A new report from the grassroots organization RootsAction aims to do what a promised “autopsy” from the Democratic National Committee ultimately did not: publicly reckon with the failures of the Democrats’ 2024 presidential campaign. While the Democratic Party’s official postmortem assessment was pulled from public release earlier this month, RootsAction’s “Democratic Autopsy” looks at how factors like “service to corporate power, hostility to the progressive wing of the party, out-of-control militarism [and] disconnection from the base of the working class” contributed to declining support for the party’s platform and candidates. “If you don’t examine real history, then you’re in a cycle that repeats the same problems,” says Norman Solomon, director of RootsAction, who joins Democracy Now! to discuss his organization’s findings.
The problem with blindly voting for the lesser of two evils is that it gives your evil absolutely zero incentive to become less evil. In fact, if you’ll always vote for the lesser evil, you are giving them explicit permission to become even more evil.
Voting is a balance between the short term and long term. The “vote blue no matter who” club only care about the short term, long term consequences be damned.