Democrats Need to Do Something Meaningful

Thoughts on the Morning: June 26th, 2025

I’m gonna state at the jump that I’m not a supporter of Mamdani. That was for the Democrats of New York City to decide who they wanted to represent their party.

Though what I thought was a monumentally stupid move was establishment democrats in New York backing Andrew Cuomo. Throwing money, and whatever remaining credibility they had left behind an old, mean, sex pest that they previously ousted.

It was yet another capitulation to capital that corporatist democrats are always right on time with. Asking folks who are already getting their financial asses handed to them in a city that’s become brutal to afford isn’t a winning strategy. Asking folks who are getting their civil rights stripped away from them to support a fucking ghoul of a man isn’t even morally correct.

“Take one more for the team democratic supporters.”
”Compromise your principles one more time.”
That’s what establishment democrats ask of us over and over with the hope that maybe one day we’ll get another Obama.

I mean this is the best democrats can deliver after all right?

Turns out when given the choice ,no matter the flaws in Mamdani, the voters wanted a little bit more of that hope and change that they voted for in 2008.

And right on time the old guard establishment democrats threw cold water all over the prospect of Mayor Mamdani.

Oh those NYC dems are gonna rue the day they voted for a democratic socialist! It’s all gonna be a colossal failure! They’ll see!

News flash old heads: It’s already a colossal fucking failure! We’re at the critical failure point. But yet Andrew Cuomo is somehow gonna pull NYC out of that?

More than just a change of pace NYC Mamdani represents a potential wind of change that could blow through a Democratic Party that’s fallen in love with playing not to lose instead of fighting to win.

And it’s the only thing at this point that will save it from established democrats who have long since needed to retire.

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Overthinking Leads to Doing Nothing

The main thing that got in my way for the longest time throughout my life was overthinking.

I often felt that I needed the best plan for the best outcome. That I need to thoughtfully consider every single aspect of any important decision I was about to make.

“Measure twice and cut once” was the prudent saying after all.

The problem with overthinking any decision is you don’t just measure twice. You measure three, four, eight, one hundred and forty seven times. You doubt yourself that you should be measuring anything at all right now. Don’t you have other things to worry about? You can cut later when things have calmed down. Now is definitely not the time to be cutting anything!

I’ve lived this crippling mentality. I’ve seen it when I worked in corporate jobs. In academia. In the military. In my business partners. In life in general.

This is where Democrats find themselves right now. It’s where they’ve been for the longest time and it’s the biggest reason they’re failing as a political party.

The focus group everything over and over. They means test. They hand wring. They pearl clutch. They follow every single rule and institutional norm as if they’re dogmatic gospel that can’t be deviated from.

So they end up doing nothing. And right now the American people want someone, anyone to do something, anything to stand up to the Trump regime.

“Well we can stop him in the courts,” the establishment democrats will say.

No. We need to also stop him in the courts.

“Well if we get out of the way we’ll get elected and then stop him.”

No. Stop him right now as much as you can, and when you get back in power hold him accountable even more than you stopped him.

It’s not an “either or” proposition. It’s a “yes and” one.

We need to put forward articles of impeachment not just on Iran but on ICE and the violation of due process. We need to put forward articles of impeachment against JD Vance for Signal Gate. Remember that? If you do you’re paying attention because the establishment politicians are hoping you won’t because it means they’d have to address it.

We need to stop as much business in the House and the Senate as humanly possible. Democrats need to be in front of every camera proclaiming they are stopping as much business as humanly possible because Donald J. Trump is an active threat to the safety and security of the American people.

Instead they’re listening to James Carville types who need to get the hell out of the way, or at least sit down with their strategy of “Just do nothing”. The losing mentality of “The Republicans will screw up so badly people will just like Democrats!”

That’s pure grade F Horseshit.

And while Democrats might benefit from a rage vote against Trump in 2026 it’s not a guarantee that will translate into a vote for a Democratic candidate in 2028.

What if Republicans actually do what they always do and run Liz Cheney? They pretend that they were never really MAGA and they were all terrified of Trump.

After all if Liz Cheney promises to hold MAGA enablers accountable where the Democratic candidate is weaker on that, and their economic positions aren’t that far apart who do you think pissed off independents would back?

But with a Liz Cheny presidency do you think she’ll tax the billionaire class? Protect LGTBQ folks? Abolish ICE? Or just run a less fascistic looking Project 2025?

Because the monied class will push back with everything they have in order to not pay a marginal tax increase. The Military Industrial Complex will hire every lobbyist they can so they can keep making a profit even at the cost of Americans having things that will make their lives meaningfully better.

“No cost daycare for working families? No, no, no. You need more F-16s to protect you from terrorists or something.”

Because what every election from here on out will be about for at least a generation is which party will make voters lives meaningfully better. And if Democrats are too afraid to even appear to do that then it won’t be the Republicans who will go gently into that good night.