In Reply to: Sad reality of the age of Congress posted by russsmith on May 22, 2025 at 06:37:17
at the utter political bankruptcy of the Democratic Party. When you keep shooting yourself in the foot, in the leg, in the dick, in the head ... at some point, you have to start wondering whether you're the problem; whether we're in the depths of something so vile and corrupt and hideous as this administration and its White Power alignment is, because politics is a game of counter-balances and if one party does not hold its end in the bargain and is so utterly dysfunctional and clueless about how power works and how it's preserved, let alone what it stands for and what the whole point of the struggle is, maybe the boat having gotten capsized so spectacularly has something to do with your inability to pull your weight on the other side.
We have a profound Democratic Party problem, and it is not going to be fixed by finding a liberal Joe Rogan, not any more than finding a liberal Rush Limbaugh helped back in the day.
You know who helped? (Now I can't stop ranting.) Jon Stewart and Barack Obama. Youthfulness, conviction, and confidence. Not bluster. Not yelling at the audience. Not manufactured outrage. Remember joy? When Harris was nominated and she was dancing and Walz was making fun of how weird the other side was? That's what worked. You know what failed? The Democratic Party political consultancy class who could not at all grasp what was going on, the confidence exuded by people having fun.
Democrats lose when they ride on the old and the dying. Earlier they passed up AOC for the top of the Oversight Committee and gave the role to Connelly even though they knew he had cancer. That's called self-sabotage. It is a Democratic disease and it is, to be honest, killing the country in the way it has yielded all power to the party of psychopaths.
(One reason I keep insisting that the Democratic Party secretly does not want to win, that it's happy with being powerless.)