Worked Up About Nothingness

Less than a week after declaring his desire for a schism in the Democratic Party following the victory of 3 Zohran Mamdani endorsed candidates in New York's Democratic primary on Tuesday (2 over Democratic incumbents!) James Carville is already back in my texts asking for money.  You know what James?  Fuck off!  Schism yourself, Dick.   Over the past week a whole mess of Democratic adjacent assholes tripped over each other's tongues to express the same opinion, some more disgustingly than others:  Van Jones, Bill Maher, Hakeem Jeffries, Letitia James, John Fetterman, Josh Gottheimer, Chris Hayes.  

This motherfucker whose statement is so moronic I would smudge his name to protect his identity if he hadn't been Democratic Party Chair from 2021 to 2025 (I know, Jaime who??  Democratic Party what??):

Um, hello??  Did you happen to notice "Building the party you actually support" is exactly what Mamdani and those who supported his endorsed candidates were literally doing?  Knocking doors, making calls, organizing meetings-- Fighting for the Values they Believe in -- is how they beat your grubby asses.*

The comment that really nailed what's going on didn't even come from a Democrat.  It came from Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson:  

Hakeem Jeffries has a tall task ahead of him right now. He's got to go out and somehow make a credible pitch to Democrat establishment donors that that's a good national investment right now.  That's a tough one to make.

This is what's really going on.  The Gravy Train is threatening to derail.  And James Carville, one of the pioneers of the corporate sucking "New" old democrats is trying to cope, straw manning flag hating "commies" as the enemy when the enemy is actually the drying up faucet of his beloved paymasters.

You say Democrats should stand up to the insurgents and tell them to go away?  You've got feet.  Get your ass out of here if you don't like democracy, you fake ass "Democrat".  You are the reason people hate "Democrats".   You didn't ask me in 1992 when you took over my party.  You just waltzed in like you owned the place.  How do you like it, motherfucker? 

Carville and his kind stand for NOTHING.  Republicans-- representatives of the owner class-- at least use hate and blame and ego-pandering and fear to enthuse the masses of non-owner class voters vulnerable to those passions.  Establishment democrats-- stewards of the party traditionally built for the working class but beholden to the managerial class and to their corporate donors-- are allergic to passion, tone deaf to the needs,  wants and desires of  the working masses they take for granted and the only brush in their toolkit for their base is shame.

If I sound a bit unhinged, I am.  I am the Democratic voter.  I am the sucker who eats shit and shows up on Election Day to cast a hate vote for bloodless careerist Dems who nobody wants to vote for in order to keep the country from plunging headlong into fascism.  I am the guy turning blue in the face imploring purity leftists to set their passions aside for the 5 minutes it takes to vote for the Democrat who stands for nothing in order to thwart the dominance of the Republican who stands for full throated Harm to the working and under classes.  The nuance is lost on the purity voters, and apparently on the drunk-on-their-own-stink Dem leadership as well.

And you're telling me when Dems like Mamdani, Graham Platner and the New York insurgents finally actually stand up for what I believe in and win elections, I'm the one who needs to get lost?

Get lost.

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* I say this with no ill will or animosity.