Republicans and their bull don't shake me as much as the dragging of our party and leaders in Dem forums [View all]

...I'm fully prepared to fight republicans on every level, at every opportunity.

But, what shakes me to my core are the organized efforts that get Democrats tearing at each other instead of the republican opposition; especially after the last time Dems convinced each other to pull down the person voters chose to run against Trump, a hair away from the election.

I get it, probably more than the people who engage in it do. It's not like I have some special place in this world where I'm immune to the madness that we're all experiencing at the hands of republicans.

I don't have that kind of life - I have the opposite existence where its like the government has been stalking me with every republican attack on the progressive progress we've achieved in the last century.

You see these types of reactions in dysfunctional families where spouses or parents lash out at vulnerable family members to compensate for their inability to strike back at the actual ones hurting them. Classic transference.

And, look, we've already been victim to this political dissonance encouraged against the Democratic party by hurt people pulling down their own elected leaders just because they could do that definitive thing and feel satisfied they'd at least managed something in response to how hurt they feel.

It's not an excuse, and it clearly misses the mark - so what's the end game?

I'll remind folks of what organized propagandists are doing every day and every hour on the media directed toward us to foment divisions by using 'wedge' issues designed to ignite, inflame, and ultimately distract Democrats from their opposition to republicans.

I mean, even if you don't consider yourself influenced by all of that trolling, does it really sound like something you should be engaging in?

If that sounds a little desperate, then so be it. It's some really insidious shit to watch the wave of mostly disaffected republicans with podcasts and anchor positions eager to claim Democrats 'caved' on something.

I'd guess they're eager to try and make their own former party affiliations look less sordid and as patently anti-American as the present republican party they're now posturing to oppose. Ostensibly doing this dragging on our behalf as they work to form a better and more effective Democratic party than their own decrepit republican one?

No. Fuck no.

When I hear this anti-Dem shit going down, all I can see in front of me is an implosion, basically a retreat. And that's oh so special to this lifelong Democrat who has fought through GENERATIONS of self-immolating pundits entreating Democrats to eat their own.

If that's something that's now considered normal, and I suspect it has become normalized for Democrats to attack the family first and foremost, then there's no limit to the potential gaslighting available to shake the party to the core.

Someone convince me we're not going arm in arm to loser town again. Better yet, count me out of all that. I've already see this fucking movie before.