Follow up to this.

My main takeaway from this, a hypothesis that I've been developing since the first time I voted and was appalled about how our side managed to lose, is that the people running the Democratic Party don't want to win.

Look at how the Democratic Party works in South Korea. The they're hounding the current president's wife because:

Would be such a MILF but...

• She's a weirdo.

• She's into geomancy.

• She believes that she's clairvoyant.

• She accepts very small bribes.

• She's childless. She doesn't hear the pitter patter of childrens' feet in her house, just the paws of cats. (Yes a female DP member actually this.)

The last president before that:

• She might have been fricked by a cult leader in the 1970s. (Heard this one direct from a Korean ajumma.)

• She's the lesbian lover of that guy's daughter (I've actually never heard any Korean say this but it's so fricking obvious I'm gonna say it now.)

• She's always been controlled by the cult.

• She sank a ship carrying 1000 kids as part of a human sacrifice to that cult.

• She's childless.

It's not important how many of these things are true (it's a lot ). There's one pattern here to me that's really obvious: None of these things are ideological. They're things that would offend rightoids as much or more. That's what you do when you're trying to win. You try to appeal to the middle to join you and the other side to be so disgusted they stay home.

In America the Democratic Party would rather lose than do anything obvious like:

• Call Trump an r-slur.

• Call out Trump directly for adultery. (It's everyone's right these days.)

• Call out Ivanka for being a literal whore. (Some GenX dem got really offended at me when I even said this on a message board.)

• Cut ties with the Teachers' Union and appeal to parents. (You ever wonder why you're losing support among blacks?)

• Drop the whole gun control issue. You lost on this long ago. Every time you bring it up you're (no pun intended) shooting yourself in the foot.

• Say that you're against illegal immigration without using a bunch of euphemisms that us regular people don't understand because we didn't just graduate from Oberlin with a gender studies degree.

• Block blatantly illegal mergers that directly effect consumers, like the one where all grocery stores in the western US are merging.

• Do a publicity stunt on Columbus Day where you say something like "I won't apologize for America."

• Insinuate that Lindsay Graham is homosexual.

• Say that abortion is really bad but it shouldn't be illegal. (Remember when Clinton did this and won?)

• Say that you're not "woke" and denounce "anti-racism". (Virtually everyone in America agrees with this.)

• Acknowledge that blacks have been losing their jobs to illegal immigrants for a long time.

• Reform the tax code so that ordinary people don't need to have so much stress about it. Blame the other side for stopping you.

• Reform corrupt county sheriffs and judges so that you can't get held up by highwaymen in uniforms and given a ticket while traveling through hick towns. (The President can't actually deliver on this, but promise it anyway.)

• Stop treating Cesar Chavez as the token LatinX you'll appeal to all Latinx through, because you're lazy and want a Martin Luther King of every minority and they're all the same.

• Stop saying LatinX.

• Call out Republicans for blocking every attempt to stop illegal immigration for generations.

• Propose actually doing e-Verify.

• Explain to r-slurs that building a wall was always a scam because most of the illegal immigrants come right through the gates and just overstay their visa.

• Emphatically support nuclear power to combat climate change.

That's just off the top of my head. I've got better ones I can't remember right now, issues that neither party will address but are really important to the American people.

I've heard that the Democratic Convention in 1980 was already like this. By now it's terminal. The Democrats these days are a bunch of special interest groups tied together by intersectionality, which just means nobody can do anything because someone might be offended. It's an organization where most of the people don't give a shit if their party wins or loses because they'll keep their "activist" job either way. For the rest of us who are actually voting, that's not good enough.