Notices by Nowhere Girl (gwynnion@mastodon.social)

The modern Democratic Party would have run away from the civil rights movement as fast as possible.

They would also be ashamed to do the New Deal or Great Society because it would represent "a huge government overreach" in their minds.

These people are not the stuff of greatness. They're not the people you want in the trenches with you against fascism either.

I don't expect AOC to stab me in the back for no reason but she's not my friend either. I don't know her. I'm not even one of her constituents.

Like, what motivates this? I get wishing someone would protect us from Trump and Republicans but it's clear Democrats can't even do that.

Parasocial relationships with politicians and parties are so fucking weird to me as someone who doesn't trust any of these people to look out for my interests.

People have been giving me the "you'll understand when you're older" speech about politics and like, I'm 47 and maybe not long for this world. I've seen the fnords! None of these people impress me.

We just had a whole election testing the theory that Democrats could win over "moderate" white conservative voters with someone as abhorrent as Trump as the alternative and it turns out those people like Trump just fine and want to continue voting for Republicans.

I'm so glad we didn't nuke the country and a bunch of people's human rights just to test this stupid ass, obviously wrong theory.

Democrats are terrified of losing Republican votes they were never going to get in the first place.

Decades of Democratic intransigence on issues that matter to people, hiding behind the pretext of insurmountable procedural barriers that seemingly only exist when they're in power, has also had a corrosive effect on Americans' faith in democracy and driven increasing numbers of people toward the idea of an authoritarian "solution."

Democrats embraced Trump anti-immigration policy, cynically used antisemitism accusations to defend their support for genocide, threw their arms around cops, crowed about having the deadliest military on Earth, told the poor to eat shit, sat back while AIPAC attacked Black progressives, campaigned with Republicans, and shrugged at a hateful onslaught of anti-trans ads.

And millions of their voters stayed home.

I don't think "wokeness" was the problem.

Conservative Democrats keep treating Trump's thin popular vote victory as a "mandate" and acting like his are the only voters worth catering to for reasons which I hope are obvious by now. (They're bigoted pieces of shit who suck.)

When Harris deflected that she would "follow the law" on trans issues, for example, she was not only refusing to take a moral and principled stand, she was saying outright that she would only support us to the extent (white) voters were willing to tolerate.

Trump's anti-trans ad splurge was designed, amongst other things, to manufacture consent for abandoning trans people. And in the aftermath of the election, that's exactly what many Democrats are doing.

The mistake a lot of rank and file Democrats keep making is thinking that there is a connection, even a correlation, between the party's rhetoric and the party's actions. If you assume they're a racial capitalist party first and foremost, their "weird" neglect and apathy on other issues starts to seem obvious.

Democrats understand perfectly well that Black people, Latinos, immigrants, queer people, poor people, and disproportionately, women, are exploited and oppressed but that is also how the social hierarchy and engine of economics has always worked in this country.

At the national level, Democrats see themselves as bureaucrats and middle managers, keeping the economy stable and staying out of the way of corporations and the donor class.

Like the Rockefeller Republicans they are, they only care about social issues insofar as it reduces conflict and promotes economic stability. Otherwise marginalized groups get scapegoated and targeted by bipartisan social purges.

This mindset works hand in glove with conservatives and can never challenge fascism.

The biggest problem with the Democratic Party is its belief that America is white or that only white Americans matter. Everyone else is a "special interest" to be indulged only if it doesn't ruffle white people's feathers.

Republicans, by winning a majority of white voters, have greater legitimacy in their eyes, even when the head of the party is someone like Trump.

That Democrats have effectively turned themselves into stock brokers for "socially liberal" wealthy white people doesn't help.

Democrats are looking for ways to fit themselves into the "new political reality" because Trump is now normal.

Some of us may die but that's a sacrifice they're willing to make.

Understood this way, the 2024 Democratic campaign was a sales pitch to big business and older, affluent white Americans: "We will be better for you than Trump and better at keeping Those People in line without all the unnecessary drama and instability."

And those groups said: "Nah, we prefer the fascism, actually."

But Democrats weren't talking to the rest of us. They assumed the threat of Trump would be enough to scare us into submission.

So now they're recalibrating.

And when Democrats fall on hard times, politically, and feel stung by the rejection of white voters, their first instinct is always to abandon the minority groups and social issues they think are dragging them down.

They'll make it up to the rich later, see, when they clean up Republicans' messes.

Democrats like Gavin Newsom are thrilled to criminalize homeless people because they would rather pack the poor in prisons, where they can be forced to work, than do anything to tackle a housing and cost of living crisis that primarily affects marginalized people and the working poor.

"Fund the police!" is a direct repudiation of BLM and the idea that Democrats owe Black people anything as long as the economy keeps ticking and wealth continues being extracted to the predominately white upper class. Oppressive and ultra-violent police is the system working as intended, actually.