five things i love about democrats

i don’t get the hate directed at democrats of late, so here’s a short list of things i love about them:

1) they’re consistent

a long time ago, on livejournal, i saw a picture from democrats: “anyone but bush again.” twenty years later, the message i’m seeing from democrats is similar: “but trump.”

how refreshing it is that regardless of everything that’s changed in the world, from the oligarchy boiling us all alive to the genocide our tax dollars are funding to the fascists turning cities into, well, fascist cities, the democrats’ message has stayed the same: “[the republican] is bad.”

imagine you were bombed.

imagine you were drowning.

imagine some awful thing was happening to you.

a rescue worker might try to save you in any of five ways. a democrat would do only one thing: be consistent and tell you [the republican] is bad.

2) they’re informative

i cannot tell you the number of democrats who’ve informed nondemocrats as a factual matter that to support [not-the-democrat], such as by supporting [the republican], is to be either privileged, racist, both or worse.

isn’t that a kindness on their part?

i love being told that opposing kamala harris because i oppose genocide makes me privileged.

i love being told that opposing a democrat who changed parties only because republicans went too far right makes me a purist.

i don’t know that i’ve ever seen it work as a voter conversion tactic, but the point of discussing politics — or any other issue — isn’t to get anyone to change their mind, it’s to categorize them and move on. and democrats do that better than any other group i know of. they’re like taxonomists for politics.

3) they’re true to their values: not people, money (and money-fueled destruction).

not people, health insurance.

not people, fascism.

not people, shareholder value.

not people, genocide.

4) they’re honest messengers

i can’t tell you how many emails i’ve gotten in which a distraught democrat insists they had a horrible fundraising quarter and i need to rush a donation of $25, $50 or more if i don’t want [the republican] to win.

how honest is it of them to tell me their fundraising is always a problem and my bank account is always the solution? #blessed

5) they’re selective

a friend informs me that democrats aren’t running in two of every three downballot elections this year.

to the uneducated, this might look like abandoning voters, or selecting only those who live in affluent areas so fundraising won’t be limited — because let’s be honest: wyoming and idaho don’t have new york or california money, and resources you devote to a poorer area can’t then be devoted to an area with lots of billionaires, gala space and $50,000 rental gowns.

to me, it’s selective, and i dig it. democrats are showing they can get all the power they need without winning many elections at all. plus, the areas they’re not selecting will be fine.

as long as i rush a donation of $25, $50 or more if i don’t want [the republican] to win.

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