Where Do We Go From Here - Democrats (third in a series) - 12/3/2024

Here's some unsolicited advice for the Democratic Party and Democrat leadership in the wake of Trump's stunning return to the White House:

1) Stop letting Trump and Trumpism define your party's identity. "Who are you?" "We're not Trump! We're not like Trump! We resist Trump!" What I hear is you're nobody. You're nothingness. You're emptiness. Resistance ain't existence. "Whatever he's for, we're against, and what he's against, we're for." That's meaningless, empty nonsense.

2) Intersectionality has driven you further and further left, so much so that you're calling what used to be the center "extreme" and "far right." Get a goddamned moral compass instead of throwing your compass away every time some small faction within your ranks shrieks that where your compass points makes them sad, or makes them feel or look bad. Move rightward toward the center or prepare for eternal obscurity.

3) Identity politics, DEI, and really stupid economic policies lost you the working class. You probably disagree because some douchebag propagandist on TV told you it ain't so, but it is.

Edison Police evicted this lawyer from an Edison City Council Meeting. He had the audacity to defy their new rule banning the display of the U.S. flag. Put another way: Tell me you're un-American pieces of shit without telling me you're un-American pieces of shit. Thank you. Yes, you are un-American pieces of shit.

4) I know "America First" belongs to that other guy who you hate, but the shit your leaders say and do says y'all hate America, hate what it was and hate what it is. Find a way to be sincere and love our country. You realize what an indictment it is of your party that when we see a flag flying proudly and instantly know it's one of us and not one of you. You disagree? The fucking city of Edison, NJ has banned display of the U.S. flag at city council meetings. Do you know how fucked up that is to have elected Democrats think that banning the American flag is the right thing to do.

5) Find leaders who want my vote and the votes of people like me. Quit with the vilification of all of us who disagree with you guys, and listen to us and our concerns. You need new leaders. Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jefferies, the squad, Pelosi, Swalwell, and Schiff from California will keep us divided and at each other's throats.

6) Quit with the un-American bullshit of stacking the Supreme Court, eliminating the Electoral College, and all the rest.

7) To the rank and file Democrats who may see this, the one thing I advise more than any other thing? Change the fucking channel. The lying propagandists you salivate over daily are in large measure what got us here. Change the fucking channel. Please. The shit you're watching and listening to is the problem.

I know you won't listen to any of this, but somebody had to say it.