In my opinion, Nina Turner wanted the rewards of the Democratic Party but....

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67. Moderates have been getting everything they want, and yet . . .

We got the moderate presidential candidate. Moderates mostly won their primaries. Moderates will win the NYC mayoralty.

And yet, there is ever this impulse to somehow blame the Left for all bad things.

How is it the moderates are forever getting their way within the party, and yet all these spectacular wins aren't miraculously materializing? All this strategy we're told we need to win happens, and then we're not doing so great?

Keeps happening. Weird, right? 2018 was a direct rebuke to Trump. He was that awful. But then we nearly lost the presidential election to Donald J Trump during a mismanaged pandemic that killed hundreds of thousands. Yes, Biden won the popular vote overwhelmingly, but those margins in electoral college states were razor thin. Flip around a few votes, and it could've easily been a repeat of 2016. Our House majority nearly vanished. We are holding onto Congress by our fingernails. During a pandemic that Republicans fucked up royally. Ya don't think we should've done quite a bit better there?

The Left didn't direct the party in 2020. The moderates charted the whole course. 2022 is not shaping up to be any better.

How much electoral mediocrity and near failure can moderates generate before an honest assessment will be taken about what we're doing wrong? How are the people without power constantly blamed by those who are directing our efforts? It's preposterous on its face.

Demographics are changing. Voters under 45 are far more progressive. They are far closer to the Squad. Our fastest growing racial demographic - Latinos - are closer to the Squad. They went for Sanders in the primary. Older voters and social conservatives are the ones keeping things as they are. Actual votes have born this out. As time passes, the party's going to change. And all the resistance and attacks and attempts to push progressives to the sidelines won't change that. It's just alienating future voters.

Temporary political power within the party is just that. Our leadership is very old. They will not be there in ten years. The AOCs will. It's a matter of preparing for it, or resisting it vigorously until you're dragged along kicking and screaming. How much damage to the future of the party do people want to do here?

Tick tock.