Reddy

Posting my podcast episode did not have the effect I'd hoped. Aight I'm gonna try and back off because honestly I want to all be on the same team, despite my instincts and how much y'all frustrate the shit out of me. My race I'm on is a perfect example of how to get people to come together regardless of political ideology and I'm gonna try and take some lessons from it.

You don't have to volunteer for Lipinski. I'll give you that one. 😂

This means you don't have the data available.

I wasn't calling anyone HERE that when I said it - I was referring to the arguments some people were making on twitter denigrating high turnout, yet somehow y'all took offense anyway? What does that say? Jesus.

I work 80 hours a week? I know people in your exact position who come in and volunteer anyway because they realize it's that important. I know people who work 40 hour weeks as teachers, are also sports coaches, who also volunteer three days a week and also have kids they bring with them. You could do something.

Yes. Dam brings it up (again) and somehow I'm the one who won't stop whining. Got it. Y'all are pro-gaslighters. Kind of like...... Bernie Bros...

I haven't seen that data (regarding staying home/depressed turnout), can you link it?

Are we creating a false equivalency now between voting for McCain and voting for Trump? Lord, I love these ridiculous conversations. Why are we still STILL relitigating this going through the SAME damn arguments over and over and over again? Dam, I'll ask again, there are 48 days left. Where are you volunteering?

But how many Bernie supporters stayed home? Do we know. How much of the far left (well, far right, co-opted by the left) rhetoric dampened turnout for Dems?

Yeah it is. It's under the surface right now, and voters actually don't give a damn about the division, but within the party the factions still exist. There are a lot of interesting folks for 2020 we're not really talking about right now.

If they were figments how come I've met so many of them? Huh.

Nope. It's someone who fell into the Bernie or Bust category. That's it. If you voted HRC and understand that sometimes the greater good is more important than your personal ideology, then you don't fall into that category. It's a specific type of Bernie supporter.

Our NY Times live poll is madness.

And as far as my "endorsements", who am I actually *working* for right now?

Maybe we're so obsessed with beating/hating on each other that we're not actually listening to each other.

Dam, if you're interested, this is a podcast I'm a guest on where we talk about the liberal vs. progressive rift, and how arguments on the internet exacerbate the problem. It's pretty cool. Jabari is a friend who ran for NY City Council as a Green candidate as an open socialist. I'm, well, not that. We had lots of internet arguments in '15 and '16 that led to unfriending, and Dylan Marron got us together to talk in person instead of online. If you're interested in understanding me better, give it a listen. If not, that's ok, too.

As with Bernie, when you have to reframe and defend yourself after putting your foot in your mouth regarding issues that affect minorities, you should not find it odd that they don't support you or your candidates.

Thank you for your thoughtful and unbiased analysis per usual ❤️

Eh, maybe a little ironic I'll grant you. But I'm *not* a corporatist, while you definitely *are* a Bernie Bro that just said that police brutality isn't an issue in this country. So maybe that's the distinction.

You, you know that's what Dems are running on this cycle, right?

Because supporting non-Berniecrats =/= being a corporatist. I'm not. At all. I want politicians who have a prayer of getting elected (progressives have shown they have a tough time with this) and thus have a shot at actually implementing policy that will help people. I'm pragmatic. Your use of buzzwords to denigrate people who disagree with you is why your cause is losing.

Boom.

So why do liberal white people (mostly men) "get it" and vote for the progressive candidates, but the minority and female voters don't?

Are you saying white people are smarter and more "woke" to economic injustice than minorities?

I don't really understand the hate thrown at me for stating the obvious fact that winning is better for progress than losing.