Your guide to the billionaire-backed groups working to push Dems right in 2026
Your guide to the billionaire-backed groups working to push Dems right in 2026
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Your guide to the billionaire-backed groups working to push Dems right in 2026
This is what blows my mind about the "Democrats are center-right ghouls" (accurate) -> "Let's stop voting for Democrats that'll fix it" conclusion. The first part is accurate, the second is a terrible strategy to arrive at to fix it.
The whole of Washington is profoundly corrupt. Anything that comes within its AoE radius starts to suffer this overwhelming pressure (financial, narrative-manipulation, violent, social, whatever else) to become neoliberal. Sure, that includes Democrats too, a lot of them are the fuckin' worst. Fixing it and getting humanity back into the politics is an urgent problem. But just holding your nose and walking away, hoping that it'll then start arriving at reforms on its own, instead of trying to improve things (through whatever means), is pretty much guaranteed to failure I think.
Correct. Somehow a lot of users espouse the idiocy of "punishing" Democrats though
I notice that a lot of it is very emotional framings. "They betrayed us" "I'm so heartbroken" "They want us all to fall in line" "I'm so tired of showing up and then they always turn their back on us" and so on. Sometimes they specifically mention that they've always "voted Democrat," but after this latest thing, they just can't.
I think a whole lot of that comes from right wing bots, just like the whole astroturfed "Walk Away" campaign back in 2018. I wish I could attribute it completely to the right wing, but I'm sure a lot of edgy leftists are doing it too. The arguments are terrible, but some do seem to genuinely buy in. Somehow the answer to "Democrats bad" can't be "Replace bad Democrats with good Democrats".
I mean definitely at least some of it is astroturf. There have been some accounts that have been pushing that and then got caught with weird little inconsistencies in their story, or were using non-American number styles and then got confused when asked about it, or otherwise let the mask slip that they were not what they were pretending to be.