We, the Democrats, have always been the party of the people—the champions of the downtrodden, the enlightened shepherds guiding the grubby masses toward a more progressive and culturally sophisticated existence.
Brilliantly captured. That dearth of understanding we see from the university educated. The agonies they have endured to elevate the hoi polloi and not even a token thank you for the sustainable energy or the kale.
I know these people. I work with them. The only thing that matches their ignorance of human psychology is their own confidence in their vision for tomorrow. The 15-minute cities, the beautiful multicultural harmony and the clean, green, endless energy that can't exist outside of people's heads.
It is quite a world they will never live in. No wonder they hate the actual workers wrecking it with their demands for stuff that actually works and jobs that pay a living wage.
They spin grand utopian narratives, oblivious to the fundamental truths that actually sustain a functioning society.
The real tragedy isn’t just their tunnel vision, but how deeply it’s reinforced by confirmation bias and Kafka Traps—like Dory in the deep sea, blindly chasing a light that leads straight into the jaws of a lurking predator.
The antidote isn’t more outrage or noise from those who feel powerless. It’s handing the mic to those with discernment and leading by example—someone who has mastered the art of out-swimming the menacing fish, not through fear, but with skill, clarity, and even a bit of joy. Eventually, people start to notice which path actually leads to the closest thing to a livable utopia.
I believe you and I are some of those trailblazers doing laps around predatory fish. 🐟
sustainable energy (methane) from kale, raw onions, beans and cabbage is a flatulent, mean green dream! hook the elite-left up to portable collection devices, solar propeller hatz and keep them well fed with a vegan diet.
The Dems have been so oblivious to how they've failed to do anything material for the working class for decades and so insensitive to the political winds, I'm pretty sure it's impossible to be too hyperbolic (as I see one person sort of claimed) at this point. If they had a clue — and sense of what the electorate was yearning for — they'd surely have gotten behind Sanders in '16 instead of the most establishment candidate imaginable. But.. nope. And then, yeah, '24 was more or less a rinse-repeat of that.
When the actual industrial working classes rejected international communist class revolution (mass murder sprees by Stalin, Mao, etc.), the neo-marxist, globalist, billionaire oligarchs that pull the strings of the elite-left Democrat party puppets settled into the idea of reducing the working classes to something like the condition of the feudal peasantry.
And the "leftist" intellectual elites, eager to not themselves be downsized or offshored by the oligarchs, went along.
Unfortunately, the father, son and unholy ghost (Trump, Vance and Musk) the trinity of the increasingly incompetent party have no plans to take the last train to the coast. You would think their self imposed rapid decline in popularity would be a boon to that other party’s prospects, but no. No matter how low the Republicans sink the Democrats manage to plummet farther and faster.
Their historic Democratic counterparts, FDR, HST and JFK would laugh at what passes for policy in their own beloved party. Although two were upper class they all understood that victory for their party depended on appealing to working class voters. Current party leaders distain the “deplorable” and “racist” members of the working class.
A laundry list of things for Democrats to keep and to dump if they ever want to win again nationwide.
Keep a woman’s right to choose for the first trimester.
Dump abortion until birth unless the mother’s health is at risk or the fetus is not viable.
Keep a concern for climate change and grow nuclear power.
Dump intermittent, unreliable renewable energy that requires backup continuous generating capacity which is then used intermittently. A ridiculously expensive approach.
Keep and develop new effective vaccines.
Dump vaccine mandates.
Keep equality of opportunity for all. Dump equity of results based on discriminating against men, whites and Asians in a futile attempt to compensate for past discrimination against women and blacks. Recognize that D.E.I. Is unconstitutional.
Keep the protection of gay and lesbian rights.
Dump men in women’s sports, private spaces and prisons. Oh, and mutilating children who might grow up to be gay.
Keep an opportunity for selective high value immigration.
Dump sanctuary cities and open borders.
Keep helping the homeless find jobs and a place to live.
Dump camping in cities, shitting in the streets and allowing open drug use.
Keep a concern for due process in criminal justice.
Dump letting shoplifters and other petty thieves off the hook and releasing predators back on the streets without bail to kill and maim again.
Keep support for unions and fair wages
Dump “free trade” policies that have devastated our manufacturing sector.
Do all of the above and start governing like you know what the fuck you’re doing and you might just find your way back to power.
I see your point and agree with you on a lot of things.
At the end of the day, good policy should do one thing: make life better for people.
People should feel safe in their communities. That means holding criminals accountable and making sure the justice system is fair.
We need energy that’s reliable and affordable. If nuclear is the best option, use it. If a policy doesn’t work, scrap it—doesn’t matter if it came from the left or right.
