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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • Think a couple of levels deeper.

    We already know that establishment democrats are fiscally captured. That’s the whole point of the DSA candidates. This isn’t news. So why now? Obviously, the midterms.

    California isn’t in play next week, but lots of other places are. So a story running now doesn’t really harm establishment Californian Democrats. They’re safe. It harms other democratic candidates (probably more socialist leaning candidates) in other knife-edge states by party association.

    What does somebody, who’d like these progressive democrats to lose, do a couple of days before national elections? They call up a journalist who is already pro-wealth-taxes and feed them a (true) story about Californian Democrats fighting against wealth-taxes. Story goes viral and a few blue voters stay home because “the Democrats are corrupt”. Republicans edge a seat or two that they’d otherwise had lost.

    That’s what they hope, at least.

    Who fed the story to the journalist? Don’t know. Could be pro-Trimp factions. Could be a Republican campaign. Could be establishment members of the Democrats that would rather see the midterms lost than lose control within the party.

    Regardless, it’s all voter manipulation and needs to be ignored until after the election.