soy_disantra [he/him]

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Cake day: January 4th, 2022

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  • This feels way more cataclysmic to internal party structures then 2020 or 2016 IMO. The popular/electoral shitshow in 16 gave both parties a claim to popular support, and I think a lot of flack the GOP would have taken for 2020 was absorbed by covid. These results are the clearest admonishment of dem strategy I could ever imagine. I think it’s pretty reasonable to assume they’ll be a left/right wing reaction that may end in a new party forming, if not this election cycle- the next. If you’d allow me to LIB out for a moment, I believe the next 4 years is a unique opportunity for he broad left to create a political institution that actually can gain the support to put up fights electorally. I’m not a reformist, but IDK if commies should dismiss chances like this to build working class organization, even if distasteful.




    1. Really hard to run an attack campaign when you’re the incumbent party. If your messaging is just “im a bit better than the other guy” people are just gonna point to the shit job you’re doing right now. Historical levels of unpopularity is real hard to come back from, bush needed 9/11.
    2. The whole Biden debacle was disastrous, probably ended any chance of scooping up the moderate vote they were desperately pining for.
    3. Gaza, immigration, and generally running to the right put a bullet in any chance of bringing this campaign back. They tried really desperately with the weed stuff at the last minute, but the damage was done.
    4. Democratic party reeks of putrescene