Thread by @PalmerReport

You can be an optimist, pessimist, glass half full, or glass half empty, so long as your stance is compatible with the facts and reality.

But these DEFEATISTS look at half a glass and they pretend it’s empty. They make shit up. They’re sick in the head, and they do real harm.

I call out defeatists and their doomsday fiction because it’s FALSE and harmful.

I also call out naive optimists and their magic wand ideas because that’s also false and harmful.

I do facts, logic, and evidence.

Don’t you dare try to label me an “optimist.”

These defeatists are the worst thing ever. Every day it’s a battle to keep them from demotivating those on our side who are fighting and winning. Every god damn day starts with shouting down the defeatists on our side, before we can even fight the other side. It’s exhausting.

I’ve been doing this six years, through the worst of the Trump era and our darkest days.

But these defeatist motherfuckers have made my job absolutely miserable this year. To be honest, the only reason I’m able to hang in there is because so many of you are also sick of them.

At least Trump supporters don’t know anything. They’re detestable, but can they really help it?

But the defeatists on our side know better. They know what’s at stake, and they still only care about confining their own side to give up. They have no excuse. They’re sick perverts.

I’m not here to give you “hope” or hold your hand. I can’t. I’m only here to give you factual truth.

It’s up to you to tune out the defeatists who are filling your head with the kind of doomsday fiction that keeps you up at night and keeps you from being an effective activist.