The Democratic Party Decides To Be Relevant Or Not
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Games. There's always a way to win. And the other party won't even talk about it. They won't tell us what we need to do as we have them. They got no fucks to give.
They don't mind at all if we feel robbed of all agency, freeze in sadness, self-pity, hopeless helplessness for the next four years. We might even shuffle up to the game table while they be like, “come on in, y’all, make yourselves comfortable…care for a cocktail? Wanna watch the game ?”
Bless our hearts, our sponsors still profit as we study our helplessness, feed it to each other, amplify and diddle ourselves with how awful it is. Moan, groan, whine, hand wring, blast out the noise of nasty joke journalism, he-said/she-said journalism, comedy shows. Cheap drinks and drugs.
Game noise is not the game. The vigilant watch, listen for signals. We’re still or we move. "We're still here" can also mean just that -- "We here are still." We watch or we move with purpose which then creates new rules.
Politics is power war without guns and any war is a racket. Politics is the game that's not a game. It’s no longer relevant to "play it right," "show good form," or have some moral stance to advance.
“First to market” is now not just a ‘new rule’ of politics but the fuel that drives new rules of any team competition be it economics or government. Training rules, work rules, following all new rules doesn't guarantee anything but comfort. Still. Stealing a base often flips momentum.
After the loss, hearts and minds politics has to go sit down. Noisy ideas like “nuh uh not fair!” and a bus token will get one across town. In signal-to-noise politics, the win is a signal.
The signal is “first to market.” Win first. Think later. Pretty much how our badass ancestors got us here. Adapt or get left.
Know why they hated Hillary so much? Hillary adapted. Thousands of lawyers in Washington couldn't catch her at anything for 30 years. Didn't care to conclude that she is essentially honest. A real player. No. They had to win. So they made sure the label "crooked" stuck.
But they also made sure they had 30+ governors running their policy show. They made sure they set up secretaries of states who ran elections and vote counts for the win. They put money into downticket people for legislatures. They made sure they had national network influence, access and malleable interns. The unknown Reince Preibus and well known Hillary. One little piggy got first to market and one got left.
There was a method behind at least some of that madness all along. To win. Now they act, fling interpretive shit at the wall to see what sticks (see Flynn’s or Trump’s latest moves). As we were told by “Bush’s Brain,” we find ourselves again left to watch and react while the crazy becomes the 'new normal' in American politics.
So, Democratic Party. Now what.
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