I don't think I have the stomach to listen to two years of vote-blue-no-matter-who liberals tell us that AOC shouldn't run because of misogyny, while supporting whatever milquetoast centrist man the DNC gives us.

Because, you know, we gotta court the upper middle class centrist vote that never actually swings left, instead of expanding the potential voter block like we did anytime democrats actually win.

The irony is that the misogyny lies in the strategy. The DNC's plan for women candidates is for them to move further right because the DNC thinks it makes them more palatable to male centrists.

Meanwhile, Obama and Biden ran on a progressive platform, and, guess what? They won. I mean, it was faux-progressivism sure. But that shows you how hungry Americans are for change.

Imagine if the DNC got out of the way and allowed AOC to run on an actual progressive agenda that she followed through on?

But the DNC won't do that because their corporate donors made it clear—it's neoliberalism or fascism. They won't support working class politics.

So, our only hope is for the left to unite around a progressive. Which, right now, idk, man. Doesn't seem too likely. I already see narratives forming. Liberals don't actually like AOC. It's just most of them are smart enough not to say it out loud. So they make excuses.

I'd love to be so wrong about this. Bookmark and throw in my face when AOC wins

We still don't understand what makes for a winning campaign. We still buy into the Dems' narrative that racism and misogyny are the *main* driving forces for them losing.

Obama voters voted for Trump
Bernie voters voted Trump
Some Biden voters voted Trump

The driving force is *change;* it's working class politics. Who gives a flying fuck if Trump doesn't actually care about the working classes they got duped? The point is, populist messaging works. Following through on it gets you reelected.

If AOC runs for office, democrats will do everything in their power to convince upper middle class white liberals that she's dangerous to their home equity.

Mark my words.

They'll run Mayor Pete, and subtly suggest to the white queer community that Black and brown folks don't support him out of homophobia.

The DNC will "Hunger Games" AOC and try to convince progressives that she's actually one of them.

A divided electorate favors incumbent power. The DNC has an army of influencers...

This is old, before the election and before the US took over TikTok. But the DNC has an army of political influencers and they're not using them for progressive policies like healthcare or police reform. And they're def not disclosing what is or isn't an ad.

They're using this army to justify Palestinian genocide and divide progressive factions.

https://wiki.fromjason.xyz/Collections/Biden's+Influencer+Army

This is not me saying we shouldn't leverage influencers to evangelize progressive ideals. We absolutely should. But that's not what the DNC are doing. They're using political influencers for their ends, which does not align with our ends.

I wish more than anything that there was a force organizing political influencers outside the control of the Democratic Party. Because if we are to get an actual progressive administration, we need to organize independent of the DNC.

In conclusion...lol. Here's my overarching point:

We need more people on the left unified in progressive ideals *and* who understand that just because republicans are the bad guys, it doesn't make democrats the good guys.

We Americans are constantly conditioned to view the world in terms of Good vs. Evil. It's in our media, our art, our politics. If Group A is Evil, then Group B *must* be Good.

That line of thinking fucks us every time, because the world isn't Avengers Endgame.

The Good vs Evil dichotomy at play:

Liberals left TwitterX for Bluesky. Musk was the "bad guy" so, new users assumed that BS were the "good guys." People literally referred to the respective platforms as the "good place" and "bad place."

Is BS better than X? Sure. But that wasn't the narrative.

New users projected liberalism onto BS when, in fact, BS was built on a libertarian manifesto. It's only now, 40m users in, that we're seeing what that means in practice.

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/bluesky-may-have-the-juice-but-we-don-t-have-to-drink-the-kool-aid/

Side note: I wrote the above blog post in Nov of 2024. Today, I'm a little less inclined to give the Bluesky team the same level of grace. They're turning out to be everything a venture capital-funded platform becomes, unfortunately.

It was wild, though. To see every big liberal political influencer declare Bluesky to be a liberal safehaven for no other reason than it wasn't X.

We on the left love a good vs evil dichotomy.

Anyway, how did this turn into a Bluesky thread? Lmao