Blue Maga: We need to talk about the cult-like turn of the Democratic party | Mehdi Hasan
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The calls for Joe Biden to step aside have been met with furious accusations of treason, disloyalty, and betrayal. This is bad for the entire country

The calls for Joe Biden to step aside have been met with furious accusations of treason, disloyalty, and betrayal. This is bad for the entire country

Is the Democratic party, the self-proclaimed party of liberal values and scientific data, morphing into a Maga-like cult in front of our eyes?

Over the past few weeks, the calls for Joe Biden to step aside have been met not with thoughtful critiques or reasoned counter-arguments but with furious accusations of treason, disloyalty, and betrayal.

Whatever happened to the importance of voicing dissent? Of speaking truth to power? Weren’t liberals supposed to be the folks who value open debate and discussion?

especially online; of elected Democrats on Capitol Hill; and of the Democratic president himself, since the CNN debate on 28 June, will have spotted some of those “tell-tale signs”.

Let’s start with the Democratic base – those “hyper-partisans” who “act like members of a cult because they treat their political party like a religious identity”, to quote the political strategist Chris Sosa. I have spent the past few weeks watching the Very Online members of the base embracing an endless stream of “Blue Anon” conspiracy theories, pushed on behalf of the Dear Leader.

  • @OccamsTeapot
    3•1 month ago

    Not funding genocide =/= perfection

    Being able to beat the worst president in history in a debate =/= perfection

    Biden is still your best choice.

    Unless he drops out, yeah no shit.

    Now apparently cuz 3 fucking yokels think hes old we’re throwing all rational political thinking out the window to pull a last minute change and you fucking idiots think that can actually win?!??

    I will remind you of this in November. If Biden wins, I will happily admit that I was wrong and you were right.

    • knightly the Sneptaur
      2•1 month ago

      I would love to be proven wrong, but I predicted the Democrat incumbent would lose the 2024 election all the way back in 2015. The party could switch and give themselves a chance, but won’t.