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with intermittent bits of ineffectual political theater to show how tough they are if they stood united and uncompromising even as they inevitably lose the fights because they lack the numbers they would probably at least slow the emaciation of their party and if they started making more sincere moves away from corporatism and toward progressivism they d likely start regaining some of those lefty independents they ve lost some other interesting numbers these from a recent poll by yougov and the economist give us an idea how our leaders are perceived barack obama favorable 53 unfavorable 43 net 10 nancy pelosi favorable 25 unfavorable 47 net 22 yep the party figured someone with numbers like that should be in charge of the minority in the house i don t think people want a new direction indeed chuck schumer favorable 23 unfavorable 29 net 6 better than pelosi at least and he s been making some statements in support of bernie sanders and a more progressive direction for the party but time will tell how sincere he is donald trump favorable 42 unfavorable 50 net 8 and his numbers are of course falling because fascist shitbag paul ryan favorable 33 unfavorable 41 net 8 mitch mcconnell favorable 20 unfavorable 42 net 22 bernie sanders favorable 56 unfavorable 32 net 24 bernie s numbers have always been great in his state and by the end of the primaries he was and remains the single most popular politician in the country his favorability among registered democrats is 80 the only other member of our little group who has majority favorability is obama and he has both a lower favorable score and an 11 higher unfavorable score than bernie elizabeth warren favorable 34 unfavorable 34 net 0 warren s numbers will likely spike at least for a short time due to her capitalization of mitch mcconnell s tactically stupid dis of her this week but as progressive warriors go she s still far behind bernie likely because of her sitting out the primaries and then boldly endorsing the winner that wasn t exactly a profile in courage or principle and it really pissed off a lot of people hillary clinton favorable 40 unfavorable 54 net 14 this of course is largely how hillary did from the time she entered the race to today there are lots of things that contributed to her loss but no one can honestly deny that her historic unpopularity was one of the biggest she had been tested we were told but all that ultimately meant was that she was so deeply flawed that she had no business at the top of a national campaign i mean c mon trump is a monstrous buffoon crapping all over the world and she s still less liked than he is so make of all that what you will to me it all points to a democratic party that does indeed desperately need to go all in both on solid obstructionism at least symbolically toward trump and on the pursuit of truly progressive policies and they need to look to progressive leaders like bernie sanders to lead them back out of the wilderness instead of maintaining a status quo that is just running them deeper and deeper into oblivion by the numbers part 2 who s our champion now by the numbers part 3 election 2016 how we really lost share share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on reddit opens in new window reddit email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading leave a comment posted in politics tagged barack obama bernie sanders congress democrats dnc donald trump election elizabeth warren gop hillary clinton independents life politics polls republicans are you a rational republican feb 11 are you a rational republican who gets annoyed at all the invective and satire and fiery rage directed at your party simply because of the actions and policies of an enormous majority of your fellows stop just stop stop being defensive and butt hurt more importantly stop being a republican i know i know you ve always been a republican you believe in fiscal responsibility and blah blah blah your friends are republicans your daddy and mommy were republicans your great grandpappy and grandmaw were republicans hell abraham lincoln was a republican republican you keep using that word i don t think it means what you think it means not any more the republican party is not the party of lincoln not any more and if you don t support the actions of this monstrous republican president or the goose stepping boot licking quislings that make up the entirety of the existing republican power structure as has been the case for many years or the unfettered ignorance and bigotry of the overwhelming republican base then maybe it s not the party of you any more either you identify as republican because you think being republican means a lot of things that it probably actually does not any more if it ever really did that s a lie you re telling yourself stop it why lie to yourself and cast your lot with horrible people who are very actively destroying everything good and noble and beautiful about our country why do that to yourself why do that to the rest of us stop you don t have to be a republican you don t have to be anything but an american party loyalty can be a poison don t be a part of a big ignorant herd giving loyalty and power to those who do not deserve it just stop at the very least you won t have to keep getting your feelings hurt by people speaking truth to fascism note this goes for democrats too the democratic party isn t the party of fdr any more either not by a long goddamned shot though at least it s not a burning church of hatred ignorance and authoritarianism but blind uncritical loyalty to them can be just as poisonous and unproductive share share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on reddit opens in new window reddit email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading leave a comment posted in life politics tagged civil rights conservatives corruption democrats donald trump environment fascism gop immigration life politics republicans usa voting inauguration day 2017 i am calm jan 20 i am calm i did everything in my power to prevent this day from coming i campaigned hard for and donated a lot to the candidate who was not just the best choice for our country but who was by far the most popular candidate the candidate who energized the most voters the candidate with a demonstrably higher chance to win though the candidate who had at best a razor thin possibility of winning was chosen and though i was crushed and disillusioned when the time came i voted against apocalypse so i did all that i could i am calm i am at peace i am also unbowed unbroken unafraid i will not cry i will not huddle i will not hide i will fight i will fight i will fight i will fight on my terms i am not a part of any party i am not a part of any herd i am a one man guerrilla force against not just the despicable thug now infecting the white house but against all the forces that helped put him there whichever side they re on i will fight i will fight i will fight i am calm you want to get out of here you talk to me share share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on reddit opens in new window reddit email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading leave a comment posted in life politics tagged bernie sanders brand new congress democrats dnc donald