re: #140 Citizen K

Yes, Dems shouldn’t be immune to criticism, but so much of what I hear is trying to strangle and shitkick them for either doing things that they aren’t even doing, or for not doing things that they’re already doing. And because the reason we never hear about it, even us in the heavy political junkie circles, is because so much of the ‘real’ media finds ways to twist what’s happening or just refuse to report what’s happening so no one knows what actually is or isn’t being done unless you’re mainlining C-SPAN and the pols’ twitter feeds. Meanwhile, the misinformation about what is or isn’t being done disseminates without any filter because people are so quick to believe anything bad about what Dems are doing that they don’t care if it’s easily disprovable or not. It SOUNDS like them, thus it must be real. The same exact thing buried Hillary, and it’s threatening to bury Biden and the current slate of Dems, because whatever valid missteps they do make are being drowned out by the bullshit pipeline and makes it impossible to actually address the real problems underneath.

But Beto O’Rourke just showed how to get media attention - you just do shit. His one action to confront those fuckers in Texas was inspirational and heartfelt, and it’s all over the media now. That’s what Democrats need to do more of, instead of standing up in the House chamber and asking the Republicans to please play along when we KNOW it ain’t gonna happen.