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No you mistake the implication. I think you are stupid for having formed an opinion that isn't based in reality. You could just not form an opinion when you don't know enough to do so.
Lol really out here gatekeeping opinions if they dont match yours, huh?
But sure. Go ahead and work overtime to convince everyone Democrats are cooked, and if they disagree theyre just stupid and ignorant. Im sure thats a great way to encourage turnout.
Special kind of stupid you've got going on
Its not a fucking opinion dude. Its a basic understanding of the implications of what this decision in combination with the earlier supreme court decision do to the basic electoral process in the US.
I'm sorry that you live in a religion that is based on cheer-leading for a team, but I choose to live in a practical reality that doesn't rely on rose colored glasses regarding how the Democratic party operates. These issues are too consequential to live in that kind of delusion. Democrats are cooked. And they've done practically nothing to protect the American people from the utter dismantling of the US democracy in the previous 26 years, and its only been accelerating.
Democrats were cooked when they rolled over on the Bush V Gore election. Everything we're experiencing is downstream of the Democrats decision to roll over on that fight. And Democrats have been soo cooked for soo long, that at this point the structural barriers to overcoming are being practically insurmountable.
You can't cheer-lead your way out of this.
I mean you are being both ignorant and stupid. I'm sorry that hurts your feelings, but only you can help yourself with that. You don't have to stay stupid and ignorant. Do some work.
Sure, let's run campaign ads saying "stay home, its pointless". Really lock in the loss before there was ever a chance.
Is it painful being this arrogant or is it blissful? Stupid motherfuckers man
With shitlibs like you, who needs Republicans amirite?
We don't need hope or cheer-leading, and insisting that people just be "good cheerleaders" for the Democratic party:
ITS WHY FASCISM WAS ABLE TO TAKE OVER!
Allowing Democrats to live in the kind of delusional state of how they are doing is why they are regularly fucking TROUNCED by Republicans. This isn't a FUCKING sports game.
You need to get the map of reality as close to correct as possible so you have a realistic understanding of how the game is set up so you can make the most effective decisions within that context. Cheerleading for Dem's deludes them into thinking their dogshit approaches to poltics can actually be effective.
Its not my job to tell this dogshit team that they are better at the game than they are. Its my job to hold them accountable.
So what's your plan then?
First off, I don't need to have a solution to a problem to be able to make an accurate criticism. The idea that its necessary for someone to have an answer for their critique to be valid; its part of the toxic positivity that handed this country to fascism in '24.
But there are some things we can do to make Democrats more effective:
#1 Stop fucking cheerleading Democrats. They haven't earned it, they don't deserve it. Stop giving them a false sense of where they stand when they are as deeply unpopular as the Republican party right now. It hurts their ability to succeed.
#2 Express your discontent and develop both an understanding of politics and theory of power that accurately represents and predicts reality. Do so in as many spaces as you have access to. We need to communicate our discontent broadly so that those in-power are not able to delude themselves into thinking they have a level of support which isn't present. Democrats fool themselves because of specific biases they have towards how they want things to be expressed, a kind of hand-wringing around who is allowed to be critical and how they are allowed to give that criticism. Anyone trying to push back on that needs to be burned alive. Any one trying to defend Democrats doing "business as usual" politics is an enemy of the people. Fascism didn't take over in a vacuum. It took over because apologist within the Democratic party wanted to maintain cultural hegemony over the party instead of enacting real change. And its bit them in the ass so hard there may not be any way to come back.
As far as this particular decision..
#3 The Virginia state legislature should re-district anyways, and just say something along the lines of "Eh we'll figure it out on the back end after the election". Alternatively they could pass a law nullifying this decision and as part of the law enforce it retroactively.
#4 Every blue state needs to gerrrymander every red district completely out of existence. To the hilt gerrymandering, because with the Supreme court decision earlier this week, there simply isn't path to a Democratic majority otherwise. And even then, its like, going to be tough. But right now team red wins the house because of this and the decision earlier this week.
#5 Schumer and Jefferies need to be replaced before November. They and other centrist Democrats are net drag on the party and their "roll over and show their bellies" approach to politics is such a net drag to Democrats in November, showing movement on this could stoke some enthusiasm. Democrats as a party have been polling worse than Trump for almost 2 years because of these kinds of leaders. We can't have them in the vanguard. They're too costly electorally.
#6 Begin preparations for the inevitable legal battles that are coming post-November. Expect every election result which is unfavorable to the Republicans to be challenged in court.