The "duelling resolutions" on Gaza perfectly sums up the Democratic Party and why there either needs to be a deep fucking purge or progressives need to just say "fuck it" and start over from scratch.
One resolution - calling for "release all the hostages, let in humanitarian aid, call for a ceasefire" was passed unanimously. This might sound good - if it were early 2024. This was put forward explicitly to head off the second resolution calling for "a complete arms embargo on Israel and the recognition of a Palestinian state". The DNC passed one and killed the other - on voice vote. And they did this less than a week from famine being officially declared in Gaza.
Speaking of famine - Ken Martin's opening speech "stop bringing a pencil to a knife fight" kept talking about how voters were hungry for a party that fights. He kept using that word - "hunger". Starting at 15 seconds into that video, he says it five times in fifteen seconds. Literally while he was trying to derail efforts at stopping Israel from inflicting famine on hundreds of thousands. You know who else is hungry Mr. DNC Chair? The people you keep trying to shove back under the bus.
That's not the part that just encapsulates the whole fucking disaster. It was obviously clear that mutiny was going to break out - so Martin fucking withdrew the watered down amendment. So that they could discuss it more. So what he did was kill even the watered down amendment - meaning the DNC summer meeting is going to say absolutely nothing about Gaza at all.
He opened the meeting talking big talk about fighting and doing more and letting the voters know they are being heard. He said they were going to stop bringing pencils to the knife fight. Turns out what he meant was "we only have pencils, so we aren't going to go to the fight at all."
Here is the only real question for progressives - can the Democratic Party be saved? All signs point to no. They cannot.
BUT BUT BUT - won't splitting the vote result in Republican electoral dominance? To that I say - what the fuck do we have now! Donald fucking Trump got re-elected even after closing out his campaign at a fascist white supremacist party by giving a microphone a blowjob. Progressives fucking did this - they let the fucking neoliberal shitbags run the Cheney hugging, gun toting, genocide denying campaign that Democratic leadership demanded - the Squad dutifully lined up behind the party line with AOC repeating the pure nonsense of "tirelessly working for a ceasefire". And Harris put in the worst performance of a Democratic candidate since fucking Walter Mondale. And where are we now - with the same leaders in place?
- Trump is polling at minus 14.
- Republicans are polling at minus 17.
- Democrats? Minus 30.
Now the DNC decides that "let's pass the same bullshit toothless resolution we've been flogging since the start of Harris' 107 days if not longer - and then pull it so we don't even get that approved" is how they show they are listening to the people. Where Democrats support Israel's military campaign by a whopping 8%. That's not a net 8% over not supporting - that's only 8% of Democrats still support this monstrosity.
I keep asking - what's the end game here? What is the plan? Progressives have to keep supporting these fucking genocidal assholes as they continue to chase the Republicans down the abyss? This was the plan this past November and how did that turn out? And now progressives are being told that the only way to win in the future is to keep doing the things that have gotten us to this point.
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