When I joined Substack this year, this was my first paid subscription. What drew my attention was your attack on Nikki Fried and the Florida Democratic Party which had yet another disastrous election, even worse than 2020. Sadly, though, we individual Democrats have no say in who gets to lead. You cannot join the Democratic Party. Hell, we weren’t even given the opportunity of a primary in Florida because Fried said it wasn’t necessary.
Thank you for the support! I was actually looking at doing a story on Nikki Fried’s failures this month but it’s such a big list that it may be easier to write about what she didnt directly screw up. Her purge of anybody with talent or sense from major county parties, paired with the huge losses when she insisted that the state was in play, has depressed so many that rebuilding will be tough.
I think we may need to do a full-scale close-up examination of what went wrong, and hold someone responsible. Do we need to start assimilating ourselves to a horrible thought - that we need to fight fire with fire? It's going to be a long, tough four years - but we MUST #KeepResisting at any and all costs.
The only issue I have with your article is that the problem starts with democratic primary VOTERS, who are overwhelmingly older, better off and have that do-not-rock-the-boat attitude. I live in a San Francisco suburbs, my state representatives are the worst Democrats on housing, always abstaining because they get many calls from NIMBYs that call themselves liberals.
When I joined Substack this year, this was my first paid subscription. What drew my attention was your attack on Nikki Fried and the Florida Democratic Party which had yet another disastrous election, even worse than 2020. Sadly, though, we individual Democrats have no say in who gets to lead. You cannot join the Democratic Party. Hell, we weren’t even given the opportunity of a primary in Florida because Fried said it wasn’t necessary.
Thank you for the support! I was actually looking at doing a story on Nikki Fried’s failures this month but it’s such a big list that it may be easier to write about what she didnt directly screw up. Her purge of anybody with talent or sense from major county parties, paired with the huge losses when she insisted that the state was in play, has depressed so many that rebuilding will be tough.
I think we may need to do a full-scale close-up examination of what went wrong, and hold someone responsible. Do we need to start assimilating ourselves to a horrible thought - that we need to fight fire with fire? It's going to be a long, tough four years - but we MUST #KeepResisting at any and all costs.
The only issue I have with your article is that the problem starts with democratic primary VOTERS, who are overwhelmingly older, better off and have that do-not-rock-the-boat attitude. I live in a San Francisco suburbs, my state representatives are the worst Democrats on housing, always abstaining because they get many calls from NIMBYs that call themselves liberals.