It's about 8 months after the electoral college handed Dipshit Dumpsterfire Trump the presidency (With the help of Hillary Clinton and the DNC) and the Democratic Party is still whining. Yet for all that whining, they can't seem to shake the very tactics, non-policies and toxic identity politics that led to their loss to begin with.

Let's go back to McResistance Womens' March in January: When you have people like CIA Plant Gloria Steinem and disgraced DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz as spokespeople, you know the damn thing is nothing but astroturf bullshit.

There were some genuine folks leading their own marches during this event, but because their names weren't Gloria Steinem or DWS, they were outright ignored by the corporate media. Kshama Sawant, for instance, spoke at one such march. And for me, this excerpt really drives home an important point:

Millions of us see Donald Trump as completely intolerable.

We have entered into a new period of radicalization of young women and working women who increasingly recognize that powerful collective action, civil disobedience, and mass strike action are what will be needed to stop Trump and the billionaire class.

As our other speakers have mentioned, this week the Republicans announced their replacement for the Affordable Care Act.

And at the same time they have announced their attacks on Planned Parenthood.

But my question is, why should the people of Washington State be held hostage to Trump and his billionaire cabinet? Why doesn’t the state legislature and the governor tax the rich, and fund a single-payer system in Washington State? Such a system would give guaranteed affordable access to healthcare to all women, to the trans community, to everyone.

California has already started talking about this. Imagine if Washington, Oregon, and California all taxed the rich, and set up single-payer, so we would have a West Coast-wide single-payer health care.

But you know what? I am not holding my breath that the Democratic Party will show any leadership on this. We will need to build a powerful independent movement on the streets and in the workplaces to make it happen ourselves.

It is good that some elected Democrats are fighting against Trump, but it is not sufficient. We need an opposition that is 100% against Trump, and against the billionaire class, not one that is looking to find “common ground” with Trump.

Unfortunately she is more correct than she knew with regards to the inaction on the part of the Democrats. Rather than initiate Single Payer systems in those states, the Dems have all but shelved the idea. For instance, out of California, Anthony Rendon shelved their single payer bill, calling it 'woefully incomplete'. Of course, anyone who looks into who this asshole's donors are will find out very quickly why he shelved the bill.

Anthony Rendon's Top Donors

Worst of all, the Democratic Party seems hell bent on killing Single Payer state by state. Similar state initiatives in Vermont, Montana, Colorado and New York were also shut down by the Dems.

Single Payer is not the only issue with which they are stabbing constituents in the back, however. Many local Democratic leaders are also killing 15 dollar minimum wage initiatives on behalf of their corporate donors. Baltimore is one example.

We also saw Cory Booker and other Dems vote against re-importation of drugs from Canada with the lame excuse that they didn't have as many safety standards as we did. Anyone who does any research into that knows they're lying their asses off. They were all simply kissing corporate ass.

Yet, even with all these betrayals, there are still some people who willingly go along with the McResistance and the anti-Russian narrative that doesn't even hold water.

First, there's this guy, who every other week releases a video on Monday titled the Facepalm Five:

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEloSet48KM]

Of course, it's nothing more than incessant whining about Dipshit Trump with no real message or substance. It's always Trump this or Trump that, or Republicans latest attack on social issues while completely ignoring Democratic betrayals on the same and economic issues to boot.

There's also this lady.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2iSirBwak4]

Yeah, you're fighting the GOP all right. Meanwhile, in one of her 'hangouts', she went and said the economic issues Sanders brought to the table were 'bourgeois' concerns and that Sanders was toxic to the Democratic Party. One has to wonder what planet she's been living on, because from where I'm standing, the most toxic people in government right now are the Third Way and the Democratic Leadership Council. These organizations go out of their way to undermine and obfuscate economic issues while using social issues as a billy club to keep the voters in line.

Last but not least, there's this hippy turned hippy puncher.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ukcb0i9aQU&t=0s]

If this guy looks familiar, that's because I flayed him last year with regards to his comments on how millennials are to blame for Trump. Here he is, months later, still bitching about Trump/Russia, just like the rest of what's left of the party faithful. And this guy is supposed to be a hippy? Yeah, agent provocateur is more like it.

So I have to ask, when was the last time the Democrats fought the downtrodden, the American worker, people of color, female bodily autonomy and so on? Because it seems to me that Democrats are doing nothing more than using these things as bargaining chips and passing, at best, token legislation while they do the bidding of the same donors as the Repigs.

"If you don't vote for us, those guys will do something worse", they say....Well, given the fact that they're blatantly governing against their own constituencies out in the open, I don't see the difference.

The information is out there and readily available, yet so many are still willing to go along with this crap. For the life of me I can't figure out why. And any time I try to explain this to anyone at all, I'm called a troll, a Russian puppet or agent, a right-winger or some other stupid shit they're calling us on any given week.

That's why I've given up on talking to any of them. I also recommend anyone who reads this to do the same. They're too addicted to the tranquilizing drug of 'gradualism' to allow for any real change to happen.

In closing, I'd like to remind the good folks here of something Helen Keller once said with regards to her membership in the International Workers of the World:

"The true task is to unite and organize all workers on an economic basis, and it is the workers themselves who must secure freedom for themselves, who must grow strong." Miss Keller continued. "Nothing can be gained by political action. That is why I became an IWW."

"What particular incident led you to become an IWW" I interrupted.

"The Lawrence strike. Why? Because I discovered that the true idea of the IWW is not only to better conditions, to get them for all people, but to get them at once."

In short, the milquetoast gradualist bullshit the people above 'fight' for simply won't cut it any more. Either we fight for both social and economic issues, or nothing at all. Because as easy as it is to skewer Dipshit Trump and his alt-right sychophants, there are more important battles to be fought.

See ya around,

Aspie