trump election hillary clinton inauguration life our revolution politics progressives republicans liberal lockstep why i march to the beat of my own damned drummer dec 22 to some degree this is my facebook feed it was russia s fault it was comey s fault it was the millennials fault it was bernie s fault it was jill stein s fault me it was also because of poor choices by the candidate and her campaign and because of systemic failures over the years by the democratic party tim why are you still talking about this we have to unite against trump and we do and i am but i am a progressive and i want not just to beat the bad guys i want to improve the world i see what has happened to the democratic party since 1992 since the rise of the corporate friendly democratic leadership council funded by among other big business interests the freaking koch brothers and the clintons with their third way politics of embracing right wing policies in order to court voters on the right rather than on the left i see how the left lost congress during bill clinton s terms after controlling it for decades and through neoliberal policies and bad strategy has steadily lost more and more power ever since i see how donald trump is not just the inevitable result of years of republican degradation and capitulation to their worst elements he is also the result of democrats abandoning their traditional principles and essentially becoming socially liberal republicans and i see how the corruption and cronyism and arrogance of the democratic party went full tilt bozo this election and they ignored all the data and all the signs that they were making bad choices and they lost to the single most unpopular candidate in history a man who did damn near everything possible to make himself absolutely unelectable it s not just a matter of forcing the choice of their own incredibly unpopular candidate on voters from the very start and violating their own regulations to make sure she won it s a matter of the strategies chosen after that like never bothering to campaign in wisconsin or maligning progressives and millennials while pursuing republican crossover votes these are things worth talking about these are things that shouldn t be ignored lest we keep making the same mistakes and keep losing elections even big money democratic donors are apparently angry that the party hasn t pursued an honest postmortem to determine the real reasons for its devastating failures at every level this year it s a conversation that they think we should have and the democratic party s frantic finger pointing everywhere but in the mirror is pissing them off so much they re saying they re going to start withholding the cash yet when i post about these things or even when i praise progressives like bernie sanders or tulsi gabbard for their current acts of principled leadership i get called out by some of my liberal friends they really don t want the party or its chosen candidate to be criticized or to be held accountable for their mistakes or for the negative impact of their policies when i criticize democratic leaders for specific failures say barack obama s failure to prosecute wall street criminals or his record breaking deportation of immigrants i m accused of being a purist naively wedded to my progressive ideals while in the real world we have to apparently just settle for terrible acts when they re done by our side again i am accused of being a purist because i want to hold our leaders accountable and encourage them to be better in the future folks i don t have a purity test i have standards i also get a lot of flack about posting what i m posting rather than what everyone else is posting why are you talking about hillary clinton s campaigning failures when you should be talking about how russia hacked our election why are you complaining about the democratic establishment s complete lack of accountability and myopic defense of the status quo when you should be complaining about trump because trump is bad sometimes it boils down to a simpleminded accusation like you re criticizing clinton you must support trump well no but thanks for playing even putting aside the fact that i do criticize the terrible orange shitnuke which i am amazingly able to do even while talking about other things does anyone really need me personally to tell them how shitty donald trump is is it really vitally important that i replicate what everyone else is saying that i surrender my voice to the group voice because you know what that is that s authoritarian message control that s an insistence that we should all not just be working together we should be marching in lockstep and you know what i m not really a lockstep kind of guy on the individual level i know that some of my friends say these things out of annoyance because they re sick of seeing some of my posts and that s fair i m sick of some of their posts too but i don t let that turn personal they can post what they want to post they don t have to cater to my concerns and i know that some of them are sincerely concerned that criticism of democrats at a time like this is counterproductive that it hurts the party and scatters our energies and will limit our effectiveness in the fights ahead i m less sympathetic to that viewpoint because i think the left will only beat the right if it well moves left again and sweeping its failures under the rug of temporary expediency to be forgotten and later dismissed as old news does not contribute to that happening only open eyes and open discussion will help us do what we need to do in order to beat back the forces of darkness the most insidious reason that some argue for this messaging lockstep is because they are trying to control the narrative in order to protect the entrenched powers that be they want us to think that russia s alleged involvement in revealing to us the reality behind the dnc s neutrality or james comey s nebulous letter a week before the election brought us to this point they want us to think that a tiny percentage of disillusioned third party voters betrayed us not a party and candidate who ran a contest so badly that those tiny numbers mattered even when they had the gift of a buffoon as an opponent they want us to think that those who didn t support their candidate are all misogynists and racists and deplorables not folks with legitimate concerns they no longer trust the democrats to address who went for the crazy hail mary pass of a trump or third party vote because the safer option to them offered no perceived hope or respite from the trials they face they want us to support the narrative that it wasn t their fault because they want to maintain their power and wealth and they want us to suppress criticism of the establishment to push us into lockstep with a consistent message that keeps them from being held accountable allows them to avoid change protects them from progressive challenges to their control this narrative is driven from the top and absorbed by those below and whatever the personal motives of each person insisting we stick to it might be they all wind up serving that overarching purpose and acting as a shield against accountability and necessary change this isn t just the case now with president trump about to occur this 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