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the swamp donkey progressive industrial complex is in real trouble. like pretty much every late-stage leftist movement, they are now inhabiting the wreckage of their own policies and trying to figure out which reactionaries to blame for the newfound famine emerging from the 5-year plan that was supposed to bring about rainbows and unicorns as a time of universal harmony once the benighted masses finally raised their consciousness to a level where they could see how smart and right and virtuous we are.

it always goes this way. always.

left wing collectivism is a form of reality denial. it breaks everything it is intended to fix by assuming that all the world is malleable and up for debate, that up can be down, men can be women, that people will work without incentives (or in the face of incentives not to), that everyone wants to be a good person and play along if just given a chance, and every other form of calamitous cargo cult where if we just give more good things to bad people they will change and everything will be wonderful because, obviously, all differences in outcomes among humans are due to some sort of troglodyte discrimination and unfair opportunity apportionment.

obviously, this never works and, obviously, the sort of people taken in by such illusions who externalize their identities to such movements as a source of power and purpose are never going to even be able to see that (much less admit it) and so it’s all “double down” and “demsplain harder” ...

this is not a joke. it’s really, truly a candidate running for mayor in minneapolis on the platform of “white people are what’s wrong with minnesota.”

it’s all of a theme. it’s “i’m going to mine the votes of self-hating becky from vassar and jaden from oberlin until i can get them to support their own annihilation.”

it’s not actually that new, it’s just a more extreme version of many of the abject wipeouts we’ve already seen.

my basic theme is this: dem support is collapsing for a number of reasons.

their ideas themselves are rancid

they are so wedded to these ideas that they presume that anyone who disagrees is either stupid or evil and can imagine no possible third reason

their ideas have little in the way of real underpinning and are more reactive than principled, and so their reflexive opposition of trump on issues where he’s strong keeps pinning them onto the losing side of 60/40, 70/30, and even 90/10 kinds of issues.

and this unholy trinity is the the end of the end for their popular presence. their own polls are telling them this, and even in the face of such they cannot respond with anything other than “double down, demsplain harder!” ...

the intensity of their splendid isolation has become so acute that they have not experienced reality in ages, and this has made them shrill and stupid, a set of analog modems able only to lock onto others whose handshake begins with hysterical cries of “orange man bad!”

even pravda on the hudson is realizing that there may be a serious problem here.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/opinion/family-politics-arguments-right-wing.html




this article is astonishing in its exposition of the phenomenon of the “righteous passive aggressive hall monitor sure of virtue and rightness.”

this is really it in a nutshell and essentially says it all:

"Not too long ago, I felt a civic duty to be rude to my wife’s younger brother."

this is why the remnants of the left have become so intolerable and unable to communicate with anyone not just like themselves. they see it as duty to become so and this has been rarified by 20 years of echo chamber into an ideology incapable of understanding “other.”

and while this may be vaguely tenable if you are in the vast majority, as a minority group, it’s death. you just keep shoving yourself away into smug irrelevance. the simple fact is that much of the leftist doctrine in the US was never the majority. it just managed to use guilt, lies, media control, and cancel culture to make itself appear as such and as a dominant social force.

then the spell broke, and all this “shun your way to moral ascendancy” turned, like so much late-stage leftist doctrine, into self-harm.

the endless hunt for “reactionaries” to purge in the next round of struggle sessions has made the left entirely reactionary, a knee-jerk punch and judy show of “we oppose whatever trump is for!”

you can see it on livid display in the comment section on the NYT which is flat-out surreal. these are people defined by opposition and hate that think they are the ministry of love.

and outside the ever-shrinking tribe wound up into celtic knots of rage and impotence, it just plays like colicky baby syndrome. ...

the donkeycrats have painted themselves into a dozen corners.

they have adopted truly bad positions on family and on immigration with politicians playing the stupidest of games on even worse pretext.

vance takes the kids to disneyland and gets protested. politicians play at being offended. ...

meanwhile, the GOP case is simple and direct:

“The left shifted their tactics, the Democratic Party shifted their tactics to use migration as a weapon to break down the middle class and to gain political power and control in this country,” he continued.

“They used migration to destroy our public education system, to destroy our health care system, to destroy wages and working conditions for the middle class of this country, and in effect, to destroy social and community cohesion.” ...

the list goes on and on and the simple fact is that advocating for “piles of free stuff for illegals while locals go without” is just a bad message no sense behind it and less moral basis. it’s a cynical ploy to cultivate a new class of dependent (or self-harming) voter and to bloat census rolls to gain electoral college vote and house seats in federal elections. ...

the whole of the democrat squawking points have become one vast defense of the indefensible as “orange man bad” is presumed to cover all sins, even sins like “you guys used taxpayer money to flood us with these illegals in order to manipulate and destroy our democratic process and now you scream about ‘gestapo’ if anyone tried to roll you back.”

it’s classic “act badly then make the story about someone trying to stop you as though it were a rights violation” and as a meme, it’s deperately tired. ...

nationally, this party is hopless. they cannot attract or elevate talent because it’s all a vast and even intensifying loyalty test for feckless fealty to oppostional insanity.

when you have kamala as your only known leader, you are cooked.