A party that built its message around a strong, firm, and unequivocal case to end this war now would very suddenly draw attention to the undoubtedly dozens of congressional Democrats who would not echo this line. So what we get instead is limp process critiques, demanding pointless hearings, and bizarre attacks that Trump is not doing regime change fast enough. Polls repeatedly show the most common criticism of Democrats is not that they are too far left or too anti-war, but that they are too weak, that they don’t stand for anything.
Centering criticism of a deeply unpopular war on those carrying it out for not filling out the right paperwork or producing a satisfactory slideshow — rather than making clear, normative objections to a war of aggression — feeds directly into this perception. But perhaps it’s a perception Democratic leaders, and the pro-war, pro-Israel donors who fund their political careers, would prefer over the alternative.
That’s not on the people who criticize the Democrats, but the people who defend them.
If it weren’t for people slavishly defending the Democrats no matter how grotesquely right-wing they get, they’d have no choice but to shift back towards the left. But with their dedicated “less bad is good” apologists, they can keep on shifting right just so long as they remain a little bit less fascist than the Republicans, which means they can keep on raking in the corporate soft money in exchange for fucking all of us.
And they will.
You’re right. It’s why a two party system just can’t turn out right.
So, no end game?
No actual plan?
Your questions have zero useful context. Are you asking about Trump’s end game? The Democrats’? Their critics’? Their apologists’? Mine?
It’s liberal morons who always defend the Democrat party. No matter what facts we give them, they’ll always make excuses for them & their politicians. It’s one of the reasons why they’re very despised by both leftists & conservatives & why I’ve become an Anarchist.