By Renee O’Connor, Opinion Editor
So, I’m just wondering how many democrats have to lose before the leaders of this party will wake up to what is going on. When will establishment Democrats realize we don’t want centrist candidates and we don’t want weak policies.
We want progressive candidates, who are willing to stand up for the working class and fight for LGBTQ+ rights, and want to preserve democracy. It’s very basic things that members of the democratic party are asking for. The bare minimum.
We are slipping into facism right now and people are scared, rightfully so. We were told time, and time again that 2024 was the most important election of our lifetime and that democracy was on the line. The stakes couldn’t have been higher. And yet, we still lost by not getting the Democratic candidate we needed.
We knew exactly what the republicans planned to do, they published it online, called Project 2025. Instead of giving us a progressive candidate with a clear platform, we got fan-cams of Kamala at rallies set to Beyonce songs.
Which, in itself, I’m not mad at. I love that with other things, not for the most important election of our lifetime. They tried to appeal to Gen Z, but clearly that didn’t work. But then, she’s going on interviews saying that she supports fracking.
No. We can’t do that again, and people are dying as a result. Look at women in red states, look at the people who are not able to get the care they need. Lives are being lost, and lives will continue to be lost due to democrats incompetence.
We have Donald Trump, who is sending the National Guard into our cities, redrawing congressional maps, and I love that Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, is doing something.
If Newsom wants democrats to take him seriously as a presidential candidate, he needs to stop having right-wing influencers on his podcast. Again, bare minimum.
I also thing to win back the progressive democrats, Gavin Newsom needs to change his policies about immagration and the homeless. Newsom is one of the only people standing up to Trump, and he has my respect for that.
I don’t think politicians need podcasts–we need you to govern, please. As South Park has proclaimed, “don’t be on your phone while being president”, or in this case, possibly running for one.
Mayoral candidate of New York City, Zahron Mamdani, won the primary because he has a clear platform and he spoke directly to what voters care about. He won votes in places people said he was never going to win.
Zahron has answers when voters ask how he’s actually going to deliver on these things that he says he’s going to do. Which, is something that I don’t see a lot of establishment Democrats doing these days. Hence, one of the reasons Kamala lost the election.
As Tyra Banks once said, “learn something from this.” So, Democratic politicians: stop trying to appeal to Republicans because they are never going to vote for you. Nothing a Republican candidate can do is bad enough to lose, we literally have a rapist in the White House.
We can’t do lesser of two evils because that clearly doesn’t work, the most evil person won. Stop listening to these consultants who are telling you to appeal to the middle. After the last election, it’s not even about winning Republican votes, you have to win back your own party. Your own party didn’t vote for you.
If you are a democratic elected official and you want to take money from corrupt foreign governments, become a stand up comedian and go perform at the Saudi Arabia comedy festival. Stop pretending you care about the people you’re supposed to be fighting for and representing.
As much as I love Pete Buttigieg, and would love for him to run for office in 2028, if America was not ready for a woman to be president, they are not ready for a gay man. And that’s very dissapointing. We need someone to establish their candidacy and we need someone who is guaranteed to win. We cannot lose in 2028.
We are still waiting for a good democratic politician to come forward, stand up to Trump, and say that they will run in 2028. Democrats should have been vetting someone to run in 2024 the minute Joe Biden stepped into the White House. We need change. Democrats, we can’t let this happen again.