You were admittedly preaching, I’ll admit that I was pushing back against that, and perhaps I should’ve chosen better phrasing. That said, you set the tone, so I don’t feel particularly defensive for engaging you on an even playing field.
In failing to nominate a candidate capable of beating a brazenly dishonest, cartoonish billionaire rapist, the Democrats not only set our country back but put the entire planet in significantly greater danger of catastrophe.
I’m sorry but I fail to see the conjecture. The DNC failed to nominate a candidate that could beat Trump. Absolving them of accountability does nothing to change that.
The clock is closing in on midnight. Our government is now headed by an utterly lawless egomaniac. We’re about to build a shitload more nukes. Our foreign policy stance has shifted from tacit to overt support for the fascist despots of the world. We gave the richest of us a big, wet, trillion-and-a-half dollar wet kiss, shortening the timeline for the next global economic collapse. For the next four years at least our energy policy will unlock an outright psychotic amount of carbon at precisely the point in time when we need to be trapping as much of it as possible. So yeah, I think it’s a fact that the world is in greater danger than it was a year and a half ago.
The rest of what I said was pretty blatantly my opinion.
If anything, I wish that I had clarified Democratic Party/DNC, as opposed to Democrats generally. It’s not my mom’s fault the party spent the last eight years collapsing, culminated in just about the most epic fashion imaginable.
If you wish to not be accused of possessing the holy truth, perhaps don’t go around accusing others of believing myths in your sermons. (And the “veneer of intellectual superiority” claim was levelled at the DNC, not you.)
My strong impression is the Democratic Party isn’t particularly interested in the exchange of ideas, but what do I know? I don’t challenge my worldview by reading things I don’t agree with…
