America Doesn’t Have Time For the Democrats to Get It This Wrong

It’s Time to Stop Making Excuses For How Bad at Politics the Dems Really Are

umair haque
Eudaimonia and Co
Published in
7 min readFeb 26, 2021

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There’s a strange thing happening. Take the course the last day or two. The Democrats caved on the minimum wage. Then Biden announced an airstrike on Syria. And then Jen Psaki, the White House Press Secretary, took to the stage to defend “detainment centers.”

That wasn’t the strange thing. It’s how people, many of them, reacted. They defended the Democrats. They made excuse after excuse. Apologia after apologia. My friends, let me make a harsh point — and you can decide if its unfair.

Stop making excuses for the Democrats. It’s just a way to avoid a bitter, ugly, but all too visible reality.

The Democrats are terrible at politics. And that ugly truth has to be faced — or else this disastrous first month will just go on.

Now, before you freak out at me, let’s discuss this a bit.

Why did the Dems cave on the minimum wage? What happened was that a figure who’s basically a referee called the “Senate Parliamentarian” decided they couldn’t address that issue now. And yet they still had the power to overrule this. If they had, it would’ve forced a vote 60 or more to, in turn, block that. I know that’s a bit byzantine, but just see the point. The Democrats had the power to get this done. And they didn’t use it.

Now, already, I see you making excuses. “But what about Manchin and Sinema!” you cry. What about them?

Here’s the excuse you’re really making. The Democrats are not a political party that’s one of the most powerful organisations on planet earth. They don’t have the power to enforce party discipline among their members. They have no real force at all, as an organization, an institution, a party. That’s completely false.

The Democrats are one of the most powerful institutions on this planet. They have pockets so deep they’re richer than entire countries. They are connected to the hilt to the world’s most powerful people and organizations, whether corporations or banks or funds. They have incredible amounts of power. Nobody wants to cross them. That is why almost nobody, except maybe Bernie…

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