At this point, every attempt at this ludicrously dishonest spin can and should be met with the same one-word response - "Mamdani."

Damned if we vote, damned if we don't. We're not allowed to criticize or call out behavior or opinions that harm us. I guess the upside is I get to enjoy a little "eww"phoria for being treated like a woman when it comes to having my concerns taken seriously. Fuck I hate living here.

The stupidity of saying that it’s the left backstabbing the liberals is just infuriating. These people are hopeless.

And just like that, centrists have always hated both MST3k and Rifftrax.

"Vote blue no matter who" crowd on their way to solely blame (realistically) 50-100k leftists who abstained either due to their views on electorialism or Palestine.

I've seen so much braindead shit online about the loss and "what could be done different", like statistics showing that if only uni educated people voted then Kamala would have won and people supporting this idea, making lists of every leftist who said they wouldn't vote to punish them later or something, prohibiting MAGA voters from voting ever again, etc. These same people then proceed to cry fascism.

Where's your better candidate doing more to beat MAGA? Where's your hard work to get them through primaries onto the ballot?

Getting more progressives in office doesn't start with "not voting". It ends with voting for them when you show us a better candidate & get them on the ballot.

So far, the best contender seems to be the only one putting up a real fight. Show us a better alternative worthy of a coalition, and do the hard work of building that coalition around them.

MAGA did the hard work. They infiltrated all levels of government, all legislatures, executive posts of several states. They built coalitions from the bottom up.

The left will need to do at least as much work.

No they're not.

Anyone using Newsom as an excuse to not vote against fascism is nowhere on the left. Not a liberal, not a leftist, not a progressive.

Newsom signed a bill that cut a lot of services to address the deficit. It didn't "target" any one group, and anyone who says it did is a right-wing agitator.

Anyone who pretends Newsom is a deal-breaker was never, EVER going to vote blue regardless.