Thread by @AjaRaden

You’re mistaken.
I think the problem is you were a Republican for so much of your life, that we all look the same to you.
Some of us can not only draw blood, we’re very good at it, & we enjoy doing it.
Some of us are highly skilled & credentialed in the dark arts ourselves. 1/

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The problem isn’t that we couldn’t draw blood in a butcher shop, or that we don’t know how to say fuck you, I say frequently.
The problem with the Democrats is the same thing that makes them so incredibly good at governing (the GOP, btw, is absolute shit governing, no matter 2/

how many elections they win or agendas they wreck) is the same thing that makes them them so incredibly bad at this: it’s an absolute insistence professionalism, careerism, dedication to civil service.
My sister & my nephew were both in democratic politics, there’s an unspoken 3/

requirement that you be either wise old sage, or a starry eyed young acolyte & everyone must be 💯 pure of heart.
They don’t want mercenaries, they they don’t even want consultants. They just want Aaron Sorkin characters.
And they’re not willing to hire outside of the cult. 4/

It’s not that we Machiavellian Democrats don’t exist, it’s that we don’t fit into a template that works with the party’s self image.

Even though we too, are in fact, their voters.

Shit man, I literally wrote the book on lies manipulation and propaganda, a couple of them. 5/

And major global gem companies (and pharma) pay me a pretty penny to influence people‘s opinions without them ever knowing it.

I would do this for free for the DNC. I have a vast & formidable array of skills & talents that I would love to weaponize on behalf of democracy. 6/

But that kind of shit… Well, it’s just not them.

Their incompetence is not how they handle these things (every time), it’s in their refusal to hire outside of their own insular like-minded echo chamber.

And in their refusal to acknowledge that Democrats come in all shapes 7/

and sizes and psychographic persuasions. Really the only thing we have in common is being Democrats.
I am committed to you know, DEMOCRACY. Free and fair elections. Equality, and equity for all. Equally applied to all. And fuck it, not burning to death in a firenato because 8/

10-20 years ago asshat just didn’t think the science was conclusive enough to support him making less $.

Oh & justice for treason, insurrection, or domestic terrorism.

But beyond that, I’m pretty comfortable in the moral gray area that’s it’s so distressing to the Dem Party. 9/

And I think they need to get over it.
As long as we’re all rowing in the same direction, it should be fine if some of us are rowing in brass knuckles.
They’re not BAD AT THIS. They’re just hiring the wrong people. They’re taking the wrong advice. In this arena, anyway. 10/

The same way Dems hire all of the *right* people for those cabinet positions that Republicans like to fill with flunkies and donors, Dems have a weak spot in that they sort of do the same thing; in positions that require a different mindset, skill set and temperament, 11/

Democrats just go right ahead hire the same starry eyed, pure of heart (dare-I-say a little guileless?) Ivy League educated, political science majors.
Then they wonder why their Steve Bannon turned out to be -we don’t know their names because they never accomplish anything- 12/

The last smart hire they made was James Carville, & I was a tiny child. They’re fishing in the wrong pond.

They need to stop recruiting fixers & strategist & propagandist from the same place they’re getting WH staffers, cabinet appointees & future candidates. They’re not up /13

to it, anymore than the GOP’s flunkies & donors & perverts & black mailers are up to their cabinet positions.

Dems need to start recruiting from more cutthroat industries: Hollywood, entertainment in general, Advertising, Pharma, luxury industries, particularly the Diamond 14/

or Gem trade - though couture fashion’s pretty horrific too. Multi trillion dollar business - far more vicious than you’d imagine - and then there’s weapons.
People that work for arms manufactures or lobbyists *do* know how to do this. 15/

I’ll grant you their skill set is NOT significantly different than someone who works for a diamond company, or drug company, or even an PR firm or a movie studio. Their product is just deadlier.
I guess the question is how many Democrats actually work in industries like these?15/

Hi, my name is Aja, I’m a Democrat, and I’d like to volunteer for the war effort.