"We are not having a pity party!" - MVP Kamala Harris

[LatteLady]

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You have responded to something I did not say.

I did not/don’t blame Harris for the last 75 years, or any one person for that matter. But I do see a chronic and utter failure of the Democratic Party leadership to to counter the “vast right wing conspiracy”.

I agree with you when you say Hillary was right. But you make my point for me when you say “look what happened”. The Dems had an opportunity at that time (if not earlier) to confront this head on. They didn’t. They were embarrassed by her and shooshed her up for truth-telling.

My issue with current Democratic leadership, including but not limited to Harris, is their not dealing with us where we are, with our our entirely authentic and valid despondency. I do not need or want platitudes, no matter their benevolent intent.

Don’t tell me we won’t be defeated when we have in fact just been defeated and in the big picture have been losing for 75 years. That is not honest, even in service to efforts to cheer us up. It’s like telling someone grieving a preventable death to cheer up. Not helpful. In fact it makes me feel worse, because they seem to be in some alternate reality which renders them unable to change this one.

Here’s what would make me less depressed: tell us what you (Democratic leadership) are going to do differently going forward than you have been doing in the past, because what you have been doing has gotten us exactly here.