Everyone deserves equal opportunity, not forced outcomes. If you discriminate against one group to “fix” discrimination against another, you’re just repeating the same mistake.
Borders should be secure, immigration should make sense, and trade policies should actually benefit American workers instead of gutting entire industries.
Personal freedom is important, but so is responsibility. You don’t get to claim rights without also respecting the social contract that keeps a society functioning.
Most people aren’t extreme—they just want a country that works. But politicians keep playing to the loudest voices instead of doing their jobs. If either party started focusing on results over rhetoric, they wouldn’t have to fight their way back to power. People would trust them again.
The weird logic is to debate with principles rather than political talking points. That’s what every effective human rights movement since Moses was founded on—because principles are universal and have the power to rise above even the deepest hatred. 😉
It’s amazing having great seats to the cognitive dissonance on Nantucket Island. I’m watching 160 Eiffel Tower sized wind turbines be erected on the horizon, but it turns out they actually only create the equivalent energy of 1 day of jet fuel from Atlanta’s airport, and are built by a foreign oil consortium.
The clean power is actually made of non degradable fiberglass, prone to industrial accidents, prone to be lied about and hidden by said consortium. Our brains break when we see the refuse wash up in splinters on the pristine beach where I used to walk my dogs and let my kid play barefoot. The ingratitude and ungratefulness is well captured here! 😀
I’ve tried to change their political behavior by calling them white supremacists over and over, but they STILL vote for the candidates and policies I hate. The only solution I can think of is to keep calling them white supremacists until they finally do what I want.
For the record, I am an urban liberal. The Democratic Party is supposed to represent the interests of the working class, but in many ways, they—like everyone else—have largely abandoned them.
I’m not saying urban liberals need to step in and fix everything. I’m just pointing out how certain cultural and institutional forces have shaped the situation. Whether the working class should handle their own problems or not is a separate question.
Brilliantly captured. That dearth of understanding we see from the university educated. The agonies they have endured to elevate the hoi polloi and not even a token thank you for the sustainable energy or the kale.
I know these people. I work with them. The only thing that matches their ignorance of human psychology is their own confidence in their vision for tomorrow. The 15-minute cities, the beautiful multicultural harmony and the clean, green, endless energy that can't exist outside of people's heads.
It is quite a world they will never live in. No wonder they hate the actual workers wrecking it with their demands for stuff that actually works and jobs that pay a living wage.
Well said, Spacemen. You’re always spot on.
They spin grand utopian narratives, oblivious to the fundamental truths that actually sustain a functioning society.
The real tragedy isn’t just their tunnel vision, but how deeply it’s reinforced by confirmation bias and Kafka Traps—like Dory in the deep sea, blindly chasing a light that leads straight into the jaws of a lurking predator.
The antidote isn’t more outrage or noise from those who feel powerless. It’s handing the mic to those with discernment and leading by example—someone who has mastered the art of out-swimming the menacing fish, not through fear, but with skill, clarity, and even a bit of joy. Eventually, people start to notice which path actually leads to the closest thing to a livable utopia.
I believe you and I are some of those trailblazers doing laps around predatory fish. 🐟
We may very well be. I do think a bracing collapse will waken many people up to the clownshow.
sustainable energy (methane) from kale, raw onions, beans and cabbage is a flatulent, mean green dream! hook the elite-left up to portable collection devices, solar propeller hatz and keep them well fed with a vegan diet.
That is a plan we could all get behind. Or perhaps in front of.
definitely fetid! maybe even redolent.
The Dems have been so oblivious to how they've failed to do anything material for the working class for decades and so insensitive to the political winds, I'm pretty sure it's impossible to be too hyperbolic (as I see one person sort of claimed) at this point. If they had a clue — and sense of what the electorate was yearning for — they'd surely have gotten behind Sanders in '16 instead of the most establishment candidate imaginable. But.. nope. And then, yeah, '24 was more or less a rinse-repeat of that.
Private party interests probably didn't align with Bernie getting the win. Many such cases
Oh, not in the least. The Dems are nothing if not the party of play it safe and status quo, and Bernie didn't fit that.
Sublime. Magnificent.
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See Kotkin on Neo-Feudalism.
When the actual industrial working classes rejected international communist class revolution (mass murder sprees by Stalin, Mao, etc.), the neo-marxist, globalist, billionaire oligarchs that pull the strings of the elite-left Democrat party puppets settled into the idea of reducing the working classes to something like the condition of the feudal peasantry.
And the "leftist" intellectual elites, eager to not themselves be downsized or offshored by the oligarchs, went along.
Unfortunately, the father, son and unholy ghost (Trump, Vance and Musk) the trinity of the increasingly incompetent party have no plans to take the last train to the coast. You would think their self imposed rapid decline in popularity would be a boon to that other party’s prospects, but no. No matter how low the Republicans sink the Democrats manage to plummet farther and faster.
