Bone In The Throat

I’m sorry about that title! I feel a little bit like Loki.

Happy Black Friday! May your shopping trips be fruitful.

That can’t be said for all the DNC staffers kicked to the curb after Kamala Harris loss. 

The DNC laid all these workers off, with little to no notice, no severance, and a swift kick in the ass.

Kind of like the way the DNC has treated black voters, latin voters, gay voters, and women voters for decades.

You know, “Now that you’ve voted for our candidate, FUCK OFF! You’re of no further use to us, you filth!”

Arguably, that’s been their attitude for decades. Bill Clinton swayed the gay vote promising equality. Uhhh what did that get us? Don’t ask, Don’t tell. Some progress on HIV treatments which were horrifically expensive. Then we were forgotten until the next election.

Nothing much changed in minority communities either, but they too continued to eagerly gave their vote to the DNC in exchange for promises of unicorns & rainbows.

I’m sure that between election cycles the DNC routinely trims staff, but this latest massive layoff is newsworthy because of the numbers and the way in which it was done.

I feel sorry for the workers. They’ve taken a double hit. They worked their asses off to get Kamala elected, lost, and then get thrown away like last weeks fish. That’s gotta sting.

On the other hand it provides a view into the value the DNC and the upper echelon powers within, place on their constituents. You know that all the workers were true blue Democrats. They all voted straight Democrat tickets and were therefore no longer useful.

It’s this kind of thing in microcosm that led Jerry to leave the Democrat Party after a lifetime of volunteering his time.

I can’t pinpoint the exact moment he left the Democrat Party, but I recall attending a Democratic function with him maybe 10 years ago. I enjoyed myself, I listened without making a scene. We stayed to the end and when we got in the car Jerry was very irritated.

I thought perhaps I’d done something, (and wondered if I should plan on sleeping on the couch,) so I asked. He replied that I’d been very good considering the circumstances and my very Republican leanings. He thanked me for not causing a scene and holding my tongue even when he’d seen others clearly baiting me.

He went on to say that he was very offended and concerned for the Democrat party in our county because of their attitudes. I asked him to clarify. He said, “They’re not at all interested in volunteers, all they want is money.”

In years past he’d often played local Democrat cocktail parties and receptions for free. He’d stuffed envelopes, even knocked on doors to hand out campaign flyers. This particular year they told him to essentially get lost, “But don’t forget to vote for our candidate…“

After a few years of this he stopped volunteering for the Democrats and started doing paid gigs for the local Republican committee. They fed him, paid him, thanked him for playing, and treated him with respect. 

At some point, Jerry concluded that the local DNC chapter wasn’t an aberration. It was instead a reflection of the larger Democrat party.

I think that’s when he decided to leave the party of his parents, & family.

For years after, he’d laugh every time he got an “Emergency Fundraising” notice from the Democrats. He especially liked the hourly or daily emails from Nancy Pelosi proclaiming Democracy was threatened by Trump or the Republican Party, saying that she’d match his donation.

He sometimes wondered aloud where her matching funds were coming from. Was it her money, a donors money, or a lie to get him to loosen his purse strings? In the 2019 & 2021 run up to the elections his email was clocking fundraising notices about every 15 minutes. He’d laugh and joyfully press “DELETE”.

The DNC is wondering what happened. I think it simply became blatantly obvious to the voter base how much the DNC loathed the voters.

Once the elite effete snobbishness became so readily apparent, the American people who had grown tired of endless lies, turned away.

It’s going to take some time for the DNC to win back voter trust and they might not at this point. 

Jerry said when asked, “The Democrat Party isn’t what it was and I feel that I’ve been left behind.”

Once he started questioning their platform he found that much like the LGBTQIA2S community, He felt was no longer represented, and they were only interested in reaching into his pocket. That made him feel used & nobody likes being used.

I’m sure that’s the way the workers the DNC has cast off, feel. It’s probably like doing the walk of shame the morning after a one night stand. You feel dirty, stinky, and keep wondering what that sticky feeling in your underwear is.