Political Memes

I don't really know what to do with this comment.

I don't know who you think the left is, or what actions you associate with putting out the fire.

I believe that the Democratic party leadership is extremely hostile to socialist policies, despite their enormous populist electoral power. Universal healthcare is good policy and good politics. So are jobs guarantees and basic minimum incomes and paid sick leave and free college. I have found that most Democrats who have the power to decide whether they would like voters to associate them with these policies or would like to avoid being associated with them choose the later.

I'll vote for the lesser of two evils, because I'm a highly educated supervoter news junkie. But ultimately what costs Democrats their power was not the criticism and anger I and people like me posted online: it was ignoring that criticism when we were warning them that they were running unpopular candidates on unpopular platforms.

As far as I'm aware, conversations like this one are not hindering the good guys. What's hindering the good guys is their choices and lack of integrity. The reason people like Chuck Schumer can't stop Trump is not because I point out that he's incapable of stopping Trump. It's the other way around. I point that out because despite all efforts on the part of people like me, Chuck Schumer is unable to decide to stop Trump. That's an internal problem and most critics of Democrats -- which now includes most Democratic voters -- are just spectators pointing to this problem.