priya

[priya @priya_chary]

I hate this bitch too

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

Then why didn't you run yourself, or support a change candidate? What's the point of being an Independent if you spend your political capital manufacturing consent for candidates who you, apparently, don't even believe in?

[priya @priya_chary]

I just remembered how much I fucking hate Elizabeth Warren

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.

While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change.

And they’re right.

[Heidi N. Moore @moorehn]

Because it revealed who she really is. Disrespectful, snotty, deeply unserious. It exposed her frivolity and her arrogance completely. A total lightweight, unprepared to deal with serious issues. Zero gravitas. Just ego.

[Mr. Chau @Srirachachau]

Truly do not understand how many liberals cannot put together that normalizing conservative views, believe it or not…strengthens conservatives!

[Nick Cruse 🥋 @SocialistMMA]

I can’t even begin to explain how happy I am that these mfs lost and are probably crying right now

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

Democrats hid that Genocide Joe is senile and blocked a primary, then anointed the person who dropped out in 2020 before a single vote was cast because she's so despised, shouted down anyone asking for a contested convention, and called it brat summer.

Welcome to brat winter.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Of course, CNN was a leader in that attack on Sanders, and instituted an effective blackout of his entire wing of the party.

This is all history now. Not even sure it matters anymore.

[Maureen Murphy @maureenclarem]

Scratch a liberal and you’ll find a …

[Arielle Angel @ArielleLAngel]

Say what you will about the GOP, they saw where their base was headed and the party followed them. The Democrats have showed nothing but contempt for their base. And here we are.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

All the takes are correct and yet they also miss the point.

Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and funding a genocide, and belittling and crushing those who have enough morality to protest it.  It is enraging that the Democrats are so smug and blind to this.

But these are all just symptoms.  The deeper reality is that liberalism has failed, liberalism is dead, and people urgently need to wake up to this fact and respond accordingly. It is a defunct ideology that cannot offer any meaningful solutions to our social and ecological crises and it must be abandoned.

Democrats have proven over and over again that they cannot accept even *basic* steps like public healthcare, affordable housing, and a public job guarantee - things that would dramatically improve the material, social and political conditions of the working classes. And they cannot accept a public finance strategy that would steer production away from fossil fuels and toward green transition to give us a shot at a liveable future.

Why? Because these things run against the objectives of capital accumulation. And for liberals capital is sacrosanct. They will do whatever it takes to ensure elite accumulation, it is their only consistent commitment.  At home, they suppress and demonize progressive and socialist tendencies. Abroad, they engage in endless wars and violence to suppress input prices in the global South and prevent any possibility of sovereign economic development.

The Democrats have done all this purposefully and knowingly, for my whole life, not as some kind of "mistake" but in full consciousness that it is in the interests of capital.

And because liberalism cannot address our crises, and because it crushes socialist alternatives, it inevitably paves the way for right-wing populism.  They know this pattern, and yet they risk it every time - this election being only the most recent example. They did it in 2016, when they actively crushed the Sanders campaign and sent Trump to the White House. They do it because ultimately they (and I mean the liberal ruling class here) don't really mind if fascists take power, so long as the latter too ensure the conditions for capital accumulation. They 100% prefer this to the possibility of a socialist alternative.

So, progressives have to face reality. The dream of "converting" the Democratic party is dead. This is now a fact and it must be accepted. The only option is to build a mass-based movement that can reclaim the working classes and mobilize a political vehicle that can integrate disparate progressive struggles into a unified and formidable political force and achieve substantive transformation. This will take real work, actual organizing, but it must be done and that process must begin now.

[priya @priya_chary]

Dems deserve this. But let’s be real they’re not gonna come back better they’re gonna come back more conservative

[hottiepants @punishedpants]

you guys are going to lose forever if this is the only analysis you are willing to do

[priya @priya_chary]

The replies to this are stunning

[nina @suddenlysobbing]

It just doesn’t make sense. So many republicans voted democrat. Kamala had more people at her rallies. She won the debate. We had all the professional analytical predictions on our side. I genuinely don’t understand how this happened.

[eli 🍺 @biruboya]

not to be that hinge screenshot person but ??? 😭😭😭😭

[kie @criminalplaza]

love her

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

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