For Harris’s first post-election appearance, the Democratic Party shared a video message clipped from a call she held with former running mate Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN). She reminded voters that they “have the same power they had before Nov. 5.” In fact, she included that they also have the same “purpose” and “ability to engage and inspire,” and not to “let anyone or any circumstance” take their power from them.
Harris tells her voters, listen: Nothing has changed, everything is the same, there is no need to panic. It might be a unifying thought were it not laced with hostility that sends the opposite message.
Harris’s words swaddle die-hard Democratic voters. The party’s typical cushioning has brought society to the point of avoiding conviction for fear of giving offense, and now it offers the same childlike encouragement to keep aflame.
It is a form of babying that divorces the Democratic Party’s constituency from the reality of failure and reform. Unchecked emotions, similar to those of toddlers, have run deep since Trump’s victory, along with broad catastrophizing among Harris voters as they hold therapeutic scream sessions. These responses promote nothing but stagnation in favor of a losing ideology. Grasp onto your power, says Harris, and resist for four years.
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Beyond hurting societal cooperation, the message tells voters to estrange themselves from family members. The once-dominating Democratic Party places, and has placed, little value in either the support or the structure of the family. MSNBC commentator Joy Reid has advised separation from pro-Trump family members. Albeit not a serious intellectual authority, Reid represents an irrational response that is legitimized continually by figures such as Harris.
It may be that by posting this video, the Democratic Party is introducing fodder for Harris’s eventual re-rejection. Perhaps. For now, all they are communicating is that, even after clear defeat, the Party does not plan to change all that much.
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