Willow: It’s unilateral warfare and too many on the left keep blaming the victims and falling for it because they don’t personally like the victims.

Not to be rude to Michael whom I respect very much, but in 2012 Hillary Clinton was the most popular politician in the country and had a viral meme. In 2020, numerous people said that Biden was so great he should have run in 2016. The weaknesses of these candidates pale to the weakness in us.

I'm constantly marveling at Trump's luck as a politician. He only won in 2016 because he ran against one of the Democrats' weakest candidates. In 2024 he ends up running against someone even weaker.

This is a rant I have had for a while, but the first First Lady with a postgraduate degree, Watergate lawyer, children’s rights activist, US Senator and Secretary of State was not a weak fucking candidate. She was more progressive than Biden in every conceivable way. She got fucked over.

And, as much as I hate Joe Biden (and I do!), the man is a six term US Senator, a former VP who actually did something, and an extremely capable administrator. If we were focused on the job of president and not the spectacle of it then this would be obvious, but we keep getting caught in the circus

It took two decades of concerted DC media and Republican efforts and a racist backlash to Obama to sink Hillary’s campaign.

And faithless electors, and electoral college fuckery

It’s unilateral warfare and too many on the left keep blaming the victims and falling for it because they don’t personally like the victims.

But nothing I can say will ever convince anyone who doesn’t already see it.

Yep. That's the horrible part

makes me 🔪🔪🔪

and because that's common in an abusive system: blame everyone but the actual abuser, because you don't realize you've been gaslit yourself, and/or it's too scary/inconvenient to do otherwise

Exactly. And this will keep happening until the centrists and moderates are radicalized and it becomes bilateral.

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