Their historic Democratic counterparts, FDR, HST and JFK would laugh at what passes for policy in their own beloved party. Although two were upper class they all understood that victory for their party depended on appealing to working class voters. Current party leaders distain the “deplorable” and “racist” members of the working class.
A laundry list of things for Democrats to keep and to dump if they ever want to win again nationwide.
Keep a woman’s right to choose for the first trimester.
Dump abortion until birth unless the mother’s health is at risk or the fetus is not viable.
Keep a concern for climate change and grow nuclear power.
Dump intermittent, unreliable renewable energy that requires backup continuous generating capacity which is then used intermittently. A ridiculously expensive approach.
Keep and develop new effective vaccines.
Dump vaccine mandates.
Keep equality of opportunity for all. Dump equity of results based on discriminating against men, whites and Asians in a futile attempt to compensate for past discrimination against women and blacks. Recognize that D.E.I. Is unconstitutional.
Keep the protection of gay and lesbian rights.
Dump men in women’s sports, private spaces and prisons. Oh, and mutilating children who might grow up to be gay.
Keep an opportunity for selective high value immigration.
Dump sanctuary cities and open borders.
Keep helping the homeless find jobs and a place to live.
Dump camping in cities, shitting in the streets and allowing open drug use.
Keep a concern for due process in criminal justice.
Dump letting shoplifters and other petty thieves off the hook and releasing predators back on the streets without bail to kill and maim again.
Keep support for unions and fair wages
Dump “free trade” policies that have devastated our manufacturing sector.
Do all of the above and start governing like you know what the fuck you’re doing and you might just find your way back to power.
I see your point and agree with you on a lot of things.
At the end of the day, good policy should do one thing: make life better for people.
People should feel safe in their communities. That means holding criminals accountable and making sure the justice system is fair.
We need energy that’s reliable and affordable. If nuclear is the best option, use it. If a policy doesn’t work, scrap it—doesn’t matter if it came from the left or right.
Everyone deserves equal opportunity, not forced outcomes. If you discriminate against one group to “fix” discrimination against another, you’re just repeating the same mistake.
Borders should be secure, immigration should make sense, and trade policies should actually benefit American workers instead of gutting entire industries.
Personal freedom is important, but so is responsibility. You don’t get to claim rights without also respecting the social contract that keeps a society functioning.
Most people aren’t extreme—they just want a country that works. But politicians keep playing to the loudest voices instead of doing their jobs. If either party started focusing on results over rhetoric, they wouldn’t have to fight their way back to power. People would trust them again.
Not so Weird: Well said. 👍
The weird logic is to debate with principles rather than political talking points. That’s what every effective human rights movement since Moses was founded on—because principles are universal and have the power to rise above even the deepest hatred. 😉
They are narcissistics unable to do any wrong. That's why it's always somebody else's fault.
I used to be one of the worst offenders. Humility and discernment is what these people need.
It’s amazing having great seats to the cognitive dissonance on Nantucket Island. I’m watching 160 Eiffel Tower sized wind turbines be erected on the horizon, but it turns out they actually only create the equivalent energy of 1 day of jet fuel from Atlanta’s airport, and are built by a foreign oil consortium.
The clean power is actually made of non degradable fiberglass, prone to industrial accidents, prone to be lied about and hidden by said consortium. Our brains break when we see the refuse wash up in splinters on the pristine beach where I used to walk my dogs and let my kid play barefoot. The ingratitude and ungratefulness is well captured here! 😀
I’ve tried to change their political behavior by calling them white supremacists over and over, but they STILL vote for the candidates and policies I hate. The only solution I can think of is to keep calling them white supremacists until they finally do what I want.
Wow. Perfect.
Satire is good and appropriate, in this context.
I see a Hunger Games cover photo, I subscribe.
Ty!
You are fast becoming my new spirit animal! 😂🤣😂
#Kearney4Congress
Just at how evil you have become. You not the party it used to be. Now it is the right hand of the devil.
Made my head hurt. No, I don't think I'll subscribe
Great post
> We, the Democrats, have always been the party of the people—
The version modified for the other team is "We, the Republicans, the Party of Lincoln, have always been the party of the people" lol
What a bunch of whining. Take responsibility for your own problems.
It’s satire.
I know. You think urban liberals are responsible for all the problems of the non-liberal working class.
For the record, I am an urban liberal. The Democratic Party is supposed to represent the interests of the working class, but in many ways, they—like everyone else—have largely abandoned them.
I’m not saying urban liberals need to step in and fix everything. I’m just pointing out how certain cultural and institutional forces have shaped the situation. Whether the working class should handle their own problems or not is a separate question.