Thread by @PalmerReport

One thing most liberal activists still haven't figured out: if you're whining, it means you're losing. If you're whining about unfairness, you're REALLY losing. The general public does not care about "unfairness" in politics. If you want to win, talk like a winner, not a whiner.

You can spend all day complaining that the republicans rammed through a last second Supreme Court pick after blocking Obama's attempt at a pick, and you have a point, but NO ONE OUT THERE WILL CARE. You're just complaining to hear the sound of your own voice.

If you want to win any given political fight, you have to win over the people out there who don't have a political side – and by default they'd rather not get involved. If you're just whining about the unfairness of some maneuver, they'll just tune you out, and you'll lose.

If you're trying to help get Biden's Supreme Court pick approved, you do that by convincing the general public that it's a good pick, Biden is the right person to make the pick, the court should be more diverse to represent the American populace, and so on.

But you will not convince a single person out there to support Biden's Supreme Court pick, if your argument is that the Republicans did something unfair a few years back. NO ONE CARES. Right or wrong, they DON'T CARE. It's nothing but a LOSING ARGUMENT.

The ONLY reasons to go around whining about unfairness right now:

1) whining about your own side's past defeats allows you to enjoy feeling like a victim

2) you enjoy making yourself feel superior to the unethical GOP

Those both disqualify you as an activist.

As always in politics, do you want to whine and lose, or do you want to fight and win? Most of the "activists" on our side are broken people who just want to whine and lose. The question, as always, is how many of you are willing to counter that by trying to fight and win?

90% of people on our side spent the entire 2020 election whining about how Trump was going to win, rig, or steal it NO MATTER WHAT. Those folks didn't gain us a single vote, and in fact cost us votes.

10% of us talked like winners and put in the work, and won it for Biden.

Now we face a similar battle for Biden's Supreme Court pick. If most of the general public gets behind Biden's pick because we portray the pick as a winner, then no hijinks from Manchin or whatever can derail it.

But if we just sit back and whine, and we fail to sell Biden's pick to the general public, and that pick doesn't end up with a high favorability rating, then it'll open the door for hijinks.

If you're whining, then by default you're TRYING to lose.