I’m just flat out unfriending now.

I don’t have it in me to educate people, especially while on vacation in Thailand.

And if people are determined to blame Democratic leaders for *checking notes* winning on such an unprecedented level that Republicans may never recover again, then clearly they aren’t interested in the same kind of progress I am.

I don’t know why they feel the need to be shitting all over the party that just delivered us this win (I have some theories, but different theories may apply to different people and bottom line the reasons are irrelevant), but clearly they have lost the plot.

Be a fucking ally.

If Democrats aren’t in charge, Republicans are, and they’ve been happily demonstrating what that looks like for immigrants, for queer people, for brown people, for Black people, for trans people, for sick people, for poor people, for working people, and even for elected Democrats.

If you can’t get your privileged asses to support Democrats, then you’re allowing Republicans to trample all over those people AGAIN.

Were you complaining about what ICE was doing under Republican rule? Why TF would you give them even half a chance to do it again?? Are you upset about how women are being stripped of basic health care rights? Why TF would you undermine the party trying to stop that?! Why would you risk letting Republicans be in charge again?? Were you upset that Black people were being lynched and that law enforcement kept on ruling them suicides? Or that school shootings kept on getting nothing but thoughts and prayers? And yet you think that now is a good time to risk letting Republicans back in power? WHY??

Because Jeffries met with someone and didn’t ask for your permission first?! Because Schumer is old and is taking money from a PAC someone told you is evil, even though he used that money to help your hero AES win?

Can you all try to stop micromanaging leadership positions you clearly don’t understand?!

And before you come for me, no I don’t fully understand those positions either, but I’m also not trying to micromanage them. I’m looking at this historic win that just happened and seeing that whatever the f*** they’re doing, they’re clearly doing a fantastic job.

And yes I have held leadership positions, and I know how much easier it is to criticize leadership than it is to be a leader.

Try being an ally for a change and stop whining that the Democrats aren’t perfect.

If you think the DSA is perfect, you are seriously kidding yourself. But even if they were, even if they did everything right, and never exhibited any hypocrisy whatsoever, they won’t have the power to make one whit of difference in the foreseeable future, there is no scenario in which they win enough seats to suddenly be in charge of the House and the Senate, so voting for them instead of Democrats is still privileged b*******.

All it does is allow Republicans a chance to get back into power.

You think a multiparty system is the solution?

Think again. Such a system requires more cooperation and compromise, not less. And while such a political system may produce the occasional winner like New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern or Germany’s Angela Merkel (who was from the Conservative Christian Party, btw, so none of you – or me, for that matter – would have supported her party), it also produces the occasional Hitler or Boris Johnson. And the voters don’t get to pick the prime minister, the parties do. It’s literally a backroom deal, and the voters have no say until the next election.

Like I said, a multi party system requires more compromise, not less. Those of you who can’t even support the Democrats because they’re not perfect enough would never be able to handle it.

Republicans have caused generations worth of damage, and as such it will take generations to fix. Set your expectations accordingly, and stop demanding that Democrats do this or do that, or else you’ll claim they have failed.

It is simply impossible for them to fix generations worth of damage in 2 years or even 4 or even 8 years.

The reality is that the more you work with the Democrats, the faster the damage will be repaired.

When progressive voters refuse to turn out for Obama in 2010 because he didn’t give them everything they wanted in his first 2 years, they guaranteed that Republicans would be able to gerrymander the states.

We maybe, might have, possibly, perhaps, have just come overcome that damage, although the jury is still out on that.

But in the meantime, Republicans have had almost twenty years time to create damage that we have to undo. They have stacked the local, county, state, and Supreme courts, they have undermined institutions, they have destroyed a generation’s worth of education, and the fact that an entire generation has had no real civics education is really showing right now. I learned how the US government works in Germany in high school and I know more about it than most US Americans I know.

So here I am in Thailand, watching people say the most bizarre things about the role of the Speaker, how Schumer betrayed us all, how we need new leadership, et cetera et f****** cetera, and none of it makes any sense.

I just can’t.

For the last 10 years, we have known that Republicans have worked closely with Russia to push divisive politics on the Left. We have known that social media was used to our detriment, that stories were carefully spun and placed to turn us against each other.

Knowing this, we’d think we would have become more cautious and more critical thinkers, but apparently all we’ve done is dug in deeper.

At the very least, I would expect people who claim to care about politics to have paid attention to the last two impeachment trials, and to understand at this point that we need two thirds of the Senate to convict Trump if he’s impeached. That isn’t ancient history after all! That was recent! We just went through this people, ffs.

And we still don’t have two thirds in the Senate, unless we get Republicans to work with us, which will only happen if Democrats are willing to reach across the aisle. But the same people demanding an impeachment, or else, are the same people saying there should be no reaching across the aisle, or else.

With the actual f*** is wrong with those people?!

I have decided I am no longer willing to try to work with them. I can’t have it anymore. I’m too old for this s***. They just want to be mad at Democrats, and no amount of pointing out that the people who are going to suffer most if Democrats are weakened are immigrants and trans people and poor people and people who need health insurance is going to make one bit of difference to them.

I am not the idiot whisperer. People who are determined to fall for every divisive psyop can’t be helped