“They want us to spend money, and for what? For no message, no organization, no forward thinking. … The thing that’s clear to a lot of us is that the party never really learned its lesson in 2016. They worked off the same playbook and the same ineffective strategies and to what end?”
Meanwhile, you have Sanders talking to actual people
exactly.
While he said donors are taking calls, they are “asking harder questions, which I think is a good thing.”
my family sends in contributions to progressives doing on the ground work. every. single. month.
no need to beg for donations when its clear you are actually trying to make a difference.
“Democratic strategist Steve Schale, who served as the director of the pro-Biden super PAC Unite the Country, attributed some of the donor reluctance to fatigue, which he said happens after every election.”
Fuck this guy in particular.
Words of a man who is absolutely determined not to understand a damn thing. Infuriating.
So we have to keep not donating for a long time then so they can really let it sink in.
It’s a rational position. “Tell me what my money will actually accomplish after all these failures.”
That said, getting rid of big donors doesn’t really have a downside for the party platform. But I think a schism is coming.
Being the longest running democracy (though flawed) is encouraging. The rabbit hole of US politics is daunting. I try to not get too emotionally invested.
I don’t think the timeline is relevant. Rome didn’t exactly fall in a day, it turned from a republic into proud empire as conditions for the plebs degraded, and … well, that’s helpful to bear in mind.
And Iran went from mini skirts to burqas in three years.
How quickly we forget.
This is absolutely true (including for me). I’m not funding anyone anymore but the Squad, until I see or hear how the party is actually planning to dig its way out of its appeal-to-both-sides-but-side-with-centrist-money pit it’s gotten itself into.
Personally I follow oath.vote. I gave that way last cycle and I prrobably will the next cycle.
I also interested in what Adam Kinsinger is going to do.
Finally who gives now? I only give in the year of the election. Though I might make some exceptsions.
One gets tired of voters blaming people they didn’t vote for.
