Why Progressives Are Not Winning

 The far-left progressive wing of the Democratic Party is a curious one.  With an insurrection behind us, and with the Republicans going so far to the right as to openly display racist tendencies and acting more like the Imperial Empire every day. ANY Democrat should seem to be the better choice, right?  No.  They aren't.

Progressives have a real problem.  With progressive pundits now going after more moderate Democrats i.e., don't vote blue, both parties are the same and "Feel it in your bones the Democrats don't care about you" they are doing more right now to suppress the Democrat voters than the GOP ever could hope for.  With Rhetoric from progressive pundits like The Young Turks it leaves one scratching their heads wondering if they are really Democrats or if they are an arm of the right wing.  I personally would love to know if any conservative super-pacs are giving them money.  But we are not here to launch salvos against progressives lets dig into why they aren't winning their primaries or general elections.

Progressives when they launch these candidates and try to garner support for them, they seem to enjoy putting them in districts where their defeat is almost assured.  Then when they lose their primary, they blame the Democrats.  "How dare you not vote for them!!!"  "Why are you voting for a moderate???"  "The Democratic party doesn't like us!!!" "The Democratic Party is garbage!!!!" Blah blah and more blah.  The truth is that while their policies and agendas are perfectly fine and I myself back many of the progressive policies that have been put up the answer is; its is not the Democrat party, its progressives.

You cannot run a Progressive's in districts where the voters feel like they have nothing in common with the person.  For example, you cant run a progressive in the deep south like Alabama and Mississippi. They will never win.  Southerners love their religion and they love their guns.  You cannot run an atheist gun-hater and expect them to do well.  They wont.  If you have a moderate Democrat who shares the voters values that's who the Democratic Party is going to support and for good reason.  If you nominate a gun carrying, bible thumping Democrat (Yes, they do exist) that is who the Democratic Party is going to support. That is who they are going to put their money behind.  That moderate Democrat shares the values of those voters and there is more of a chance of success than there would be nominating an atheist gun-hater.  The problem with progressives is that they want to nominate and throw their weight behind candidates without doing the due diligence of finding out what values the voters have and would rather just throw someone out there who shares in THEIR values.  These progressive pundits DO NOT LIVE in the districts where these candidates are running.  Its the equivalent of taking a blind man who has lived in his 1 bedroom apartment for 40 years and can tell you where everything is and throwing them into a 7 bedroom mansion.  Its a recipe for disaster.

Nina Turner lost.  While I love Nina and think Nina would make a remarkable congresswoman, she lost to the incumbent. Nina lost not because she is incapable.  Nina Turner lost because voters had the choice of the incumbent whom they know, who has a history, and of course the Democratic party supported the incumbent because there is MORE of a chance of success with them than someone who the voters don't know and who doesn't share their values.  If Nina had run in a district where progressive policy is the norm, such as Oregon and even San Francisco Nina would have won by a landslide because in Oregon and California Progressives do much better.

Progressives have a problem.  One is the rhetoric and the bullshit they pull when they don't get their way.  They want their wing of the party to grow.  That is fine and it is doable.  But there has to be more strategy, more regional due diligence, and less throwing spaghetti against the wall and seeing what sticks.

Lets Talk: Elon Musk buys into Twitter; Donald Trump, Madison Cawthorn

When it comes to Republican and right wing politics it has become less of facts and more of muddying the waters.  Elon Musk has bought 9% of Twitter which has every right winger claiming that change is coming that Twitter will now stop "canceling" conservatives.  Whoa there cowboy, its 9% a very minority share.  Although Twitters shares rose by 24% on opening its more on his name and brand rather than what he is going to do for the company.  Twitter is NOT canceling conservatives or conservative points of view.  Want Twitter to stop banning folks?  Don't say stupid shit.  I can go on Twitter and tell someone to " go fuck yourself" and not be banned.  Conservatives go on there and say "Go fuck yourself" and they get banned.  Why?  Because they follow up with some stupid shit.  That's why people get banned from Twitter.  You don't get banned from Twitter for being the shining pinnacle of humanity; you get banned for being an asshole.

Now, onto Donald Trump.  Why are the press taking this dumb shit seriously anymore?  Raise your hand if you are surprised he asked Putin for dirt on Hunter Biden?  I'm not.  Donald Trump is the epitome of the Republican party.  Right now the Republican Party their MO is say the stupidest and most god awful shit.  Then they wait for the public outcry.  If the public outcry is positive, they double and triple down on it full steam ahead.  If the public outcry is negative they back track and say they misunderstood the question, the reporter took the answer out of context, and fake news.  They do this because they have no policy.  They have no path forward.  All they have are slogans and bullshit.  The current Republican party wants power.  They don't give a damn about their constituents.  They don't give a damn how deep in debt our country goes.  That is why Donald Trump is their current messiah.  Donald Trump can get on a stage and say the most cringe-worthy shit and he gets cheered by his supporters.  The bad part about it is the GOP is so stupid that they don't know if you take any other Republican politician and let them say the EXACT same thing and get their supporters lined up behind their preferred candidate.  Then GOP politicians don't have to go into the Denny's bathroom and bitch in private about Donald Trump.  Most common sense Republicans know they aren't getting a wall.  They know 90% of what Donald Trump says is bullshit.  You only have that 10% of STRONG backing from what I call the Progressives (or should we call them The Regressive's) of the fringe right who actually believe this stuff.  Donald Trump does not hate CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, or the Washington Post.  Why should he?  These "fake news" outlets as he calls them give him millions of dollars of free advertising and campaign material.  He knows the more outrageous and cringe-worthy, the more attention they give him.  They helped him get elected.  Everyone was so "Russia helped Donald Trump" and they did on Social Media but our own mainstream media did more to help Donald Trump get elected than what the GOP did and more than what Russia did because what they put out to spark outrage had the opposite effect.  Take away the coverage and what do you have?

Now, lets get on to Madison Cawthorn.  Right now Madison is my favorite conservative.  I'm one of his constituents and I'm telling you right now, if Madison is on the ballot this November he has my vote.  Why?  Because he finally told the truth.  How do I know he told the truth?  The GOP red line did not end at insurrection.  The GOP red line did not end at that bat shit crazy lady speaking at a neo-nazi convention.  The GOP red line ended at Madison speaking up about the cocaine fueled GOP orgies.  That's when wannabe speaker McCarthy (Sorry Kevin I would rather have Marjorie Taylor Greene be speaker than YOU; you spineless, whimpering and pathetic ass) decided that the line was drawn.  That's how I know Madison was telling the truth.  I know he came out and said he was exaggerating but no I think the GOP masters that be; Spineless McCarthy and Dan Cringeshaw, were more pissed because he took that gold nugget of truth and made it public and he embarrassed them.  For that, and his deep candor alone I'm a Cawthorn superfan.