Every time Dems fail, somebody says "oh, if only we knew then what we know now, we might have done things differently."
But the reality it that Dems *never* do things differently. We always have the same playbook. And we always fail in exactly the same way.
But the reality it that Dems *never* do things differently. We always have the same playbook. And we always fail in exactly the same way.
* After winning power *thanks to* overwhelming support from black and brown people, Dems immediately tact towards the center mass of the white people who literally just got finished rejecting them.
* That's always matched with promise to "work across the aisle" and get Republican votes, even though that party lost and even though they VOW to act in bad faith and do everything they can to stop the incoming Dem administration.
* Dems then either pass watered down legislation, or no legislation, that is aimed at helping white economic concerns. Upending the structures of racial injustice is left for "year 2" or done only at the margins through administrative rule making instead sweeping legislation.
* Year 2 comes, and the GOP is bitching about what the Dems did pass, while the black and brown people who, again, PUT DEMS IN POWER, have not seen their issues put front and center.
* BUT THEN, Dems say putting those issues front and center is too "divisive."
* BUT THEN, Dems say putting those issues front and center is too "divisive."
* Midterms come, Dems lose seats. Now they can get *nothing* done legislatively and the Dem President is belated forced to use executive action, which can be easily overturned, in a desperate action to seem like they're doing something.
* And the cycle repeats. Again and again and again. Some Dem senator is made the scapegoat ("Lieberman" "Manchin") But it all stems from a party DNA REFUSAL to use maximal power IMMEDIATELY to support the black and brown base that put them in power.
* And then, when we lose, when the best efforts of the non-white minority are not enough to over come dedicated white opposition to fairness and equality... Dems blame "progressives" or "identity politics" or "low black turnout"
... Meanwhile, when Republicans take power, the first thing they do is find a black or brown or immigrant group to beat up so their sick degenerate white supremacist base feels good about itself, then start handing out cash money to their donor class.
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