During a Tuesday hearing at the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, the DOJ urged a three-judge panel to issue an emergency stay of a lower court order and allow the Trump administration’s deployment of the California National Guard to continue in Los Angeles — going so far as to argue a president’s federalization of militia can’t be second-guessed by the courts, even if the chief executive mobilized forces from all 50 states and Washington, D.C., simultaneously.
I don’t think winning elections justifies an entire propaganda network existing for the sole purpose of manipulating the masses into being the foot soldiers in a class war against themselves. I also don’t think the people who would lie and manipulate like that could possibly be the same people that would dismantle the current billionaire-centric economic structure. I think, if you’re a right winger in current US politics, you’re extremely ignorant, short-sighted, or intentionally invested in transferring wealth from the poor to the super wealthy. The right is ultra neo-liberalism mixed with overt oligarchy. The left is neo-liberalism lite mixed with subtle oligarchy, but heavily fractured between that group and a different group that is actually constantly trying to change things for the better. If you’re paying attention, there’s a clearly better choice for working class Americans. But people like you would rather argue right wing points into the ground (they never hold up to logic or real data) until you can’t argue them anymore, then shift to “well at least our evil behavior brings us wins!”. You’re not an American.
I think you’re arguing with a figment of your own imagination. Nowhere have I said anything about winning at all costs for its own sake. I’m observing that the current dem strategy isn’t a winning one (indisputable), and I’m telling you why. Look, here’s a good example from the last election: people were not feeling good about the economy. Trump has an answer for them. It’s the wrong answer (tariffs and deportations), but he is engaging with a real concern. The democrat answer was “actually you’re wrong, the economy is great, look at the stock market”. They’re stuck, because as the party of the status quo, they can’t propose any radical changes to the system. They don’t want any radical changes to the system. This means that in effect, they aren’t even competing with republicans! I’m asking you to demand that your party compete.