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miraculously it’s possible to both criticize a candidate on their record AND vote for them. It’s almost like criticism...can be in good faith...and generative...
cannot even belieeeve I’m wading into this discourse but—when ppl imply that any criticism detracts from the broader picture, they’re making a different form of the same old “civility” argument that got us here in the first place
Yes, the Democratic Party is far, far more publicly divided than republicans. Maybe that’s bc we don’t all watch the same propagandist news channel, I don’t know. But either way, telling ppl not to express their discontent online isn’t going to miraculously fix party unity
And more importantly, it won’t change votes. Ppl critiquing kamala on her record aren’t gonna somehow nudge “undecided” voters towards Trump (esp since I’d argue undecided voters are few and far between at this point)
2016 saw us wrapped around the pole of the mythical “independent” voter. The point that the sanders campaign made so well is that we shouldn’t focus on changing minds, but on activating ppl who wouldn’t normally vote and getting them to the polls
and to be clear, critique *works*, it’s not just some vacuum of memes. Critique, esp in this cycle, has consistently pushed candidates further left on the issues (off the top of my head, Biden’s new climate platform comes to mind)
anyhow I’m absolutely gonna delete this thread in the morning but sometimes the lack of nuance on this website just...really sets my goddamn teeth on edge 
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