Defeat is an orphan. But defeated Democrats, themselves responsible for losing an election to Donald Trump that should have been easy to win, are flailing about trying to pin the blame on everyone but themselves.
The Blame Game
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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You should use the other side of the card. The pant suits, the nasal voice, the faked accents, the overblown credentials (look up how many criminal cases “The Prosecutor” actually walked into court for), Kamalielese whenever a question was asked, the soft and friendly media who kept reinforcing the observation that Harris really didn’t seem capable of a “big girl” game by handing her only the easy questions except under scripted conditions when the questions “got” a little harder, Willie Brown’s warning to her that a vice presidency is often the graveyard of a career, etc., etc., etc.
Another one I’ve seen blamed for this is voters who wouldn’t “vote blue no matter who” over such trifling matters as the Gaza genocide, the greenwashing, and the BS about how great the economy is doing.
> Another one I’ve seen blamed for this is voters who wouldn’t “vote blue no matter who” over such trifling matters as the Gaza genocide, the greenwashing, and the BS about how great the economy is doing.
Replace “blamed for” with “given credit for” and it’s about right. Voters upset about Harris being too pro-Israel, not green enough, or not sufficiently in touch with the hurt caused by inflation … these voters get much of the *credit* for Trump’s victory. It is what these voters wanted and they succeeded, as part of a long-term strategy to make the Democratic party stronger on these issues.
I have been saying for the some time now that America has only one party – the property party. It’s the party of big corporation, the party of money. It has two right wings; one is Democrat and the other is Republican. — Gore Vidal
A compendium of the US electoral process for
dummiesAmericans(PSA: Protect your brain from OD by stopping after by 2:30)
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. — Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955)
America is a mistake, a giant mistake. — Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939)
amazing piece from a Russophile apologist, #hypocrite.
OK, Lee, I get where you’re coming from better, but it’s like Someone Else said–meaning that the “Democratic” party is in the business of guilt-tripping/blackmailing people into voting for it, not in the business of being responsible to voters.
After the 2016 debacle, I believe, some Sanders supporters sued the DNC for jiggering the primaries, and the DNC defended itself by saying it was a private corporation and could select its candidates any way it wanted to, fair elections be damned. The judge agreed with them.