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I'm all for newer more progressive dems, but the way you insult and drag through the mud all the current dems is ridiculous and harmful to us all.
I think it's ridiculous and harmful to ignore the lack of rhetoric lining up with our interests over the last 16 years as well as who they endorse and more importantly, who they don't. It's not remotely difficult to believe they're complicit when they don't stand up for civil rights for trans people, don't call the republicans what they actually are, capitulate early for no reason on the shutdown, seriously spare us the hand-wringing, that's all they ever offer now days. You don't have to have power to say the right thing, and they don't, simple as that.
It's ridiculous if you have no knowledge of policies written in the past two decades, I guess.
Rhetoric is almost as important as policy. If you see your leaders back down, your only option is to be mad at them and assert your right to what they capitulated on, or tell yourself that you don't really need it after all. An actual leader doesn't stop fighting because they lose or don't have the votes, they fight for the public mandate that will make up this difference in power and it becomes a larger fight. This is what Mamdani did instead of capitulating to the party that told him to stand down. The democratic leaders should be more like him, and less like whatever the fuck they're trying to be right now.
If you can excuse schumer and jeffries not endorsing Mamdani that's certainly a stance you can make, but having such low standards as to openly support them can't be good for your psyche. I'd rather vote for them and outwardly hate them, because being able to do math and tell a fascist from a neoliberal isn't the same as an endorsement, which you seem confused about.
Schumer and Jeffries did endorse Mamdani in the general, even if a bit late. That's what I'm talking about, a large number of people seem either totally ignorant or completely in the dark about what the DNC do, instead seeing some warped reality where they're the villains.
Schumer did not in fact endorse Mamdani and just so we're clear, "a bit late" to you means the day before voting started. I'm glad you've clarified that that was the type of thing you're talking about, where you're objectively wrong on one and incredibly minimizing on the second. No wonder you like these empty suits.