The time to avoid this was when Obama won on a platform of Hope and Change.
They did nothing. They’ve done nothing for decades since.
The result is a matter of everyone simply looking at the historical evidence. The “lesser evil” party is still an evil party that makes things worse. Of course everyone thinks this. They will only think otherwise when things demonstrably get better instead.
Democrats really are incompetent. They think Obama won on charisma alone. No you dumb fucks. He won because his campaign literally promised things would change and there was a massive effort to register people to vote. The bar is so low, a candidate who has their staff setting up voting booths and registration areas near you makes it easy for people to think “They went through all this effort to reach me, the least I can do is vote for them.”
Since 2008, they’ve completely forgot how that election went. Dems now do stupid shit like skipping over entire states or scold people for not voting. Trump’s 2016 campaign was the opposite. His staff obviously understood Obama’s 2008 strategy because they had Trump visiting multiple towns everyday promising to destroy the status quo.
He was also the first major candidate that acknowledged the importance of the internet and used it as a tool to campaign and (mildly - but significant in context) organize.
They really dropped the ball with that one as soon as they got in power. Unprecedented election followed by abject failure.
That should’ve been a wake up call for sure. Also, recall how Obama crushed the whole occupy movement that correctly identified the problem being with the 1%. That was a great illustration of the failure of the whole spontaneous organization idea. People really should’ve studied why occupy failed and why a vanguard is necessary for any serious movement.
The time to avoid this was when Obama won on a platform of Hope and Change.
They did nothing. They’ve done nothing for decades since.
The result is a matter of everyone simply looking at the historical evidence. The “lesser evil” party is still an evil party that makes things worse. Of course everyone thinks this. They will only think otherwise when things demonstrably get better instead.
Democrats really are incompetent. They think Obama won on charisma alone. No you dumb fucks. He won because his campaign literally promised things would change and there was a massive effort to register people to vote. The bar is so low, a candidate who has their staff setting up voting booths and registration areas near you makes it easy for people to think “They went through all this effort to reach me, the least I can do is vote for them.”
Since 2008, they’ve completely forgot how that election went. Dems now do stupid shit like skipping over entire states or scold people for not voting. Trump’s 2016 campaign was the opposite. His staff obviously understood Obama’s 2008 strategy because they had Trump visiting multiple towns everyday promising to destroy the status quo.
He was also the first major candidate that acknowledged the importance of the internet and used it as a tool to campaign and (mildly - but significant in context) organize.
They really dropped the ball with that one as soon as they got in power. Unprecedented election followed by abject failure.
That should’ve been a wake up call for sure. Also, recall how Obama crushed the whole occupy movement that correctly identified the problem being with the 1%. That was a great illustration of the failure of the whole spontaneous organization idea. People really should’ve studied why occupy failed and why a vanguard is necessary for any serious movement.