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  • While this letter says a lot of correct things and things that sound good, I find no comfort in it or anything to indicate that Democrats are mobilizing to actually accomplish anything at all. It talks a lot about how trump is bad, how Musk is bad, and how Project 2025 is bad. True, true, and true. It waxes fondly about labor and the working class. Great, thanks. It doesn’t, however, say anything about what they are doing, or going to do. What policies are they going to advance? What positions are they adopting, beyond vague platitudes? Why should anyone believe that their interests are now aligned with the working class after they’ve spent the last few weeks courting and reassuring super wealthy donors in Silicon Valley? What are they claiming has changed since they blew the last election?

    Democrats need to learn that no one cares what’s in their hearts. No one cares that you are a good person, or that you have the best of intentions, or you have a great backstory. No one cares that you’re smart, or better qualified than the other guy. All they want to know is what are you going to do, and how are you going to do it. Then, when handed power, you have to actually, ya know, do those things.

    I know that this letter isn’t the sum total of Democratic Party strategy, but there’s nothing here to indicate that the party has learned anything from the smoldering wreckage of their last forty years of activity. There’s nothing here to indicate that they’re prepared to fight the existential disaster being unfurled by the fascist administration, a cucked congress and corrupt court.

    If this letter had merit, it would include things like:

    “…and that is why we are going to change course. To assure that the policies we pursue are aligned with the working class, we are going to reject large donations from billionaires and corporations…”

    “…so we will push for the specific polices that manifest these values, including….”

    “…until we achieve a position of power, we will focus on spreading awareness of the true divide in this country. The people need to know that their real enemies are not immigrants, or trans kids. Their true enemies are the billionaires, the oligarchs, and the unaccountable corporate machines that…”

    Until Democrats start doing these things, they will continue losing elections to the worst people in the world. And, when they do manage to win, they will continue to enable the worst people in the world. None of the current awfulness would have been possible, without the incompetence and malice of a Democratic Party that became decoupled from the interests of the vast majority of Americans decades ago. There’s nothing in this letter that indicates a re-coupling. Instead, there’s a lot of happy talk that, through years of inaction, the electorate has been trained to no longer believe.

  • Dude's ripping up the underpinnings of The American democratic institution of Checks and Balance, upon which litterally everything else relies on for legitimacy, so "pro worker" "union focus", mmmmmmm, okay i guess, but points to litteraly everything burning. This position needs to be a wartime consiglierie, not some pie in the sky "we'll get em next election", without checks and balances, there is no constitutional law, there are no elections, there is no republic

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