We’ve turned a corner on intersectionality and come to a crossroads…
And now what Sandwichman calls a frivilous post.
The right-wing War on Wokeness has won over Seattle progressive Democrats . . . “because we can’t afford to give the GOP any ammunition for the 2022 election.”
Democrats, who are famous for “keeping our powder dry,” are now concerned that their opponents may use the specter of wokeness against them unless they get out in front with hardy denunciations of wokeness.
In other news, Susan Sarandon is still responsible for Hillary Clintons loss to Donald Trump in 2016. And don’t get me started on Dan Rather Ralph Nader! (I always get those two guys mixed up.)
Sandwichman @ Econospeak
not to use too much bandwidth
it’s too late on wokeness. the R’s will use that against you for the next hundred years.
not that it was ever reasonable that the wokeists would realize they were stabbing themselves in the foot…and i don’t mean teaching it to schoolchildren. it’s just the wrong path to ending pernicious racism and finding mental health.
meanwhile, since it’s too late to win back the too, too sullied South, the Dems have to play the cards they dealt themselves and hope they can turn out the vote and the R’s will actually let them vote.
article on how they did it in georgia somewhere on the internet. but i am out of bandwidth.
“The Georgia Way: How to Win Elections
So, the GOP and ‘centrist’ Dems are enemies
of the Left (progressive Dems) – it is asserted,
while progressive Dems believe that (evil) centrist
Dems should unite with the Left to quash the GOP.
Unfortunately, it is just as likely that centrist Dems
are hostile toward both the GOP and the Left.
Any one faction is the enemy of the other two.
What a pickle.
In other words, ‘the perfect’ is the enemy of ‘the good’.
(This, of course, is the motto of the evil centrists.)
Y’know, the declared Trump strategy is to flip the five states
that voted for him in 2016 and went with Biden in 2020,
and put Trump back in office. We, here, should focus
on seeing to it that doesn’t happen. Maybe get Susan
Sarandon & Ralph Nader to help.
Well, I woke up this morning.
Unless, of course, it’s all a really bad dream …
A short article on the origin of the use of the word “woke”:
https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/woke-what-mean-meaning-origins-term-definition-culture-387962
The Dem’s running away from this will only make it worse. Once the bully knows the win with a weapon, the weapon never goes unused.
Of the biggest armament the Repub’s have is their media infrastructure. Without out a countering version on the left, the Repub’s will always control the language.
Becker
I think I said it’s too late to run away from wokeness…they’ll hang it on you for the next hundred years.
but if we don’t want them to control the language, we need to give the people something else to talk about.
I think the Dem’s have given people something else to talk about. But, without a countering media/messaging infrastructure to rival the right, the talking points will not have the power/force to counter or disrupt the right’s talking.
I don’t deny, the Dem’s need to start talking ideology, get emotional and learn to twist the right’s words back on to them as the right does to the left.