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Rexicon1 posted:The person chosen as the DNC chair is a representation of how the DNC is going to respond to criticism of their crappy awful dogshit party and whether or not I should have even a sliver of hope that they learn a single loving lesson from this election. Changing the leadership of the party, even in trivial roles is important as a signal to me and many other progressives who think that the weak-rear end bullshit of the party will continue and whether we can continue to not give a poo poo about anything they say and continue to have miserable midterm turnout. Yeah. Look at 2014 and the miserable showing in that election which almost directly led to where we are now. Think about how if the Senate was still controlled by the Democrats when Scalia died and how different it would be right now or if Trump was president and the Senate was 51-49 in favor of the Dems. Basically giving up on midterms because "well Democrats don't vote in midterms so why bother" is a defeatist attitude that came from the top down and was parroted here by the Democrat faithful. Or how about how when people ask why certain state Democratic operations (like Wisconsin or Florida) are a mess and the response is "well that's the way it is  " and there's no follow up on how to fix those. The DNC chair matters even if it's totally symbolic because it shows that the party maybe gives a poo poo instead of just being the party of "hey those other guys are jerks right (but not really that big of jerks since we go and have drinks with them after work)." You can't look like you don't care because everything is fine and then expect people to believe you when suddenly you start campaigning as the only way to stop Republicans from loving us all.The previous DNC chair was standing up for loving payday lenders which is outrageously shameful for the supposed left leaning party. That alone should have disqualified her but even after her failure in 2014 there were still defenders saying that people are being too hard on her and then welp a SCOTUS seat was stolen so yeah it really matters. Eggplant Squire fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Jan 12, 2017 |
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If that happens they should both be the chair and divide the office with a line, I Love Lucy style.
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Feb 25, 2017 18:10
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