What sets progress back decades is progressives not understanding the degree to which the deck is stacked against progress. Every few years, we need a new generation of progressives to be woken up to the reality that there’s a reason representation in government is not reflective of the actual vote totals—and what the…

I mean it. Organize your thoughts and get back to me. It’s a very simple request, assuming you have at least a middle school education. Do you need me to explain how to properly format a paragraph? I will, if you think it will help. 

They don’t have to get creative. They’ll paint her as an immature radical, socialist cipher. There will be an added undercurrent of misogyny and racism, but they’ll just say the same things they always say. And because she’s just a candidate for a House seat hundreds or thousands away from most Americans, she’ll be…

Organize your thoughts into coherent paragraphs and get back to me. Self-serving, rambling walls of text may be cathartic when you write them. They’re a taxing chore to read, especially when they’re clearly written by an obtuse adolescent. 

What should they say instead? That it’ s definitely going to go over great in areas that often are very red (in the GOP way)?

It was working quite well in 2006 and 2008, but then progressives decides (as they always do whenever they win anything) that they don’t need to keep fighting and keep participating, so the 2010 midterms set progress back at least a decade and allowed the Republican party to pass racist voter ID laws and redraw…

That’s spoken like a person who doesn’t have a ton of life experience actually talking to the people this kind of demagoguery is designed to appeal to. I’m a white man from the south. I assure you, this stuff works on the people it’s designed to work on. 

What liberals and progressives who actually participate in the electoral process do is recognize that the system of government and elections we have in this country was specifically written to disadvantage us. When a democracy doesn’t favor majority rule, but instead places a disproportionate share of democratic power…

It’s less chemistry and more geology, but those fields are obviously related. But I digress. Believe me: I would love for her to be right. She’s almost certainly wrong. This is what progressives and liberals always do.

It’s a lovely thought. Then again, they could be feigning terror because she’s also an easy target to demagogue in a political season that should not favor their party in the House elections, and they see in her an opportunity to hold on to their majorities. 

Gray came back with her experience reporting on the Bernie Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez rally in Kansas, where she said that within a ten minute car ride she was able to convince a Trump voter that Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez have the right ideas about what needs to happen to fix America.

Exactly this. Don’t whataboutism us

He didn’t argue that lost journalism jobs matter more than anything else. He’s pointing out that it’s very bad that an outlet like the NYDN can be gutted so significantly & in its place will be aggregated shit re-posting the same “content” that may not even be factual. The destruction of prominent & reputable journalis…

And all we get is “USA! USA!” when clearly we want more action from the Democrats to hold Trump and Pence

While the GOP has gone completely mad and doesn’t seem to have a future, the Democrats are the new Republicans. That’s what this post is about.

Pretty much this. Splinter (and Gawker before it) has always had an unabashedly left-leaning animus about it, and that’s totally fine; most major news outlets have some kind of partisan spin behind them anymore, but outside of FOX and MSNBC, it never seems to get too out of hand.

...and yet here we are. The absolutely…

This blog has one unifying message, very blatently pushed down from the top level -

It’s really annoying. I’ve been totally in sync with the idea that the left wing of the party has legitimate criticisms of the mainstream, but Splinter (and their writers on twitter) has recently gone into this mode of taking things out of context and being like “lol dems”. It’s making me wonder if the moderates have…

Honeatly, sometimes it is just indistinguishable from Fox News. The story here, it seems to me, is that following an election which we know Russia tried to influence for the benefit of the Republican presidential candidate, and ahead of an election they will almost try to influence, by messing with vote totals,…