Some vanguardists defend their constant attacks on liberals by claiming those attacks actually help liberals pass more liberal policies. This is untrue. In the past, my organization often played the role of pushing further than what seemed possible.
For example, we pushed for a minimum wage increase during a Republican-controlled Oregon legislature. But our push for a minimum wage increase helped defend the minimum wage from their efforts to pass tip credit and lowered minimum wage for farm workers and students
Our messaging on minimum wage was strategic, we should be passing a higher minimum wage not trying to take it away from restaurant staff farmworkers, and students as the Republicans propose. Our message was not Democrats need to pass the minimum wage increase now.
We knew the Republicans would not pass a minimum wage increase, but pushing for one would help protect the minimum wages that had already been won and stop their rollback. The messaging was about what Republicans were doing not about what Democrats were not doing
However, the Jacobites and Vanguardists are not interested in passing a progressive agenda now. If they were they would focus their attacks on Republicans and on obstructionism. They don't. Instead, they attack Democrats in hopes of democratic failure.
They are deluded enough to believe that social upheaval and civil war would lead to their victory rather than the victory of fascism.
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