we would do a lot better telling people who in their local states and cities need more support.

I stand by this, you can harp and debate and pontificate about what has been done and why and who it effects and how, but at the end of the day if you're not building your smaller politics, your larger politics will do things you don't want.

Liberal voters are uninspired and bored and make shitty choices so people who DO care have to get more involved. Give them leadership, give them options, shoot enough talking points at the great propaganda barrier that some get through and strike a few comfortable liberals and median voters who get all their news from AM radio and podcasters.

Take the money out of the hands of the Democrats and this won't be an issue in the future, this arm-folded harumphing of the Dem party forcing people into choices they don't like isn't going to change anything by itself either, this isn't reaching the median voters or liberals either and can be easily weaponized to make out those dissatisfied as "unamerican" or "radicals." We have to stop spending money on corporations (saving money, stop spending on frivolous bullshit and entertainment) and start investing actual energy and time into rebuilding communities and socializing. We desperately have to stop doing the same thing expecting different results. There's a word for that.