Democrats Will Never Win Without Doing Something For The Left. Also, They Will Never Do Anything For The Left.

James Rozoff
5 min readJul 25, 2024

I would have thought that those who place women’s rights as their primary issue might have worked to find common ground with those who oppose genocide and nuclear war. Like, even if nuclear war wasn’t your #1 issue, it might at least check in at #5 or maybe #7. After all, most people who don’t want to support a candidate who abets a genocide — and who certainly has done nothing to oppose it — also support the right of a woman to choose what she does with her own body.

Politics, after all, is an exercise in building coalitions. This inevitably involves compromise. And when it comes to people who vote blue no matter who, they certainly know about compromise. They are willing to compromise absolutely every moral stance they have ever held in order to support absolutely any candidate the Democratic Party flings their way. In fact, it is not compromise at all, it is capitulation, because Democratic voters get NOTHING from their candidates and give ALL.

I have never seen the like of it before, though I was not around to see the relationship between a house slave and his master. I have never been on the inside of a cult where people regard their leader as a god, nor thankfully have I ever seen a spouse so thoroughly abused by their…

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