You can find lots of analysis anywhere you look about how and why Democrats lost the election, but you’re going to have to find it without any help from me, because I frankly don’t give a shit. I’ve never been interested in playing armchair campaign manager, and given the stark choices in this election, I’m not inclined to blame anyone but the voters.
Most analysis acts as if voters are empty vessels, free of preconceptions, and whichever party can fill those empty heads better wins. None of it considers the obvious: PEOPLE HAVE AGENCY. They made this choice with their eyes open and did so because they don’t give a fuck about society (or, worse, have all the wrong patriarchal ideas about it), and they’re poor judges of what’s good for them personally. Do you truly think a political party can make up for a society-wide lack of critical thinking and social conscience in the course of a political campaign? If so, you just got a reality check.
In a democracy the leaders are chosen by the voters. If the voters were fooled, that’s on them, and it demonstrates that democracy is a poor way of choosing policy, because people are inherently shallow and selfish. Global warming, to pick the most important example, will never, ever be meaningfully addressed by any democratic government, because it would require a majority of people to sacrifice for the long term. I am too familiar with humans to believe that will ever happen.
Given that no majority of the people will ever do the right thing – do you really think civil rights laws would have passed if put to a plebescite? – criticizing the party, or the candidates, or the strategists boils down to saying “we should have lied to them better.” If that’s what you want to pin your hopes for the future on, bless your heart.
Oh, also, Nancy Pelosi can fuck right off. Self-enriching piece of shit sez wut?
The floor’s yours.