The Democrats Still Don’t Get It - Thoughts on Politicon

Politcon happened this weekend, and I got a chance to watch some of the debates and panels from it. I have reach one very sad conclusion.

We’re going to have another 4 years of President Tiny Hands.

Why do I say this? Because the Democrats STILL DON’T GET IT.

I got to watch one of my favorite political commentators, Kyle Kulinski basically demolished everybody that had any opposition to his viewpoints, which are correct by the way. Here’s the problem…

He was the only person on the majority of the footage I’ve seen making the arguments that we KNOW will work. When he brings up Medicare for All, they would rebut with “Yeah that sounds good but we have to be realistic.” When he says “Stop saying ‘white’ working class, and just say working class because it excludes people of color”, they said “The democrats need to be focused on getting the white working class.” When he says “Bernie would be a good candidate for 2020”, a few of the panelists literally laughed at him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAZ7_UNwtnE – What Now Liberals? 

What I did see however, were plenty of the same old repeated things that democrats who aren’t REALLY progressive say stuff that makes them sounds like they are. 

“We need to stand up for marginalized groups such as people of color, the LGBTQ+ community and women.” DUH.

“Donald Trump is evil.” DUH.

“We can’t be liberal if we aren’t nice to other liberals.” GTFOH.

These are the same people who think voting for the lesser of two evils gets good results. The same people that ignore the fact the DNC rigged the election and tell us “We shouldn’t rehash this old news” are the ones who will allow future election riggingand then blame the voters when their candidate is hot garbage (I see you Hillary Clinton.) 

What these folks don’t realize is constantly playing the identity politics game is a losing strategy, because the average person might be sympathetic to others, but ultimately are going to vote in their own interests (or so they think, I see you poor Trump voters). So constantly focusing on how bad racial minorities have it and blaming Trump is not a way to get people to vote for you. Instead of offering policy ideas that will help the American people, they simply say “The other guy is bad, so vote for me instead.” It didn’t work in 2016, it for damn sure won’t work in 2020. 

So in conclusion, every day I believe more and more that my dude Jimmy Dore is absolutely right when he says the Democrats cannot be saved. All of the rhetoric that Kyle had to fight off during Politcon from other so-called progressives shows exactly that.