Campaign money is important, but it also has it's limits. At some point, more spending has diminishing or even negative returns. We just saw that with Elon in Michigan.
Going after AOC for allegedly not doing anything for her constituents is pretty damn ignorant. You aren't going to find many House members who are as engaged as she is, and her constituents are overwhelmingly pleased with her.
She is also one of maybe half a dozen House members with an effective social media game. You can belittle it as "performative" but engaging in public rhetoric is a big part of a politician's job. I wish every Democrat advocated as well as she does.
It's funny that you are attacking her on social media by criticizing her for attacking people on social media.
I think it's far more likely she runs for Schumer's seat in the Senate than the presidency. It's pretty much her's if she wants it.
Yes, if only the liberals, who make up a plurality of this country
Not even close to correct. Who are the most popular politicians in this country? Every poll I've seen in the past 10 years has AOC and Bernie at the top, and the only politician who can even compete with their approval ratings is Mamdani.
Liberals make up a plurality of the news media and the wealthy Democratic donors. They aren't plurality of the people. A recent poll has 62% of self identified Democrats saying they want new Democratic leadership, and only 24% saying they like the leadership they have. People are fed up, and they are not looking for more "centrist" Democrats.
As it stands, both sides think the other side is completely insane, and to some extent violent
Um, is it at all relevant that one side literally is insane, or that one side commits 99% of the violence? Where is the Democrats alligator Alcatraz for Christians? Where are the Democratic brown-shirt vigilantes running around with masks kidnapping people?
I think Republicans are insane and violent because I see it with my own eyes. Are we supposed pretend their not? Screw that, I'd rather punch a Nazi.
There were a million reasons that people didn't show for Harris. Why do you scold only the people who were outspoken against genocide? Can you point to any evidence that this issue swung the election?
Biden put Harris in a terrible position by holding out as long as he did. Then Harris ran a horrendous campaign. That is why she lost.
People who care about Gaza are people who are politically engaged. That not who stayed home. Politically engaged people vote third party when they want to protest, and third party votes did not sway this election. Not even close.
People who stay home are normies who have given up. A lot of people need inspiration to show up, and centrist Democrats just aren't inspiring.
I can only suppose that your fixation on the genocide issue is because you like the genocide and were pissed off that people objected to it. That's the only reason to bring this trash up in every damn conversation about the Trump administration.
Months. Did you somehow miss black lives matter? The rapid growth of the prison industrial complex? This is just the explosive conclusion to a pattern that was well underway long before Trump.
Anyone who has ever used that phrase un-ironically is politically tone deaf, or a Republican agent. I get the sentiment, and even agree with it, but it doesn't communicate what people who use it think it does. The kind of people who use that phrase are the ones I blame most for gestures broadly.
I didn't claim otherwise, but your understanding of statistics is a little wonky. You can't extrapolate from "white men" to my individual experience and say that minorities are getting it far worse. There are plenty of lucky minority members that never get a bad diagnosis in their life, and plenty of unlucky white men that are plagued by them.
Ever had a sinus headache that lated a real long time? I'm in my 11th year of one nonstop headache, and I still don't know why the fuck it's happening - even after seeing over a dozen specialists all referring me elsewhere after their one or two guesses didn't pan out. Every new referral takes 3-6 months for a first visit.
This is my third such issue. I researched and diagnosed the second issue on my own and found out that my exact misdiagnoses was actually known to be incredibly common, but institutional inertia and specialist blindspots meant that it wasn't being widely corrected despite being known for over 15 years.
So no, being a white man does not offer protection from our shitty healthcare system. Every societal flaw has it's victims, and it's almost always true that minorities and the disenfranchised get it worse. That's no reason to disregard the experiences of non-minorities - many of whom will have it just as bad individually.
I want to see the candidates also grilled on whether they condemn the Israeli government for the genocide in Gaza. Why isn't that one being asked? (rhetorical - we all know why.)
I'm a white man and I promise you that it's no protection from our shitty medical system. My adult life has been a misery for at least 15 of the past 20 years because of multiple rushed and incorrect diagnoses. There are literally thousands of conditions that the system is incapable of recognizing because they involve multiple specialties, fit between specialties, or are frequently referred to the wrong specialist who won't look for causes outside their specialty.
A lot of it comes down to the limited amount of time Doctors get with the patient. They have to come up with a conclusion in 10-15 minutes, then move on, then it's usually several months before they see the patient again.
The President isn't the problem. He's certainly "a" problem, but let's not pretend that Vance is going to be any better.
Get rid of all the corrupt Republicans (redundant phrase), and you will still have MAGA, the silicon valley tech bros, a corrupt financial system, white/Christian nationalists, and the military industrial complex.
Then we have the Democrats who have proven themselves over and over again to be incapable of standing up against any of these groups.
Whatever we protest for, any result worth the effort has to address the systemic failures that led to the Trump presidency. Anything less is performative at best.
We need an inverse lottery. The top 100 most wealthy Americans are automatically added to a pool and one is drawn at random each year. Then we confiscate everything they own, put them in the street, and see if they can get rich again.
That's not so much about Russia as it is about the west. The neoliberal consensus that dominates western democracy is really big on military spending and not so great at caring for and educating people. In a sane world they would recognize that a discontent populace is as much of a vulnerability as a weak military.
Campaign money is important, but it also has it's limits. At some point, more spending has diminishing or even negative returns. We just saw that with Elon in Michigan.