Dems Refuse to Change Course, Even to Avoid Fascism

If the left votes third party, independent, or stays home in 2024, it won't be because they're benighted or insufficiently patriotic.

The left was told to pound sand repeatedly. Their demands were blown off time after time. Sometimes with outright lies.

Now Team Blue is howling at those on the left who've had enough.

You’ll Get Biden and Like It

The idea of earning votes through policy—or even pledging to push the left's issues in a second term—is apparently out of the question. Running truly democratic primaries also seems to be beyond the pale. Team Blue prefers to anoint its nominees, even if they’ve “been roundly rejected by nearly everybody who's not deep into middle age,” as Black Agenda Report Executive Editor Glen Ford put it in 2019.

Zombie-Shuffling Toward Fascism

If the left votes third party, independent, or stays home in 2024, it won't be because they're benighted or insufficiently patriotic. It will be because Democrats arrogantly refused to listen, even to their most true-blue insiders. As it is, the US is zombie-shuffling toward fascism.

Worse, if Team Blue loses, they'll likely refuse to reassess their shibboleths or change in a way that might secure more votes in 2028. The political calculus won’t be any easier then, with possibilities that include a new political party for workers and a general strike.

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Democrats are once again working to keep third-party and independent candidates off the ballot. One wonders if they’ll have such a formidable legal strategy should the election come down to recounts and court challenges.

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I see a lot of Democrats claiming that a Team Red win next year means the end of democracy. I can only hope that they're organizing for what happens after Election Day, because they're certainly not trying to win votes through outreach.

Of possible interest:

“Dysfunctional Coalition Politics”
Voter Choice: Still a Myth
“The ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ is Not the Green New Deal”
Third Party for the Climate Win