Ha! Are you kidding? It is relevant if we want to continue with the Dems as our party, or if we want to start a new one. I can see where that is an open question…there may be no point if Dems cave and don’t fight and we continue to descend into Authoritarianism.
And, other people brought up Kamala. I never blamed her for anything or roped her into the culpability the Dems have. The point is, we lost the electorate. They have hardened against us, for whatever reason, and we need to change that.
We sat around saying “There are more of us”, election after election until finally…there aren’t more of us. You know how that happens? When your coalition fractures and people start drifting away and you can’t win over any significant numbers of new voters. When you don’t reach out and directly appeal to the masses of voters…and instead concentrate on direct appeals to only the smaller segments.
I am getting tired of having to repeat it…this isn’t about how Dems govern or even how they campaign. It is how we are VIEWED by the 100s of millions of people who don’t reliably vote for us. And that isn’t Kamala Harris’ problem. That is all the chat rooms, all the Social Media sites, all the left’s talking heads, mouthpieces, activists, TV panelists, and the leads of the larger organizations that purport to support the Dems. Our messaging is all over the place, and the Rs and Corporate Media seize on, always, the most hurtful stuff like we are socialists and want to Defund The Police and have kids indoctrinated by Drag Queens and perverts in their kid’s bathrooms, and men playing on women’s sports teams. That we hate Jesus and sneer at the common or rural folk. It may be a miscast perception that we only sponsor programs and policies to favor non-whites, women, and every other minority group…but there is some truth to that. Most voters weren’t alive in the time before Affirmative Action, EEOC, etc. No matter how well intentioned people are, after a decade or two they will say ‘enough’ when the playing field is being rigged in ‘somebody else’s’ favor.
So, it is an unfair game. The perception about us is warped and twisted, sure, but we hurt our own selves by not fighting it properly. We are so pure and perfect that we can’t be bothered to make conciliatory approaches to 100s of millions of voters and keep relying on our band of minorities…scared shitless we might piss some off some millions but perfectly fine pissing off 100 million.
Our minority coalition does not want to appeal to whites, males, straights, religious, and rural people. The giddiness is palpable, each recent election cycle that ‘there are more of us’ and ‘we don’t need them’ and ‘we don’t want them’. In a retail politics game, that is pure poison. Especially if ‘there are more of us’ is a mirage.