Thread by @PalmerReport

Democratic politicians do a good job of fighting and winning for us. They really do.

If there's one thing they underestimate, it's how far removed from reality a lot of Democratic supporters are, after MSNBC spends all day convincing them of impossible doomsday scenarios.

Democratic politicians are always trying to convince us to get up and fight and win, which is the right approach. But far too many of us are too busy hiding under our beds from imaginary ghosts, all because MSNBC wants to hit its ratings marks.

Are we really going to ask Democratic politicians to spend time coddling us and convincing us to come out from our beds? Because when they have to push those narratives, they can't really push the narratives that win political battles. Those narratives aren't compatible.

Imagine an adult trying to negotiate effectively with a conman, while a child keeps asking that adult if any of the scary things that are being said are really going to happen. If the adult has to stop and explain it to the child, it undercuts the adult's argument with the conman

It really comes down to whether we want to be coddled, or whether we want to win. For a long list of reasons, those two things are not compatible. Some of you want Biden up there angrily stomping his feet, but that would completely erode his leverage against Trump.

If you stand up and fight to win, your odds of winning are infinitely better than if you hide under your bed and obsess over how you might lose. If you want to be taken seriously as a political activist, no one should EVER have to tell you to get out from under the bed.

Also, no serious political activist stares at MSNBC all day and waits to be told which highly unlikely doomsday scenario they should fret over next, then frets about it on social media all day. Turn that shit off if you want to be meaningfully involved in politics at all.