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"Why is there no democratic party infrastructure? Why is there only a network of semi-grifter consultants sending me panicked fundraising emails of which they get an excessive cut?". I just get twenty Dem fundraising emails a day. The panicked tone, the phony polls, and "personal" appeals are a huge turnoff.

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Decidedly not an anti-woke nut, and indeed the awareness of structures of race and gender and class is very important, but unfortunately the quasi-religious identitarianism form is now a very prominent feature in elite institutions, and not in service to anything useful, but just the usual status games and backbiting. And it brooks no questions on whether what’s going on even makes sense. If you’ve avoided it, I’m jealous.

On the Democratic Party - I don’t know what it is now, if it ever was anything except fundraising. Both the activist and fundraising arms now have messages that remind me of the Republican Party’s constant moral panics and culture war nonsense of the late 90s and 00s; the activists don’t offer much in the way of community because they seemingly have 150 different emergencies we must all attend to immediately. “Watch a movie, when we could be smashing the fascist regime?” Not that they’re doing that either.

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I understand your idea of the US as descending from ideas your ancestor articulated, but it also descends from a much darker set of ideas, namely those surrounding and underpinning fear and loathing of Native peoples and adherents to other religions. I think the right's rhetoric about replacement theory & Dems as commies and pedophiles follows similar rhetoric with different targets in Bradford & others.

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One of the most disturbing things you wrote was this, “September 6”. C’mon dude, who’s in charge of printing, Gutenberg?

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