The image of democrats as poor little confused fellas is DNC-manufactured. The finances of big-shot Dems and the goals of their top-dollar donors have been anything but “failing spectacularly and repeatedly”. The dems have been wildly successful at their goal of keeping the left from any semblance of real power beyond the local level. The reason they keep failing to enact progressive policies even when they have a supermajority is because progressive policies are what they’re there to prevent.
It isn’t about them being poor confused victims. It’s about them simultaneously having a job which in part consists of serving as a pro forma opposition party that offers no real alternative and perpetuating their own existence, and also the fact that they’re really fucking bad at it because the average age of a dem politician is retirement age and all their staffers are idiots.
The image of democrats as poor little confused fellas is DNC-manufactured. The finances of big-shot Dems and the goals of their top-dollar donors have been anything but “failing spectacularly and repeatedly”. The dems have been wildly successful at their goal of keeping the left from any semblance of real power beyond the local level. The reason they keep failing to enact progressive policies even when they have a supermajority is because progressive policies are what they’re there to prevent.
It isn’t about them being poor confused victims. It’s about them simultaneously having a job which in part consists of serving as a pro forma opposition party that offers no real alternative and perpetuating their own existence, and also the fact that they’re really fucking bad at it because the average age of a dem politician is retirement age and all their staffers are idiots.