I led candidates through hours a day of soullessly dialing up rich people and begging them for money. Not only do candidates spend most of their time talking to the rich, but the only path to elected office is to be rich, or to know lots of rich people.

Here's the thing about donors: They have niche policy issues they care about that seldom reflect the needs of people back home. Democrats love to decry money in politics when it comes to the Koch brothers or Elon Musk, but the billionaires who support Democrats are given a total pass and have a huge influence over policy.

At first, I naively thought the system was broken. But now I realize, it isn't broken; it's doing what it was designed to do, which is to keep working class people from true representation. That is the point, a feature, not a bug. //

But even the progressives are part of the problem now. They were once focused on policies that improved people's lives, promising to be unbought and uncompromisable. But after the summer of 2020, that rhetoric all but faded away. They've become compromised by the social justice language and divisive identity politics that now dominates the entire Democratic ecosystem. //

Here's the sad truth: The Democratic Party has lost its way entirely. They mostly speak to the college educated, the urban and affluent, in their language. Their tone is condescending and paternalistic. They peddle giveaways to the college-educated like student loan forgiveness plans that disproportionately help their base, snubbing the majority of the country without a four-year degree, and then offer no tangible plans for true reform. //

the temptation to throw up one’s hands and say, “They’ll never listen, so why should I bother,” must be resisted. People can and do see the error of their ways. We on the right cannot take examples such as Barker’s independently discovered embrace of the truth as a declaration that all we need to do is stand aside and wait until others on the left feel the heat from the dumpster fire of their own making. We must keep putting our message, and with it ourselves, out there. //

emptypockets
2 hours ago
"That is the point, a feature, not a bug."

And she finally realized that in spite of...
"When someone gains clarity, we must meet moments such as these with grace and truth, a forgiving spirit coupled with applied knowledge explaining why there is no shame in being fooled when all you receive is half of the story all of the time."

That italicized part is a major reason the "democrat party" got so far distant from what they've always said they represented...even if very poorly with bad policies.

Another "feature" and not a "bug" to the DNC PTBs. I call it the Narrative™...the small parts of reality the Left can use to advance their own agenda as long as no one hears "the rest of the story" and their censorship ensured few did. Until Musk bought twitter and freed the bird.

It is very hard for a person to admit they've been duped, even in these times where claiming victimhood is rampant. But that is only alloweed by the left when the "victim" is a victim of Rs...not of the Left.

Mark Twain — 'It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.'