It’s 4 am so that means it’s time for a political rant. You’ve been warned.
#RefundWarren is bad and the Bernie supporters who started it should feel bad. And my saying this has nothing to do with which candidate I currently support. Frankly, I’d be happy to see either of them in office. I think they’d both be awesome presidents.
No, I’m saying this because I don’t like bullshit infighting over who said what about whom when and why. This is “but her emailzzz!” 2.0 and no one on the left has apparently learned a goddamned thing since 2016. Not about how 2010s politics work. Not how psyops and information warfare work. Not about how sexism and racism are destroying our political system. Not about anything. Yes, I said this all in an earlier post, but it’s four hours later and I’m still mad that basic electioneering bullshit is the hill that progressives in the US are choosing to die on. I’ll know who to thank if we get four more years of Trump. I mean, who the fuck cares if Trump created concentration camps, nominated an actual rapist to the Supreme Court, doles out offices and favors like candy, cozies up to dictators, and plays chicken with Iran, to name only a few of his crimes, right? /s And who cares if Republican leadership is mostly on his side and may very well just...you know, not try him in the Senate because they really don’t care, do u? Because, oh noooo, Elizabeth Warren may have told a lie about something Bernie Sanders said to her, not that anyone really can know for sure or that this doesn’t happen in every election cycle ever since election cycles began. But hey, look, here’s a tape of Bernie saying that he supports the idea of a woman president! And it’s from 1980 or something, so clearly he could never have said anything different, or said that he doesn’t think a woman can win against Trump. (ETA: I just looked into this matter more deeply and it’s even stupider than I thought. My freaking hell.)
But yes. Let’s cancel Elizabeth Warren because a lie about a competing candidate is the worst thing to happen EVER. And the Kremlin can’t be up this hashtag’s ass and making sure it trends. Impossible! The fact that this is all happening right before the Iowa Caucus? WOW THAT’S NOT A COINCIDENCE! AT. ALL!
I hate this so much. Progressives have to realize something: the GOP is NOT. PLAYING. FAIR. They are also far better organized than they were in 2004 when they didn’t know how the internet worked or that voters under 40 existed and mattered. They’ve been great at coalition-building since before 1980 (you know, when Reagan basically won every electoral vote in the country?). They’re even better at it now. They literally DO NOT GIVE A DAMN if their candidates and leadership are ideologically united. They will put aside their differences (small though they seem these days) and agree to disagree on nearly everything in order to win. They will also do ANYTHING, including treason, to get power. And they will form a bloc to do it because their party and its leadership are rotten to the core and completely unsalvageable, and their only platform these days is “hurt as many disposable people as possible.” And former Republicans with a conscience realize this agenda for what it is and have left the party.
This is what we’re up against, people. They are watching this Warren vs. Sanders nonsense and cheering it on. Because the left is not only getting distracted by it--from impeachment, from a potential war, from literally EVERYTHING Trump and the GOP are doing and the fight ahead of us to get every last one of them out of office--but they are FALLING FOR IT like the fucking dupes they prove themselves to be again, and again, and again, and again.
I am just beyond tired of this bullshit. The GOP and its Nazi friends (but I repeat myself) play realpolitik, y’all. We need to get over our squeamishness with that idea and PLAY IT TOO. And to even get to that point we need to first stop playing purity politics and freaking out over every little unsavory political maneuver Democratic candidate make or are simply rumored to have made.
Deal with your discomfort and keep your damn eyes on the damn prize. Lives are at stake here. The environment is at stake here. The future of the planet is at stake here. Hell, preventing a third world war may be at stake here. If you don’t think players are all lined up for one just like they were in World War One, then I have some very, very bad news for you.
And fuck, stop asking for your donations back. What the actual fuck is that even about? Live with the fact that you made a decision you now regret and move on by donating to Sanders, or working for his campaign, or literally anything else but acting like Warren’s campaign is a cold hamburger you can send back to the kitchen.
I cannot believe I have to say any of this to adults who say they want this country to move forward.
