It might be wise, given how close we are to the day of the general election, to postpone critical and housekeeping conversations like these for just a few days.

I feel dirty voting for these people, but I will

I had two democratic parties for dinner last night

Eighty-five percent of millennial and Gen Z donors favored Democrats, a trend that appears durable rather than something they’ll age out of. As this cohort entered its prime earning and donating years, Democrats should have been building the broadest grassroots fundraising base in the history of American politics. Instead, the spam model drove millions of these potential donors away. The party didn’t just fail to capitalize on its generational advantage. It actively destroyed it, trading a rising base that would have funded the party for decades for one that is being exhausted for short-term fees. Private equity firms call this “harvesting.” You stop investing in the business and extract everything you can before the foundation gives way. The consultant class has been harvesting the Democratic Party for over a decade.

Just one excellent point from this article. Worth reading to the end.

I'm surprised the authors didn't mention the means-testing scam Democrats are running. They show how consultants drain the party's money, but they miss how politicians shrink their promises to the bare minimum. Instead of fixing big problems like healthcare, housing, or prices, they figure out the least they can offer and still win. It's the same game as the fundraising: it serves the consultants and donors, not voters. They tell us "democracy is on the line," then offer us scraps. No wonder people feel the party asks a lot and gives little.

I swear I saw a little documentary piece back in early 2025 about members of the DNC essentially hiring consultants who then came in and told them, more or less, they were listening too much to consultants and not enough to the electorate and it had cost them the election.

Another day, another opinion piece complaining about what Jamie Harrison did 2021- 2024, and ignoring everything that changed since the DNC didn't have to take Biden/harris' pick like 2021...

Jamie Harrison's only claim to fame was raising a record amount of money from wealthy donors, but still losing to Lindsey fucking Graham.

The current DNC clearly isn't planning on doing that, because it already dumped all that money on state parties over the last 20 months instead of saving it for a blitz right now.

The issue the author is complaining about, was solved 3 months after the 2024 election...

It was valid back then, but pretending it still exists weeks before the midterms is crazy. But I guess after a progressive wave it's going to make even less sense to say this shit.

Translation: Democrats will blame anyone but themselves, even for their own problems.

Take a look at "fundraising" sometime. It's such a fucking scam... any money "gobbled up" is laundered and pocketed money.

Who hired the consultants? Hmmmm I wonder who hired the consultants for the Democrats. Oh well, I guess it will always be a mystery.

Democrats "those darn consultants gobbled up all of our money! Don't forget to donate! Consultants are expensive and I must hire them... why yes, I do own a consulting firm". ~Omar's husband, political consultant (this is not a joke, her husband is a political consultant)

What, umm, what is the possible basis for calling it the consulting class? This is not a socio-economic strata, it's a job/ unfortunate knock-on of citizens united, not an economic class. Is using the term 'class' the new hotness cause of 'Epstein Class'? That which is itself an attempt to distance the bourgeoisie from the 'bad apples' (or make them all bad apples, depending who's doing the using)