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Hey. So it’s time for some hard truth. There are swathes of the American Left who are looking past Bloomberg’s racist, sexist, and classist behaviors in order to make a deal for possible legislative power.

And that deal is the exact same deal Republicans made with Donald Trump.
I don’t care that that’s not a happy reality, but you’ve got to call it out where you see it. You can’t play around with racism and sexism and classism and pretend they’re not your values. This zero-sum business is going to be the death of our civilization and it needs rejected.
You say you want change? Stop being so afraid of it. Fight for it. Don’t say on one hand you think healthcare and a humane economy are human rights but then shy away from the fight. We’re never going to make a better future until we get into the game and fight like we want it.
This is going to lose some followers, but I don’t care. I’m not going to sit here while an oligarch with authoritarian and racist tendencies gets prepped to take on another oligarch with authoritarian and racist tendencies. We deserve better. Much better.
This environment of debates over electability is a construct of a news media that profits off anxiety, uncertainty, and pointless punditry. Bloomberg is the flavor of the moment and there’s absolutely no proof he’d appeal to anyone.

Stop playing this game.
Do you want a better future? Work for it. Fight for it. Stop engaging in this zero-sum game garbage, stop imagining an electorate that opposes it. Win them over. Give them inspiration and a vision. This game-theory stuff isn’t just demoralizing, it’s not proven to work at all.
No one has any idea who people will vote for and Democrats have hemmed and hawed for decades over who might be electable and who isn’t. What have we seen? Nobody has any clue. It’s like flipping a coin, unless there’s fight and vision.

Fight for what you want. Make it happen.
And what’s more, just beating Trump isn’t a cure-all. It removes a threat but he could have never been elected had the system been healthy or functional. We need something bigger and different or else something worse will come along. That’s hard truth, but truth nonetheless.
There’s no endorsement here. None. But don’t talk about caring about treating people better or reforming our economy or healthcare or diversity and inclusivity and then punt all those principles for supposed political power that might not materialize. Find someone you believe in.
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