This is why the Democratic Party may be on its way to oblivion.
After receiving the worst results in ninety years, they choose to double down on the same nonsense that made them lose in the first place?
Ellison...and it seems almost every other Democrat, still doesn't know why the Democrats lost. Let me tell the truth…from a life-long Democrat...soon to be independent, if Ellison or someone like him is elected.
As soon as someone makes sense with, “Maybe we should focus on economic issues that affect EVERYONE with an actual ECONOMIC PLATFORM like the “Single Tax” instead of issues only affecting small segments of the population”. Invariably, some fool screams “What? Stop pushing for equal rights and minority rights?
Um…yea. There’s a time to push and a time to STFU. The time to push hard is AFTER your party wins the election…not before. In years past, I always noticed how instinctively GOP fringe nuts like Pat Robertson were always dead silent during the most important election years.
When the vast MAJORITY is talking about the economy...and you start telling people who are struggling to pay their rent the insane idea that they are "privileged" because they're white, you just created a Trump supporter. Instead, tell them you’re working to end "wealth privilege" that's eating EVERYONE alive and right now, you don't give a rat's ass about bathroom stalls.
Instead of praising Black Lives Matter leaders for inciting riots and resentment that got five cops killed...call them what they are...naive activists using FASCIST tactics that should have been denounced from day one. The events incited in Ferguson and Baltimore created MILLIONS of frightened Trump voters.
I should know…unlike Ellison, I actually debate these VOTERS almost every day on social media. Of course, it’s always myself against four or five right-wingers. Liberals have a habit of not showing up, don’t they? Remember social media? That was the thing Trump said got him elected. That’s the thing that caused revolutions in quite a few countries around the world. But not in the USA. Liberals allowed radio to be taken over by the right…now, the most powerful platform on earth is going the same way. Progressives don’t seem to know what the word “re-tweet” means.
What's truly stupid, is that every fool who said he voted Trump for change or the Hillary hating Bernie supporter not showing up at the polls...they not only voted back in the same GOP Congress that's been running it for EIGHTEEN years out of the last twenty-two years...but Trump's new cabinet is full of neo-Cons, lobbyists and ESTABLISHMENT hacks. Trump MUST give them everything they want to do anything.
And Bernie's movement was destroyed for the next TWENTY years...by Bernie dopes who didn’t have a clue that if Hillary won, she HAD TO TURN LEFT her entire first term and adopt Bernie’s platform. The GOP wrote rules to prevent another party take-over from an outsider; there wasn’t going to be another “Trump”…but another establishment figure. Either turn left or face the embarrassment of a one-term first woman President.
These idiots think they gave the Democratic and GOP establishment a big "fuck you". They actually gave the GOP establishment a grip on Congress that may last decades. Their ability to gerrymander a permanent majority has increased substantially. This is what the cowardly Germans did in 1933 and the Italians did in 1922 with Mussolini. Enjoy!