My admission the other day that the Black Women Voters (ALL CATEGORIES DESERVING THE HONORIFIC CAPITALIZATION FROM NOW ON) of South Carolina had more political savvy than I do was acknowledging a group which is credited with putting probably the only possible winner of the election against Donald Trump in 2020 into serious contention for the nomination. I still would have rather had Elizabeth Warren or Kamala Harris as president next year, my first and second choices on my ranked-choice vote ballot, Joe Biden was listed as my third choice, so, as ranked choice voting is supposed to work, I got one of my top choices for president and another for vice president though not my tip top choice. Which is one of the wonderful things about ranked choice voting, you stand a chance of getting one of your top picks and less of a chance to get your never would vote for the asshole winning the election.
Take my word for it, get ranked-choice in your state, it is wonderful, though it doesn't fix all problems or do the work for you.
I haven't dared to look at the secular lefty blogs or magazines since last weekend, or listened to their YouTube channels, podcasts to read the sniping at Democrats for not doing better in the race, as if it was as easy in reality as it is in their lazy-assed, big-mouthed imaginations. I have not listened to Sam Seder and his crew, or most of the others who did little to help and a lot to hurt the effort. I am sure they will be attacking Biden and Harris, Pelosi, Schumer and talking up some bullshit purity lefty who would never have stood a chance against Trump. It's what the secular play-left does, they never produce anything but division and discouragement for the left, they were doing Trump's political act a long time before he started doing it.
That's the big, really big, should be definitively established rule for the left of which I am a part, that with all of the criminality, the massive irresponsibility,his active pursuit of homicidal policies and behavior as he wrecked the economy, as he got a quarter of a million (and counting) Americans killed by a disease he encouraged the spread of, as his vileness and cruelty was matched with incompetence and public incitement to fascist violence to keep him in power JOE BIDEN WAS PROBABLY THE ONE CANDIDATE WHO WOULD HAVE DEFEATED HIM. I hate to say it but Elizabeth Warren would never have won the goddamned electoral vote and she very likely would have lost the popular vote even as moderates, liberals, progressives, lefties, real and secular-play lefty, pulled out all the stops and not a few tricks to defeat the closest thing to a real gangster, fascist dictator we have had since the antebellum period. Perhaps ever in the history of the United States.
The imaginary margins of the polls that made so many confident that Mainers would give up their fantasy version of Susan Collins, the polls that placed the Senate securely within reach of the Democrats along with an expanded Democratic Caucus in the House will certainly figure in the whining of the "Majority Report" types (who, by the way, are no majority, speaking for, obviously, a tiny splinter) but that was as delusional as their fantasies that Bernie Sanders would have won easily over Trump over the last two cycles.
The lesson for the real left is that the boundaries within which progress is possible are a lot narrower than we may like or even need them to be but with the TV-hate-talk-radio-Facebook,Twitter addled American People, who would appear to be convinced they want a combination of stupendous and stunning ignorance and unreason and active and massive cruelty and evil. About half of the largest electorate voted for Trump AFTER HAVING HAD FOUR YEARS TO SEE WHAT HE IS AND WHAT HE DOES AND THE DAMAGE HE DOES.
I'm not advocating that the left give up its ambitions, I'm advocating that it be more realistic than the addled Trump supporters. Demanding what cannot be delivered is no more realistic than Trump supporters wanting Covid to be as deadly as the common cold or that he's going to have their back. The professional play-lefty thing won't, of course, be realistic, their audience is as immune to hard reality as Trump's is. And they will be a problem for us, both in 2022 and 2024. They will demand the impossible. They will insist on supporting spoiler candidates, they will insist that AOC is a traitor as she faces the reality of what this election showed, that their raising her as the new level of what was possible was grotesquely stupid. She will either face that reality or I am sorry to say, her career will be very short.
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