I’m still reading this, and I know who its written by and what not, but fun book so far.
It does bring up the “why we hate our parties” debate, which I think is a wonderful discussion.
As one who leans left, I can’t stand the Democratic Party
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Has abandoned being a worker’s rights party and become a party of thousands of individual groups, ethnic groups, sexual preference groups, religious groups, etc. You’ll never please 1000 different groups, half of which hate each other for this reason or that.
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Defends Islam as a rule. Just because they don’t think every Muslim is out to kill us, doesn’t mean you ignore that Islam is the everything liberals hate about religion wrapped into one.
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Can’t decide if they are pro-war or anti-war
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The DNC sucks, flat out. No way to justify it or reason it out. The platform is shit. The leaders are terrible. They can’t fight.
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The left will cater to a Twitter comment from a college student
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The DNC seemingly has removed itself from the fights. It’s essentially just the party who accepts basic reality and thinks it’ll win just by NOT being a Republican who denies basic reality. That’s not enough. It doesn’t inspire anything. Just because the DNC thinks Congress should pay our debts (i.e. debt ceiling) after Congress ran up said debts, doesn’t mean you’re doing anything. Simply being the responsible adult in the room half of the time isn’t grounds for being a political party. They’re defined more by the irresponsibility on the right than anything else
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Anyone who ran Hillary and thought she could win is fucking nuts
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They can’t message anything. Messaging sucks dick, 100% of the time