Are the Left Finally Seeing the Democrats For What They Are? Part 4
This is the third portion of my response to a Democrat supporter who continues to carry on the thinking of that section of the Left who refuse to give up their loyalty to the Democrats despite the disastrous results of the 2024 elections. Part 1 is here; Part 2 is here; and Part 3 is here. As before, their points are italicized while mine are not.
The Romanticization of Kamala Harris in Biden’s Stead
They are also the people who chose an incompetent old man-child instead of a highly competent younger woman of color.
Let us just be honest here. Weren’t you and other Dems supporting an old white man suffering from dementia up until his disastrous debate with Trump that caused the other Dems to turn on him and put a DEI-friendly darling in his place?
Hence, “competence” is not the main factor here, but rather how emotionally appealing a candidate happens to be due to a combination of their immutable attributes and party brand. The fact that you mention Harris’s gender and race is highly telling, as it makes clear that “The Message!” was more important than any policies she may have had.
And let us not forget that she had no working class policies. She ran solely on “messaging”, “vibes” & “joy” (i.e., emotional appeal), vapid celebrity endorsements by wealthy entertainers who live in a bubble (quite insulting to working class people), and the very important but simple fact that she wasn’t Trump.
Yet you say she was “highly competent”? Need I state her record as both a prosecutor in California and congressional politician again? Need I remind you of her statement via an interview that if elected she would have done nothing different than the elderly white male dementia sufferer who was the Dem figurehead for the capitalist duopoly immediately before her?
What definition of “competent” was this, exactly? Just say “emotionally appealing to my DEI-friendly sensibilities” and it will sound perfectly honest.
Romanticizing Carter Again
I hope if we get another Carter-esque president in the future, we are smart enough to listen to him or her.
But our most recent election proves we are even less able to make good decisions for ourselves now.
What it proves is that the vast majority of the working class are sick of the Democrats’ constant slew of lies, broken promises, warmongering, and putting divisive “messaging” & emotional rhetoric over actual pro-working class policies. They did everything in their power to keep us divided and to keep us tethered to the capitalist class while doing nothing for us economically, and it finally came back to bite them. And it was about time!
We don’t need another Carter-esque president, i.e., one who helps usher in a worse version of capitalism. What we need to do is abandon the capitalist duopoly altogether.
The Dems torpedoed their ship for us. Next, we need to torpedo the Republican ship and set sail in our own vessel. We must take matters into our own hands and stop hoping and praying that some establishment politician promoted by the capitalist duopoly — either wing of the same predatory bird — is going to “rescue” us from the problems created by the system they all support and uphold.
Only we can rescue ourselves. That is why I did not vote for Trump, but I sure as hell would not have voted for Harris and her alliance with the likes of Wall Street, Dick Cheney, and Oprah Winfrey either.
Rest in peace, President Carter. We’ll never have another president like you.
To the contrary, the standard be began to set paved the way for plenty of other Democrats that continued what he started— the Clintons, Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Harris… need I go on?
If Carter was a visionary benefactor of the working class, he would not have caused an awful recession that resulted in his loss to Reagan. Much like eight years of Clinton gave way to Bush and eight years of Obama gave way to Trump. And like Biden/Harris lost to Trump by a landslide after just one horrid four-year term.
All of these neoliberal Democrat administrations, from Carter to Biden, let the workers down and made them jump to the other ship sailing the Duopoly Ocean in a desperate bid for change. Now, if only they come to realize that the other ship in that ocean is also not viable for them, so that they begin the process of constructing their own.
Now, let us move onto the Part 5 of the series, where I begin addressing the statements of a Democrat supporting author is beginning to show the important signs of waking up.
Now, let us move onto the Part 5 of the series, where I begin addressing the statements of a Democrat supporting author is beginning to show the important signs of waking up.