RMiddleton

On election eve I'm sharing How 2024 changed me politically A lot & permanently. A major change is that I no longer trust that the career professionals in the Democratic Party know anything. The reason to listen to them & compromise was supposedly to win. They fail their one job. Like many others I feel strong disapproval of the Democratic Party yet I would still vote for them compared to the alternatives. If I lived in NYC I'd vote for Mamdani, in VA Spanberger, & in NJ Sherrill, but of those 3 only Mamdani do I feel enthusiastic about. If I lived in Minneapolis I'd vote Omar Fateh. After decades of paying attention to politics I have concluded that weak, centrist liberals—whether it's the New York Times Ezra Klein or Schumer & Jeffries or the way Barack Obama governed—that's why the Democratic Party loses: not standing for principles that improve people's lives sufficiently. They pass half measures that take too long & aren't universal; & after doing so they lose & Republicans undo what little good they did & much more.