2016 Postmortem

Democratic Leadership has helped to create. Our media has been owned almost exclusively by 5 to 7 corps and mega-corps, for a long fucking time, and instead of just calling that out and fighting it already, they thought that it would be better to have their own insider megacorp outlet. That was wishful thinking at its finest, to think that a single channel could balance out all of the misinformation coming out of all the other news sources...and to think that it would be enough to fight against Republicans and their voters rather than their owners, to try to court those same owners with "sane" compromising policy that would keep them in the most milk, when they already own the people who would give them the whole cow...

we are reaping our own long-term party strategy right now. And the question remains, do we really even want to fight? We already know no matter what we do, we're going to get shit on in the media come the next cycle. We should do as the GOP does and say fuck the media, but do what the GOP can't actually defend against, and show the American people why a "liberal media" is such an absurd notion. All they have to do is follow the money. And while we say fuck the media, if we were actually going to fight for what was good for this nation, we would take the opportunity we have and appoint every single justice position we can during the coming window. There is no good reason not to do this. Do you think Obama will? Do you think the Democratic Senate would support him in enough numbers?

And there is a very big difference between left wing criticisms of the Democratic Party and those that come from the right. Even in that rare instance when a Republican picks up a liberal criticism, that doesn't suddenly make it right-wing, and I only know of one crazy candidate to have done that anyway.