I sincerely wonder if the folks on the far left, & yes this includes some of your's favorite, AOC, have had any second thoughts on their outrage at @kamalaharris.com's campaigning with Liz Cheney to highlight the dangers of authoritarianism that are all around us now.
Besides her support for genociding Palestine, the worst campaign by either party in 50 years. AOC's gone silent since her vote 3 weeks ago to keep sending middles to Israel. She's conforming nicely.
Your set-up stinks, but I'll bite. I have no regrets about any of my criticisms regarding Kamala Harris' campaign. Her attempt to attract Republican votes is one of several errors Harris committed. At best it was merely a waste of effort because there weren't enough Republican votes...
...to make the game worth the candle. At worst, the strategy resulted in a net loss by alienating voters who found both the Cheneys a pair of loathsome characters. This fiasco wasn't a fatal error, or even grievous, it was yet another instance where Harris veered off into the weeds...
...instead of concentrating her efforts on connecting with the voters outside her base whose support would have propelled her to victory. Harris' ineffectual campaign lead to her defeat, not her 'left wing' critics.
I wonder if Dems still think authorizing a genocide while moving to the right and courting Republicans like Cheney fkr the mythical 200 voters who are Republicans but will vote Dem because they don't like Trump, was really worth it? Fucking dummies.
also, biden being naive about net’yahu’s ultimate motivations equals “authorizing a genocide”?! really?!
Remind me who gave billions of dollars in arms to Israel? Who had pro-Palestinan protestors marked as anti-semetic and pushed for them to be treated as criminals? Biden wasn't naive, he knew what was happening, he endorsed and supported it, as every zionist has and still does.
umm, US has been giving billions to israel every year since their inception(?) yes, most US politicians are zionists but you are equating biden’s (kamala’s)support for israel to net’yahu’s fascism/genocide, i don’t. b/c of people like you we now have genocide in gaza and fascism here, congrats!
By providing the means to commit genocide, you are also committing genocide, that's a basic fact . You've shown you just want to go back to having brunch while ignoring what the Dems are doing because they're "your party" and thus the good guys. Keep supporting genocide, it's a good look.
umm, no…you don’t know me, my point is that the election was a binary choice b/t kamala (non fascist) vs. trump (fascist). i don’t believe biden understood net’yahu’s genocidal plans vs. knowing that trump would green light it. i’m betting you knew that also.
i made my choice, you made yours, you won, we now have FASCISM AND NO CHANCE OF ENDING NET’YAHU’S GENOCIDE AS LONG AS TRUMP’S IN POWER,congrats again! (you’re what we call simple minded dumb fucks)
ps. grow the fuck up and live in this real binary political world and not this fantasy. i didn’t support genocide nor fascism, you by your choices, created inadvertently both. it’s do-gooders like you (just like comey) creating these unintended consequences.
but you already know this b/c if kamala won we wouldn’t have either but b/c your ilk’s actions lead to her defeat we have both and that’s why you need to hold onto your fantasy that you’re the righteous one!
You voted for genocide, you do in fact support genocide. You're also being willfully ignorant that a lifelong zionist in Joe Biden did not know what was happening and what was going to happen. Harris promised to continue the genocide. You can't run from those facts, no matter how hard you try.
so what you’re saying is the likes of you didn’t vote for kamala so now we have genocide and fascism?!
We had much the same with Biden, Trump before, Obama, Bush, Clinton, etc. The only difference is that the measures used to suppress were less overt and black/brown people were disappeared more discreetly, so that you could safely ignore what was happening and continue your life undisturbed.
oh, ok so you’re the type that believes they’re both the same. now i understand your thinking, so we might as end any further discussion since we can’t agree on basic premises. good day.
Actually, swing voters DO exist
You can literally look at voting records and trends for the past 20 years that show they don't exist in any impactful way and that their numbers are negligible on results.
Bill Krystol would beg to differ. His entire cohort is swing voters. The schism between non college and college educated voters is another example of voters moving from one party to the other
Numbers don't lie, swing voters have not made a difference in an election in decades. Dems keep going after them, they simply do not exist in numbers needed to make any impact.
