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"Now Democrats are trying to translate visceral outrage into political
strategy, even though there's little consensus on how to press forward
on issues where the party has recently struggled to earn voters' trust."
– Matt Brown reporting at AP, 01.21.2026
"Scrambling to figure out..." says the AP headline, and that pretty much
sums up what the Democratic Party is all about. Once again, as in
Palestine – in a situation where the moral and ethical choices are clear
to anyone, Democrats are "scrambling" to figure out what the hell they
stand for – and if the DNC has to "scramble" to figure out what the
proper choices are here, then it's obvious at this point that the
Democratic Party is a garbage institution which stands for absolutely
jack. Whenever you hear these crawlers talking about translating outrage
into "strategy", or "harnessing" popular energy, it's all about sucking
the blood of the People's popular movements, co-opting and shipping them
off to the Movement Graveyard.
Anyone who actually follows my work here regularly will know about my
personal "tradition" of the "Random 15" – that is, 15-30 seconds of
whatever is being vomited out over MSNOW when I come upstairs with our
first cups of the morning... and this week on "Morning Joe", my Random
15 been one dime-a-dozen DNC "strategiest" after another, one
Contributing Guest Analyst after another, clutching pearls and wailing
"Oh, won't somebody think of the MIDTERMS?" in the wake of the uprising
breaking out in the face of fascist thuggery in Minnesota.
That's really pretty much what it's all about with these clods – not
liberty, justice, prosperity, fascism vanquished, any of that cool shit
– nahh, just winning another pointless-ass midterm election, hustling
the People into giving their symbolic consent to rule by charlatans,
defusing the power of the People and diverting it into empty useless
rituals like "democracy". The Democrats are all about defanging the
People, beating back a much-needed revolution – a much-needed civil war,
even – because as history teaches us, at the end of the day, Liberals
are really OK with fascism.
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"Minneapolis turmoil has Democrats scrambling to figure out political
strategy on immigration", Matt Brown at Associated Press, 01.21.2026
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-democrats-immigration-minneapolis-1108b6228c0f088aa85d4c6d8ce744ba
"For a general strike against ICE violence and Trump's dictatorship!"
Socialist Equity Party release, 01.22.2026
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/01/23/lhma-j23.html
"It's Going To Be A New Day!", poster series by Mike Flugennock,
11.05.2006 https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=407
"Yer Liberals", editorial cartoon by Mike Flugennock, 09.26.2012
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=1167
"Democratic Party: Graveyard of Movements", editorial cartoon by Mike
Flugennock, 04.27.2015 https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=1707
"Garbage no.2 (…garbage out)", editorial cartoon by Mike Flugennock,
11.04.2024 https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4024
"The Democrats Find Their 'Clear Message'", editorial cartoon by Mike
Flugennock, 08.06.2025 https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4142
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