It's been actual *decades* of this crap, and at some point we have to learn that compromising with evil is not only morally inexcusable, it also does not gain us anything. Not anything at all.
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If you keep asking people to meet you halfway without ever moving yourself, you can just keep dragging things closer and closer to what you wanted in the first place.
aug 31, 2025, 6:13 pm • 5 1 • view
I'm glad Biden won in 2020. I think he did some great stuff during his term, and some distinctly not great stuff. I think that the only reason he won the primary was because a critical mass of voters decided a Democrat can't win without appealing to conservatives and I think that is very, very wrong
aug 31, 2025, 6:12 pm • 19 1 • view
I think what little enthusiasm Biden had evaporated during his acceptance speech, when he made everything about reaching across the aisle and coming together as a country and amnesty for a man that tried to do a coup. That weakened support with Democrats, and gained *nothing* with conservatives
aug 31, 2025, 6:14 pm • 18 2 • view
We *never* gain a thing with conservatives, because they don't actually have policy positions or priorities. There is no goal they have that they will bend on some other issue to achieve. Their only goal is total dominance, and total control.
aug 31, 2025, 6:16 pm • 29 6 • view
We can't ever win by appealing to that. Appealing to that IS losing. I firmly believe that we can win by going hard in opposition to it. I firmly believe that a candidate who comes out hard on no compromise, no quarter, no looking back will sweep a free and fair election. If we still have those.
aug 31, 2025, 6:18 pm • 22 4 • view
I don't think that's wrong, but I think there are ways to appeal to *some* conservative-leaning voters without sacrificing anybody's human rights.
aug 31, 2025, 6:28 pm • 2 0 • view
Sure, I think running on "here's how my policies are actually MORE fiscally responsible than the fascists" is good.
aug 31, 2025, 6:35 pm • 3 0 • view
And "We will uphold the rule of law," and "we will take care of veterans."
aug 31, 2025, 6:38 pm • 1 0 • view
In Biden's case, the thing that attracted some conservative voters was not being Trump, and thus representing the rule of law, which it turns out some of them, like Bill Kristol, sincerely valued.
aug 31, 2025, 6:35 pm • 2 0 • view
I mean, I get why he did it. There are moderate conservatives in Democrat circles, and many of his voters in the 2022 midterms were exactly that. But yeah.
aug 31, 2025, 6:19 pm • 0 0 • view
The problem is that the loosened conservatives would've voted for him anyway. And he should've still stuck to trying to appeal to progressives as well.
aug 31, 2025, 6:21 pm • 1 0 • view
And I'm not talking the moral grandstander progressives, because screw them. I'm talking the sensible ones.
aug 31, 2025, 6:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Right. And I think most of them *are* sensible, actually.
aug 31, 2025, 6:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Part of the issue with 2024 is that there were too many people stuck on one or two issues, something Musk's team exploited for Trump.
aug 31, 2025, 6:32 pm • 1 0 • view
I also think Democratic politicians are still operating on Jimmy Carter's bridge building policies...from the late-1970's. It made sense then, but that was almost 50 years ago. Times have changed.
aug 31, 2025, 6:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Carter, for all his many flaws, was staving over Reaganism for as long as possible, which didn't end up working long-term. Reagan died when I was entering high school 21 years ago. His legacy has left a stain that The US is still trying to shake off. The DNC needs to understand that.
aug 31, 2025, 6:41 pm • 2 0 • view
And then Bush/Cheney (but mostly Cheney) wiped themselves another stain just in time for everyone to shit themselves over the fact that we elected a black guy as POTUS and they've never forgiven America for it since.
aug 31, 2025, 9:12 pm • 1 0 • view
Also Reagan was just Nixon with slightly better optics.
aug 31, 2025, 9:12 pm • 1 0 • view
Niemöller wrote a whole goddamn poem about this very issue 80 years ago and we learned nothing
aug 31, 2025, 6:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes, and also Niemöller sucks.
aug 31, 2025, 6:34 pm • 3 0 • view
I don't care about him as a person, the point is that we've had this sort of (coerrect) anti-bigotry language since the 1940s, but now all lot of leaders and institutions who supposedly represent or agree with this worldview completely betray it.
aug 31, 2025, 6:41 pm • 0 0 • view
"The Hangman" ftw.
aug 31, 2025, 11:19 pm • 4 0 • view
By Maurice Ogden?
sep 1, 2025, 12:00 am • 2 0 • view
Yup
sep 1, 2025, 12:57 am • 2 0 • view
Agreed. FTW.
sep 1, 2025, 1:15 am • 3 0 • view
hadn't heard of this one holy hell
sep 1, 2025, 1:44 am • 3 0 • view
It's strictly better than First They Came.
sep 1, 2025, 3:01 am • 4 0 • view
strictly better than a lot of things tbqh
sep 1, 2025, 3:31 am • 1 0 • view