Notices by Nowhere Girl (gwynnion@mastodon.social)

We continually have to make do with the weakest, laziest, most cowardly and self-serving politicians, and every time you point this out, someone jumps in say to, "Hey, those are MY useless politicians!"

I swear, Democrats wouldn't know what to do without Republicans around to either blame or give them ideas.

@MousyAesthete Yeah, you have guys like Hakeem Jeffries out here saying, "Of course we should cut the corporate tax rate to 18% if that's what it takes to make those donors happy with us!" And he would -- and should -- get eviscerated for that shit.

Especially since the original TikTok kerfuffle, elected Democrats have become increasingly hostile to voters calling them to urge action on certain issues and treat them as fake "flash mobs" engineered by progressive media organizations. They loathe AOC. You think they and their donors want to fund a passionate, left-leaning political outlet that will take them to task, too?

That said, Bernie Sanders was pretty successful with that demographic just by making vaguely populist shouty noises. Likewise, AOC has won over people -- including, weirdly, a lot of Trump guys -- just by being forthright about what the problems are.

The big problem with left-leaning political messaging is no one in the mainstream wants to pay for it because it runs counter to the do nothing conservative orthodoxy of the Democratic Party.

People bring up Rogan as an example, I think, because they want someone who can make left-ish ideas palatable to young men. But young white men are a right-leaning demographic because they have everything to gain from the status quo, and any outreach designed to appeal to them specifically risks merely reaffirming their biases.

Joe Rogan's entire bit is being an agreeable stoner dipshit who normalizes vaguely conspiratorial fashy garbage to his audience of dipshits because right-wingers realized the Rush Limbaugh model of obnoxiously shouting at people is a turnoff. That doesn't map well onto left politics either way.

Everything is terrible but Volume Four of my urban fantasy series, "Wolf, Witch, Warrior," is now available as a Kindle e-book with a paperback edition to follow shortly.

"Ultra" sees the return of the mysterious flying cube from Volume Three, which sends Tybalt and Felicia on a strange adventure involving underground networks and doors to parallel universes.

But maybe the real paranormal is the friends they make along the way.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVCK4798

Democrats struggle to get traction with voters because they all seem like phonies. And for the most part, they are.

Everyone in America thinks government is hopelessly corrupt and Democrats are here to tell you: "Yes, yes, it is, and we're okay with that."

"Gov. Hochul won't remove NYC Mayor Adams from office"

https://gothamist.com/news/gov-hochul-wont-remove-nyc-mayor-adams-from-office-for-now-source-says

Every time Democrats are in a position to remove or prosecute someone for blatantly illegal shit, they intentionally whiff it.

Democrats want you to have the lowest possible expectations for them so they can go back to enjoying their government healthcare and insider trading and not have to do any real work.

I said once that Democrats believe the only consequences in politics should be electoral consequences. So if a corrupt politician or a fascist wins an election, even if it's rigged: "Oh, well, we have to work with them. Nothing can be done."

Which is very convenient for them, obviously, as so many are corrupt, if only in petty ways. But it has a corrosive effect on democracy and trust in government, especially when the only response is to whine: "But Republicans are worse!"

Democrats hate having power and they hate being expected to use that power.

"I'm worse off than you so you have to do what I say" is a well-worn conservative tactic of trying to hijack left politics and empathy to control people. Like, every MAGA chud making six figures and driving an expensive pickup truck thinks they're the "real victims." TERFs love that shit, too. It's trite and manipulative.

I don't trust anyone who self-identifies as a conservative.

I remember when people used to insist we needed geriatric Democrats like Biden in office because they knew the system and how to make deals and could get stuff done. And then: "President Biden let Senator Joe Manchin, a corrupt and charisma-free coal baron from a small, unwinnable state, become the most powerful person in the world." And when Trump won again, the entire party flopped flat on its face and played dead.

"Maybe if Democratic leaders pretended Elon Musk was a 22-year-old Palestinian from Dearborn, Michigan, they’d show more fight."

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democratic-party-fecklessness/

Immigration from the US to Europe is functionally impossible for most people, especially if you're disabled, non-white, trans, don't speak the language, don't have relatives there, don't have a shit load of money, or don't have in-demand skills. It's not even particularly easy going to Canada or Mexico unless you have money to throw at the problem.

The people steering the Democratic Party are millionaire insider trading politicians, failed upward political consultants, and day-drinking opinion writers. Most of them haven't worked a real job in decades. They wouldn't know what rent or healthcare costs and they don't care. They're not threatened by Trump. They are nothing but dead weight.

Democrats win when they are forthright about improving ordinary people's lives and they lose when they seem insincere or like they don't care.

That goes for "identity politics" and economics both because these things are one and the same.

Democrats lie about having a "big tent" while catering to the financial interests and cultural squeamishness of affluent white people. That's a losing proposition because Republicans already own that space for the most part.