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Coalition parties can't do revolutionary change due to divide and conqueror strategies. Which is how the D party got taken over and co-opted into the party sol
by VLM 10y ago
Coalition parties can't do revolutionary change due to divide and conqueror strategies. Which is how the D party got taken over and co-opted into the party solely representing the interests of the rich globalist corporate establishment to begin with. This is not the democratic party of the 60s radical hippies, this is an extremist form of Reaganomics hiding behind a Hillary mask. So this aspect of his message is the tilting at windmills, basically complaining about the inevitable and unavoidable result after things are already in motion. The world series game pitch has been made and the ball is in the air and all the complaining you do about strategic pitcher hiring strategies in the off season or ticket sales in an abstract sense do not matter when the bases loaded home run hit is already swinging. This would have been a very timely strategy article in, oh, I donno, 1980. Its more like an epitaph for the D party, in the current year.
Another major strategic error is you can't divert political momentum by saying "we're gonna be just like the winner except way more boring, lower energy, less controversial, and far less interesting". As a thought experiment, say for the sake of argument you hate heavy metal music and want people to stop following it because you're that kind of person. If you propose broadcasting even more formulaic top 40 girlpop on a different station, that's really going to excite the base of formulaic top 40 girlpop listeners. But the cool kids listening to the heavy metal station are just going to laugh, have a good time, the good time leads to more heavy metal listeners...