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Trump whisperer admits only massive turnout of 'lower information' voters can save GOP
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Wow, never thought I would be nodding along as I read the crap dribbling out of Steve Brannon's mouth. But, the GOP's only hope is people who are so ignorant of reality that they can't see the obvious lies right in front of them.
Of course, one should never underestimate the Democrats' ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. I could certainly see the DNC sorting out a way to fuck over more populist candidates, handing seats to the GOP.
Honestly, some of the apparent positions of the likes of Chevalier is going to be something the far right tries to smear anyone to the left of Rush Limbaugh with...they spent years acting like "defund the police" ( 🙄 ) was something not only every progressive was for, but was a plank of the Democratic Party. And of course, that phrase was easily distorted into the worst caricature of the left.
I'm just saying - sure, the "centrists" might easily fuck it all up for everyone, but don't underestimate the power of the terminally online leftist brigade to really fuck it all up, too.
America tends to poll progressive on the issues, but there are certain online types that then do a great job of stepping on rakes and giving the right their talking points.
Most online leftists prefer virtue signaling to winning elections. Many just can't help themselves from pushing too far when someone doesn't share their exact priority list or use their preferred buzzwords with 100% accuracy.
I think those people are an extremely vocal minority.
I don't think it's "most" online leftists; I think it just seems that way because the rest aren't posting stupid shit.
Yeah, I agree with you and Drusas on this. I remember lurking in and sometimes trying to post in, huffing-your-own-farts far left corners of the net like what Boing Boing became just before they took their comments behind a paywall (!).
While the mods and the worst offenders on there constituted a very small part of the group, they did have all the levers and switches, so I think most people gave up and just lurked, or eventually left. I challenge anyone to go read some of their (still public) threads in the later years and tell me that some of the worse examples - that were not taken down, obviously - constitutes any kind of majority in the Democratic Party, or even of the left overall.
It was filled with the type that would pounce if you called any of them liberals. They loved to draw some big delineation between themselves and liberals. A distinction, by the way, that almost no one else would agree with, and certainly no one else but the most online of leftists gives a flying fuck about...
People that, instead of welcoming allies and others joining them in the fight, would rather assign you a list of things to read and groups to join/attend and other tasks as a way to "do the work", because that's exactly how you win over people and build a coalition, FFS - give them homework assignments and subject them to purity tests, Jesus.