If you're angry today, you should direct some anger at Obama, Schumer, Feinstein.

Obama put up Garland (no leftists wanted him) &, when denied a hearing, kept gov running for 9 months.

Unlike LBJ, Schumer is a failure at wielding Senate power.

Ds don't play to win.

Rs do.
Maybe it's some kind of liberal West Wing fantasy, but Ds only have 1 goal—the White House popular vote. State legislatures, the courts, Electoral College, they cede all of it to Rs. Rs care about what their base wants; Ds deride, ignore & piss on popular thing their base wants.
The Ds want you to do two things:

1. Vote for their shitty neoliberal candidates
2. Protest in a way that never—not even for a second—makes anyone of them even slightly uncomfortable.

Both of these things will maintain this current system
"Vote, VOTE!" they scream anytime Black ppl rise up...

Vote...so...

...so...

...so the other party which usually gets fewer votes can keep winning the Electoral College & stacking up 1/3 of the federal judiciary, lol.
I keep thinking about LBJ. As POTUS, as Sen Majority or even Sen Minority Leader, he wouldn't get played like Obama, Schumer, Feinstein all gleefully do. Today's Dems have few principles in line w what their (begrudging) voters way but, oddly, seem to have no desire to win.
Perhaps some if it is bc the Ds don't believe in anything concretely. They can't fight hard for half-assed semi-healthcare, but Rs do fight hard to destroy all healthcare—& win.

Being out of alignment w the values of their (desired potential) voters renders Dems, well, useless.
Think about how the Rs unabashedly embrace(d) the Tea Party, Proud Boys, Bundys, etc.

Think about how the Ds chide + distance themselves from BLM, M4A movement, Occupy, even abortion rights, condescendingly saying "Let the adults handle this."

Then the "adults" mess it up.
And so, the R base gets what they want from their electeds. The R base & electeds win.

But the left—who are really despised by the Democrats—are failed by their would-be electeds. And so the L base & the elected Democrats (who have no heart or skin in the game) both lose.
One of the things that has concerned me so much this year (& why I think I sound more like a crank all the time) is the conflation w leftist ideas + culture more broadly w the Ds.

I don't wanna see all ideas from the left sucked into this loser vortex. https://twitter.com/thrasherxy/status/1315125435366281222
IF he squeaks it out, Joe Biden has indicated he, too, is not going to play to win—he won't play to win over the life, or to win against Republicans.

Meanwhile, Republicans, if they the WH, will (continue to) roll over Dems.
Over the *left (cc @mehdirhasan, this is how I deal w typos in a thread :-) https://twitter.com/thrasherxy/status/1320895732929515522
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