Me: Black people are suffering by dozens of measurable metrics there's a link between the party's indifference to our grievances and the fact that our votes are captured.
ChomskyLuvr1996: "Why are you shoehorning idpol into everything?"
Solidarity for me but not for thee I guess.
I'm sincerely committed to a multiracial coalition that includes white working class voters. But I'm getting tired of the eye-rolling that emerges from some segment of the left whenever black grievances are up at bat.
This includes leftists who beat their chests saying "just vote" and then "do the work of activism" while scoffing at the idea that a precarious person might reasonably resent being told that climate change is more important than whether they survive the year.
So much talk about "work on the ground" by people who think it's a winning voter outreach strategy to tell Black people terrorized by Bloomberg's stop and frisk that they should trust a system that says he's a viable "lesser evil."
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Ok, just getting into the West Wing and at the top of episode 3 the president is giving a speech under a banner that says "practical idealism."
This is peak hate-watching.
Elizabeth Moss!
Bradley Whitford’s character just asked the Black guy from Psych to grab a beer in Georgetown after work and the Black guy was all “what kind of bar is this?” and boy oh boy I do NOT miss the “no homo” nineties.
Bernie Bro stories were like “she called me a heartless neoliberal for not caring that 68,000 people die a year from lack of health insurance.” And credulous reporters would characterize that as “harassment.” Meanwhile:
Bernie repeatedly and forcefully disavowed any random acts of online bullying and was held accountable for it anyway. Meanwhile:
Anat Shenker-Osorio gives excellent advice here. She points out that “law and order” is a trap set by Trump that serves to keep the base at home. (Also, leaning into right wing framing is immoral). podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pod…
She also argues that emphasizing Trump is an authoritarian helps him. Instead, he should be described as weak, bumbling and ineffectual. (Interestingly, that is Trump’s approach to Biden).
Prior to the interview, the hosts argue, correctly, that Dems should emphasize policy.
Notably, this is what the left has been saying this whole time.
Stop panicking. Stop blaming the left. Stop using right wing framing.
Start emphasizing policy. Start phone banking.
And the better the policy is the more electable Biden will be.
It was entirely predictable that ppl targeted by the Crime Bill & the "law & order" messaging exploited by Biden/Harris would object to this pair come the general election.
Instead of picking a safer candidate, the Dem establishment pretended records don't matter.
By forging ahead with this ticket, the party calculated that they didn't need these votes; a version of 'for every Blue collar voter we lose in Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia.'
But for Black/young/progressive voters.
To many voters, it feels like the party wants to have it both ways. Some folks will cave to the pressure of defeating Trump. Others will abstain out of frustration that their substantive needs -- needs as exigent as 'kids in cages' -- were ignored to advance corporate interests.