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WarGamer

(18,455 posts)
Thu Feb 13, 2025, 04:34 PM Feb 2025

What we are seeing TODAY is a privilege and consequence of WINNING an election. [View all]

The pain and agony of what is happening today needs to be seared into our collective Democratic consciences...

Every step that has weakened our Party and strengthened the Trump Party is to blame.

Politics is salesmanship.

You can't take a Greek Food Truck and park it in South Central LA up against a Mexican Food Truck.

DNC architects not only failed to observe the dynamic of the Trump Party (I cant call it GOP) as they swerved into traditional Democratic territory like "blue collar workers" and civil rights defense...but they betrayed core Democratic values numerous times.

But they went a step further and ran the campaign as if the voting public was a board of tenured Harvard professors...

And then instead of allowing the traditional Primary process to pick a nominee for 24... put the VP in place without challengers.

There were options. We could have had an "express Primary" or decided to have an open Primary back in 2022 or 2023.

And then blamed the public because they were "too stupid"

Summary... to make good things happen, you gotta win elections. Lose elections and bad stuff happens.

Having "brilliant or joyful candidates" isn't enough. You gotta win.

I don't care if we have to run a Janitor from Harvard or the guy at the car wash, I want to win.

WIN in 2016 and Trump never became a political force, the SCOTUS leans Left and Hillary would have just finished her 2nd term last month.

JUST WIN.

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