Let me tell you about Harris I voted for her And she didnt contest a hacked election for aipac But by all means keep shoveling your bullshit
Let us know when the Democratic party throws out the absolutely ineffective and idiotic advisers who - shut down Walz - cancelled the "Joy"- and the "These are nuts and weirdos" campaign - Thought Republicans will ever vote for Democrats in high numbers - Force the party to the right
We need to cease the purity tests and realize the only way forward is a large tent.
A large tent has no foundation and provides little shelter from a storm.
As the kind of person ordered to lay down and have the tent pole jammed through my stomach, and called a traitor for not wanting to stay still after; Fuck the Big Tent. Not my circus, not my clowns.
yeah I had a second thought about it and it was the same as my first - whoever came up with the idea for Liz Cheney to be a voter magnet for the Democratic Party is as dumb as a sack of bricks
David, great respect for you, usually agree & don't think I'm "far left." Question was whether, beyond gratefully accepting endorsement, campaigning with Cheney appealed to swing voters or identified Harris with establishment most voters rejected. Elite never-Trumpers had already fled MAGA GOP.
She had an educative responsibility as a candidate and took that seriously. Had she campaigned solely on economics as far left folks like Sanders & AOC wanted her to, she would not have been addressing what was the most important issue. Moreover, she ran ahead of Sanders & his economic message. 1/
Now, Sanders is on a barnstorming tour lying about why she lost, saying it’s because she wasn’t enough of an economic populist. Again she ran ahead of him. & tons of political science research shows Dems lost white working class voters over status loss, not economics. 2/2
Thinking "It's complicated." Right-wing populists have melded economic & cultural anxieties into a toxic brew. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/17/h...
I would encourage you to read the political science literature on this. We’re doing this research for a reason but populists are too insistent on going with their vibes because they don’t want anything to conflict with their priors. Some of what you’re saying is true. But please read poli sci, e.g.:
The book I reviewed by Joan C. Williams reviews the literature & draws conclusions between the "racial resentment" & "economic anxiety" explanations. I'm not saying she has it exactly right, but think she advances the debate.
Hillary lost in 2016 appealing to Republicans. Biden worked with Sanders to make a joint platform and won in 2020. Harris lost in 2024 appealing to Republicans. And yet you liberals keep punching left. When are you guys going to get with the fucking program and figure this out?
Considering Kamala would have won if she listened to those that you blue MAGAts continue to ignore. Naw, I don’t feel bad
The (Marxist*) far left follows Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin & Mao. Materialism, a fundamental principle of Marxism, holds that ideas are secondary to material conditions. Phenomena like campaigning with Liz Cheney may be seen as distasteful by the far left, but not impactful. Anarchists exist but…
Subversion operations during & prior to COINTELPRO thoroughly corrupted anarchists & Trotskyists were a Franco-style fifth column from the 1920s. The explanations actually offered by Marxists were of the form of economic statistics & observations of worsening material conditions of the proletariat.
Explanations like campaigning w/Liz Cheney would be repudiated as bourgeois idealism by the far left. Dramatic escalation of mass homelessness & further declines of real wages & precarity as stochastic immiseration etc., perhaps „kitchen-table issues“ of a sort, are what the far left actually cites.
AOC is not any kind of Marxist, not even Trotskyist, nor an anarchist. She has no connexion w/the far left & AFAIK claims none. Her „democratic socialism“ is little more than social democracy, a counter-revolutionary doctrine so strenuously opposed to the far left it fights it more than the right.
Fuck anarchs Little shits got my account muted and attacked her but havent attacked or vandelized shumer or gillibrant Gamergate lying freaks lolol tossinggrenadesatwindmills.blogspot.com/2025/07/poem...
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Dems tend to be harder on people in their own camp & expect more from other Dems who should ‘know better’. Except we don’t all agree & we need to accept others’ opinions. Problem: We more easily excuse bad deeds by idiots b/c our expectations are lower. Work together & blame the villain. RESIST!