Yeah, I don't intend to say much else, I guess. Especially because it's really hard to stop myself from trying to tear off FD's head right now, and that ain't the headspace to be talkin'.
No, let's fucking do this.
The fundamental foundations of
all modern leftism are the Enlightenment, first-wave feminism, and the workers'-rights movements. It affirms that all people matter, however petty their station, that everyone deserves a fair shake at life, that the elites of society should not dictate its function or the lives of their social inferiors.
The middle and working classes of America were so desperate for hope, for some light in a time of deep economic and political uncertainty, that one set of party leadership let a demagogue slip through their shoddy system and win the nomination. The other would have seen a socialist independent secure
their nomination if not for a deeply corrupt and biased effort to go against voter desires and proceed with the coronation of the candidate they wanted.
The Clinton campaign, the DNC, and assorted others were so god damn certain of their inevitable victory, of the justness of their cause, that they spent months upon months calling their base all sorts of vile things for
daring to voice their opinions and vote with their interests, for rejecting a candidate deeply associated with the political structures which were perceived as the root of their problems.
And they're
still doing it,
still trying to argue that 50% of Americans are Klan members in waiting, and moreover hysterically screaming it in every venue they have. The election wasn't even
called before pundits started blaming third party candidates.
You spend months telling your base that they're hateful dinosaurs because they're worried about the cost of living rising and decreasing wages, that their children have no jobs and a terrible education, that we've spent the better part of two decades embroiled in a series of wars which are literally this generation's Vietnam? You spit on them and act as if they're delusional idiots and then turn around and demand that they fall in line?
What the fuck do you expect is going to happen?
This is the same attitude I've seen so goddamn much of in university society, this delusional ivory tower circlejerk that's firmly convinced that the world is full of evil terrible monsters and a handful of right-minded superior people, and that all political/cultural/social opposition to anything they want is just Nazis crying because they're not allowed to be bigots any more. It's the most close-minded, ignorant, blame-shifting bullshit I've ever encountered, and I say that having spent a good deal of time around people who think that it's a good idea to go drunk-driving on a suspended license with a bag of weed and stolen pistol in their glovebox two weeks after getting paroled from their last DUI, then rant about government tyranny when they get busted.
We saw this coming. We had a chance to stop it. But no, "It's her turn," and we get the soulless face of government indifference and disconnection instead of literally anyone that could assuage fears and gather votes. Scoff at the idea of your opposition winning instead of countering their propaganda. Plan your victory celebration instead of hitting the fucking campaign trail. Clinton went to Wisconsin, what,
once, in the entire goddamn campaign? A state full of working class voters prepared to go blue if anyone would make the effort to tell them that there was going to be a government that gave a damn about them. And they got nothing, so they voted for the person who, despite his monumental flaws, at least
pretended to care. Crown the sociopath gynoid queen of the rubble when this is all over, eh?
This is what pisses me off to no end.
This is what has every progressive I know ranting about America getting the president it deserves. All the dumb short-sighted smug elitist fucks that fed into this, that let the DNC crown Clinton, that let her campaign and supporters actively drive voters away, they're reaping what they sowed, but they're not prepared to take in the harvest. All this bullshit about "she's the safe candidate" "the election is a joke" and you fuckers go and
lose the easiest election we've had in decades. People would have been falling over themselves to vote for
any candidate who wasn't Trump that even made a cursory effort of paying
lip service to the concerns and needs of middle and working-class people.
I cannot even fucking
express the depths of the fury I've felt ever since the boulder started teetering on the edge. All these complete jackasses that decided
now was the perfect time to tell both us progressives and the whole blue-collar base that they could go fuck themselves,
right when the Republicans were running a tanning accident spouting populist rhetoric, when economic concerns are still strong, and the problem is with
us?
We lost the election? Fuck
us for being traitors?
NO, FUCK YOU WE COULD HAVE FUCKING HA--That's why I'm sticking to memes and snark. Because this is easily the most angry I have ever been in my life, over the sheer entitled selfish
arrogance that brought us here. As far as I'm concerned the Democratic party can collectively go stick a plunger in a toilet, sit, and spin. It'll take a goddamn miracle for me to ever vote for one of their presidential candidates after this. Greens will hopefully not be too crazy, and state/local candidates are still solid, but the national party can fuck right off, just one more shade of shit to hang alongside the Republicans on the wall of political hubris.
You want party fragmentation? Because this is how you get party fragmentation.
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