend and endorsements. Just donating from afar and complaining about the DSA won’t cut it.
The DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) can beat moderates in a growing number of blue strongholds. Why? Because the DSA has patiently built an army of on-the-ground organizers — who go to meetings, help each other, study together and THEN work to turn out voters on Election Day. That army grows every day — election or no election. Their investment in real people grows (and compounds) with each election cycle. The DSA has a bigger army, every time, win or lose.
But at the end of any election, all moderate Dems have for their efforts is a bunch of ads that nobody will ever see again. That’s not going to work anymore.
If you are a Democrat who believes in opportunity, dignity and democracy for all — but you don’t hate rich people, cops, free enterprise, the West, Israel and the United States of America — I’m talking to you!
I'm not running for office. But if I were, these are some of the lessons I'd take away from what happened in NY yesterday.
1. Authenticity is measurable. Voters can smell a focus group from a mile away.
2. Endorsements from the current Democratic leadership now read like warnings. The establishment wing of the party is no longer a sword. It's a question mark.
3. Conviction beats caution. The candidates who said hard things about rent, about who pays for what, about Gaza, they won. The triangulators lost.
4. Cost of living is everything. Everything else is wallpaper.
5. The middle is not a strategy. It's an empty room. Voters reached past the establishment to grab someone who actually believes something.
6. Don't fear the base. Court it. The Democrats who ran from their own voters lost. The ones who ran toward them won.
7. If you want to lead a party you have to be willing to fight inside it. Mamdani didn't ask permission. He took the field.
The lesson under the lessons: the country is tired of being managed. People want to be led.
@jhinsfourthshot@dmoonglampers_@signulll sure but it shows what direction the democrats are going towards because theyre crazy unpopular. theyre heading towards a populist message much like trump was saying back in ‘16 except he failed on fulfilling that populist agenda
Another reminder that there are hundreds of thousands of Palestinians unaccounted for, presumed dead, under rubble in the Gaza Strip. Gaza is an open-air extermination camp and Israel is attempting to kill those remaining via starvation, disease, airstrikes, and/or lack of care.
Kyle Kulinski: “Graham Planter can jack off to a cartoon of Scooby Doo wearing Bryon Noem’s big ass titties and I will crawl over fucking broken glass to support that man. Why? Because he actually wants to end the wars, he actually wants to stand up to the Israeli genocidal terror state, he actually wants to crack down on the Epstein Class and arrest the criminals and take down the billionaires and redistribute that money and give people healthcare”
For the record, the president of the United States is now simultaneously claiming that he has won the war, is currently winning the war, needs help to win the war, and needs no help to win the war. All to destroy the nuclear program he claims to have already destroyed last year.
We are nearly 2 years into a genocide paid for with our tax dollars. If you are a political commentator and you are too afraid to consistently speak out against it, you are beyond pathetic. If you are actively supporting and enabling you are beneath contempt, participating in pure evil.
Israel’s excuse for everything is one word: Hamas. Journalists are Hamas, doctors are Hamas, kids in hospitals are Hamas, even global scholars now become Hamas if they expose genocide. Turkey speaks? Hamas. Ireland condemns? Hamas. UN votes? Hamas. Entire Palestine? Hamas. It’s almost comical the only way Israel justifies bombing schools, mosques, and aid convoys is by shouting Hamas like a broken record. When the whole world is “Hamas” in your narrative, maybe the problem isn’t Hamas maybe the problem is you.
@doodlingdoo @JayStax413@krystalball “Police usually don’t start throwing people around for nothing” and then i proceeded to inform him that police brutality exists too. whats the problem here