@drvolts: I haven't written much about politics since the debate, mainly because I'm so overwhelmed by disgust & contempt toward this country's media & commentariat that it has rendered me inarticulate with rage. Twi...…
Well, no. For two reasons: the first is that other quote i pasted in where he says he explicitly doesn’t care if it’s Biden (or Harris, or “warm vomit”) he’s voting for who - or, theoretically what-ever it is.
This just reads to me as the standard “while I too would love to have progressive policy, here’s my 25 passionately argued reasons we should just pursue centrist policies”. It’s a sentence to say “I’m with you, now let me spend all my effort arguing against you” that mainstream Dems trot out.
So I read it as, the media are not inclined to actually do their jobs and put paid to trumps constant lying and his grotesque unqualifiedness, despite nominally having held the position before. They won’t do it because it’s less profitable, but more importantly, it’s no fun.
People dig into trumps mania because you either love it or hate it - if you ignore it, that defaults to the ‘love’ category. Like people who ignore a raging house fire they’re in.
Any change to the ticket - in fact no change to the ticket - means more of the same. Commentators and journalists will not help save democracy. It doesn’t get clicks, and it’s just “no fun”.
Oh, I agree with all of that, but this isn’t coming out in a void. He didn’t write this thread a month ago. It’s not like only now have the media followed this pattern. He wrote it when the thing they’re doing is (admittedly happily) covering a real campaign to swap Biden. The implication to me is that this is just evergreen shitting on Dems, not a real issue for true Democrats, and a change would somehow generate just as damaging coverage so why are you letting them cause discord.
And if the argument is really just “the media will be harsh to the new candidate”, yes, everyone knows that and no one is arguing otherwise. But there’s a difference between picking at trivialities and not ignoring one of the biggest election stories of the cycle, and the former is far better for us. And it can’t happen with Biden.
I took it to mean “Harris (or whoever) will be under the boot of corporate news in a flash, and we’ll be - electorally, percentage-wise, and all the other horserace materials that so stress us the fuck out - right back where we are now.”
To me, that reads like an indictment of corporate news, or perhaps a sort of DC status quo, and specific to the presidential election. But it doesn’t seem like he’s even interested in any part of progressive/centrist politics other than he specifically calls out centrists as being part of the problem. Like there’s no mention of issues.
This just reads to me as the standard “while I too would love to have progressive policy, here’s my 25 passionately argued reasons we should just pursue centrist policies”. It’s a sentence to say “I’m with you, now let me spend all my effort arguing against you” that mainstream Dems trot out.
Oh, I agree with all of that, but this isn’t coming out in a void. He didn’t write this thread a month ago. It’s not like only now have the media followed this pattern. He wrote it when the thing they’re doing is (admittedly happily) covering a real campaign to swap Biden. The implication to me is that this is just evergreen shitting on Dems, not a real issue for true Democrats, and a change would somehow generate just as damaging coverage so why are you letting them cause discord.
And if the argument is really just “the media will be harsh to the new candidate”, yes, everyone knows that and no one is arguing otherwise. But there’s a difference between picking at trivialities and not ignoring one of the biggest election stories of the cycle, and the former is far better for us. And it can’t happen with Biden.
Well, agree to disagree on his motives, I guess.
I took it to mean “Harris (or whoever) will be under the boot of corporate news in a flash, and we’ll be - electorally, percentage-wise, and all the other horserace materials that so stress us the fuck out - right back where we are now.”
To me, that reads like an indictment of corporate news, or perhaps a sort of DC status quo, and specific to the presidential election. But it doesn’t seem like he’s even interested in any part of progressive/centrist politics other than he specifically calls out centrists as being part of the problem. Like there’s no mention of issues.