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.
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.
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.