Jon Stewart torched the DNC and Democratic leadership as "lost" after learning from a candidate with a massive lead that he's heard zilch from the party.
I don’t believe I disagreed with the assertion that the DNC leadership wants to make sweeping changes. I said that they are NOT some type of controlled opposition. If they were, they wouldn’t be fucking up as hard as they do at every aspect you stated. They are a combination of inefficient, out-of-touch, greedy, and… Lazy, but like they want everyone to like them which makes them inauthentic?
I think it’s unrealistic to think the DNC is smart enough to undermine everything but somehow not smart enough to just… Lie better? You know? Why bother being so fucking pathetic when it is easier, cheaper, and faster to just lie? Why make an autopsy on why you lost the election and burying it because of your Israeli money ties if you were a genius and could just make a fake report that blames progressive policies real fucking easily.
Like, sure, call them sociopaths and everything because the DNC is having to defend legitimately bad positions in spite of its supporters opposition because money, but don’t pretend that is out of some masterminded technique. They are not that smart.
My assertion is the DNC leadership does not want to make sweeping changes, wants to avoid them at all costs, but nonetheless position themselves as the party of ChangeTM, thus necessitating all the lip service to ideals like justice and fairness, while constantly stacking the deck against citizens.
I don’t know where you’re getting the idea that I think they are mastermind geniuses, I think they are pretty garden-variety “pretend to look busy/effective while working for my actual interests” type liars, you can see that kind of behavior in any large corporate environment, too, it’s ubiquitous. Gets more disingenuous, and common to the point of being mere table stakes, the higher one goes on those rungs too. Usually.
So I’m just not willing to call their failures incompetence. It’s not a unified monolith of course, but the Chuck Schumer’s of the world know EXACTLY what they’re doing. And they’re no dummies, even if I don’t think they’re some kind of magically-capable puppetmasters.
It’s as simple as their interests being much more similar to that of their peers (of either party), and to the donors for both parties, and miles away from our interests. I’m not claiming special abilities, just regular tier competence. You seem to be insisting instead that it’s incompetence with the right goals, and I don’t see the evidence for that. I DO see lots of PR.
They’re controlled in the sense that they represent class interests that are opposed to those of their nominal constituency. By paying some lip service to vaguely progressive policies, they capture roughly half of the voters in a system built to exclude any real working-class political representation.
I don’t believe I disagreed with the assertion that the DNC leadership wants to make sweeping changes. I said that they are NOT some type of controlled opposition. If they were, they wouldn’t be fucking up as hard as they do at every aspect you stated. They are a combination of inefficient, out-of-touch, greedy, and… Lazy, but like they want everyone to like them which makes them inauthentic?
I think it’s unrealistic to think the DNC is smart enough to undermine everything but somehow not smart enough to just… Lie better? You know? Why bother being so fucking pathetic when it is easier, cheaper, and faster to just lie? Why make an autopsy on why you lost the election and burying it because of your Israeli money ties if you were a genius and could just make a fake report that blames progressive policies real fucking easily.
Like, sure, call them sociopaths and everything because the DNC is having to defend legitimately bad positions in spite of its supporters opposition because money, but don’t pretend that is out of some masterminded technique. They are not that smart.
My assertion is the DNC leadership does not want to make sweeping changes, wants to avoid them at all costs, but nonetheless position themselves as the party of ChangeTM, thus necessitating all the lip service to ideals like justice and fairness, while constantly stacking the deck against citizens.
I don’t know where you’re getting the idea that I think they are mastermind geniuses, I think they are pretty garden-variety “pretend to look busy/effective while working for my actual interests” type liars, you can see that kind of behavior in any large corporate environment, too, it’s ubiquitous. Gets more disingenuous, and common to the point of being mere table stakes, the higher one goes on those rungs too. Usually.
So I’m just not willing to call their failures incompetence. It’s not a unified monolith of course, but the Chuck Schumer’s of the world know EXACTLY what they’re doing. And they’re no dummies, even if I don’t think they’re some kind of magically-capable puppetmasters.
It’s as simple as their interests being much more similar to that of their peers (of either party), and to the donors for both parties, and miles away from our interests. I’m not claiming special abilities, just regular tier competence. You seem to be insisting instead that it’s incompetence with the right goals, and I don’t see the evidence for that. I DO see lots of PR.
They’re controlled in the sense that they represent class interests that are opposed to those of their nominal constituency. By paying some lip service to vaguely progressive policies, they capture roughly half of the voters in a system built to exclude any real working-class political representation.