You know why we liberals lose so many battles we should win? It's because we waste our time spinning every win into a loss we can lament over. Merrick Garland is about to be a fantastic Attorney General, yet a ton of liberals are lamenting over him not being on the Supreme Court.
Garland is days away from being in position to fix everything that's wrong with the DOJ and put half of Trump's orbit in prison. Yet the fact that he's going to be great at it is... something to lament over? You've really got to reach to spin that win into a loss.
The more time the left spends convincing itself that it's always losing, the harder it becomes for the left to win. At some point winning seems impossible, so you stop trying. And winning stops being desirable, because getting to lament over a loss is preferable.
Politics has always been war. You win or you lose. If you win, you get to make things the way you want them to be. If you lose, you get nothing.
If you're only here to lament, then you're here to lose. Your "activism" serves no purpose, other than to make sure your side loses.
If you're only here to lament, then you're here to lose. Your "activism" serves no purpose, other than to make sure your side loses.
There will always be things to whine and complain about. But that's the opposite of winning. That's professional victimhood. There are a ton of liberal pundits who have convicted you that lamenting is activism, but they only do that to keep you tuned in. They're misleading you.
We just won the presidency and senate, executive orders ended half of Trump's policies, our legislation is underway, Trump is headed for criminal trial, and we're getting a great Attorney General. So your instinct is to lament over the prior Garland loss five years ago? Really?
If your anger from a loss in 2016 is driving you to fight and win in 2021, that's one thing.
But if your reaction to a series of major wins in 2021 is to bring up a loss from 2016 so you can convince yourself you're still losing, because losing comforts you, then you ARE lost.
But if your reaction to a series of major wins in 2021 is to bring up a loss from 2016 so you can convince yourself you're still losing, because losing comforts you, then you ARE lost.
If your reaction to the news that Trump is about to get hit with slam dunk criminal charges is to lament over the fact that he was previously acquitted in his impeachment trial, then YOU ARE LOST. You have no interest in winning. You prefer losing.
Activism is defined as actions you take to try to win, so you can makes things better.
If you spend your time trying to convince your own side that you're losing or going to lose, then you're trying to make your side lose. Which means you don't care about making things better.
If you spend your time trying to convince your own side that you're losing or going to lose, then you're trying to make your side lose. Which means you don't care about making things better.
I never thought I'd still have to be giving this lecture even after we won the presidency and senate, and Trump was earmarked for prison. Some of you are doing real harm with your fatalism. Your own cause would be better off if you step away until you decide you want to win.
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