I don’t think it’s reasonable to discount what people (especially working people or Palestinian people) think, no. And the Democrats have a long, long track record of doing that, fair play. As a great example, Hillary Clinton’s “if you’re not in a swing state or you’re not one of my delegates then fuck you” attitude definitely didn’t do her any favors.
I do think however that it’s perfectly reasonable not to care what one particular person thinks, who clearly has been victimized by a certain level of corporate misinformation in the media. That whole situation is clearly worth talking about as a problem, but not as a “Biden needs to do a better job of agreeing with what this person thinks” problem. In my opinion.
I don’t think it’s reasonable to discount what people (especially working people or Palestinian people) think, no. And the Democrats have a long, long track record of doing that, fair play.
And yet, the party is still doing it. Your comment is consistent with the party’s “fuck you, we’re never changing and you’re going to vote for us” message.
You know which comment I was referring to, and have chosen to misrepresent what I’ve said. Expecting honesty from you was a mistake that I’ll never make again.
So here’s what I meant by that: I’m actually specifically agreeing with what you say about the Democrats being tone deaf and dismissive of legitimate concerns. I think it causes harm to the Democrats (in elections) and harm to the country (because it leads them to pursue a harmful neoliberal agenda and not listen to criticism of it a lot of the time.) What you’re saying, I’m agreeing with.
I’m also saying that this particular thing is not a fully legitimate concern. I’ve talked at length about my factual reasons why a big chunk of the article’s laundry list of complaints about the country – which the list is 100% legitimate, yes – shouldn’t be applied to Biden, because he (rather unusually for a Democrat) has been taking concrete steps to try to address them. And, that not voting for him will definitely make a whole lot of them (probably the entire list) much, much worse.
You can disagree with all that, and that’s all good. We can talk if you like. But IDK man… if you’ve ever been on the receiving end of this kind of “how dare you not even apologize for X, I’m so upset” “but I didn’t actually do X” “there you go again, how dare you” circular argument I think you can understand the difference between those two things – no?
Ramos is one of many young voters stewing with grievances over the country’s future, from the existential crisis of climate change to the frustration over inflation, reproductive rights, high interest rates, Israel’s war in Gaza, immigration reform and the power corporations have over their working conditions.
She’s mad Biden and Democrats have failed to protect reproductive rights or wipe out student loans. (emphasis mine)
These people are wrong. Full stop. The logic they’re using makes no sense, because factually, their ideas about what Biden has and hasn’t done don’t line up with reality.
And, I strongly suspect that this particular article has cherry-picked these particular people to present a particular narrative, instead of honestly trying to inform its readers about what’s actually going on.
So maybe it’s OTT for me to say I don’t care what these people think. If you want to talk about fixing the media so these particular people won’t be so wrong that they’ll bring up student loans as a big example of something Biden hasn’t done, that would lead them not to vote for him even over Trump, then that sounds great. But if the idea is that I have to listen to their ideas and take them seriously, then no, I don’t think I do, because they’re wrong. There’s a huge difference between that viewpoint and the standard DNC viewpoint of “IDC if you’re suffering, I don’t want to listen or try to help you solve it.”
I took some time to carve out and explicitly agree with you about the standard DNC viewpoint, because you and I are on the same page about it. If you want to argue though that these particular people are ones that Biden needs to be listening to because they’re worth listening to, I’m going to keep saying, no, they’re not.
I don’t think it’s reasonable to discount what people (especially working people or Palestinian people) think, no. And the Democrats have a long, long track record of doing that, fair play. As a great example, Hillary Clinton’s “if you’re not in a swing state or you’re not one of my delegates then fuck you” attitude definitely didn’t do her any favors.
I do think however that it’s perfectly reasonable not to care what one particular person thinks, who clearly has been victimized by a certain level of corporate misinformation in the media. That whole situation is clearly worth talking about as a problem, but not as a “Biden needs to do a better job of agreeing with what this person thinks” problem. In my opinion.
And yet, the party is still doing it. Your comment is consistent with the party’s “fuck you, we’re never changing and you’re going to vote for us” message.
Why are you arguing with me dude, on this I’m agreeing with you
You agree that your comment is consistent with Democrats’ “Fuck you” messaging? Ok.
I think you’re just wired for conflict maybe 🙂
I feel I’ve said pretty much what I need to say about it at this point
You know which comment I was referring to, and have chosen to misrepresent what I’ve said. Expecting honesty from you was a mistake that I’ll never make again.
So here’s what I meant by that: I’m actually specifically agreeing with what you say about the Democrats being tone deaf and dismissive of legitimate concerns. I think it causes harm to the Democrats (in elections) and harm to the country (because it leads them to pursue a harmful neoliberal agenda and not listen to criticism of it a lot of the time.) What you’re saying, I’m agreeing with.
I’m also saying that this particular thing is not a fully legitimate concern. I’ve talked at length about my factual reasons why a big chunk of the article’s laundry list of complaints about the country – which the list is 100% legitimate, yes – shouldn’t be applied to Biden, because he (rather unusually for a Democrat) has been taking concrete steps to try to address them. And, that not voting for him will definitely make a whole lot of them (probably the entire list) much, much worse.
You can disagree with all that, and that’s all good. We can talk if you like. But IDK man… if you’ve ever been on the receiving end of this kind of “how dare you not even apologize for X, I’m so upset” “but I didn’t actually do X” “there you go again, how dare you” circular argument I think you can understand the difference between those two things – no?
This exchange:
Sure seems consistent with the “fuck you” messaging.
Let me be more specific, then:
These people are wrong. Full stop. The logic they’re using makes no sense, because factually, their ideas about what Biden has and hasn’t done don’t line up with reality.
And, I strongly suspect that this particular article has cherry-picked these particular people to present a particular narrative, instead of honestly trying to inform its readers about what’s actually going on.
So maybe it’s OTT for me to say I don’t care what these people think. If you want to talk about fixing the media so these particular people won’t be so wrong that they’ll bring up student loans as a big example of something Biden hasn’t done, that would lead them not to vote for him even over Trump, then that sounds great. But if the idea is that I have to listen to their ideas and take them seriously, then no, I don’t think I do, because they’re wrong. There’s a huge difference between that viewpoint and the standard DNC viewpoint of “IDC if you’re suffering, I don’t want to listen or try to help you solve it.”
I took some time to carve out and explicitly agree with you about the standard DNC viewpoint, because you and I are on the same page about it. If you want to argue though that these particular people are ones that Biden needs to be listening to because they’re worth listening to, I’m going to keep saying, no, they’re not.