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I’m sure this will be prosecuted just as heavily as Hillary was.

The real skillset isn’t necessarily knowing how to do these things off tbe top of your head, but knowing how to look them up.

Perhaps the biggest obstacle for the next generation is how thoroughly Google has enshittified.

Tell them that if they can successfully change the party from the inside, then maybe the dress code can be reconsidered. But until that change happens, don’t wear a hat that represents someone who wants to persecute LGBTQ+ into a LGBTQ+ space.

“Always” only lasts as long as there’s a buyer willing to pay $1. Tether has repeatedly dodged any attempt to audit them to confirm if they really can pay.

Things the DNC has learned:

Maybe they should grow thick enough skin to not get offended at this sign.

Who is ‘they’?

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Sounds like you making excuses for a shitstain party who sits around waiting for wins to come to them instead of learning from mistakes and fixing those mistakes next time.

The biggest flaw is not being inspiring. Like yes, Trump told a bullshit story, but at least he told a story, and that’s what the DNC didn’t do.

Look at Obama in 2008 and 2012. He had an uplifting slogan of hope and change, and he focused his platform around a popular and easily-understood issue, healthcare reform. That’s how to run a good campaign, we’ve done it before, we can do it again. We don’t have to be blue fascists, we just need to be appealing.

It is a candidate’s job to convince voters to vote for them. That is what campaigning is. Sitting here and wagging your finger, on the other hand, is not campaigning.

We cannot tie the entire US electorate down and force them to “be more responsible”. That is not a useful or productive way to look at the problem. If that is all you fixate on, you have no actionable solution out of it.

But what we can do is run better candidates with a better campaign, that will inspire voters to want to vote for them. That is how it works, that has always been how it works, and if we ignore that, we will lose in 2028.

The point I am making here is that we need to talk about things we can actually do something about, instead of shutting down the conversation by deflecting to things we cannot do anything about.

We can’t do anything about that, wagging your finger at voters will not accomplish anything. But we CAN do something about the party itself, the candidate, and the campaign strategy.

Fixating on things we can’t change is a way to deflect from having actual productive conversations about things that we can change. It’s a way for the DNC to avoid taking responsibility.

Did the DNC’s strategy work? No? Then the Democrats were wrong.

It’s their job to convince voters to vote for them. And if they won’t take responsibility for failing at their job, then they’re on course to do the exact same thing in 2028 and get the exact same results.

The point is that blaming voters isn’t actionable or useful. It isn’t a lesson we can learn for 2028. And when that’s what people keep deflecting the conversation to, it sure seems like a way for the DNC to avoid taking responsibility.

When you ask the question “what are Democrats supposed to do?”, the answer is not “nothing”.

So what lesson are we going to learn from this in 2028? Continue running status quo moderates that no one actually wants?

Well the voters did pick the fascist fuckwit, and if we don’t want that to happen again then we have to have a deeper conversation, rather than terminating that conversation with the unhelpful observation “voters bad.”

Because the point here should be to ask real questions about what we’re gonna do differently next time. Deflecting away from our candidates’ failures is an attitude that leads to doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

Doesn’t make it a smart fucking choice. If anything, context makes it stupider.

So we agree that the DNC did not make a smart choice?

“They didn’t go far left enough; therefore, the smarter choice was to vote for the furthest right option available.”

They didn’t offer any meaningful change at a time when voters were upset with the status quo, therefore the voters chose a fascist who was offering something rather than nothing.

At the end of the day, we lost. And we have to talk about why we lost if we want to learn any lessons next time.

What Democrats are supposed to do is sell those voters on a platform of meaningful change that addresses their fears and concerns. It’s a candidate’s job to win voters over to their side, and if they can’t do that, you have to actually ask questions about what went wrong and learn lessons from it instead of throwing your hands up and declaring it’s everyone else’s fault but the DNC’s. Otherwise that attitude is what will lead to doing the exact same thing in 2028 and getting the same results.

So we agree that voters do not want status quo? Because that’s what moderates were offering.